The Executive Search Intelligence Advisory is a comprehensive intelligence engagement for senior executives in transition. It delivers two things no other service provides together: a precise diagnosis of how the hiring committee is reading your candidacy right now, and a mapped, sequenced analysis of which relationships in your existing network can actually move your search forward.

It is not coaching. It is not resume writing. It is decision-room intelligence built from 25 years inside Fortune 500 hiring committees, executive search processes, and calibration meetings. The ESIA tells you what the room decided before you walked in, and who to call before the role is posted.

The engagement includes six deliverables: a 30-minute Kickoff Call, an Executive Brief delivered before your debrief, a Full Report, a Network Intelligence Workbook, a 60-minute Debrief Call, and a 45-minute Follow-Up Strategy Call. The flat fee is $4,500. There are no add-ons required to get the full picture.

A career coach works from the outside in. A resume writer improves how your materials look.

The ESIA works from the inside out -- it tells you how the hiring committee is actually reading your candidacy before they ever meet you, and maps the specific relationships in your network that open doors at your target companies.

Julia Levy spent 25 years as Head of Talent Acquisition inside Fortune 500 companies including AutoZone, CommScope, and Fiserv. She ran executive searches, built shortlists, and sat in calibration meetings. She was not watching the process from the outside. She was making the decisions.

The ESIA delivers what no coach or resume writer can: the read the hiring committee formed before your interview was scheduled, and the names of the contacts in your existing network who can change that read before it happens.

I have spent over 25 years in the decision chairs of Fortune 500 and 200 organizations. During my tenure as a Talent Acquisition Executive, I led hiring strategies for up to 98,000 roles annually. I have sat in the rooms where the final "yes" or "no" is determined for Director and C-Suite leaders. I’ve seen exactly where the narrative breaks and why.

The ESIA is built for Director to C-suite executives earning $150,000 to $500,000 or more who are navigating a senior job search and not getting the results their experience should be producing.

It is the right engagement if you are in an active search that is not converting the way you expected, if you have been passed over for a role or promotion and the feedback has been vague or nonexistent, if you have not searched in years and the market feels completely different from the last time you looked, or if you are recently laid off and need to move with precision rather than volume.

It is not the right engagement if you are early in your career, if you are looking for motivation or encouragement, or if you need a resume writing service as your primary deliverable. The ESIA is an intelligence product. It tells you exactly what to change and who to call. What you do with that intelligence is up to you.

No. A resume is a document; authority is a signal. The Executive Diagnostic looks at the totality of your professional footprint, from your "economic ownership" narrative to how hiring committees categorize your seniority. We don't "fix" resumes; we reconstruct authority.

If you only need a resume review, I can recommend you to some quality resume writers.

The ESIA includes six deliverables delivered over approximately two to three weeks from your Kickoff Call.

The Kickoff Call is a 30-minute conversation at the start of your engagement. Julia gathers the full context of your search, your targets, and what you have already tried. If you have not downloaded your LinkedIn network data yet she will walk you through that process on this call.

The Executive Brief is a market position diagnostic delivered 24 to 48 hours before your Debrief Call. It gives you time to review the initial findings before the full conversation.

The Full Report is the complete intelligence document. It covers how you are being read by hiring committees, where your signal breaks down, and what to change first.

The Network Intelligence Workbook is a live database of your LinkedIn network mapped to your specific target companies, with contacts named, tiered by warmth, and sequenced for outreach.

The Debrief Call is 60 minutes working through the report findings together.

The Follow-Up Strategy Call is 45 minutes scheduled seven to ten business days after the debrief to assess what is working, what needs adjusting, and what your next moves are.

Because she was in the room.

Julia Levy spent 25 years as Head of Talent Acquisition at Fortune 500 companies including AutoZone, CommScope, Fiserv, Assurant, TIAA, and MetLife. She ran executive searches at the Director to C-suite level, built the shortlists, conducted the calibration meetings, and made the hiring decisions.

She knows what hiring committees say about candidates before interviews are scheduled because she was the person saying it. She knows which signals cause a candidate to get quietly eliminated before they ever know they were being considered. She knows how a LinkedIn profile reads to a search committee versus how the candidate thinks it reads. She knows which network relationships actually move a search forward and which ones feel warm but will not open a single door.

The ESIA is not research or theory. It is pattern recognition built from thousands of real hiring decisions across multiple Fortune 500 organizations.

The Network Intelligence Workbook takes your existing LinkedIn connections and turns them into a prioritized outreach plan built specifically around your target companies and search goals. It shows you which contacts are positioned to actually move your search forward right now, which relationships need to be warmed before you need them, and the specific sequence in which to reach out.

The difference between a network and a map is the difference between knowing a lot of people and knowing exactly who to call this week, in what order, and why. Most executives in a senior search are sitting on relationships that could open doors -- they just have no way of knowing which ones those are without someone who understands how hiring decisions actually get made reading the landscape for them.

Research consistently shows the majority of senior roles at $200,000 and above are filled before they are ever posted publicly. Those roles move through relationships. The Network Intelligence Workbook shows you which of your existing relationships are the right ones -- named, sequenced, and ready to activate.

Yes. Completely.

Everything you share as part of the ESIA engagement -- your resume, your LinkedIn network data, your search context, your target companies, and anything you share on your calls with Julia -- is held in strict confidence. It is never shared, discussed, or referenced outside of your engagement.

