Ways to Work

One methodology. Three levels of involvement.

Build the strategy. Work the market. Or have it worked for you. Pick the path that fits.

Executive Market Map$995 · 15 daysBuild the strategy Executive Campaign$5,000 · 30 daysWork the market Executive Representation$15,000 first month · then $5,000/moHave it worked for you

Every level builds all ten Playbook assets. What changes is who does the work.

What’s at stake

Your career may be the largest economic asset you’ll ever own.

Remaining career compensation$5.25M
What a 15% better move is worth over your career$787,500
What each month at the old number costs$4,375

Illustrative. Compensation × years, no raises, no equity. Not a prediction or promise of any result.

The Elevated Search Playbook · Executive Search Intelligence™

The playbook behind every engagement.

Ten assets, built in three phases: Build, Activate, Convert. It’s the infrastructure a retained search firm builds for a company — built for you. Every level builds all ten. Hover over each one to see it.

Build
Activate
Convert
Build · Step 01

Executive Visibility Profile

Your LinkedIn profile, fully optimized and ready for recruiter discovery within hours of going Open to Work.

What gets built sample · illustrative
Open to Work · recruiters only

Chief Revenue Officer | Takes vertical software from $150M to $500M ARR | B2B SaaS

All-Star50+ skillsTop 25 companies followedFeatured: 3 case studies
From the Playbook · Step 01 checklist
Elevated Search Playbook, Step 01 checklist page
Build · Step 02

Market Matrix™

Your target market, mapped: 25 targets in five lists, 75 decision-makers, and the best path in to each one.

What gets built sample · illustrative
Market Matrix™25 targets · 75 decision-makers
Dream
Competitor
Local
Champion
Recruiter
The BossThe InsiderThe Process
From the Playbook · Step 02 checklist
Elevated Search Playbook, Step 02 checklist page
Build · Step 03

Executive Narrative™

Your 30-second pitch, 2-minute brand story, and the throughline that connects your entire career.

What gets built sample · illustrative
30-second pitch

“I build revenue engines for vertical software companies at the moment they need to stop depending on the founder to sell.”

Throughline

Every role: the first professional revenue leader after a founder-led era.

From the Playbook · Step 03 checklist
Elevated Search Playbook, Step 03 checklist page
Build · Step 04

The Dossier™

Your achievement-forward executive résumé — written the way a search firm writes a candidate brief.

What gets built sample · illustrative
Chief Revenue Officer
  • Grew ARR from $148M to $410M in 36 months; net retention 118%.
  • Rebuilt a 180-person global sales org; ramp time cut 41%.
  • Led GTM integration of 2 acquisitions ($60M combined ARR).
Two pages · ATS-checked · top 5 results anchor the document
From the Playbook · Step 04 checklist
Elevated Search Playbook, Step 04 checklist page
Build · Step 05

Executive Highlight Reel™

Your Story Bank, Career Film, Hall of Fame Induction Speech and Four Pillars of Proof.

What gets built sample · illustrative
▶Career Film24:10
▶Turnaround2:05
▶Scale-up1:48
▶Induction speech4:52
Story Bank: 15 SAR stories · Four Pillars of Proof
From the Playbook · Step 05 checklist
Elevated Search Playbook, Step 05 checklist page
Activate · Step 06

Champion Network™

Your tiered relationship map — Tier 1, 2 and 3 champions activated and ready to advocate.

What gets built sample · illustrative
Tier 1Would take your call tomorrow
Tier 2Enthusiastic references
Tier 3Witnesses to specific wins
From the Playbook · Step 06 checklist
Elevated Search Playbook, Step 06 checklist page
Activate · Step 07

Headhunter’s Playbook™

Your recruiter relationship strategy and target firm list, with intelligence on each firm’s specialty.

What gets built sample · illustrative
Retained · CRO & sales leadershipTier 1
Retained · technology practiceTier 1
Boutique · SaaS go-to-marketTier 2
Retained · PE portfolioTier 2
10–15 target firms · your 60-second recruiter pitch
From the Playbook · Step 07 checklist
Elevated Search Playbook, Step 07 checklist page
Activate · Step 08

Targeted Executive Campaign™

Your outreach library, decision-maker package, and the script for the conversations that move the search.

What gets built sample · illustrative
140decision-makers · ✉ ☎
Message 1 · CEO

“Your Q2 release on the new vertical caught my eye — I’ve built that motion twice…”

Day 1Day 7Day 21
From the Playbook · Step 08 checklist
Elevated Search Playbook, Step 08 checklist page
Convert · Step 09

Executive Interview Intelligence™

Your company-specific intelligence brief, interviewer map, AI-graded rehearsal, story-to-question match and 90-day entry plan.

What gets built sample · illustrative
Company briefFinancials · news · strategy
Likely question

“How would you rebuild our pipeline in your first 90 days?”

