The Curriculum

Competing effectively in the executive talent marketplace

This session captures the latest in trends and issues that establish the playing field on which today's great and aspiring great companies are competing for leadership talent. Timeless strategies and approaches are presented along with updates based on current market conditions.

Establishing and strengthening the executive recruiting management function

Here we discuss how to structure an executive recruiting management initiative

Building the organization's skills in the executive recruiting process

This includes how to make the business case for an executive recruiting program, and how to educate the organization on the roles in making it work.

Identifying and assessing executive talent

We review best practices in executive search research, candidate development, interviewing and evaluation, and reference-checking.

Case studies in executive recruiting initiatives

A closer look at how several leading companies manage executive recruiting activity.

Selecting and engaging executive search consultants

How to find the right one and negotiate terms of engagement that will insure success. This section includes a variety of tools and performance measures that companies can adopt to support their search management initiatives.

Establishing a corporate capability for direct recruiting at the executive level

Learning how to do it yourself, and how to combine direct search with the use of external resources.

The curriculum has been developed by David Lord with the help of more than 100 Fortune 500 corporations that have participated in the Executive Search Information Exchange since 1996. In the course of more than 70 meetings of executive recruiting leaders from these companies, experiences in each of the areas above have been shared and evaluated, with conclusions recorded in a library of research reports from which the Academy curriculum has been drawn.

Invited corporate and independent executive recruiting professionals will assist in presenting and discussing best practices.