Your LinkedIn network data is used exclusively to build your Network Intelligence Workbook. It is permanently deleted after your Follow-Up Strategy Call. It is never retained, aggregated, or used for any purpose beyond your individual engagement.

The Network Intelligence Workbook and all report deliverables are built exclusively for your search. They are not shared with other clients or referenced in any public-facing content without your explicit permission.

If Julia ever wants to use your experience as a testimonial or case study she will ask you directly. Nothing about your engagement appears anywhere without your knowledge and consent.

The proprietary frameworks and diagnostic tools used in the ESIA are Julia's intellectual property. Your search context, your materials, and your results are yours.

The Diagnostic is a high-intensity "clean break." You walk away with the "Buyer’s Answer Key" (the Executive Diagnostic) to command your search.

I do offer some limited advisory packages to executives who need additional assistance.

This is a high-intensity, bespoke advisory engagement, not a retail product or digital course. Once we complete the Discovery call and I begin the deep-dive analysis into you Executive Search Intelligence, the investment is non-refundable.

However, I know that executive calendars are fluid, if you need to reschedule our sessions, I am happy to accommodate you with 48 hours’ notice. My priority is ensuring you get the full ROI on this intelligence advisory, and we’ll work together to make sure the timing is right for your search.

Yes. This is exactly the situation the ESIA was built for.

A search that is not converting after three to six months is almost never a volume problem. Executives in this situation are typically applying, networking, taking calls, and moving into first rounds. The process is moving but not closing. Recruiters go quiet. Feedback never comes or arrives in language so polished it tells you nothing.

The reason is almost always a market misread -- the hiring committee has formed a read on your candidacy that does not match your actual level of impact, and no one will ever say that out loud. The ESIA surfaces exactly what that read is and what to change first. For executives in a stalled search it is the fastest path to understanding why things are not converting and what to do differently starting immediately.

Yes. Recently laid off executives are among the buyers who get the most immediate value from the ESIA.

When a layoff happens the instinct is to move fast -- update the resume, activate LinkedIn, start applying. The problem is that moving fast without current market intelligence often means repeating patterns that will not convert in this environment. Executive screening has changed significantly. The algorithm reads your profile differently than it did three or five years ago. Relationships that felt warm may have gone quiet.

The ESIA gives you a precise read on how the market sees you right now, which relationships in your network are actually positioned to help, and who to contact before a role is ever posted. For a recently laid off executive the $4,500 investment is one week of a stalled search at a $250,000 base salary. The cost of moving without this intelligence is significantly higher.

That uncertainty is exactly what the ESIA resolves.

Most executives who come into this engagement believe their materials are fine and their network is reasonably active. The diagnostic almost always surfaces something specific that is creating friction in the process -- an authority signal that has blurred, a career narrative that reads at the wrong level, a network that looks robust on paper but has no warm contacts at the companies that matter most.

Here is the math. Executive searches now run nine to twelve months on average according to LHH research of 4,600 global executives. At a $250,000 base salary that is more than $20,000 per month. The $4,500 ESIA investment is less than two weeks of a stalled search at that compensation level.

The longer cost is the offer at the end. When the market reads you at the wrong level the offer reflects that read. A $60,000 to $90,000 base gap does not stay contained -- it compounds across bonus, equity, and every negotiation anchored off this number. The ESIA does not guarantee a role or a specific outcome. It gives you the intelligence to stop leaving money on the table.

After you complete your booking and intake form you will receive a confirmation with everything you need to prepare for your Kickoff Call.

Before that call Julia reviews your intake form, your resume, and your LinkedIn profile. She comes into the Kickoff Call already oriented to your situation so the 30 minutes are spent on context and depth rather than basics.

On the Kickoff Call Julia will walk through your search context, your target companies, and what you have already tried. If you have not yet downloaded your LinkedIn network data she will walk you through that process live on the call. That data is what powers the Network Intelligence Workbook.

After the Kickoff Call the analytical work begins. The Executive Brief arrives 24 to 48 hours before your scheduled Debrief Call so you have time to review the initial findings before the full conversation.

From booking to Debrief Call the typical timeline is two to three weeks depending on scheduling. The Follow-Up Strategy Call is scheduled seven to ten days after the debrief.

Yes. Some of the most valuable ESIA engagements happen before a search begins.

If you are employed and considering a move in the next three to six months the ESIA gives you a current read on how the market sees your candidacy before you start sending your resume anywhere. You learn what your authority signal looks like to a hiring committee right now, which relationships in your network need to be warmed before you need them, and what to change in your positioning before your search is active.

Executives who do this work before their search begins enter the market with a significant advantage over peers who are calibrating in real time while under the pressure of an active search. The intelligence exists whether you access it now or later. Accessing it now changes what the first three months of your search look like.

The Introductory Strategy Call exists precisely to answer that question before you commit.

The 15-minute call is a direct conversation about where your search stands and whether the ESIA is the right fit for your specific situation. Julia will tell you honestly if it is not. If the engagement is not the right tool for what you are dealing with she will tell you that on the call rather than take your money.

If you book the full engagement and request a refund before your Kickoff Call your fee is fully refunded. After the Kickoff Call has taken place fees are non-refundable as the analytical work has begun.

The ESIA is not the right fit for everyone. It is the right fit for senior executives who are ready to act on what they learn. If you are not sure whether that describes you the Introductory Strategy Call is the right first step.