About · Elevated Exec

John W. Comeau, Founder of Elevated Exec

John Comeau · Founder, Elevated Exec

LinkedIn Industry Award

LinkedIn “Super Recruiter”

LinkedIn Industry Award

Most Socially Engaged Search Firm

Top 1% Staffing Professional

For two decades, companies paid me to:

Understand markets
Find executives
Evaluate talent
Build relationships
Create shortlists
Recruit exceptional people who often weren't looking

Roughly 40,000 executive conversations. More than 200 executive placements. Every one of those searches started the same way — a company decided what it wanted, and a search firm went and found the person who matched. The executive on the other end of the call almost never had a plan. They had a resume, a network, and a hope the two would collide at the right moment.

Eventually I realized something. Every search professional works for the company. Nobody was doing this work for the executive.

So I flipped the model.

Elevated Exec applies the intelligence, research, market mapping, relationships, and methodology of executive search on behalf of the individual executive — confidentially, and on their side of the table. Not coaching. Not outplacement. Not a resume service. Representation.

How We Operate

Three commitments. Not values — operating rules.

Confidentiality

Your market can be worked without unnecessarily exposing that you're exploring it. Your identity is released to a specific person only with explicit approval — every time.

Transparency

You see the actual work — companies, people, approaches, replies, silence, coverage. The working record, not a polished summary created afterward.

Reverse‑Engineering

Start with the seats you should hold and work backward through companies, decision‑makers, Talent Acquisition, search professionals, relationships, and paths — to opportunities.