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Our Executive Search Approach

When you conduct a search through Beecher Reagan, you get a trusted advisor with deep industry expertise and unmatched candidate access.

Today’s executives need to navigate disruption, drive growth, and execute on value creation plans. With over 950 executives placed in professional services and private equity, we leverage decades of experience, data, and relationships to guide and de-risk leadership talent selection.

Our approach to 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.

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 Only Experience Can Bring

When you partner with us on a search, you work directly with a Partner with over a decade of executive recruiting experience. 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 Insights and 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 convince those candidates to come to the interview table.

Candidates Who Stay and Perform

Together with Kinavic Leadership Acceleration, we’ve built a strategic talent platform that helps firms identify, select, assess, and accelerate the performance of key executives. Using our proprietary psychometric tool, The Verity Leadership Assessment, we help firms gain insights into their leaders to help them perform better, faster.

Representative results of clients we serve in consulting & professional services, digital & technology, and private equity:

3:1

diversity ratio - one of every three candidates is diverse

99%

retention rate of 36+ months for placed leaders

93%

completion rate on retained search

$4B+

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.

Scoping the Search

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.

Sourcing Candidates 

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.

Selecting Candidates 

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.

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