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CEO & Board Services Expanding the talent pool for CEOs and directors is imperative. Recruiting qualified individuals and training them to serve in this new environment requires insight, creativity and finesse. Kenway meets this challenge with our CEO & Board Services practice. This is a dedicated team from the most senior ranks of the firm. Their work is with CEOs and in the board room, and their expertise is organizational leadership and governance. They conduct hundreds of director engagements every year, tapping talent from every corner of the globe. This work spans all ranges of organizational scale and purpose. Each CEO search consultant offers specific industry and functional expertise and is a member of those corresponding practice teams. After determining a client¡¯s needs, our CEO recruiting consultants often team with colleagues who bring additional specific market knowledge and expertise critical for that search. When coupled with Kenway¡¯s global reach, this collaboration generates enormous horsepower for CEO & Board Services solutions. It fosters creativity and diverse ideas and access to the information that uncovers excellent candidates. Among the customized services that we provide is a Corporate Governance Audit, for example, which involves the evaluation of a client¡¯s particular board policies and practices. The board¡¯s size, composition, functional balance, and director compensation plan is evaluated and compared with traits of industry peers, particularly in relation to current ¡°best practices.¡± This evaluation is followed by a candid assessment of those areas that require attention. It is our ability to help plan senior leadership models, combined with tools that minimize many of the ¡°unknown¡± factors in selecting individuals and our depth of resources, that results in the majority of our clients retaining us many times over for leadership engagements. Kenway has long believed in the importance of including qualified individuals of different backgrounds among the candidates proposed for client engagements, and diverse candidates play an important role in the vast majority of our searches. Key assets in achieving these results include the Kenway consultants who comprise our diversity practice areas. Should you be hiring the chief executive, filling public, private or non-profit board vacancies or building a board for a public company spin-off or emerging growth company about to go public, Kenway will deliver the best talent available.
Organizations today and their leadership teams are challenged to communicate more frequently and transparently to a wider range of internal and external stakeholders. This requires corporate affairs executives to be especially skilled at not only developing communications and advocacy strategies that are aligned with their business objectives but also capable of anticipating challenges, protecting and enhancing reputation, and leveraging existing and new channels for managing dialog with its audiences. Corporate Communications Kenway¡¯s Corporate Affairs consultants collaborate with colleagues in the nearly 40 countries in which we operate, as well as team with recruitment consultants in our cross-section of industries in order to bring not only functional expertise but industry experience to every assignment. The result is that we are able to deliver the best candidates every time.
In today's dynamic global economy, the best companies recognize that their leadership must reflect the world's diverse population. To fulfill our dedicated commitment to diversity, and to serve our clients¡¯ needs, we strive in every engagement to recruit the most outstanding candidates, regardless of color, race or gender.
An executive transition at a college or university provides an opportunity to embark on a succession course that can align and galvanize an institution¡¯s vision. At a time of greater interest in considering leadership from outside the academy, Kenway has the ability to attract diverse traditional and non-traditional talent around the globe.
Financial Officers The roles of chief financial officers and other senior finance executives grow more complex with each passing year. They must guarantee the integrity of an organization's financial condition and reported results, enhance shareholder value, oversee mergers & acquisitions, establish an optimal risk management program, and keep a sharp eye on costs. And this must be accomplished under heightened scrutiny from government, board directors, shareholders and other stakeholders. Knowing, tracking and recruiting financial professionals who can meet and exceed these demands is the domain of Kenway's Financial Officers Center of Expertise. This focused team of human capital specialists conducts more than 800 successful searches annually for organizations ranging from multi-national corporations to early-stage and pre-IPO start-ups across an array of industries. Executive recruitment is the most prominent element of a richly comprehensive activity that we conduct in response to our client's human resource needs in all areas of finance and accounting. Together with our Leadership Development Solutions colleagues, we also provide a rich blend of effective, results-oriented consultation and experience-tested advice concerning organizational structures, compensation norms and trends, assessment, coaching, and market knowledge derived from our vast wealth of contacts and experience in the human capital marketplace. Collaborating with colleagues around the world who specialize in vital industry sectors, our financial officer experts recruit qualified professionals for positions that include: chief financial officer controllership tax and treasury internal audit, risk and compliance leadership roles in strategic planning, investor relations and divisional finance You can count on Kenway's financial officer experts to listen to your needs, uncover what is unique about your organization and match you with candidates of exceptional quality.
Government While the transition of a new government administration always brings new heightened levels of interest in government work from mid-level specialists and leaders from industry, the reality is, the Government Sector as a whole is now facing its most serious talent shortage crisis. Kenway International has successfully executed search assignments for nearly all key SES level positions. We also deliver single and surge-hiring search efforts for mid-level leadership and specialists, through the LEVERAGE division, in compliance with all USC Title 5 recruitment protocols. All of our services are listed and can be ordered via our GSA Schedule Contract vehicle 738X (Human Resources & EEO Services). We also hold a government-wide Blanket Purchase Agreement for all of our services via one of the OMB designated government Human Resource Lines of Business shared service centers - which allows all government departments to issue recruitment task orders at will. The Government Specialty Practice at Kenway International has continually set the standard for providing federal and state government departments and agencies with exceptional executives in the most difficult market conditions. Our ability to tailor our search process to conform to the exact needs of our clients, coupled with our unparalleled access to government and private sector leaders makes us uniquely qualified to assist Federal and State Governments in their recruitment needs. As the worlds largest and best known search firm for professional recruitment and human resource consulting, we would welcome the opportunity to discuss your agency¡¯s immediate and future needs.
