Frequently Asked Questions

Recruiting, Retaining, and Transforming Talent for Exponential Business Growth

How can leadership assessments help an ESOP company choose the right leader?

Leadership assessments help an ESOP company choose the right leader by providing objective insight into a candidate’s strengths, risks, leadership style, decision-making approach, and alignment with the company’s culture and future needs. In an ESOP, assessments are especially valuable because leadership fit affects not only performance, but also employee-owner trust, engagement, and long-term value creation.

Strategic Talent Partners uses leadership assessments as part of a broader talent strategy to help ESOP companies evaluate whether leaders are prepared to succeed in an employee-owned environment. Assessments can support CEO succession, executive hiring, senior leadership team development, and internal successor planning.

Keystone Executive Search and CorTalent To Strategic Talent Partners
Keystone Executive Search and CorTalent To Strategic Talent Partners
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Announcement

In April 2024, CorTalent and KeyStone Executive Search joined forces to become Strategic Talent Partners, ushering in the future of Executive Search and Leadership Solutions. We were thrilled to announce this merger, which unites more than 250 years of collective experience in delivering positive client outcomes, fostering collaborative partnerships, and living our shared belief that your success comes from hiring and retaining the right leadership talent.

What does this mean for you? You’re still working with the same team you’ve trusted for years—now with even deeper expertise in:

  • Executive Retained Search: CEO transition and board searches, C-suite searches, and functional leadership searches

  • Leadership Solutions: talent strategies and succession planning, leadership assessments; leadership workshops and programs