— Our Capabilities
Five capabilities.
One connected system.
Most firms offer one thing — search, or coaching, or assessment — and call it a solution. We offer six integrated capabilities designed to work together, because leadership challenges rarely arrive in isolation. Whether you need to hire a CEO, develop an executive team, or rebuild a culture that isn't performing, the answer usually requires more than one tool.
— Our Capabilities
Integrated solutions to your leadership challenges.
Whether the problem is a vacant C-suite role, a capable executive who isn't performing, a culture that's undermining your strategy, or a board decision that can't afford to be wrong — one of the six capabilities below is where we start. Often, we finish with more than one.
1. Executive Search
Culture-aligned, senior-led retained search for C-suite and mission-critical roles. Governed by our proprietary Foresight™ process and backed by a full two-year guarantee. 92% placement retention at two years — vs. a 55% industry average.
2. Leadership Assessment
VantagePoint™ evaluates how leaders actually think, decide, and perform under real-world conditions. Not personality profiles. Not self-reported preferences. Real leadership readiness, measured rigorously.
3. Executive Coaching
Targeted, outcomes-focused development for senior leaders navigating high-stakes transitions, role expansions, and sustained performance demands. Grounded in organizational context — not generic frameworks.
4. Organizational Culture & Performance
Helping boards and CEOs understand what their culture actually is, measure its health against what their strategy requires, and change it deliberately. Grounded in our Total Performance Leadership™ framework.
5. Founder / CEO & Board Advisory
Independent, experienced counsel for boards and founders at genuine inflection points — succession, board composition, founder transitions, strategic pivots. Confidential. Senior-led. Built on 30 years of perspective.
— How Our Capabilities Connect
Leadership challenges rarely arrive in isolation.
Neither should your advisors.
The firms that get the most from Allen Austin recognize that leadership quality is a system — and that our capabilities are designed to reinforce each other across the full lifecycle.
Search + Assessment
Integrating VantagePoint™ into a Foresight™ search adds an evidence layer no interview process can match — surfacing how shortlisted candidates actually perform under pressure before you make an offer.
Search + Coaching
Onboarding coaching for a newly placed executive dramatically reduces first-year failure risk — the period when most placements either take hold or quietly begin to unravel.
Culture + Search
An Organizational Health diagnostic before a search ensures the role is correctly scoped and the culture is ready to support the new leader's success — not set them up for a battle they can't win.
Advisory + Coaching
The most consequential leadership decisions require both sound strategy and the discipline to execute it. We work with C-level executives and boards to combine strategic guidance with the hands-on coaching required to turn sound thinking into lasting organizational results.
— Our Proprietary Frameworks
The intellectual foundation behind every engagement.
Our capabilities are grounded in proprietary frameworks developed and refined over 30 years — not generic methodologies applied uniformly across every client and situation.
Foresight™
Our executive search process. Begins with organizational culture and performance expectations before a single candidate is sourced. The foundation of our 92% two-year retention rate.
VantagePoint™
Our proprietary leadership assessment. Evaluates how leaders actually perform under real conditions — not how they present in interviews or describe themselves on paper.
Total Performance Leadership™
Our overarching philosophy for building high-performance organizations is to align purpose, culture, leadership behavior, and strategy into a coherent, measurable system.
Organizational Health Index
A diagnostic tool for measuring culture health — identifying the gap between the culture you have and the culture your strategy actually requires.
— Who We Work With
We work where leadership decisions carry real consequences.
Our clients range from privately held firms to $75B+ multinationals — but they share one characteristic: organizations where the quality of senior leadership directly determines outcomes.
Boards of Directors
CEO succession, director recruitment, governance advisory, and leadership risk management.
Founders & CEOs
Team building, succession planning, cultural alignment, and strategic inflection-point counsel.
CHROs & HR Leaders
Search partnerships, assessment tools, coaching programs, and culture diagnostic support.
Private Equity Firms
Portfolio company leadership — pre-close assessment through post-acquisition team building and performance improvement.
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"The Allen Austin team is my choice, every time we have an executive search or leadership issue.”
— Gary Buckland, President & CEO, Lexitas Litigation Support Firm
Not sure which capability fits your situation?
Tell us what you're facing. We'll tell you honestly which of our capabilities applies — and whether we're the right fit for your organization.