→ Story 7: Scale-up · graded A–
Interviewer map4 interviewers · style-matched
From the Playbook · Step 09 checklist
Elevated Search Playbook, Step 09 checklist page
Convert · Step 10

Offer & Transition Plan™

Your negotiation framework and the 30-60-90 onboarding map for your first 90 days in the role.

What gets built sample · illustrative
Floor$720K
Target$850K
Counter scriptReady
306090
Equity, severance and start date reviewed before you sign
From the Playbook · Step 10 checklist
Elevated Search Playbook, Step 10 checklist page
Pick your path

Three questions. Your level.

1

How much of the search do you want to be part of?

2

How much time can you give it each week?

3

How important is it that your current employer never sees your search?

Your pathAnswer the three questions
Our commitment

We guarantee the work. You own the outcome.

Each level includes everything in the one before it.

Executive Market Map
Build the strategy.
$995one payment
15 days

Day 5 · your playbook and Matrix are in your hands

Enroll · $995
Everything included
  • 2 calls with John, 45 minutes each, plus a day-15 check-in
  • All ten Playbook assets — you run them
  • Your positioning, in one sentence
  • The complete playbook — profile, case studies, every script
  • Your Market Matrix™ — your market, narrowed with you
  • 25 targets · 75 decision-makers — names, titles and LinkedIn profiles
  • Introductions to executive recruiters in your space · coming soon

Add 50 companies · 150 decision-makers — $495

The guarantee

Our part: by day 5, the complete playbook, your Market Matrix and 75 decision-makers.

Your part: the questionnaire, and all three calls.

If we miss: $497.50 back at the day-15 check-in.

Key
Executive Campaign
Work the market.
$5,000one payment
30 days

Day 10 · your pipeline goes live

Enroll · $5,000
Everything included
  • Everything in Market Map
  • Your own LinkedIn Recruiter seat — the tool executive search firms use
  • LinkedIn Talent Insights — who’s hiring, who’s leaving, and where they go
  • 140 decision-makers built into your pipeline, with emails and phone numbers, live in your seat
  • Every message written, ready to send
  • 4 sessions with John — days 1, 3–5, 10 and 30
  • His direct line for the length of the engagement
  • Your Scoreboard, kept every week

Next: an extra month, $2,500 · or Representation, with your $5,000 credited

The guarantee

Our part: 140 decision-makers built in your seat, with emails and phone numbers.

Your part: all four sessions, the messages sent, every send and reply in the Scoreboard.

If we miss: $2,500 back at day 30.

Most complete
Executive Representation
Have it worked for you.
$15,000first month · then $5,000 a month
60 days minimum · 90 recommended

A meeting every week · pipeline refreshed at days 10, 20, 30, 45 and 60

Enroll · $15,000 first month
Everything included
  • Everything in Campaign
  • John does the outreach, under his name
  • 140 decision-makers contacted every month — 280 at 60 days, 420 at 90
  • Your name goes to no one without your written approval
  • Every opportunity screened before you speak
  • One meeting a week, with your Scoreboard update

$15,000 first month · $5,000 each month after · 60 days $20,000 · 90 days $25,000

The guarantee

Our part: 140 decision-makers contacted every month, under John’s name.

Your part: approve introductions within a day, take the conversations, record each in the Scoreboard.

If we miss: half of what you’ve paid comes back — $10,000 at 60 days.

The Scoreboard

You see the score. Every week.

The same record a retained search firm keeps for its client: coverage, activation, conversations, opportunities. Kept from Campaign up, reviewed with John every week in Representation.

Client ScoreboardExecutive Representation · 90 days
SAMPLE · ILLUSTRATIVE
Day 1Day 30Day 60Day 90
Market coverage
Companies identified255075100
Decision-makers identified75140280420
Search partners identified5101515
Warm paths mapped6142230
Activation
Approaches made0140280420
Replies received0316498
Introductions made061321
Conversations
Recruiter conversations04811
Company conversations051119
Opportunities
Opportunities identified03710
Interviews0147
Offers0001
Primary outcome is market expansion — the board is never optimized on activity alone. Figures are illustrative, not a prediction.
After any engagement · by invitation

Executive Signals™

Stay known.

  • Your seat stays on
  • Your pipeline stays live
  • Weekly alerts on your targets
  • Monthly market refresh
$495/ month · for program graduates · cancel any month
Private client · by proposal

Executive Authority™

Representation works your market. Executive Authority elevates how the market sees you.

$100,000six months · limited availability
Request a proposal →
  • Executive positioning
  • Full Executive Representation
  • Board positioning
  • Nonprofit / civic leadership strategy
  • Thought leadership
  • PR / media positioning
  • Long-form content
  • Digital presence
  • Strategic network development
By invitation · New York City

Peak performers. One room.

We’re bringing together the best of the best — agents from entertainment, sports and business, alongside executives getting ready for the market — at Equinox Hotel, the hotel for peak performers.

Equinox Hotel · Hudson YardsMay / June 2027Two daysInvitation only
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