Persel Group’s executive career coaching leveled-up my leadership. And their insights were pivotal during a major organizational change.

Have you been wondering lately…

With our job search and career coaching, we help you:

• Learn today’s market and how to navigate it
• Zero in on the right companies and opportunities
• Articulate your unique value proposition (UVP)
• Craft a resume and LinkedIn profile that opens doors
• Secure and ace interviews 
• Land an offer and
• Negotiate like a pro
• Get hired.

With our career coaching and job search coaching, Persel Group will guide you to connect with the right people for the right match.

Job Search & Career Coaching

The executive career landscape has fundamentally shifted. Traditional job search methods of posting resumes online, responding to job boards, waiting for recruiters to call rarely yield the opportunities that senior leaders deserve. Today’s most successful executives understand that career advancement requires strategic positioning, relationship cultivation, and market intelligence that goes far beyond conventional wisdom.

At Persel Group, we’ve built our career coaching practice on a simple premise: executives who approach their careers with the same strategic rigor they apply to business challenges consistently achieve better outcomes. Our methodology combines deep recruiting industry knowledge with executive-level career coaching to help you navigate career transitions, accelerate advancement, and secure roles that truly align with your expertise and aspirations. Whether you’re exploring new opportunities, preparing for promotion, or positioning yourself for board service, our comprehensive approach ensures you’re a strategic asset that organizations actively seek to acquire

Your resume and LinkedIn profile represent your first impression with decision-makers, yet most executives approach these critical documents with outdated strategies that diminish their impact. The recruiting landscape has evolved dramatically, with artificial intelligence, keyword optimization, and social media research now standard practice among executive search firms.

We understand exactly what recruiters, headhunters, and hiring managers search for and, more importantly, how they discover you in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Our goal extends beyond simply updating your credentials. We help you increase your online visibility and enhance your executive presence across all professional platforms.

Our approach provides guidance on avoiding the common pitfalls that cause recruiters to overlook qualified executives, while personalizing your resume and LinkedIn profile to make you stand out and secure the interviews that matter. We ensure your branding documents are optimized to not only navigate modern recruiting technology but also delight recruiters and hiring teams.

These insights stem from thousands of successful interviews, job offers, and placements across our executive search and career coaching practice. We’re seasoned recruiters who understand exactly how hiring decisions are made at the executive level, and we’re dedicated to positioning you for success in this complex ecosystem.

Job Search Coaching

Are you maximizing your value and impact in the marketplace?  Most accomplished executives significantly underestimate their market worth and overlook opportunities that could accelerate their career trajectory and increase their earning potential substantially.

Our job search coaching program guides you toward understanding both the visible and hidden job market, helping you assess what the impact could be for your career advancement and long-term financial growth. We help you identify and target the organizations that represent the best alignment with your professional objectives, personal values, and leadership style. And when it comes to sustained executive success, fit matters as much as opportunity.

Our methodical framework helps you focus your energy on the highest-probability opportunities while building the relationships and positioning necessary to secure your next role. We recognize that executive-level job searches require patience, strategy, and precision, qualities that separate successful transitions from lengthy, frustrating searches that damage both confidence and market positioning.

DecisionMaker Connect

Traditional job searching puts you in reactive mode, waiting for the right opportunity to appear, competing against scores of other qualified candidates, and hoping your application makes it through.

But the most impactful opportunities often emerge through direct relationships with decision-makers themselves. Decision Maker Connect™ is our proprietary methodology that teaches you exactly how to identify, engage, and build meaningful connections with the executives who influence hiring decisions in your target organizations.

You’ll master the art of executive-level relationship building through strategic value creation, thoughtful positioning, and authentic professional dialogue. Our framework provides you with research methodologies, communication templates, and conversation strategies that open doors to opportunities that never reach job boards.

The methodology combines market intelligence gathering, stakeholder mapping, and personalized outreach strategies tailored specifically for executive-level professionals. You’ll learn to navigate complex organizational structures, understand decision-making hierarchies, and position yourself as a strategic asset rather than just another candidate.

Reverse Recruiting & Job Search Outsourcing

Transform Your Career Trajectory Without Sacrificing Your Current Focus

The executive job market has fundamentally shifted. While 80% of senior-level opportunities never reach public job boards, busy executives lack the time and specialized knowledge to access this hidden marketplace effectively. Traditional job searching—submitting applications, networking sporadically, waiting for recruiter calls—places accomplished leaders in a reactive position that rarely yields transformational opportunities.

Persel Group’s ExcutiveFit reverse recruiting service flips this dynamic entirely. Instead of you pursuing opportunities, we position you as the sought-after candidate that organizations actively pursue. Our methodology combines executive search firm relationships, strategic market positioning, and systematic outreach to ensure decision-makers in your target organizations know about your availability and expertise before formal searches begin.

