Who We Are
Your Trusted Advisor
Career transitions can be multi-faceted and complex, especially for senior leaders. Whether long-planned or unexpected, we’re here to help. Our team of consultants and advisors brings decades of executive-level experience, providing unparalleled, concierge-style support that executives expect and deserve.
We are a boutique career advisory firm supporting executives across the leadership lifecycle.
What Makes Us Right for You
Our range of offerings and depth of expertise in executive-level career advising is certainly recognized and sought-after, but it’s our highly customized approach and the relationships built that truly set us apart.
An Exclusive Focus on Executives
Our expertise runs deep. Over the past two decades, we have developed a proven methodology, set of tools, and level of support ideally suited for senior-level leaders.
Industry-Leading Client Service
We are relentlessly dedicated to providing the highest level of service in the industry, offering highly personalized services versus taking a one-size-fits-all approach.
Concierge-Style Coaching
In our unique model, each client is carefully matched 1:1 with a lead consultant, with support from a bench of subject matter experts, to provide a custom experience.
High Caliber Consultants
Our advisors are seasoned, senior-level leaders who provide peer-level guidance, compassion, and candor that has been carefully honed over time.
Outcome-Based Support
At Navigate Forward, we deliver outcomes rather than focusing on time-based support. No time limits, only smooth, successful landings.
Meet Our Team
We Deliver Smooth, Successful Landings
Statistics aside, our focus is to make sure clients find a personal, compelling what’s next, and that they land in a place where they can succeed.
52 years
Average client age
2,500
Executives supported since 2008
95%
When given a choice, executives choose us
Your Moment for Clarity, Confidence, and the Next Compelling Chapter
For Executives
Whether a leader comes to us on their own or at the referral of their company, together we’ll develop a custom journey from our executive career transition service offerings. The engagement may focus on one service offering or multiple, and it might evolve over the course of the journey. Trust your trusted advisor.
For Organizations
Our partnership with organizations ensures we support executive transitions with the responsiveness and discretion that the leader, team, and company require. We offer engagements for new, emerging, and departing executives, bringing fully developed solutions and peer-level expertise to meet complex and acute company needs.
Our Client’s Success is Our Success
We’ve supported more than 2,500 leaders successfully navigate executive career transitions with intentionality and purpose. Enjoy just a few of those smooth landings:
Beth Simermeyer
Services: Encore Planning, Board Readiness
Thoughtful planning before retirement helped this former Ecolab EVP and Global Group President fast-track her goals. Her custom planning journey included board readiness and encore career planning, and has kept her engaged with what she loves.
Kent Larson
Services: Board Readiness
More than most, Kent Larson understands the value of advance planning. After all, there’s little margin for error when heading up operations at Xcel Energy, one of the Midwest’s largest public utilities. So it’s not surprising that when approaching retirement, he engaged the experts at Navigate Forward to prepare for corporate board service.
Jim Jacobson
Services: Legacy Planning, which includes encore planning and Board Readiness
After many years as a corporate healthcare attorney, Jim Jacobson notified his employer that retirement was on the horizon. Together with this Navigate Forward, Jim created an encore plan to achieve his most important goals. Today, that includes serving on three boards and guest lecturing to law students while prioritizing time for hobbies, travel and family time.
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Transition and change can happen suddenly. Ready yourself or your organization for that moment with the help of our career advisory firm.