Executive Selection & Promotion.  Are you maximizing your opportunity to make critical hiring and promotion decisions?  Hiring and promotion require a degree of compromise and risk.  The more comprehensive your understanding of potential candidates, the better able you are to weigh the trade-offs, make informed decisions, and set people up for success.  Deep expertise in executive assessment combined with hands-on experience managing and making recruitment and selection decisions gives us an edge.  We provide data-driven, real-world insights about candidates to empower you to make well-informed decisions and give you the tools to help you maximize the potential for long-term success.  

Talent Management Program Audit.  Are you confident your talent management programs will deliver their intended results?  Drawing on broad external expertise in talent management informed by hands-on experience developing and implementing talent programs, we provide an independent assessment of your talent management processes and programs, and provide tangible and practical advice on how to maximize their business impact.

Talent Program Design and Development.  Do you have the talent management programs in place to meet your organization's strategic business goals?  We provide advice, coaching or hands-on support designing and developing strategic talent management programs that deliver results.  We believe in 'starting from' rather than 'starting over'.  We help you build on or transform your existing programs and processes to deliver greater impact and better results.  

Successful Succession.  Is succession planning humming in your organization?  The mission-critical importance and high visibility of succession planning makes it the pre-eminent people program.  Is yours generating strategic, high-quality dialogue amongst leaders, or does it end up being a rush-job or bogged down in process?  Is the resulting succession plan real-life or just a fantasy?  We partner with you to create and facilitate a thriving succession planning process that engages leaders in an ongoing conversation about talent and leads to succession decisions you have confidence in.

Building the Talent Pipeline.  Is your talent pipeline full?  Most organizations are frustrated by the lack of progress they are making in creating a pipeline of senior talent, in spite of their best efforts and investments.  Fixing your talent pipeline starts by really understanding, and then addressing, where it is clogged and why.  Years of experience assessing and developing talent for leading companies combined with an in-depth understanding of internal organizational systems, processes and culture help us ask questions that get at root causes and propose solutions to address them.

See what is there, not what you hope is there.