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Our executive consultants know firsthand how difficult it is to prepare for leadership changes, how important it is to take care of departing executives, and how necessary it is to retain and develop the leaders who follow.

Organization Services

With Navigate Forward, transitions with your departing or retiring executives will be in good hands. Your high-potential leaders will succeed in a board search. Your new leader will onboard effectively. And your business and brand will thrive.

Executive Outplacement

Offer support, accountability and a guaranteed smooth landing to your departing executive while encouraging cooperation and protecting brand reputation.

Executive Development and Retention

Invest in your promising leaders’ preparedness to serve on a compensated board of directors to support their development and ambition and encourage retention.

Executive Talent Mobilization

Eliminate anxiety and stress, protect the employment brand, ensure full knowledge transfer, and clear a path to advance and retain the next generation of leaders.

Executive Onboarding Accelerator

Accelerate new leader results, protect your investment, and drive team engagement and leader satisfaction with the structure, support, and perspective of an objective executive peer.

Experience Matters

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ENTERPRISES SERVED

Across multiple industries, sectors, states, and countries, leading companies trust us when responsiveness and discretion are needed most.

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OUTPLACEMENT FIRM

We’re proud to be a Top 10 Outplacement Services Provider by Manage HR Magazine, recognized for redefining outplacement with a boutique approach.

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YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

The consultant we’ll match your leader with will be an objective peer. They know executives and how to support them.

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FORMER EXECUTIVES

Our consultants are all former executive recruiters or corporate executives. We’ve walked in your shoes.

Your Partner Along the Leadership Lifecycle

We offer engagements for new, emerging, and departing executives, bringing fully-developed solutions and expertise to meet complex and acute company needs along the leadership lifecycle.

A Trusted Partner for Executives in Transition

From multinational corporations to mid-market companies, spanning industries and markets, we’re who organizations turn to for managing leadership changes.

Featured Resource for HR Leaders

When change comes unexpectedly, it’s far from easy. How your organization handles these infrequent transition points within leadership can have outsized impact. We’ve walked in your shoes and we’re here to help.

EXIT STRATEGY: AN HR LEADER’S GUIDE

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You have questions. We have answers.

Yes. We provide full-service, highly customized outplacement exclusively for executives in transition. We are not a high-volume outplacement firm. We help departing leaders land their next opportunity, board seat, or plan for retirement.

Yes. We support leaders who are leaving a full-time corporate career. We also support retention and development of leaders through our Board Readiness and Executive Onboarding Accelerator.

Navigate Forward exclusively supports executives. Our approach works well at the Senior Director level and above. We understand the needs of C-Suite leaders as well as EVPs , SVPs, and VPs. We do not offer outplacement support for the broader organization.

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Your needs are urgent and your time is valuable. We’re here to help your organization navigate executive transition with ease.

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