Current Key Advantage
Hire Your Next Leader. Strengthen Another.
Receive a Leadership Alignment Snapshot™ for One Current Leader
Engage kpCompanies for a new retained executive search during this period and receive a focused leadership assessment for another key leader already within your organization.
Gain an objective perspective on their leadership strengths, current role alignment, and areas that may deserve greater attention as you build the leadership team your organization needs next.
Available to organizations that execute a new eligible retained executive search agreement during September 2026.
Added value included with your engagement
$2,000 Value
What Your Key Advantage Includes
Leadership Assessment Interview
A focused leadership conversation exploring how the individual leads, makes decisions, approaches challenges, and understands the responsibilities of their current role.
Leadership Alignment Profile
A structured assessment across key leadership dimensions highlighting demonstrated strengths, development opportunities, and alignment with current role expectations.
Executive Leadership Snapshot
A concise 2 to 3 page summary of key findings, leadership considerations, and recommended next steps for the organization.
The Leadership Alignment Snapshot™ is included with an eligible retained executive search engagement, for one current leader who is separate from any candidate participating in the search. It is not offered as a standalone service, and it never stands in for the rigorous candidate assessment already built into every kpCompanies retained search.
Why This Advantage, Now
One Search. A Broader Look at Your Leadership Team.
Hiring a new executive often creates a natural opportunity to think more broadly about the leadership team around them.
While kpCompanies leads the search for your next executive, the Leadership Alignment Snapshot™ gives you an opportunity to take a focused look at another current leader and better understand the strengths they bring, where greater support may be beneficial, and whether there are questions worth exploring more deeply.
Assessment Outcomes
What the Snapshot May Surface
Every Snapshot is written for your leadership team, in plain language. It points toward one of three considerations — never a score, a ranking, or a verdict.
Strong Alignment
The assessment indicates meaningful alignment between the leader's demonstrated capabilities and current role expectations.
Development Opportunity
Overall alignment is present, with specific areas that may benefit from development, support, or greater role clarity.
Further Evaluation Recommended
The assessment surfaced questions regarding leadership or role alignment that may warrant deeper evaluation.
The Snapshot is designed to inform leadership thinking, not to make employment decisions. Where deeper questions emerge, kpCompanies may recommend further evaluation through an appropriate leadership advisory engagement.
What to Expect
Discovery Conversation
Discuss the executive role your organization needs to fill, hiring priorities, and desired timeline.
Search Proposal
Receive a tailored retained executive search scope, process, timeline, and investment.
Engage kpCompanies
Execute a new retained executive search agreement during September 2026.
Select Your Leader
Identify one current executive or senior leader within your organization for the Leadership Alignment Snapshot™.
Launch Both
Begin the retained executive search while coordinating the separate Leadership Alignment Snapshot™ for your selected leader.
Designed for Organizations That:
- Are preparing to hire an executive or senior leader
- Are ready to begin a retained search
- Have another current leader they would benefit from understanding more deeply
- Are thinking intentionally about the strength and alignment of their broader leadership team
- Want an objective outside perspective without immediately undertaking a comprehensive leadership review
What Is The Key Advantage?
Periodically, kpCompanies introduces a Key Advantage for organizations preparing to make a consequential leadership hire. Each is designed to provide additional strategic value alongside an eligible retained executive search engagement, and is available only during the designated engagement period.
Available through September 30, 2026.
Eligibility
- Applies to one eligible retained executive search engagement
- Requires a new agreement executed during the stated period
- Has no cash value and cannot reduce the retained search fee
- Cannot be transferred to another organization
- Cannot be exchanged for another kpCompanies service
- Completed within a reasonable period established by kpCompanies
Why Organizations Trust kpCompanies
For over 20 years, we've helped mission-driven nonprofits, associations, and growing companies build leadership teams that drive lasting impact.
20+
Years of Executive Search Excellence
500+
Leaders Placed in Transformational Roles
95%
Client Retention Rate
100%
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
What They’re Saying
We had an excellent partnership together and were focused on the same goal. We knew we could trust kpCompanies with our hiring needs. Used for two searches — VP Marketing Communications and IT VP.