Executive Connections LLC - Business Consulting

Executive Connections’ experienced management consulting professionals provide organizational consulting, marketing consulting, and strategic planning services to facilitate improving the performance of our client’s businesses. Consulting services include:

Organizational and Operational Audits
Executive Connections is frequently brought in by CEOs to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization in relation to the company’s strategic plan and strategic positioning within their industry sector. These operational reviews are short-term assessment projects designed to create an action plan for change, starting with an assessment of the competency of the senior leadership team in relation to the objectives and challenges facing the business. In addition, these audits sometimes result in identifying unprofitable or “non-core" business activities to be discontinued or spun off.

Strategic Plan Facilitation
Executive Connections is asked frequently by the CEOs we coach to play the role of outside facilitator in leading the company’s strategic planning process. This process is undertaken in order to align the organization’s senior leadership team with a shared vision for the business, strategize positioning, and foster development of individual members’ goals and objectives to be in sync with the business’ vision and objectives.

Personal Brand Development
Executive Connections works with individual senior executives to develop a proactive plan for managing and developing their personal brand in ways that are consistent with helping their organization achieve new leadership breakthroughs. We focus on helping individual executives develop career development plans, and make smarter career choices consistent with a personal vision based upon their personal values.

Board of Directors Search Services
Executive Connections assists leading companies in locating and securing a commitment from outstanding new board members that complement the existing Board of Directors. Executive Connections also researches boards and provides an introduction for CEOs and senior executives who are seeking board positions. In a time when corporate governance and ethics/integrity are being questioned in virtually every industry, strengthening Boards is a compelling initiative for most of our clients.

Salary and Compensation Surveys
Executive Connections has a database of several thousand executives in the industries where we specialize. We are frequently asked by CEOs, and by senior human resource officers, to conduct competitive salary and compensation surveys for various positions. These help ensure the compensation packages being offered to the senior leadership team are on a level that enables the organization to retain its key executives and motivate them to even greater success.

Business Consulting Case Studies

Organizational/Operational Audits
Executive Connections conducted an organizational review of key personnel working within an integrated marketing communications firm to identify strengths and weaknesses related to their ability to carry out the company’s strategic business plan. This audit led to the replacement of several members of the senior leadership team.

Strategic Planning
Executive Connections assisted a new group, within a major global advertising agency, to facilitate a strategic planning process involving between four-to-six senior leaders, with the goal of developing a vision, mission, strategic positioning, and 2004 goals and objectives for this business unit. This process yielded a shared vision, commitment to the 2004 budget, a new strategic positioning, and individual goals for each executive.

Salary/Compensation Surveys
Executive Connections assisted a life insurance client in conducting a compensation survey, including base salaries and incentive compensation targets, for various marketing positions in the VP- and SVP-compensation levels. This survey is being utilized to upgrade and change the salary and incentive bands for these levels.

Board Searches
Executive Connections was hired by a non-profit organization to recruit two new Board members to fill vacant roles. We identified outstanding industry leaders among the next generation of up-and-coming young performers with the aim of helping the organization to become more relevant to the next generation of talent within their category.

We have also assisted several CEOs of privately owned companies to establish Advisory Boards to assist in providing outside management counsel and connections to help the company grow.

Unbundled Search Services
Executive Connections assisted various clients, by providing unbundled search consulting efforts, to identify the key executives responsible for specific marketing positions in selected direct competitors. In some instances, we have provided services only involving our personal assessment of candidates identified by the client, or have performed reference checks on candidates identified internally. In other cases, we have been asked to provide only preliminary candidate research and turn this information over to internal executive staffing organizations.