Why Executives Choose Reverse Recruiting

Time Efficiency: We handle all research, outreach, application management, and relationship development while you maintain complete focus on your current responsibilities. Our clients typically save 150+ hours during their search process.

Hidden Market Access: Through our proprietary networks and executive search firm relationships, we access unadvertised opportunities that represent the most desirable roles in your field—positions filled through direct outreach rather than public posting.

Strategic Positioning: Rather than appearing as another applicant in a crowded field, our methodology positions you as a strategic asset that organizations discover through trusted channels. This approach significantly increases your negotiating power and compensation potential.

Confidential Excellence: We understand the discretion requirements for senior executives. Our approach ensures your search remains completely confidential while maximizing your market visibility among the right decision-makers.

The result? Our executive clients typically secure opportunities that offer 15-30% salary increases, enhanced equity positions, and roles that provide genuine career advancement rather than lateral moves. When your career deserves the same strategic attention you provide to your business responsibilities, reverse recruiting becomes an investment in your professional future.

Interview Preparation

Executive-level interviews represent consequential conversations where preparation, presence, and strategic communication determine outcomes that can transform your career trajectory. Unlike standard interview career coaching that focuses on basic question-and-answer preparation, our methodology addresses the sophisticated dynamics of C-suite and senior leadership conversations.

Our interview career coaching helps you master every aspect of the executive interview process: how to prepare strategically, what insights to share and when, and how to articulate your value proposition with confidence and authenticity. Our approach teaches you to excel in the complex scenarios that define executive-level discussions, including board presentations, multi-stakeholder panel interviews, comprehensive case study evaluations, and strategic scenario planning exercises.

The executive interview environment demands that you project confidence while remaining genuinely engaged, demonstrate strategic thinking while staying conversational, and showcase your achievements while maintaining appropriate humility. We show you how to make powerful first impressions and maintain executive presence throughout lengthy evaluation processes, ensuring you stay composed, articulate, and compelling even under intense scrutiny.

Facing those challenging questions that typically derail strong candidates? We have you covered. Our preparation methodology draws from thousands of interview coaching sessions across every conceivable executive scenario. From addressing employment gaps and explaining career transitions to discussing compensation expectations and handling hypothetical leadership challenges, we’ve encountered every possible interview curveball and developed strategies to help you respond with confidence and strategic insight.

Compensation Negotiation

Executive compensation negotiations extend far beyond salary discussions to encompass complex packages involving equity structures, benefits optimization, performance incentives, and long-term wealth-building opportunities. The importance of these conversations is significant. Decisions made during compensation negotiations can impact your financial well-being for decades.

We provide comprehensive support in maximizing every component of your compensation package through confident negotiation strategies grounded in market intelligence and proven methodologies. Our approach ensures you understand not just what to ask for, but how to frame requests in ways that align with organizational priorities while demonstrating your understanding of business realities.

By leveraging our deep expertise in executive compensation structures, market benchmarking, and negotiation psychology, we ensure you receive offers that reflect your true market value and career potential. Our guidance encompasses salary optimization, equity structure analysis, benefits enhancement, performance bonus structuring, and executive perquisite negotiation.

Our goal goes beyond simply securing higher compensation. We empower you to make informed decisions that benefit both your immediate financial position and long-term career trajectory. This includes understanding when to prioritize equity over salary, how to structure performance incentives that align with your strengths, and when to negotiate for non-monetary benefits that provide substantial value beyond traditional compensation.

The result is a comprehensive compensation package that reflects your executive-level contribution while positioning you for continued advancement and wealth accumulation throughout your career.

Leadership Coaching & Career Development

Leadership

Executive presence is cultivated through intentional practice, strategic feedback, and continuous refinement of your leadership approach. Our leadership coaching focuses on the nuanced skills that distinguish good managers from game-changing executives.

We work with you to identify and strengthen your unique leadership signature while addressing the specific challenges facing today’s executives: leading through uncertainty, managing diverse teams, driving digital transformation, and balancing stakeholder expectations. Our coaching methodology combines behavioral and leadership intelligence (LQ) assessment, 360-degree feedback integration, and real-time application to current leadership challenges.

We help you develop the confidence to make bold decisions, the communication skills to inspire teams, and the strategic mindset to anticipate market shifts. Whether you’re navigating your first C-suite role, leading organizational change, or preparing for board-level responsibilities, our coaching provides the strategic perspective and tactical skills necessary for sustained executive success.

Promotion

Career advancement at the executive level demands strategic positioning, relationship cultivation, and precise timing. Our promotion coaching helps you navigate the complex dynamics of internal advancement while building the case for your next role.

