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Lyceum specializes in transforming board search and selection processes for nominating committees. As a boutique, we’re able to tailor our process to the situational and timing needs of the board, leverage our extensive board networks, deliver on time–every time–through our superlative project management capabilities, and apply peerless creativity in attracting the best candidates to the opportunity through our media production for each search.

As the boutique alternative, we consistently deliver to a higher standard in order to outpace the large, conventional search firms. However, our biggest competitor in board search is often those nominating committees that choose to run these search and selection processes themselves. Our Search Reimagined® methodology enhances board search and selection processes by sharpening decision-making, delivering unparalleled value and precision throughout.

Lyceum specializes in transforming board search and selection processes for nominating committees. As a boutique, we’re able to tailor our process to the situational and timing needs of the board, leverage our extensive board networks, deliver on time–every time–through our superlative project management capabilities, and apply peerless creativity in attracting the best candidates to the opportunity through our media production for each search.

As the boutique alternative, we consistently deliver to a higher standard in order to outpace the large, conventional search firms. However, our biggest competitor in board search is those nominating committees that choose to run these search and selection processes themselves. Our Search Reimagined® methodology enhances board search and selection processes by sharpening decision-making, delivering unparalleled value and precision throughout.

Our Approach:

Search Reimagined® Podcast

As part of our board search process, we produce an audio media interview featuring the CEO and the Chairman or the Lead Independent Director. Candidates gain insight into our client’s strategic opportunities, risks, culture, and the rationale for the experience sought in the new board member directly through the perspectives of the company’s leadership.

Access to Candidates

We have access through our search technology platforms to over 1.8 million detailed and regularly updated executive and director profiles. Our platforms reveal overlapping network connections that enhance our ability to leverage our broad networks to identify, and the reach of our media to attract, exceptional leaders better and faster than traditional search firms. 

Strategic Intake Interviews

We conduct upfront intensive intake interviews to understand the business and strategic context that warrant the functional and situational experiences ideally sought for the board. This begins with in-depth Intake Interviews with board members and key company executives as deemed appropriate.

Board Composition Matrix: Benchmarking and Gap Analysis

Whether our client seeks one seat or multiple seats, based on the intake interviews we analyze, provide an objective assessment of, and grid the board’s current experiential composition to illuminate existing capabilities as well as identify gaps versus company strategy or market peers/competitors to inform the role specification and search strategy design.

Customized Project Plans

We complete our projects on a collectively planned date certain. Tailored to our client’s specific needs and board schedule, our clear upfront project planning with a milestone-driven process ensures timely, efficient, and effective outcomes.

Rigorous Candidate Evaluation

We conduct competency-based interviews of board candidates to arrive at a long-list of Lyceum-qualified candidates for our client’s consideration.  We evaluate for their fitness for the board based on situational leadership experiences, functional capabilities, leadership competency, and prior board experience.

Client Interview Guide

Lyceum develops an Interview Guide that provides common criteria for evaluating across candidates. The proven, competency-based questions in the guide reveal degrees of director effectiveness. The guide goes further to facilitate a consultative discussion with candidates through a “turning the tables” section featuring headline issues, opportunities, and key challenges for the company.

Transparent Pricing Structure

Fixed professional fees ensure clarity and predictability in budgeting.

Why Choose Us?

Discover the difference of a reimagined board search. Contact us to shape the future of your leadership.

CONTACT US

The Leadership Lyceum LLC
1 S. Dearborn Street, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60603
info@LeadershipLyceum.com

 

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