The leadership market
has moved on.
Has your search firm?
We combine high touch executive search with the Verdant Intelligence Platform (VIP), a proprietary AI driven system that continuously tracks leadership movements, organizational changes, and talent signals across your competitive landscape, giving you visibility into the market before it moves.
Leadership risk gets
discovered too late
Most organizations rely on reactive, fragmented, and backward looking intelligence when making executive hiring decisions.
The best leaders aren’t looking. They’re operating inside competitor organizations and beyond, in adjacent industries, parallel markets, and places traditional search firms never think to look. They move when conditions change, not when recruiters call.
What if you knew your competitor’s key leader was available before they left? What if you could predict executive departures before they become public, and position your organization ahead of the market?
The leadership market has evolved, but search has not.
Executive leadership
without blind spots
We continuously map leadership ecosystems, track executive trajectories, and surface forward looking insights, helping clients understand the leadership market they’re competing in.
Executive Search
Director level and above. Permanent, interim, and fractional placements. We find the leaders your competitors wish they could keep, before they hit the market.
Leadership Intelligence — Verdant Intelligence Platform (VIP)
Continuous competitive intelligence for PE firms, boards, and executives. Pre-deal talent assessment, flight risk monitoring, competitive landscape mapping, and executive opportunity identification.
Board Advisory & Placement
Independent directors, advisory boards, and governance expertise. We map board composition and identify directors who bring the capabilities you need.
Interim & Fractional Leadership
Proven operators for transition and transformation. CEO, CFO, CHRO, and COO impact without full time overhead. Leadership without the 6 month ramp.
+ Continuous Competitive Intelligence
Every engagement leverages VIP intelligence, whether through comprehensive pre-deal assessments or ongoing competitive monitoring, clients gain market visibility traditional search firms can’t provide.
Intelligence that moves
before the market does
VIP is not a recruiting tool. It’s a leadership intelligence system designed for executive decision making, succession planning, and competitive talent strategy.
Our AI driven platform continuously monitors leadership and organizational activity across your competitive landscape, tracking the signals that precede major moves, departures, and opportunities.
This intelligence is not delivered raw.
It’s translated into executive level insight.
AI Powered Continuous Monitoring
VIP aggregates and analyzes data from multiple sources, professional networks, organizational announcements, public filings, technology adoption signals, and competitive intelligence, to build a real time view of leadership ecosystems in your industry.
Our proprietary algorithms identify patterns that indicate:
- Flight Risk: Executives likely to leave their current roles (and when)
- Availability Signals: When high performers may be open to opportunities
- Organizational Stress: Leadership gaps, restructuring, or capability constraints at competitors
- Market Movement: Where talent is flowing across your competitive landscape
Actionable Reports. Not Raw Data
Leadership Flight Risk Assessments
Pre-deal or portfolio company evaluations scoring executive retention likelihood, identifying vulnerabilities before they become crises, with recommended retention strategies.
Competitive Talent Landscape Reports
Comprehensive mapping of leadership across your sector, who's where, who's moving, capability gaps, and emerging talent trends, updated quarterly or on demand.
Executive Opportunity Alerts
Real time notifications when target leaders show availability signals, organizational changes that may trigger movement, or new roles that indicate expansion.
Strategic Talent Briefings
Market intelligence translated for boards, investors, and executive teams, understanding competitor strategy through their talent decisions.
Forward Looking by Design
Backward looking. They start searching after someone leaves.
Forward looking. We track signals that precede departures, equity vesting schedules, organizational changes, leadership scope shifts, competitive hiring patterns, and alert you before they’re public.
The result: You’re not reacting to the market. You’re ahead of it.
From signals to strategy
Pre-Deal Diligence
A PE firm evaluates a $75M acquisition. VIP assesses the target’s leadership team, scores flight risk for each C-suite executive, and identifies the CFO has an 85/100 departure likelihood, equity fully vests in 90 days, underpaid vs. market, competitor posted a CFO role.
Portfolio Company Monitoring
VIP alerts a portfolio company board that their VP of Sales, responsible for 40% of revenue, shows elevated flight risk: LinkedIn activity up 340%, key reports departed, comp below market. Intelligence delivered 45 days before resignation.
Competitive Opportunity
VIP identifies a competitor’s Chief Revenue Officer has availability signals: organizational restructuring, reporting line changed, scope reduced, equity vested. Client receives alert within 48 hours. Outreach initiated while candidate is receptive.
Market Intelligence
A healthcare services company expanding into a new geography. VIP provides a comprehensive leadership landscape: who operates in that market, executives with relevant experience, capability gaps at current players, recent hires indicating competitive strategy.
