As former consultants, we have years of experience in evaluating business models, organizational structures and the people leading and contributing within them. This expertise enables us to identify what gaps exist and how to best address them with the addition of new talent that rounds out your team and enables your organization to reach its full potential. We also invest to understand your company culture so we can ensure great talent will fit with the current team.

As former industry operators, we can design roles that reflect the reality of various environments and enable real value to be delivered. We start by helping define what the key focus of the search will be. There are many kinds of leaders and contributors with different strengths within the field and we can help sort through nuances between them to identify which would drive the most leverage in your organization. If there are multiple openings, we help identify options for how to fill those roles in ways that allow the most flexibility or value added.

The experienced team at Lingua Franca begins to source candidates with the essential skills and organizational culture fit. We have a network of potential candidates built up over the course of more than 30 years and with whom we remain in regular contact to ensure we have the most up to date view of their capabilities and interests.  We also have advanced search and evaluation capabilities outside of candidates well known to us that enable us to effectively identify strong potential fits for your roles.

We have been interviewing and managing talented performers and leaders for decades and over that time, we’ve refined how to identify solid performers and superstars.  The indicators of who may be the right or wrong fit for your organization can be subtle and we have honed our screening process to detect these differences.  The candidates we present to you will be highly vetted to ensure your valuable time is spent wisely.

We assess competencies through detailed behavioral questioning. A combination of hypothetical problem solving examples relevant to the role and deep exploration of past approaches and case studies help us assess subject matter expertise. We are certified to administer the Hogan Assessment to help identify strengths, derailers and cultural fit.

Miscommunication of requirements and job responsibilities can be common between search firms and candidates when the details aren’t well understood.  With a strong background built from doing these jobs or partnering side by side with those that have done them, we can communicate the details to candidates accurately.  Through this knowledge and an exploration of the goals of candidates to ensure they match the what the role provides, we can advance people through the process that are excited by the opportunity.