Board & CEO Services

Davalyn Corporation is experienced in the executive search and CEO hiring processes.

It’s vital to your company to find the best CEO candidates and executive applicants to help lead your company into the future. We have experience identifying and recruiting executives and can help you facilitate a smooth transition that will put your senior leadership and their teams in the best position to immediately succeed.

When boards, CEOs and leadership teams thrive, entire organizations succeed with them. But the effectiveness of your leadership team may be endangered by such issues as personal differences, lack of strategic alignment or failures of structure and governance.

Here at Davalyn we work with the boards, CEOs and executive teams of many of the world’s leading organizations to address the personal, strategic and organizational drivers affecting team dynamics and performance. Having partnered with senior leaders for more than forty years, we can leverage our experience and expertise to help you achieve alignment on strategic direction and risk, secure the right people for the right executive roles and build the leadership capabilities necessary to deliver superior business performance.

Improving the performance and impact of the board.

Our research indicates that there are three key elements that influence board effectiveness:

• Composition
  Does the board have the right mix of members?
• Focus
  Do the members of the board have a shared focus on the organization’s strategy and capabilities?
• Team dynamics
  Could board members be working together more effectively?

Our approach is to focus on these three elements in concert while helping to build an effective governance model. We are able to offer solutions in a range of areas, including board composition, strategic alignment, team effectiveness and succession.

Maximizing CEO and top team effectiveness.

With an extensive portfolio of proven proprietary tools and methodologies, we work to accelerate the development of needed capabilities and the effectiveness of senior leaders. Our areas of focus include:

• CEO and Top team succession

  As the industry leader in this area, we understand how to assess for Learning Agility, one of the most reliable indicators of leadership potential.
• Strategic alignment

  Using rigorous, research-based methods, we help executive teams articulate and prioritize strategic initiatives and align roles with business strategies and operating structures. We can also help them assess and properly plan for the organization’s risk tolerance.
• Structure, composition and governance

  By enabling senior teams to assess structural and decision-making issues and navigate toward more effective governance, we help them find answers to critical questions, such as whether they have the right people in the right positions and whether their management routines are appropriate and efficient.
• Collaboration, team culture and dynamics
  We are experts in the highly delicate and complex work of diagnosing and resolving cultural issues. This includes helping leadership teams synchronize their vision, mission and goals to ensure everyone is pulling in the same direction