Kinley & Connelly - Executive Search

Our Approach to Leadership Search

Every organization is unique -- its future plans, its culture, its values, its stage of growth, its performance.

Changing the leadership at the top of an organization or a department represents major change for everyone. Selecting the right leader at the right time and with the right mandate is a critical undertaking for Boards and CEOs.

At Kinley & Connelly, we approach every search for senior leadership with a sense of privilege and responsibility.

Key factors in our search process:

Research, advance analysis and significant up-front development work
Transition planning
A Well-developed outreach and sourcing strategy
Evaluation based on behavioural descriptive/competency-based interviews and 360 degree referencing
Client-assisted interviews
Detailed documentation
A high degree of candidate respect and attention
Involvement in every aspect of the search -- we do the work!
Open, transparent progress reporting
Commitment to follow-up with clients and candidates
Sense of urgency
Limited partner workload
State-of-the-art resources
Performance focus -- over 98% completion rate!