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The 90-Day Executive Integration Plan
Most executive hires do not fail at the offer stage. They fail quietly in the first quarter, and the warning signs are visible by week three.
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Executive Search · Recruiting Consulting · Leadership Development
The wrong leader costs morethan the search ever will.
2148 Industries is a veteran-founded and veteran-led executive search, recruiting consulting, and leadership development firm. We place the executives who set direction, rebuild the recruiting functions that hire everyone else, and develop the leaders you already have, with the discipline of a mission plan and the discretion your board expects.
The premise
Most talent problems are not talent problems.
They are operating problems wearing a talent costume. An intake conversation that never happened. A scorecard nobody agreed on. An interview loop where four people ask the same question and no one writes down the answer. A hiring manager who takes six days to give feedback on a candidate with two competing offers.
We founded 2148 Industries because we had run those functions from the inside and knew the difference between a firm that forwards résumés and one that solves the problem underneath. Our work spans three practices because the failures do. You cannot place a leader into a broken process, and you cannot fix a process without developing the people who run it.
“A slate of four assessed finalists is worth more than forty forwarded résumés. You should not be paying anyone to filter a job board on your behalf.”
What we do
Three practices, one operating standard.
Search, consulting, and development are delivered by the same principals against the same written standard, because these problems rarely arrive one at a time.
Terms of engagement.
- 4–6
- Assessed finalists per slate
- 180
- Day replacement guarantee
- 100–120
- Days to first slate
- 1
- Business day response
Never a stack of résumés, never a single favorite
On every retained placement
Typical retained search
To any client inquiry, at any seniority
Industries served
Six primary markets.
Three core, three expansion, carrying equal weight. Everything else we will serve, but will not build our identity around.
Also served Technology · Healthcare · Professional Services · Energy · Construction
Why 2148 Industries
The standard behind every engagement.
Four commitments that shape how we take work, run it, and account for it afterward.
01
Veteran-Led Discipline
Military service teaches planning, accountability, and the habit of finishing what you started. Our engagements run on written objectives, defined phases, and standing reporting, so you always know where the search stands and what happens next.
Written mission brief approved before any candidate is approached.
02
Operators, Not Résumé Brokers
We have built and led the functions we now recruit and advise for. That means we can assess a candidate against the job rather than the job description, and tell a hiring executive when the role they have written is not the role they need.
Every engagement is run by a principal, not delegated to a research team.
03
Depth Over Volume
We take a limited number of engagements at a time. A slate of four assessed finalists is worth more than forty forwarded résumés, and you should not be paying anyone to filter a job board on your behalf.
Four to six qualified finalists per slate, every one defensible to your board.
04
Accountable to the Outcome
Placement is a milestone, not the finish line. We stay engaged through integration, measure against the baseline we set at the start, and carry a 180-day replacement guarantee on retained placements.
180-day replacement guarantee; 90-day integration built into every search.
Insights
Field notes from the work.
On search, hiring operations, and the leadership problems underneath both.
Next step
Tell us about the seat you need filled.
A 45-minute conversation with a principal. Diagnostic, confidential, and free of charge, including the part where we tell you if we are the wrong firm for it.
Or reach us directly at info@2148industries.com