Real World Executive Talent
Simply stated, we offer real world solutions for improved executive effectiveness, successful career transitions, greater organizational alignment, and talent acquisition. We are also experts in executive coaching, outplacement, career transition, leadership & organizational effectiveness and the accelerated development of high potential talent.
HR & Organizational Consulting
Executive Coaching & Leadership Development
Outplacement
Executive Search
Our executive advisors have held senior management and leadership roles in some of the world's most respected companies including:
Our real world corporate executive experience is supplemented with the behavioral perspectives of our Ph.D. Organizational Psychology expert.
The Navigator Network
Navigator Institute
Outplacement reinvented. By developing the world’s most highly interactive online outplacement program and combining it with the personal career coaching of human resources professionals, the Navigator Institute offers an unmatched level of affordability, effectiveness, and flexibility.
Navigator Search Advisors
A premier global boutique executive search firm with a proven track record of delivering top talent to discerning clients. We combine unparalleled proprietary technology with an extensive international network to source high-performing passive candidates.
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Job Search Navigator
The Job Search Navigator is an award-winning & best selling book that serves as a comprehensive guide to finding a new job in today’s evolving career marketplace. Author Matt Durfee writes from the perspective of someone who has both recruited for some of America’s biggest companies and navigated his way through nine of his own job losses.
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President & Senior Advisor
Matt Durfee (President)
Matt Durfee is the President of Navigator Executive Advisors, Inc. and author of The Job Search Navigator. Available in all fine bookstores, his book achieved the #1 ranking in its category on Amazon.
Prior to launching Navigator, Matt Durfee held CHRO, Senior Vice President, Vice President and executive-level Human Resources positions in a number of the world’s most admired companies including Pepsi-Cola, Nestle, Frito-Lay International, Hard Rock Cafe, Viewpost, Bank One, and Centex Homes. His expertise in career development & leadership transition, change management, and executive development is supplemented with extensive experience in roles ranging from the business unit level to the Board of Directors.
Matt earned his Master’s degree in Labor & Industrial Relations from Michigan State University and subsequently completed an executive program in Financial Analysis at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Executive Career Transition
Executive career transition program clients benefit from advisors with executive-level human resources experience in some of the world’s most respected companies. Regardless of location, Navigator provides individualized executive-to-executive career transition support that leverages real world knowledge of what organizations and executive search firms look for when hiring top-tier leadership talent.
Navigator Career Transition Workbook
Ameriprise® financial advisor consultation
Onboarding and assimilation support
Navigator Institute – Learn how to get a new job – FAST!
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Workforce Career Transition
(Non Executive Groups)
In addition to a comprehensive & participative two-day career transition workshop that can be delivered anywhere in the U.S. & Canada, participants benefit from one-on-one coaching from a professional career advisor with qualifications that include extensive human resources experience and direct accountability for hiring decisions. The workshop and 30-days of transition support is ideal for organizations impacted by a group downsizing or restructuring.
Navigator Institute
(Both Non-Executive & Executive)
Highly effective and economical, the Navigator Institute is a highly interactive, online suite of programs and resources designed to support displaced employees in remote or geographically-dispersed locations. Leveraging individualized coaching and practical learnings & exercises, participants develop effective job search strategies while building the skills necessary to succeed in increasingly rigorous selection processes.
Executive Coaching at a Glance
Comprehensive Coaching process
World-class behavioral assessments
Up to six months of individual coaching by former senior executives
Due to competing priorities as well as possible participant reservations regarding the sincerity of in-house coaching activites (e.g., perceptions of ulterior motives or hidden political agenedas) Navigator delivers a level of undivided and uncompromised candor, focus, commitment, and expertise that is generally unobtainable with an organization’s existing resources.
Unlike other coaching firms that typically employ organizational development specialists or consultants that have never risen to the ranks of executive management, we combine our real world senior executive experience with the behavioral assessment tools and proven processes of our executive coaches and experts to offer our clients a Best of Both Worlds approach to improving performance and interpersonal effectiveness.
Initially, a Navigator advisor will meet with clients at their offices and conduct face-to-face interviews with their supervisors, peers and direct reports. Depending on client preferences and location, periodic coaching sessions (generally bi-weekly) can be effectively conducted at the client’s office, the Navigator Career Center, neutral offsite locations, or telephonically. Individual project coaching usually occurs over a five to six month period while retained coaching requires an initial six month commitment (for teams or individuals).
With a comprehensive array of approaches that help your executive excel in their role, Navigator leverages best-in-class coaching processes including Marshall Goldsmith’s program, developed from his experience as a former GE executive coach to Jack Welch. Other approaches include James Flaherty’s coaching method, Tony Stoltzfus’s Leadership Coaching process and renowned coach Bruce D. Schneider’s Energy Leadership teachings. With these methodologies and an array of proven assessment tools at our disposal, Navigator addresses our client’s developmental needs with fresh & accurate insights. Coaching services are available anywhere in the U.S., Canada and most international locations.
