EXECUTIVE TRANSITION ADVISORY · HENNING ADVISORY
Your Next Role Should Be Your Best Move Not Just Your Next Move.
For senior leaders navigating career transitions – Directors, VPs, EVPs, and C-Suite executives who need more than a résumé refresh. This is strategic advisory for high-stakes moves.
IS THIS RIGHT FOR YOU?
Built for Leaders at an Inflection Point
You’ve been in a role for 5–15 years and the market has changed around you.
Your track record is exceptional. But your professional presence, narrative, and approach haven’t kept pace with today’s executive hiring landscape. You need someone who knows both worlds.
You’re a Director or VP who wants the next level, not a lateral move.
You’ve been a high performer. The next step isn’t just another title it’s broader mandate, larger team, higher stakes. You need a roadmap that builds intentionally toward it.
You’ve been laid off or are facing an unexpected transition.
You’ve spent years delivering for an organization, not building for yourself. Your network, brand, and positioning need to be rebuilt quickly and with precision, not panic.
You want the next move to reflect your full market value.
You’ve likely been underpaid or undertitled relative to your contributions. This advisory exists to change that with a compensation strategy grounded in real market intelligence.
THIS IS NOT FOR YOU IF — You’re looking for a transactional résumé service, a generic interview script, or a coach who will tell you what you want to hear. This is a partnership that requires your full commitment, candor, and willingness to be challenged. As one client put it: “If you’re just looking at this as transactional, get me the role, and that’s it, this is not the coach for you.”
THE HENNING DIFFERENCE
An Advisor, Not A Coach
1. Framework, Not Formula
Every engagement starts with you, your history, your drivers, your patterns. The methodology adapts to your specific situation, not the other way around.
2. Reactive → Reflective
Most executives react. The work here is learning to observe, digest, and respond intentionally setting healthy boundaries and controlling your own outcomes.
3. The Whole Person
Your career is a manifestation of who you are. The work addresses your motivations, life outside work, and what’s needed to show up at your best, not just interview prep.
4. Outside-In Perspective
Independent of your company, your personal circle, and your past, Nick can see what you can’t. That objectivity is the most valuable thing an advisor can offer.
5. Employer-First Positioning
After 10,000+ interviews observed, Nick knows exactly what hiring executives and boards are looking for and how to position you to be the unmistakable choice.
6. Compounding Returns
This isn’t a one-time engagement. Clients return. The advisory compounds each move built strategically on the last, creating a trajectory, not just a transaction.
THE ADVISORY PROCESS
A Structured Path to Your Next Chapter
Every engagement is customized. But every engagement follows a disciplined framework, so you always know where you are, what’s next, and why.
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FOUNDATION
Deep Discovery & Positioning Audit
We begin with an honest, thorough assessment of where you are, your brand, narrative, resume, LinkedIn, compensation history, and career trajectory. No assumptions. No templates. Just clarity on the gap between where you are and where you should be.
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STRATEGY
Custom Transition Roadmap
We build your roadmap together, target roles, target companies, compensation parameters, network activation strategy, and a sequenced plan of action. This is the COO function for your career: operational clarity on exactly what to do and in what order.
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EXECUTION
Brand, Narrative & Positioning Build
Resume rebuilt from scratch. LinkedIn overhauled. Elevator story refined. STAR stories developed and practiced. Your professional presence is rebuilt to reflect your true market value and to open doors that were previously closed.
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ACTIVATION
Network Activation & Interview Preparation
Unconventional strategies for securing interviews that most executives have never considered. Intensive interview preparation, including realistic mock sessions, tough-question frameworks, and real-time coaching, all tailored to the specific roles and companies you’re pursuing.
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NEGOTIATION
Offer Strategy & Compensation Negotiation
Most executives leave significant money on the table at the offer stage. We build your complete negotiation strategy, including base, bonus, equity, and benefits, grounded in real market data and delivered with confidence. On average, clients increase their final compensation meaningfully beyond the initial offer.
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ONBOARDING
First 90 Days & Long-Term Advisory
The engagement doesn’t end at the offer letter. We continue through your onboarding, helping you establish presence, prioritize, and build the foundation for your next advancement. Many clients maintain the advisory relationship for years, building a career strategy that compounds over time.
“Nick advised me through two major career transitions over five years. Each move was intentional – a larger role, broader scope, expanded team, meaningful compensation growth. More importantly, each step was built strategically on the last rather than feeling like a lateral reset.”
Nicholas J. Global IT Executive · VP, PE-Backed Manufacturing
CLIENT RESULTS
What Happens When You Invest in Yourself
These aren’t outliers. These are the consistent outcomes when senior leaders commit fully to the process.
“I increased my compensation, I’ve increased my responsibility, and I’ve made moves that are positive for me as a person versus prior to working with a career advisor, I was just making a move to get out of the situation I was in.”
Nicholas J.
White Collar Executive · 20+ Years of Experience
● 2× Engaged · VP Placement
“I landed the position, but more importantly, I came about the search in a completely different way. Nick was probably the sixth executive coach I’ve had. I do wish I had met Nick earlier. I could have gotten through some things quicker.”
Chris J.
COO / EVP · PE-Backed Retail
● Significant Scale Change in Role & Compensation
“I had recently undergone several significant life changes. As a result of working with Nick, I landed a senior-level position with a sizable compensation increase and a sign-on bonus. It was so much more than simple job coaching.”
Rhonda S.
Director, Strategic Market Research
● Senior Role · Compensation Increase + Sign-On
THE INVESTMENT
Executive Transition Advisory
This is a premium, high-touch advisory engagement. Every client receives Nick’s direct attention – not a team, not a program, not a portal.
$5,000 - $12,500
Exact investment determined by scope and engagement length during your strategy call.
→ Full career audit and strategic positioning session
→ Custom transition roadmap and target company strategy
→ Resume rebuild executive-level, Executive Search & ATS-optimized
→ LinkedIn overhaul aligned to target positioning
→ Elevator story and STAR narrative development
→ Unconventional interview-securing strategies
→ Intensive mock interview preparation
→ Full compensation negotiation support
→ First 90 days onboarding advisory
→ Direct access to Nick via text, call, real-time support
Your Career Is Too Important for a Coach.
A 30-minute strategy call costs nothing. The conversation will clarify exactly what your transition requires and whether this advisory is the right fit for you.
No sales pitch. No pressure. Just a direct, honest conversation.
“I have worked with three other individuals in this same space over the course of the last 10 years, and by far, it was a very prescriptive approach.
With Nick, it was the approach for me, what’s going to work best for my current situation here and now.
Five interviews. Five job offers. Can’t beat it.
“I didn’t feel like I was just a number. I felt like I was a person.”
Matthew H. | Executive Managing Director | Leading Data Strategy & Digital Transformation
★ Result: 5 interviews → 5 job offers | Compensation doubled | Personalized approach unlocked the market
READY TO MAKE YOUR MOVE?
You're a Builder. Let's Build the Career That Matches.
One confidential conversation.
We’ll look at where you are, where you want to be, and whether this advisory is the right vehicle to close the gap.