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Talent Management & Executive Screening
De-risking the C-Suite
Enhanced suitability assessments focused on how high-stakes leaders operate under pressure and their true professional integrity.
Turnaround Timing:
Target Audience:
End to end integrity. No gaps.
Executive Background Screening
Legally compliant, forensic-grade background screening that goes well beyond what standard vendors produce. Coverage across foreign jurisdictions, non-indexed records, and sources that conventional screening misses entirely.
Forensic Referencing
We don't speak to the references a candidate provides. We identify and interview the people they didn't list including former direct reports, peers, counterparties, and colleagues who can speak candidly about how a candidate actually operates under pressure, in conflict, and when no one is watching.
Suitability & Performance Analytics
We assess whether a candidate's Core Motivator — their fundamental behavioral drivers and decision-making patterns — genuinely aligns with the culture, the demands of the role, and the leadership environment they're walking into. Track record tells you what someone has done. This tells you what they'll do next.
Evidence Snapshots
Short excerpts illustrating how subtle facts become material insights.
Uncovering Pattern of Conduct Issues
Retained to vet a CFO candidate at a private equity-backed portfolio company, our forensic referencing process identified that the candidate had been quietly separated from his prior role following an internal finance investigation — a termination omitted from his CV and undisclosed by every provided reference. Three independent former colleagues, identified through our own sourcing and approached separately, confirmed the circumstances and the nature of the underlying conduct. A parallel review of litigation records identified a pattern of financial disputes across two earlier roles that had not surfaced in standard screening. The client withdrew the offer before it was extended.
Critical cultural misfit and potential legal liability.
Always on the
cutting edge.
Proprietary capabilities applied selectively based on transaction risk, context, and mandate.
Forensic Referencing
01 — Off-List Referencing as a Discipline
We treat referencing as an investigative exercise, not an administrative one. We identify and approach sources the candidate didn't provide — former direct reports, lateral peers, counterparties, and colleagues from earlier in their career — and structure conversations to surface what formal references are designed to conceal.
Collection
02 —Proprietary Data Sourcing Beyond the Standard Stack
Our screening draws from a broader universe than standard background check vendors including foreign civil and criminal registries, FOIA productions, litigation records, regulatory filings, and non-indexed sources across multiple jurisdictions and languages. The material facts about a candidate are rarely where a standard check looks.
Core Motivator
03 — Behavioral & Motivational Profiling
Our Core Motivator methodology goes beyond track record to assess the behavioral drivers that determine how an executive performs under pressure, in conflict, and when incentives shift. It produces a predictive profile — not a personality test — built from observation, analysis, and structured interview data.
Analysis
04 — Fitness for Governance & High-Stakes Roles
For candidates being considered for board seats, fiduciary roles, or positions with access to sensitive information or significant authority, we conduct enhanced fitness reviews that assess judgment, discretion, independence, and decision-making under pressure, the dimensions that standard screening doesn't reach and that matter most when it counts.
Reporting Built for Decisions
What our clients receive is not a report — but a decision tool designed for real-world use.
Clear, decision-ready findings
Concise reporting focused on material risks.
Substantiated insights
Every claim is supported and traceable.
Early risk alerts
Immediate notification when issues emerge.
Direct analytical partnership
Ongoing access to the team throughout the engagement
Discuss Your Situation
Confidentially
Every engagement is scoped directly with senior team members and tailored to the context of your transaction or matter.
No obligation. Discreet, senior-led discussion.