We look for leaders.

One of our firm’s core competencies is our relationship-building with leaders in their particular industry space. Leadership — some might call it senior management — is absolutely the first step to success in business. Leadership is key to our investment decision criteria.

Because of the significant deal flow through our partnership, we have been remarkably successful recruiting and placing key leaders in the industries where we’re passionate about investing. We were recently cited as possibly one of the largest recruiting/placement groups in the post-secondary education industry — even though this isn’t our core business (nor have we ever charged a company or an executive for placement services). In the past five years we’ve recruited more than 200 experts in post-secondary education on behalf of various organizations.

Our philosophy is one of giving to those we come in contact with without immediately trying to make money in the process. As a result of our willingness to engage in relationship-building, we may not make a short-term fee as a staffing business — but we do enjoy remarkable flow of intellectual property from our virtual Rolodex of relationships.

We back successful leaders. We get excited when a successful leader comes to us wanting to buy a business they’re passionate about building.

We welcome confidential discussions with C Suite executives if only so we can get to know each other.

This is Step 1 toward letting our mutual dreams come true.

Sometimes a major success starts with nothing more than a simple phone call or email to our firm, asking us to review a current vitae, followed by a conversation about the “perfect situation” for the senior executive.

What’s your dream position?

We look for leaders who:

• are passionate about their vision for a particular business
• have solid family structure
• have a track record of giving back to their community
• can think, talk, and write articulately about their core values, their leadership vision, and the current alignment of their actions for the proposed plan.

We have global affiliations across numerous industries. This puts a lot of quality people in our sphere of influence. Some have called our position unprecedented.

We don’t simply hope for ”right time, right place.“ The old model of “networking” is dead.

Maybe we can put our virtual Rolodex to work for you.

Meeting somebody for the short-term objective of what you can get out of them is not fruitful. We sometimes privately put it this way: Short-term greed equals long-term stupidity.

The most successful CEOs we’ve met really become servants to their organizations. When they meet with anyone in their organization, they focus on what they can do to help the other person — rather than on what they can get out of the person. This is what Dr. Michael K. Clifford refers to as a catalytic connection. Catalysts care less about selling than about serving.

Are you a catalyst?

Let’s Talk.