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Executive and organizational assessments for PE sponsors
Whether you are choosing a senior leader, assessing a management team or planning succession, we can help answer your biggest leadership questions.
Full executive assessment
Can this executive deliver what we need next?
For a CEO, CFO or other senior leadership decision, understand the executive’s capability, motivation, scope for growth and the conditions that will matter to their success in this role.
$30,000 per executive
The assessment includes
01
Client briefing
A client briefing call to establish the role, business context, decision timeline and your questions.
02
Assessment & peer review
An executive assessment using Narrative Vector, with expert peer review.
03
Decision debrief
A verbal debrief, within 48 hours, covering the recommendation, supporting evidence, strengths, risks and implications for your decision.
A written report is provided within 2-5 working days after the assessment. The executive can also receive an optional feedback call at no charge.
Other leadership decisions
Scope and fees are agreed individually for these engagements.
Management diligence
Can this team deliver the value-creation plan?
Understand the leaders you are backing, their collective capability and the gaps that matter to the investment. Relate the team’s strengths and risks to the business you intend to build.
Scoped individually
CEO succession
Who can lead the next chapter?
Assess potential successors against the demands ahead. Clarify readiness, development needs and the conditions that would help a candidate succeed as the business and the CEO role evolve.
Scoped individually
Organizational assessment
What organizational capacity and risk matter to this deal?
Build a refreshed view of organizational capability, culture and constraints during your hold. Understand if and how the management team can continue delivering against the VCP.
Scoped individually
Training workshops for PE teams
Interview training
Help your team improve their ability to interview executives without requiring fundamental changes in your hiring process.
Management-diligence training
Help deal teams and operating partners frame leadership questions around the investment. Discuss what management diligence can reveal, how to interpret the evidence and how to use it in the decision.
For new private-equity clients, we offer a complimentary 90-minute version of this training, delivered in person or remotely.
Practical questions
Which roles do you assess?
Senior leaders who lead a business, function or organizational system. CEOs, CFOs, and broader C-Suite assessments. For complex organizations $5B+, our process can also be applied at the layer below the C-Suite.
How does timing work?
The assessment is built around your decision timeline. In diligence contexts or when the candidate has a competing offer, we can accelerate our process to give you what you need in time.
Where do assessments take place?
Assessments are conducted remotely, typically over Zoom.
Do you also run executive searches?
No. Synenté provides assessment, with no placement fee tied to the hiring decision.
What leadership question can we help you answer?
References available upon request.