Leadership Assessment
Big-firm leadership assessment. Without the big-firm fleecing.
You have been paying big-firm rates for one person in a room with your CEO. We kept the person, dropped the markup, and deliver the report within five business days of the interview.
Fixed fee. Agreed before we start.
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The question
Diligence prices the market and the model. It rarely prices the people.
Every deal is underwritten on a plan, and every plan is delivered by a handful of people. The market can be right, the model can be right, and the whole thing still stalls because the CEO who built a $40M business cannot run a $120M one.
That is knowable before close. Most firms find out eighteen months later, with a search fee and a lost year attached.
The fleecing
You are paying for the brand, the building and the bench. Not the assessment.
Strip the invoice back and a leadership assessment is one experienced person in a room with your CEO, asking the right questions and knowing what the answers mean. The rest is overhead: the offices, the partner bonuses, the layers of administration and the placement fee waiting downstream.
None of that improves the assessment. We kept the person and dropped the rest: same rigour, same evidence, a fixed fee that reflects the work.
What you get
Evidence on every leader, tied to the plan you are underwriting.
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One leader, or the whole team
Individual assessments of every leader who matters to the thesis, with a team synthesis when several are assessed. Scoped to the use case.
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Measured against your plan
Psychometrics and a structured interview, weighed against what the value creation plan requires. The question is whether they can run this deal.
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One advisor, no handoffs
Maxwell Salazar runs every assessment personally. The person in the room is the person who writes the report.
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Written for the committee, per leader
A report on each leader an investment committee can read in minutes, then a debrief with the sponsor and a feedback session with the leader.