Discovering and retaining the right Chief Executive Officer and executive board members is a challenge in any industry. We’ll search and recruit talented executives with relevant skills, experience and ideal fit to give you what you expect in organizational leadership.
OUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE
We offer 250 years of experience and we’ve been on both sides of the desk, particularly in these four key types of executive search mandates...
STRENGTHENING ORGANIZATIONS
Through Recruitment Of Top Level Executives
CEO/Board Members
Our CEO and Board services include the very important tasks of filling the leadership roles in public, private and non-profit companies, as well as newly formed corporate entities. After establishing the executive roles and requirements, we conduct original research to find the Board members and C Suite executives you’ll need.
In publicly traded corporations, board of director members are asked to decide on pivotal matters related to shareholder value, stock splits, financial statements, mergers and acquisitions, and other high level financial and operational matters. They must make objective and responsible decisions, thus our search focuses on candidates with experience, business acumen, and no conflict of interest.
Your new CEO will need to formulate creative compensation packages that attract candidates yet won’t bankrupt your company.
Although these positions require exceptional judgment and experience to place effectively, the formula is even more relevant than it is with other executive recruitment challenges — to ensure strength, motivation and fit.
- Efficacy of Board of Directors
- Board of Director Search
- CEO Succession Assessment and Planning
- Chief Executive Officer Search
- Compensation Consulting
Financial Management
The evaluation of a corporation’s strategic investment and financial management decisions is vital to sound business management.
To help prevent non-strategic investment and ill-advised budgetary spending, measure organizational performance, improve financial planning, and oversee cash flows, we’ll deliver a candidate with solid financial credentials with the seasoned judgment you need.
Our extensive experience and networking activities along with a large database of relevant candidates means we can create a large pool of the best and the brightest executive talent for your open positions.
Human Resources
It’s the twenty-first century. Does your company have a Human Resources Strategy?
The objective of human resources, simply put, is to maximize return on the organization’s investment in people.
A fully-developed HR strategy directs the plans, policies, procedures and activities designed to accomplish that objective. It guides all elements of the relationship between an organization and the people who work there.
We provide a depth of experience in human resource strategies and human resource management. We can help whether you’re starting out and need “the basics” like policies and procedures, or you’re part of a more mature organization that requires strategic initiatives like succession planning and employee engagement.
Within HR strategy and HR management we include:
- Development of HR policies and procedures that fit with best practices and comply with employment and labour legislation.
- HR audits that review the alignment of HR strategies and activities with overall business objectives and strategies. Following an audit we provide recommendations for improved HR effectiveness.
- Succession planning to ensure the ongoing health and viability of your organization. Succession planning provides smooth transitions if, and when, key management positions become vacant.
- Recruitment and retention strategies. Are you able to recruit and retain the right people? A well-thought out approach to keeping staff has to focus on keeping not all, but only the right employees.
- Employee satisfaction and employee engagement surveys. Once you have the right employees it’s nice to keep them. Employee surveys provide data about what’s working, and what’s not working, in the relationship between the organization and the people.
Information Technology
Given the pre-eminent role of IT in every area of business and industry today, we place special emphasis on assessing candidate’s understanding of technology. Executives need to be able to manage the pace of change in information technology, manage data to make better decisions, and foresee the repercussions of IT changes on the future of their businesses.
Management of IT challenges is not just the sole responsibility of IT managers. CEOs, CFO’s, and other top executives need to be on top of IT culture, global business trends, advancements in mobile, Internet, and ecommerce. The decline of Blackberry and Microsoft, and the rise of cloud computing, mobile, big data, and social media are a few examples of radical change in IT that test executive’s vision and decision making skills.
If your candidate requires training in the management of IT for business, we can provide executive level coaching to bring them up to speed on the essentials. Even with polished, skilled candidates, some executive level training can make substantial differences in performance.