Leadership Advisory Services
DRIVING ORGANIZATIONAL GROWTH
Search Heights' CFO Advisory Services empowers organizations to achieve exceptional financial performance through strategic guidance, operational excellence, and leadership development. Our clients experience enhanced financial operations, strengthened investor confidence, and accelerated growth trajectories that position them for sustained market leadership.
CFO Advisory
STRATEGIC FINANCIAL LEADERSHIP EXPERTISE
Search Heights' CFO Advisory Services, led by former CFO Jeremy Rickman, delivers transformative financial guidance that propels organizational performance beyond industry standards. As a former CFO with extensive experience in chartered accountancy and executive search, Jeremy brings unparalleled insight into the challenges and opportunities facing modern finance executives.
OUR APPROACH
Our CFO Advisory practice provides comprehensive support across critical financial leadership functions:
Strategic Financial Roadmapping
Finance Function Optimization
M&A Financial Due Diligence
Investor Relations Enhancement
Financial Talent Development
LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE
Jeremy Rickman's distinguished career spans engineering, chartered accountancy at Price Waterhouse, and senior financial leadership roles. His experience founding Rickman Consulting Ltd. and establishing the CFO search practice at Russell Reynolds Associates—a Top 5 global executive search firm—provides our clients with access to world-class financial leadership expertise.
At Russell Reynolds, Jeremy served on the Executive Committee, led the Global Corporate Officers Practice, and directed Training & Development, building a market-leading CFO search team. This exceptional background enables our advisory services to deliver strategic financial guidance that drives organizational transformation.
Executive Coaching
Navigate Leadership Challenges with Confidence
Today’s executives face complex decisions, rapid change, and the constant need to innovate. Executive coaching provides the strategic partnership you need to tackle these challenges head-on while developing your leadership capabilities.
Our coaching approach helps you test new ideas, question established norms, and build the skills essential for effective leadership in dynamic environments. With coaches who have guided executives across multiple industries, you gain access to diverse perspectives and proven strategies that drive results.
The coaching process transforms your thinking patterns into concrete actions. Through structured conversations and targeted feedback, you’ll develop enhanced decision-making abilities, stronger change management skills, and greater awareness of your leadership impact on different stakeholder groups.
We typically start with comprehensive assessments, including psychometrics and 360° feedback, to establish a clear baseline and focus our work on areas with the highest potential for impact.
Flexible Engagement Options: Choose from individual sessions or comprehensive packages of up to 6 sessions over several months, each lasting 90 minutes and designed around your schedule and objectives.
Leadership Development
Build Tomorrow’s Leaders Today
Organizations often find themselves caught between competing demands: the need for strong leadership now and the requirement to develop future leaders for sustained success.
We bridge this gap by creating structured pathways that prepare your high-potential talent for increased responsibility while strengthening current leaders’ effectiveness. We begin by understanding your specific leadership challenges and organizational context, then design customized development programs that address real business needs.
Key Development Components:
Change Management Skills - Prepare leaders to guide organizations through transformation
Executive Presence Building - Develop the confidence and communication skills needed for senior roles
Team Leadership Excellence - Strengthen abilities to motivate, develop, and retain top talent
Cross-Functional Collaboration - Build skills for working effectively across organizational boundaries
Decision-Making Under Pressure - Develop judgment and resilience for challenging situations
Development Delivery Options: Intensive workshops, ongoing coaching relationships, or blended programs combining multiple development methods over extended periods.
Mastering the Matrix
NAVIGATING COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES
Search Heights’ Mastering The Matrix service equips senior leaders with essential capabilities to excel in multidimensional business environments where traditional hierarchies are replaced by complex reporting relationships and cross-functional teams.
INFLUENCE WITHOUT AUTHORITY
Develop sophisticated influence strategies that drive results without direct reporting relationships, building credibility across organizational boundaries and securing commitment through value-based negotiation.
VIRTUAL TEAM LEADERSHIP
Master the art of leading dispersed teams across geographic, functional, and cultural boundaries with clear accountability frameworks and effective remote collaboration protocols.
CROSS-CULTURAL COLLABORATION
Navigate global matrix complexities with cultural intelligence, implementing inclusive decision-making processes that leverage diverse perspectives for innovative solutions.
MATRIX STRUCTURE NAVIGATION
Decode complex organizational dynamics by mapping formal and informal power structures and leveraging organizational networks for accelerated results.
STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT
Strategically align diverse stakeholder groups through sophisticated mapping techniques and coalition-building that accelerates strategic initiatives.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Transform matrix tensions into productive outcomes by addressing structural conflicts proactively and converting cross-functional tensions into innovation opportunities.
DRIVING ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Matrix organizations implementing our methodology experience accelerated decision-making across functional boundaries, enhanced cross-organizational collaboration, and measurable performance improvements in complex initiatives.
Senior Team Facilitation
TRANSFORMING EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAMS
Search Heights’ Senior Team Facilitation transforms high-level leadership groups into cohesive, high-performing teams aligned around shared purpose and strategic priorities, accelerating execution of critical business initiatives.
STRATEGY ALIGNMENT SESSIONS
Forge powerful consensus around strategic direction by crystallizing vision, establishing clear accountability, and developing robust implementation roadmaps that drive execution.
TEAM EFFECTIVENESS WORKSHOPS
Elevate team performance through clarified purpose, roles, and operating principles, establishing trust-based communication protocols that enhance collaboration.
DECISION-MAKING PROCESS DESIGN
Optimize executive decision-making by implementing structured frameworks that balance analytical rigor with decisive action and accelerate execution.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Transform executive team tensions by addressing underlying dynamics, establishing productive debate protocols, and converting diverse perspectives into strategic advantage.
POST-MERGER INTEGRATION
Accelerate value creation through effective leadership integration, clarifying organizational structure and establishing integrated decision-making processes.
CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION SUPPORT
Drive strategic cultural change by defining target culture aligned with objectives and developing leadership behaviors that model desired organizational values.
DRIVING ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Organizations engaging our Senior Team Facilitation experience accelerated execution of strategic initiatives, enhanced decision quality and velocity, and measurable performance improvements in critical business metrics.
“Our Leadership Advisory services transform high-potential executives into exceptional business leaders through action learning. Built on decades of proven research, experience, and data, our approach has developed over 30,000 leaders from innovative start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. We design tailored development experiences that ensure measurable growth in leadership capability and directly translate to sustainable business results.”
- Al Preble, former lecturer at Columbia University
Why Search Heights
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Client-Centered Approach
We recognize that each organization has its own unique culture, challenges, and vision for the future. That’s why we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Our executive search process begins with deep listening and understanding, allowing us to create search strategies as individual as the organizations we serve.
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Leadership Alignment
Finding the right leader isn’t just about matching skills and experience. It’s about understanding the intangible qualities that make someone truly exceptional in your specific environment. We take the time to understand not just what the role requires, but how a leader’s style, values, and vision will complement and enhance your organization.
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Transparent Partnership
We believe in building relationships based on trust and transparency. Throughout the search process, we maintain open communication, providing honest feedback and clear insights that help guide decision-making and ensure alignment between candidates and opportunities.