Our Clients Include:
- High Potential
- Emerging Leaders
- Developmental
- At Risk
- Retention Intervention
- Executive Team Retainer
The High Cost of Failure
It is not unusual for an organization to commit more time & resources on corrective action for underperforming executives than on individuals identified as either being “high potential” or critical to building their talent pipelines. While the business case for investing in underperforming executives is compelling (see example below), Navigator encourages clients to make commensurate & strategic investments in their future leaders.
Navigator’s unique Retention Intervention approach to executive coaching is specifically intended for valued executives who may have recently been negatively impacted by organizational restructurings (e.g., reduction in scope or responsibility) or were passed over for promotions – both circumstances that often inspire otherwise loyal executives to actively seek career opportunities elsewhere. By way of a timely & comprehensive coaching engagement, Navigator reinforces the employer’s commitment to the individual while assessing and developing the skills & behaviors necessary for future growth within the same organization.
EXAMPLE: Cost of involuntary separation due to behavioral and leadership issues of an otherwise highly driven and results-oriented executive:
Base Data
Executive Base Salary:
$ 150,000
Targeted Bonus:
$ 50,000
Total Targeted Pay:
$ 200,000
Cost of Attrition *
6 Months Severance:
$ 75,000
Outplacement:
$ 15,000
Search Fee for Replacement:
$ 60,000
New Hire Homeowner Relo.:
$ 95,000
Total hard dollar costs:
$ 245,000
* Represents estimated basic expenses only and does not attempt to calculate the financial costs of lost productivity, customer defections, ramp-up period & training costs for new hire, staff turnover, lost institutional knowledge, etc.
The Best of Both Worlds
Navigator Search Advisors is a premier global boutique executive search firm with a proven track record of delivering top talent to discerning clients. We combine unparalleled proprietary technology with an extensive international network to source high-performing passive candidates. We also focus on creating successful partnerships with Fortune 500 corporations, private equity firms, small businesses and not-for-profit entities. Our service niche offers a best of both worlds approach to delivering exceptional service with affordable fees.
Large Firms
- Higher Fees
- Varying Service
- High Number of "Off Limits" Clients
- Global Reach
Navigator
- Higher Service
- Unique Capabilities
- Lower Fees
- Low Number of "Off Limits" Clients
- Global Reach
Mom & Pop
- Lower Fees
- Lower Service
- Low Number of "Off Limits" Clients
- No Global Reach
Supported by world-class recruiters, researchers and employment coordinators, as well as Navigator’s proprietary sourcing technology, our signature is placing superior candidates faster than all other firms.
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Beyond more traditional recruiting methodologies, our capability to identify, contact and recruit highly targeted, passive candidates is unique. This capability comes from a proprietary system developed in-house by the research team at Navigator Search Advisors; no other search firm of any size has access to this technology.
The individuals we identify are not job seekers and most would never respond to a job posting. These are the most sought-after candidates and the candidates we recruit.
We are committed to:
- Providing higher quality employment services that save our clients time, money and promote greater efficiency.
- Building partnerships with our clients through a greater understanding of their culture, needs, and requirements.
With deep relationships and experience at the C-Suite level, our team delivers candidates in the areas of:
- CEO/COO/President
- Supply Chain Management
- Operations/Production
- Human Resources
- CFO/Accounting/Finance
- Sales/Business
- Marketing
- Development
- Engineering
New Leader Transition
Think of a time when a new leader joined an organization. Then think of all the time, effort and anxiety expended by both the new leader and the existing staff as they tried to figure out what was important to one another, particularly with respect to the critical nuances of their working relationship. Lastly, think of all the miscues, trial & error missteps, lost productivity and water cooler gossip that could have been avoided had there been an open and effective process for both parties to have clearly communicated earlier in the new leader’s tenure.
The Navigator solution is a proven, effective, and economical program for significantly shortening the normally lengthy “ramp up” time before a new leader and an existing team become optimally productive.
Facilitated group work session (Maximum of 20 participants)
New leader behavioral assessment
Team effectiveness & learning style summary report
New leader consultation session by former senior executive
Navigator advisors facilitate highly participative yet “politically safe” work sessions that give both the new leader and members of the staff a structured forum to share information pertaining to management styles, workplace culture, individual & collective goals, organizational challenges and personal data. The program can be expected to deliver impressive & sustainable results immediately upon the conclusion of a one-day work session.
Shortly after the team work session, Navigator provides the new leader with a detailed report summarizing the information captured in the work session and from a previously administered behavioral assessment tool. The New Leader Transition service is available anywhere in the U.S., Canada and most international locations.