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Our Capabilities
Five capabilities. One connected system.
Leadership challenges rarely arrive in isolation. Whether you need to hire a CEO, develop an executive team, or rebuild a culture that isn’t performing, the answer is rarely a single service. It is search, assessment, coaching, culture, and board counsel working as one connected system.
Where we start
Integrated solutions to your leadership challenge.
Whether the problem is a vacant C-suite role, a capable executive who isn’t performing, a culture that’s undermining your strategy, or a board decision that can’t afford to be wrong, one of the five capabilities below is where we start. Often, we finish with more than one.
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Executive Search
Culture-aligned, senior-led retained search for C-suite and mission-critical roles. Governed by our proprietary Foresight™ process and backed by a full two-year guarantee. 92% placement retention at two years, against a 55% industry average.
Foresight™
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Leadership Assessment
VantagePoint™ evaluates how leaders actually think, decide, and perform under real-world conditions. Not personality profiles. Not self-reported preferences. Real leadership readiness, measured rigorously.
VantagePoint™
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Executive Coaching
Targeted, outcomes-focused development for senior leaders navigating high-stakes transitions, role expansions, and sustained performance demands. Grounded in your organizational context, not generic frameworks.
Senior-led
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Organizational Culture & Performance
Helping boards and CEOs understand what their culture actually is, measure its health against what their strategy requires, and change it deliberately. Grounded in our Total Performance Leadership™ framework.
Total Performance Leadership™
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Founder / CEO & Board Advisory
Independent, experienced counsel for boards and founders at genuine inflection points: succession, board composition, founder transitions, strategic pivots. Confidential. Senior-led. Built on 30 years of perspective.
Confidential
How Our Capabilities Connect
Leadership challenges rarely arrive in isolation. Neither should your advisors.
The firms that get the most from Allen Austin recognize that leadership quality is a system, and that our capabilities are designed to reinforce each other across the full lifecycle.
Search + Assessment
Integrating VantagePoint™ into a Foresight™ search adds an evidence layer no interview process can match, surfacing how shortlisted candidates actually perform under pressure before you make an offer.
Search + Coaching
Onboarding coaching for a newly placed executive dramatically reduces first-year failure risk, the period when most placements either take hold or quietly begin to unravel.
Culture + Search
An Organizational Health diagnostic before a search ensures the role is correctly scoped and the culture is ready to support the new leader’s success, not set them up for a battle they can’t win.
Advisory + Coaching
The most consequential leadership decisions require both sound strategy and the discipline to execute it. We combine strategic guidance for boards and C-level executives with the hands-on coaching that turns sound thinking into lasting results.
Our Proprietary Frameworks
The intellectual foundation behind every engagement.
Foresight™
Our executive search process. Begins with organizational culture and performance expectations before a single candidate is sourced. The foundation of our 92% two-year retention rate.
Executive Search
VantagePoint™
Our proprietary leadership assessment. Evaluates how leaders actually perform under real conditions, not how they present in interviews or describe themselves on paper.
Leadership Assessment
Total Performance Leadership™
Our overarching philosophy for building high-performance organizations: align purpose, culture, leadership behavior, and strategy into a coherent, measurable system.
Culture & Performance
Organizational Health Index
A diagnostic tool for measuring culture health, identifying the gap between the culture you have and the culture your strategy actually requires.
Culture & Performance
Who We Work With
We work where leadership decisions carry real consequences.
Our clients range from privately held firms to $75B+ multinationals, but they share one characteristic: organizations where the quality of senior leadership directly determines outcomes.
Boards of Directors
CEO succession, director recruitment, governance advisory, and leadership risk management.
Founders & CEOs
Team building, succession planning, cultural alignment, and strategic inflection-point counsel.
CHROs & HR Leaders
Search partnerships, assessment tools, coaching programs, and culture diagnostic support.
Private Equity Firms
Portfolio company leadership, from pre-close assessment through post-acquisition team building and performance improvement.
“The Allen Austin team is my choice, every time we have an executive search or leadership issue.”
Gary Buckland · President & CEO, Lexitas Litigation Support Firm