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Executive Search & Leadership Development
Great leaders are critical to the success of any organization, but retaining strong leadership is often overlooked. We help our clients develop a talent strategy that strengthens their organization and supports their goals.
How Do We Help?
Many social profit organizations lack the time, capacity, networks, or specialized expertise to manage all aspects of their staffing, Board development, or leadership searches. That’s where we come in: by leaning on us to do the heavy lifting and thinking, you can focus on what you do best.
As a full-service consulting firm that specializes exclusively in the social profit sector, we understand its unique challenges and opportunities. This guides our approach to executive recruitment, training, and development. Our additional services—campaign and fundraising counsel as well as Board and governance engagement—strengthen and deepen our approach to search and leadership development.
Executive Search & Board Recruitment
We take the time to get to know your organization, values, mission, and culture. Too often, highly talented people land jobs that they are “qualified” for, but the organization and that candidate are misaligned. We ensure our candidates have the competencies, skills, experience, and education – and even more importantly, that their passions, values, and personality traits match your organization.
At The Discovery Group, we dedicate our time to building relationships, to create an extensive and diverse network spanning all areas of the social profit sector, from healthcare to education to community services. And we’ve developed an efficient and proven process to interview, assess, select, and secure the best-aligned candidates.
We proudly guarantee each placement and remain committed to supporting both the leader and the organization throughout their journey.
Succession Planning
A properly designed and well-executed succession plan is the start of any successful transition. We support organizations in developing thoughtful, future-focused succession plans that ensure leadership continuity and long-term success. Our plans help maintain momentum between leaders, create organizational stability, keep the Board informed, and align senior leadership development with the strategic needs of the organization.
CEO Reviews
It’s not uncommon for social profit organizations to have informal and infrequent CEO evaluations. However, in our experience, all organizations can benefit from more knowledge, time, and understanding of leadership assessments.
We help organizations implement an annual, structured evaluation to help Boards assess CEO performance in a timely, clear, and focused way. This helps align organizational performance, goals, mission, and values, and sets organizations up to achieve their strategic objectives.
Executive Search and Leadership Development Services Include:
- Executive and leadership search
- Board search
- Succession planning
- CEO reviews and evaluations
- Recruiting advice (e.g. job description reviews or interview support)
- Capacity and performance evaluations
- CEO and leadership coaching
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Connecting Social Profit Organizations with Exceptional Leaders
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