Executive Search Intelligence™

Navigate what's next like an executive search firm would.

Understand where you stand. See your market. Position yourself intentionally. Activate the right relationships. Create better opportunities.

See Where You Stand Already completed the EMI? Book your Calibration →
The Executive Market Index™ is complimentary. Takes 10 minutes.

One system. Seven levels of help.

You don't move through all seven. You start where you are, and go only as far as your situation calls for.

DiscoverUnderstand where you stand.
BuildBuild the system.
ElevateBuild the market around you.
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Executive search was built for the company. Elevated Exec was built for you.

Traditional executive search

A company defines what it wants.

  • Studies the market
  • Maps the talent
  • Identifies executives
  • Activates relationships
  • Builds a shortlist

The executive waits to be found.

The Elevated approach

The executive defines where they want to go.

  • Assesses where they stand
  • Understands the market
  • Maps target companies
  • Positions their experience
  • Identifies the people who matter
  • Activates relationships
  • Creates a strategy for opportunity

The executive moves intentionally.

Not career coaching. Not outplacement.Executive Search Intelligence™.

You get promoted on performance.You get hired on positioning.

Executive Market Index™

Before deciding what's next, see where you stand.

An executive-market diagnostic built from how search professionals evaluate leadership talent. Scored, not guessed.

  • Visibility
    Can the right people find you?
  • Positioning
    Do they understand why you?
  • Opportunity
    Are you being considered for the right seats?
  • Relationships
    Can your network create access?
  • Execution
    Can you convert conversations into opportunities?

You receive one overall score, five pillar scores, your strengths, your named gaps, and your highest-leverage opportunity. Approximately 10 minutes. Complimentary.

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742Executive Market Index™ score
Scored, not guessed. Same-day full report with named gaps and the single highest-leverage move.
Visibility
Opportunity
Positioning
Relationships
Execution
40 minutes.

Your score. Your market challenge. A headhunter's read. Your next move.

Calibration™ · Complimentary · With John

What we look at

  • Your EMI
  • Your current situation
  • Your biggest career challenge
  • Where you may be under-positioned
  • What John sees after 20+ years in executive search

What you leave with

  • Your highest-leverage move
  • A recommended path
  • A clear next step
What Calibration can prescribe
EMI + Calibration
A free resource Fix one thing Market Intelligence Executive 1:1 Representation Executive Elevated Nothing right now

You don't need the biggest package.
You need the right next move.

Book Your Calibration Complete the EMI first — it's what we read together.

How much help do you want?

The price increases because responsibility moves from you to Elevated Exec.

YouTogetherElevated Exec
You identify the problem with us. We give you the intelligence. We build it together. We execute it. We elevate your entire market presence.

Built from 20+ years inside executive search.

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Every dollar carries forward, for life. Backed by the Founder's Guarantee™. See the terms →

Advice disappears. Assets remain.

Every engagement is designed to produce tangible Executive Search Intelligence™ assets you keep and reuse throughout your career.

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Market Matrix™

Where to play.

25+ strategically selected companies, market signals, target seats, and paths into the organizations that matter.
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Executive Narrative™

Why you.

The story the market should understand about who you are, what you've accomplished, and where you fit.
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One-Page Game Plan™

What happens next.

The seat, the market, the gap, the three moves, and the cadence — on a single page.
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Brag Sheet™

The proof.

Your strongest accomplishments distilled to one page of metric-led, third-party-backed proof.
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Champion Network™

Who can open doors.

The relationships already around you, tiered into door-openers, advocates, and intel — with how to approach each.
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The Dossier™

Your career case, assembled.

Everything a decision maker needs to understand your candidacy, in one assembled document.
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John W. Comeau, Founder of Elevated Exec
Built by a headhunter. For the executive, not the client.

I've spent 20 years on the other side of the table.

For more than two decades, companies hired me to find executives. I mapped markets, evaluated leadership talent, built shortlists, activated relationships, and helped companies land the leaders they wanted.

Eventually one thing became obvious: companies have an entire system for finding executives. Executives are largely left to navigate the market themselves.

I built Elevated Exec to change that.

John ComeauFounder, Elevated Exec
20+

years in executive search

200+

executive placements

40,000+

executive conversations

LinkedIn “Super Recruiter” Top 1% Staffing Professional

The goal isn't another job. It's choice.

A strong executive can probably find another role. The goal is to create enough intelligence, access, and opportunity to choose the right one.

Intelligence Positioning Access Relationships Conversations Opportunities Choice.

The right companies. The right people. The right opportunities. On your terms.

You don't need the biggest package.
You need the right next move.

Start by understanding where you stand.

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Complimentary · 10 minutes
Beyond the Search

Executive Summit · New York City

Elevated Exec is built to support an executive's career beyond a single transition. Invitation-only experiences, insights, and community extend the relationship past the search. Equinox Hotel · May / June 2027.

Inclusion on the interest list is not an invitation. Invitations are extended after EMI calibration.

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