Our Approach to Retained
Executive Search

Industry expertise, talent access, and leadership insights only a specialty firm can provide.

Our approach to retained executive search is built around our unmatched ability to architect and access a unique market of candidates for each search we conduct. We believe every search should start by understanding the business problem that needs solving and delivering the most qualified candidates to solve it.

With over 1000 executives placed in professional services and private equity, we leverage decades of experience, data, and relationships to guide and de-risk leadership talent selection.

The benefits of partnering with Beecher Reagan.

We act as a strategic partner and trusted advisor to both clients and candidates, giving everyone the advice and support they need to make decisions that propel growth.

Confidence Through Experience

All of our searches are led by a Partner with deep industry and functional expertise. Feel confident knowing you’re working with a team that understands the market, has access to candidates, and facilitates the interview and hiring process to help you hire an ideal candidate.

Unmatched Talent Access

We know the professional services and private equity talent markets better than anyone. In each search, we leverage our deep network of industry relationships to map a market, identify the most qualified candidates, and bring those candidates to the interview table.

Leaders Who Stay and Perform

Using our proprietary psychometric tool, The Verity Leadership Assessment, we help firms gain insights into the invisible strengths and gaps of their executives. Pairing those insights with performance coaching, we help executives perform better, faster, and are less likely to leave.

Representative results of clients in our areas of specialty:

99%

retention rate of 36+ months for placed leaders

93%

completion rate on retained search

80%

of placements perform in the top 20% of their peers

$5B+

in practice growth delivered for our clients

Our Executive Search Process

We’ve crafted and refined our process to help high-growth firms create solutions to solve business problems.

  • Every search starts by defining the business problem that needs to be solved. Here’s where we start:

    1. Understand the Role Value Proposition:
      We help firms get clear on the mandate for the role and why someone would be interested.

    2. Build a Market Hypothesis
      We determine a pool of potential candidates based on our industry and firm knowledge.

    3. Validate the Market
      We connect with candidates and influential people in the industry to gain further insights.

  • Our three-step process is designed to find leaders who make companies, practices, and teams stronger:

    1. Data-Driven Market Insights:
      Through industry research and competency profiles, we use data-driven insights to map the candidate market.

    2. Tap Our Client Network:
      We speak to companies matching our client's target profile to get multiple perspectives on the right talent.

    3. Make Connections:
      We connect with our extensive network of placed and prospective candidates as well as satisfied clients.

  • Once we’ve built a market and sourced candidates, it’s time to move a shortlist to the interview process:

    1. Candidate Contact:
      We recruit candidates and establish a relationship, and then follow a proven process to validate them.

    2. Selection List:
      We list viable and non-viable candidates and provide explanations for our categorization.

    3. Candidate Short List:
      We rank and categorize potential candidates and provide clients with their profiles.

  • Our involvement in the hiring process doesn’t stop after candidate selection. We continue to act as a trusted advisor to both clients and candidates to navigate interviews, offers, and hiring. During the final selection process, we assess candidates using our proprietary Verity Leadership Assessment—the only assessment designed specifically for professional services leadership.

  • Using assessment insights and ongoing performance coaching from Kinavic Leadership Acceleration, we help new leaders integrate and perform better in their role, faster.

Assessment & Leadership Acceleration

Leverage Decades of Historical Data to Assess New Leaders

We partner with Kinavic Leadership Acceleration to offer the Verity Leadership Assessment℠.

Verity is built on decades of historical data around what drives success in transformational leadership. It is proven to help assess fit to role and firm, understand key risk mitigation strategies, and identify performance acceleration tactics that support of the acceleration of leadership candidates.

These qualitative and quantitative insights are proven to increase alignment, performance, engagement, and retention, while decreasing time-to-success, stakeholder investment, and attrition rates.

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Firms that leverage Kinavic Leadership Acceleration’s full suite of services achieve the following benefits:

Improved overall accuracy with 10% more good hires and 10% less bad hires

20%

Decreased attrition of Manager/Sr Manager group

27%

8%

Increased YoY performance on assigned metrics

2X

Increased team engagement of next level directs