We analyze your organization’s leadership landscape, identify key influencers in promotion decisions, and develop a comprehensive advancement strategy that positions you as the obvious choice for senior roles. This includes visibility enhancement within your organization, strategic project selection, and relationship building with board members and external stakeholders who influence succession planning.

Our approach recognizes that promotion readiness extends beyond current role mastery to include demonstrating potential for broader responsibility. We help you build the track record, relationships, and reputation that make promotion decisions straightforward for your organization’s leadership.

Networking

Traditional networking advice proves inadequate for executives who need sophisticated relationship-building strategies that create value for all parties involved. Executive-level networking requires strategic thinking, authentic value creation, and systematic relationship cultivation that goes far beyond transactional interactions.

Persel Group provides expert guidance in developing and implementing networking strategies that enhance your professional reach while uncovering opportunities that remain invisible to less strategic approaches. Our methodology focuses on relationship quality over quantity, ensuring each connection adds meaningful value to your professional ecosystem.

Our guidance encompasses relationship mapping and prioritization, strategic event selection and preparation, authentic value creation and sharing, systematic follow-up and relationship maintenance, and long-term network cultivation that creates compound benefits throughout your career. The result is a robust professional network that provides ongoing opportunities, market intelligence, and strategic support for your continued executive advancement.

Performance Reviews & Emotional Intelligence Training

Executive performance reviews represent critical inflection points in your career trajectory. Unlike traditional performance discussions, executive reviews often involve board members, influence compensation decisions significantly, and directly impact succession planning conversations.

Our performance review preparation goes beyond standard career coaching to include stakeholder analysis, achievement quantification, and strategic positioning for future opportunities. We help you articulate your impact in terms that resonate with board-level decision-makers while identifying areas for continued development that align with organizational priorities.

Emotional intelligence (EQ) represents the differentiating factor between technically competent executives and truly inspirational leaders. Our EQ training focuses on the sophisticated interpersonal skills required for executive success: reading complex stakeholder dynamics, managing important negotiations, inspiring performance during uncertainty, and building coalitions across diverse interest groups.

The training combines assessment-based insights with practical application, helping you develop greater self-awareness, enhanced empathy, and more effective influence strategies. These skills prove particularly valuable when managing through crisis situations, leading organizational change, or building consensus among strong-willed team members.

Executive Branding & Thought Leadership

In today’s competitive executive landscape, professional competence alone rarely distinguishes leaders in meaningful ways. The most successful executives understand that strategic personal branding and thought leadership development create the visibility, credibility, and influence necessary for sustained career advancement and market recognition.

We help accomplished executives establish and amplify their professional presence through systematic thought leadership development, strategic public speaking opportunities, board position preparation, authoritative content creation, and targeted media engagement. This comprehensive approach positions you as a recognized authority in your field while building the professional platform necessary for continued career growth.

Our strategic methodology encompasses identifying your unique expertise and perspective, developing compelling narratives that showcase your leadership philosophy, creating systematic content strategies that demonstrate your market insights, and securing speaking and media opportunities that enhance your industry visibility. We also provide preparation for board service, helping you develop the governance expertise and network relationships essential for director-level appointments.

This multifaceted approach to executive branding and thought leadership enables accomplished professionals to strengthen their personal brand and industry reputation in ways that create lasting competitive advantages. Whether your goal is C-suite advancement, board service, or establishing yourself as an industry influencer, our systematic approach ensures your expertise receives the recognition and platform it deserves.

The outcome is enhanced market visibility, increased inbound opportunities, stronger negotiating position in career discussions, and the professional platform necessary for continued influence and advancement throughout your executive career.

Board Seat & Advisory Position Coaching

Board service represents the pinnacle of executive achievement, offering opportunities to guide organizational strategy, mentor next-generation leaders, and contribute to industry advancement. However, securing meaningful board positions requires strategic preparation, network cultivation, and positioning that extends far beyond submitting board resumes.

Our board readiness coaching addresses the complete spectrum of board preparation: developing governance expertise, building relevant networks, enhancing your director profile, and identifying organizations aligned with your expertise and values. We help you master board dynamics and develop the strategic perspective that makes you valuable to nominating committees.

Advisory positions often serve as stepping stones to board roles while providing immediate opportunities to expand your influence and expertise. We help you identify advisory opportunities that enhance your credentials, broaden your network, and demonstrate board readiness to future nominating committees.

The coaching includes practical elements like board interview preparation, director education planning, and ongoing relationship management with executive search firms specializing in board placements. Our goal is positioning you not just as a qualified candidate, but as a strategic asset that organizations actively seek for their governance needs.

Persel Group’s executive career coaching leveled-up my leadership. And their insights were pivotal during a major organizational change.