Elevated Exec

Career Confidence. With Intelligence.

Executive Search Intelligence™ for executives.

The market intelligence search firms use to find executives, working for you instead.

See Your Market

Executive Market Index™ · Complimentary · Confidential · About 15 minutes

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Before you need it

Most executives only check their market when something changes.

You manage capital, people and risk every day. Your own career rarely gets the same attention.

Then something changes.

A new CEO.A new board.An acquisition.Pay that stops moving.A call you didn’t expect.

Now you’re making a major decision in a market you haven’t been watching.

The best time to understand your market is before you need it.

What you gain

Career confidence comes from intelligence, not hope.

01
Know your value.

See what the market values in your experience, leadership and record.

02
Know your market.

See the companies, competition, decision-makers and movement around your next move.

03
Know what’s next.

Decide with facts. Create options before you need them.

Career Confidence. With Intelligence.

Executive Search Intelligence™

Companies have a system for finding executives. Executives never had one.

Traditional search: the firm works for the company. You are the end of the chain.

Elevated Exec: the intelligence works for you. You start the chain.

Traditional executive search: Company, then search firm, then executive. The firm works for the company. Elevated Exec: You, then Executive Search Intelligence, then your market. The intelligence works for you.

How Elevated Exec compares with contingency search, retained search and career coaching
CriteriaContingency searchRetained searchCareer coachingElevated Exec
Who paysCompanyCompanyYouYou
Works for you, not the hiring company
Executive search market intelligence, shared with you
Works before a role is open
Covers your whole market, not one search
Direct line to hiring decision-makers
Confidential, without exposure

Full   Mostly   Partial   Limited   None  ·  Typical models compared. Individual firms and coaches vary.

Built by a headhunter. For executives.

Twenty years learning how executive markets really work.

John Comeau, Founder of Elevated Exec
John Comeau · Founder, Elevated Exec

For more than 20 years, companies paid John Comeau to find their leaders.

He saw how shortlists get built. How executives get judged. How relationships open doors.

Executives deserved that view too. So he built Elevated Exec.

You’ve built a career worth protecting. You shouldn’t have to guess what it’s worth.

About John →
The founder’s record in executive search
20+
years in executive search
40,000+
executive conversations
~1,000
executive shortlists
Hundreds
of executive placements

This record is the founder’s, from two decades inside executive search — not Elevated Exec client results.

LinkedIn “Super Recruiter” Top 1% Staffing Professional Most Socially Engaged Search Firm
The method

Ready. Aim. Fire.

Ready.
Know where you stand

Your value, record, readiness and gaps.

Aim.
Know where you’re going

The roles, companies and people that fit what you want next.

Fire.
Create the opportunity

Open the right conversations with the people who make the decision.

Don’t wait for the market to decide what’s next.

See How It Works →
One system

Start with intelligence. Go as far as you want.

Executive Market Index™Know your market. Executive Market Map™Understand your options. Executive Campaign™Create your options. Executive Representation™Control what’s next. Executive Signals™Monitor your market.
See the whole journey →See Ways to Work →
Why Elevated Exec

Your career is your largest economic asset.

At Elevated Exec, we know you want to stay in control of what comes next. That starts with knowing your market.

Most executives don’t. Not because they can’t, but because no one has ever done that work for them. Search firms work for companies. We work for you.

We bring twenty years of executive search intelligence to your side of the table. Get ready. Aim deliberately. Create the opportunity.

Start with your market. Stop leaving your career to chance, and start managing it with intelligence.

The first step

Start with your market.

Before your next career decision, understand the market you’re making it in.

Your career market. One page.
Executive Market Index™Your Index · one page
SAMPLE · ILLUSTRATIVE
1 · IndexExecutive Market Index™
768 / 900
MARKET READY
Twenty questions · five PROVE pillars, raw points out of 16
PPositioning
13/16
RRelationships
11/16
OOutcomes
14/16
VVisibility
8/16
EExecution
12/16
Strongest Outcomes · 14Largest gap Visibility · 8
What stands outThe record is there. The right market cannot find it yet.
2 · CompetitionLINKEDIN RECRUITER
24.5%
Comparable CROs Open to Work
564 of 2,300+ · United States
CROWDED
About 1 in 4 comparable executives are signalling availability.
YOU · CRO
Least availableMost available
Your title among the C-suite titles benchmarked at your seniority level
3 · TurnoverPAST 12 MONTHS
10.0%
Comparable CROs who changed roles
230 of 2,300+ · LinkedIn Talent Insights
A separate reading from availability: who actually moved.
4 · Market conditionCROWDING × TURNOVER
CROWDED, SLOW-MOVING
1 in 4Open to Work1 in 10changed roles
Many available, few moving: about 1 in 4 comparable CROs are Open to Work; about 1 in 10 changed roles in the past year.
5 · Market movementPAST 12 MONTHS
+15%
Talent pool growth
Comparable CROs, United States · LinkedIn Talent Insights
6 · Career economics
$5.25M
Estimated remaining career compensation
$350,000 current total compensation × 15 years · adjustable in your Index
7 · CompensationPAYSCALE
$200,000 current base
Current base $200,000 · reported median $181K · +10.5% vs median
YOU
$102Kmedian$253K
Reported base-salary range, 10th–90th percentile · 134 CRO profiles, U.S. · excludes equity · total pay benchmarked in your Index
Sources: LinkedIn Recruiter · LinkedIn Talent Insights · Payscale · as-of dates appear in your Index · benchmarks refreshed quarterly · saves as a PDF
Take the Executive Market Index™

About 15 minutes · Complimentary · Confidential

Questions

Before you start

Is this career coaching?
No. Coaching works on you. We work on your market: the data, the companies, the decision-makers and the relationships.
Do I need to be looking for a new role?
No. Most executives we work with are employed. The point is to know your market before you need it.
Will my employer find out?
No. Everything we do is confidential.
Is Elevated Exec a recruiter?
No. Search firms work for companies. Elevated Exec works for you.