For CEOs, Presidents, and COOs

A wrong leadership hire reverberates for 18 months.

The cost is the mis-hire, not the search. We fix the decision that causes it.

34 questions. About fifteen minutes. A scored read of where your hiring breaks.

ORGANIZATIONS THAT TRUST QUALIGENCE WITH THEIR KEY TALENT

Bank of AmericaStrykerPanasonicLocktonFirst Financial BankStarlimsZions BankGooglePepsiCoOhio's HospiceTrinity Life SciencesCoca-ColaIglooBloombergArmadaAmazonWeyerhaeuserSanofiThe Ohio State UniversityHoneywellJohn DeereIntegraMarketlabLogitechBlue Cross Blue Shield of MichiganJ.P. MorganBluebird BioPrecision BiosciencesBioMarinSun Life

You've lived it: the executive who interviewed brilliantly and stalled by month four. The team that quietly routed around them. The year of results you didn't get, and the second search you paid for anyway.

You don't miss hires because of the market. You miss them because of how you decide - and because nobody in the process was accountable for the decision holding up under pressure.

Month one, the new executive impresses. Month four, the team goes quiet. Month nine, you're chairing the meetings they should be running. Month eighteen, you start again - minus the year.

The board doesn't remember who sourced the candidate. It remembers who decided.

Ninety seconds to a number your CFO will want to see. Calculate what your last mis-hire cost →

Performance shouldn't depend on heroics.

If your business depends on three people, you don't have a business - you have three people. The way out is selection: every senior hire designed against a defined outcome, screened for behavior under pressure, and integrated on a 90-day plan. That's what we install. It's the same operating system - Guide, Don't Drive™ - that our family of companies installs in leadership teams; we install it at the door.

THE GUARANTEE

If the hire doesn't hold, we run it again.

Every retained search carries a replacement guarantee - in writing. Not as a footnote in the contract, but because a firm that owns the decision should also own the outcome. You are not buying a candidate. You are buying a hire that holds.

“At the end of the day, within approximately 90 days, we had completed a nationwide search, we had an exceptionally strong candidate pool that we talked to, and we landed our top candidate.”
John GaviganChief Operating Officer · First Financial Bank
85% retention on placed candidates at 24 monthshow we measure itSince 1999Retained executive search

The next senior hire is the cheapest place to fix this.

Guide, Don't Drive™ installs Human Performance across four domains. LLI (the Lowisz Leadership Institute) and CBI (the Community Bankers Institute) install it in your leaders. Qualigence and Qualigence Staffing install it in your selection - every hire. REI (the Recruiter Education Institute) teaches it. GuideOS, the operating rhythm, runs it every week. Steve Lowisz wrote it. One system. Different doors.

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