You have spent your career becoming a successful recruiter and an expert in the search business – but not in how to consistently scale the firm you desire. Before you invest additional time, money and resources teaching yourself as you go, consider engaging the only industry experts with a quantifiable track record of having done this for themselves and other firms for decades.

This program provides even the most tenured owners with an effective plan to help you grow the firm you desire. Delivered over 8 weeks, each coaching and consulting session covers a specific area of the infrastructure of a sustainable, scalable and profitable search firm.

Structural models, roles, career paths, territories, team rules, compensation plans, equity programs and best practices in hiring, training, professional development, marketing communications, technology and tech stack, performance management, culture, and more will be covered in this customized program specifically based on your firm today and the firm you desire to build.

Calls are delivered one-on-one with you with the schedule outlined below:

• Week 1: Jeff Kaye, Co-CEO and Karen Schmidt, Managing Partner (90 mins): After studying your current search firm model and structure, this call with Jeff Kaye and Karen Schmidt will consult on suggestions for the future, to include roles, compensation and equity plans, career paths, territorial structures, and market expansion strategies designed to help you create the framework for the firm you desire to build.
• Week 2: Coach Call (60 mins): Your assigned Coach will work with you in any areas of need to maximize effective absorption of the content and concepts shared by our team throughout the program.
• Week 3: Either Erin Bent, Greg Doersching, or Karen Schmidt (90 mins): Scaling a firm requires a perpetual funnel of both quantity and quality business. This call will share consistent strategies for continuous business development and candidate recruitment, to include methodologies for sequencing tools and deployment of international sourcing capabilities.
• Week 4: Coach Call (60 mins): Coaching call to continue to build integration around the concepts shared in previous calls.
• Week 5: Erin Bent or Karen Schmidt (90 mins): We will dig into the people side of your business with an assessment of team members, creating learning tracks for continued education and future career paths. This includes analyzing current programs around hiring, onboarding, new recruiter training and ongoing professional development to maximize success with recruiter identification, attraction, onboarding, and retention.
• Week 6: Coach Call (60 mins): Coaching call to continue to build integration around the concepts shared.
• Week 7: Darren McDougal, Chief Marketing Officer (90 mins): Since 2006, Darren McDougal has led a team whose sole expertise is marketing communications for the search industry. Darren will analyze your organization and make recommendations in areas that include web presence, SEO, inbound marketing, lead and content generation, social media, LinkedIn, and more.
• Week 8: Coach Call (60 mins): Coaching call to continue to build integration around the concepts shared.
• Week 9: Jeff Kaye and Coach (90 mins): Bringing this series together, this call with Jeff Kaye and your Coach will sync areas needed to build on your foundation to scale your firm including systems, processes, tools and people. This holistic session will provide broader insight of the comprehensive facets of your search business to maximize your effectiveness, efficiency, productivity, and profitability.

Scaling a Next Level Search Firm Includes:

• A Head Coach with a demonstrated track record in helping owners and recruiters around the globe reach their fullest potential. Your Coach will be personally assigned and accountable to you throughout the program to help you solidify your unique objectives as well as the steps to take to bridge the gap between your current achievement and you and your firm’s future potential.
• Access to our Owner-Only Intranet which includes all proprietary and confidential material accumulated over decades; documents include extensive compensation plans, fee and employment agreements, as well as numerous forms, programs and procedures related to operations, hiring, training, and performance management.
• Premium level access to 100% of content on Next Level Exchange (NL Academy and NLE TV) to include all recorded owner-only material and the Facilitated Foundation Training Program.