Executive Search
New Leadership Group works with not-for-profit institutions to conduct comprehensive and effective searches that yield outstanding candidates. We bring our resourcefulness, creativity, and depth of experience to every search we conduct.
Find the best fit to guide your organization…
We conduct a thoughtful, strategic assessment of the role, the structure of your organization, and your organizational culture.
Add value in ways not anticipated at the outset of the search…
We encourage our clients to think expansively about the role and about candidates’ profiles.
Attract candidates truly interested in your organization…
We effectively and persuasively communicate with sources and candidates, portraying our clients and the role enthusiastically and realistically.
Recruit an exceptional pool of candidates…
We tap our national and international data bases and your networks. We quickly learn a new field, distill information, and efficiently connect you to ideal candidates.
Ensure the success of key hires…
When assessing candidates, we apply our background in psychology and our fluency with the emotional competencies most closely aligned with success
Maximize the opportunity for a successful outcome…
As facilitators and advisors, we shepherd search committees and individuals through the search process – listening to, guiding, and challenging our clients on both strategic and tactical matters.
Our Search Process
Our proven comprehensive search process is designed to help you navigate the four critical junctures of a search: Understanding the Challenge, Attracting a Diverse Pool of Exceptional Candidates, Effective Candidate Assessment, and Negotiations.
In addition, we offer unbundled or partial search services when your institution will be better served by focused assistance at any one of the four stages of a search. We will consult with you to evaluate which services will be most beneficial.
A Successful Search: Critical Junctures
We assist you with navigating the critical junctures in a search process. If the challenges at each juncture are met successfully, the hiring manager and search committee are able to shepherd the search to a successful outcome. Our services are designed to help you succeed at each stage of the search process.
Understanding the Challenge: Assessment
To hire a successful candidate, institutions must identify the qualities and skills they seek. This is often more difficult than it seems. Leaders and committees often begin a search without having conducted a systematic inventory of what has been required in the past, what is imagined to be required in the future, and the ways in which such skills can be evaluated.
During the assessment phase, we conduct confidential interviews with key stakeholders, asking provocative questions, and create a position profile that delineates technical, administrative, and interpersonal leadership requirements, with ways of evaluating each. This assessment guides the search and provides a hiring manager or a search committee with an objective "anchor" that can balance individual/subjective impressions and reactions to candidates.Attracting a Diverse Pool of Exceptional Candidates
Because the best candidates are often those who are not actively looking for a new position, a strong pool will include candidates who are invited to apply. In consultation with our client, we will devise strategies for reaching a broad network of sources and prospects, using existing firm databases and targeted research and outreach. We then actively identify and recruit qualified candidates who will be recommended for client interviews.
To ensure that the search runs smoothly, we will manage the process of evaluation of applications, nominations, and “invited” candidates, in compliance with institutional hiring processes.Effective Candidate Evaluation
Hiring Managers and Search committees typically begin screening and assessing candidates by reviewing and discussing formal qualifications, reputation in a field, and the seniority of the applicant's current and past positions. Yet most candidates who fail in new leadership roles do so because they lack the critical but subtle leadership qualities, administrative skills, or interpersonal competencies that each leadership position calls for. When committees fail to consider these "informal" qualifications they place the success of the new hire at risk.
Our candidate interviews evaluate the administrative, interpersonal, and emotional competencies that are the hallmarks of successful leaders, as well as those qualities that will ensure the candidate is a good fit with the institution. We work with hiring managers and search committees to ensure that the evaluation process is attentive to eliminating unconscious bias.
We provide a framework and tools that help leaders and committees to go beyond formal review, to evaluate the administrative, interpersonal, and emotional competencies that are correlated with success, and the considerations relating to "fit" that will be most salient.Negotiations
Closing a search can be complicated and attention must be given to the candidate’s questions about the scope of the position, as well as their concerns about leaving their current position, compensation, relocation, and family considerations. We serve as a broker to help resolve issues and to smooth the process of final negotiations.
Guarantee
If, within the first year of employment, the person hired is terminated from employment for reasons attributable to the search process (for information that should have been known by New Leadership Group), we will recruit an additional candidate for no charge except for reimbursable expenses.
Fee Structure
For comprehensive search services we charge fixed fee based on our mutual best estimate of the first-year’s compensation for the hired candidate.