FACTORS WHICH DIFFERENTIATE OUR FIRM

 Bob Sellery and Katie Wilson’s backgrounds before executive search were in organizations which enhance our ability to find and evaluate candidates: 

Bob Sellery was a management consultant and executive recruiter at Booz-Allen & Hamilton, which “invented” executive search.  In addition, while an academic administrator and development officer at Princeton University, Bob organized and completed an independent research project as part of his M.B.A. program on leadership in not-for-profit organizations. 

Katie Wilson came to our firm when her family sold her father’s business, The Clark Wilson Group, which established itself in 1973 with a “360 feedback” set of publications and instruments.  Clark Wilson instruments provided people and organizations, both corporate and not-for-profit, the means to measure and improve performance, identify behaviors, personality traits and motivational patterns.  Katie also has experience in fund-raising and library management at the university level.

We believe the combination of our management consulting experience and leadership assessment, based on graduate level research and actual experience, is unique among executive search firms. 

We offer leadership assessment as part of our candidate appraisal. 

The two principals of the firm, Bob Sellery and Katie Wilson, work together with every client from start to finish.  There are no associates or researchers.  We both interview all candidates.  That puts a wider perspective in assessing candidates, especially when we do not agree on the candidate’s strengths and weaknesses or leadership capabilities. 

We believe our approach to executive recruiting, combining “target organizations” with contacts we have made over the years is unique.  Many firms rely on a database of contacts.  We believe using a “target organization” approach gives the client up-to-date information from candidates, who are not “looking,” about their reactions to the situation. 

We have honed an interview format for clients to use either in groups or individual one-on-one sessions.  We will attend candidate interviews with the client if desired.

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