Human Resources In any organization, there is no more essential task than recruiting, retaining, developing and motivating employees because without people committed to executing the business strategy, success cannot occur. Today¡¯s human resources executives are expected to align an organization¡¯s business goals with the needs of its people and create innovative HR programs that attract and retain the most talented employees in the short and long term. This requires business acumen, insight into human behavior, leadership and nimbleness. The HR Executive Recruiter team within Kenway¡¯s Human Resources Center of Expertise understands how dramatically the function has evolved, since many of them joined our firm from senior HR positions in a range of industries. They leverage this insider¡¯s knowledge to succeed in finding qualified individuals for each of the 500+ engagements they undertake each year. In addition to their experience, our HR Consultants also participate actively in such leading professional organizations as the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruitment, the American Society of Training and Development, the Human Resource Planning Society, and the HR Policy Association. They know the trends and the challenges. More important, the HR Consulting advisors s in our in Center of Expertise collaborate with Kenway colleagues located in our offices around the world who specialize in a particular industry or specialty, ensuring that we can find the very best candidates, including those of diverse backgrounds. Whether you are a start-up company, a multi-national or something in between, Kenway¡¯s HR Executive Recruiters can assist you. Our searches span all industries in HR specialties as: senior HR generalists compensation and benefits/total rewards and HR information systems corporate learning diversity leadership development/change management organizational/management development organizational effectiveness talent management and acquisition/recruitment employee and labor relations
Information Technology Officers Kenway¡¯s Information Technology Officers Center of Expertise focuses exclusively on recruitment of highly skilled enterprise information technology managers ¨C Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officer and their direct reports ¨C as well as senior leaders at organizations that provide products and services to the enterprise IT marketplace. Our IT search consultants, many of whom have held senior IT posts at companies spanning a variety of industries, are located in every major international business center. They are active in the global IT community, participating in leading IT industry organizations and societies and sitting on academic and vendor advisory boards. It is this depth of knowledge and industry commitment, which allow the professionals of the IT Officers Center of Expertise to successfully complete more than 500 searches every year. Whether your company is 100 years old or 100 days old, whether it operates in six continents or in one small town, our search professionals have the industry focus necessary to identify high-quality candidates, and our firm has the extensive resources to assist you in selecting and developing your leadership team. Kenway¡¯s Information Technology Officers Center of Expertise can help you with recruitment of Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers, and their leadership staff in areas as diverse as: IT Strategy & Alignment IT Governance Risk Management Systems Architecture Project Management ERP Implementation Systems Development Business Intelligence Strategic Sourcing Acquisition Integration
Legal Organizations of all sizes and in all sectors today must contend with increasing amounts of regulation, legislation, and litigation. As a result, qualified, experienced attorneys who understand the economic impact of legal and regulatory issues and how to manage the risks are essential members of a management team. Kenway has a strong legal recruitment tradition, having conducted nearly 2,000 legal executive searches to date. Our legal recruiters, many of whom are attorneys who enjoyed successful legal careers before entering the field of executive search, undertake legal and compliance searches for a wide range of world-class publicly and privately held companies, premier law firms, and academic and nonprofit clients. The Legal Center of Expertise team conducts searches in four major areas: general counsel and other senior counsel roles. law firms seeking partners and counsel legal infrastructure/management roles, including law firm executive directors, compliance function positions ranging from With the ability to tap into Kenway¡¯s global network, targeted market intelligence and research, expansive legal profession contacts, and personal experience, our legal search consultants provide each client with a slate of highly qualified candidates, including those with varied professional experience and diverse backgrounds.
Nonprofit With extensive experience, we leverage our global network across the nonprofit, government and private sectors to present the highest caliber candidates, and we diligently seek out new and inclusive talent. Our clients have come to know Kenway candidate slates always represent the diversity reflected in today¡¯s global marketplace. We seek out new talent from all sectors to meet the increasing demand for experienced leadership and high-potential leadership.
Supply Chain Management Kenway has long been a force in the market for finding supply chain management talent. Globally, we have performed about 900 supply chain searches in the past five years, an average of over three per week. Supply chain management expertise has become a key market differentiator for top performing companies in virtually every industry. Benchmarking statistics show that best-in-class supply chain performance companies are on average 40 to 50 percent more profitable than median performing companies, and enjoy much shorter cash cycle times, significantly faster turnover of inventory, and much lower total supply chain costs. Trends such as globalization, outsourcing and movement of sourcing to low-cost regions have all led to more complexity in supply chains and an even greater need for proven talent.
Sustainability Kenway¡¯s sustainability initiative is focused on the emerging needs of clients from business, education and nonprofit enterprises in the acquisition and development of talent in the sustainability arena. Kenway is pioneering the development of best-in-class competency and capability profiles for key roles in today¡¯s evolving marketplace from the chief sustainability officer to the boardroom.
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