Comprehensive leadership intelligence
Leadership Activity & Movement
- Executive hires, promotions, departures, and role changes
- Reporting line shifts and organizational restructuring
- Scope expansion or contraction (signals of growth or stress)
- Board appointments and advisory roles
Organizational Signals
- Technology and platform adoption
- Team expansion or reduction patterns
- Office openings, closures, or relocations
- M&A activity and integration execution
Individual Career Signals
- Professional network activity and engagement patterns
- Certification completions and skill development
- Speaking engagements and thought leadership
- Equity vesting schedules and compensation benchmarking
Competitive Intelligence
- Where competitors invest in talent (functions, levels, geographies)
- Leadership capability gaps visible through hiring patterns
- Sector-wide talent flows (who’s gaining, who’s losing)
- Emerging trends in executive compensation
Why it matters
How Clients Use VIP
PE Firms & Independent Sponsors
- Pre-deal talent risk assessment during diligence
- Portfolio company flight risk monitoring
- Competitive talent landscape mapping
- Proactive succession planning
Growth Companies & Corporate Partners
- Executive opportunity identification
- Competitive intelligence
- Leadership capability benchmarking
- Market timing optimization
Boards & Investors
- Portfolio company leadership risk visibility
- Succession planning intelligence
- Competitive talent strategy analysis
- Executive compensation benchmarking
What You Gain
- SpeedAccess to elite passive leaders before they hit the market, and before your competitors know they’re available
- Risk ReductionPre-deal talent assessment identifies leadership gaps before close; ongoing monitoring prevents surprise departures
- Market IntelligenceUnderstand competitor strategy through their talent decisions, who they hire, who they lose, where they invest
- Strategic ClarityBoard ready intelligence that informs succession planning, org design, and competitive positioning
- Competitive AdvantageYou’re making decisions with information your competitors don’t have, and won’t have for months
Experience explains patterns
Led by founders with 40+ years of combined executive experience across healthcare staffing, national talent operations, and enterprise revenue strategy.
Tad has spent 21 years building talent infrastructure for growing companies, with one guiding principle: recruiting should be a competitive advantage, not a cost center. He joined his first firm as Head of Talent Acquisition, brought in from the start for his sharp eye for talent, and spent 15 years scaling the recruiting function to support exponential company growth, before becoming HR Director following its acquisition by RECRUIT Co, the Japanese conglomerate behind Indeed, Glassdoor, and Staffmark. That’s where he learned the Unit Management methodology that powers Indeed’s talent operations today.
Most recently, as Chief People Officer at a national healthcare staffing firm, he grew headcount by over 50% while reducing company-wide attrition from 64% to 25% and sales attrition from 71% to 32%.
That combination of talent acquisition expertise, recruiting depth, and operational rigor is the foundation VBG is built on. Tad brings a practitioner’s perspective to every search, using the Verdant Intelligence Platform to identify leaders who fit the culture and conditions of the role, not just the job description.
Drew has built his career on a simple thesis: growth without operational excellence is not sustainable. Over 20 years, he has led sales organizations across healthcare staffing, IT services, and federal contracting, always at the SVP, EVP, or President level, always with full P&L ownership.
Most recently, as Senior Vice President of Sales at a leading healthcare staffing firm, he led enterprise revenue strategy, achieved 50% growth, and scaled the sales organization from 90 to 140 producers and 4 to 16 leaders.
At VBG, Drew leads revenue strategy and client acquisition, bringing an operator’s lens to executive search. He evaluates leaders not just on résumé, but on how they perform under the conditions that actually matter, combining firsthand P&L experience with the Verdant Intelligence Platform to help clients find leaders who drive results, not just fill seats.
Dylan brings deep expertise in cloud architecture, software development, and technology operations to VBG’s strategic direction. A Stanford University graduate and founder of Ordinary Experts, he has spent his career building scalable platforms at the intersection of infrastructure and product development, with a particular focus on leveraging data and machine learning to solve complex operational challenges.
His technical leadership and hands-on engineering background inform VBG’s technology strategy and the AI driven intelligence capabilities that power the Verdant Intelligence Platform, translating cutting edge technology into practical tools that give clients a measurable edge in talent acquisition.
Six principles that
guide every engagement
Leadership decisions are market decisions
Employees leave signals before they move
Interim and fractional leaders are leverage
Data without interpretation is noise
Reactive hiring is unnecessary risk
Context reduces risk, foresight creates leverage
Ready to move first?
See the moves your competitors
haven’t announced yet
Understand who’s moving, who’s available, and who to watch, before the market does.
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