Everything You Know About Executive Search

is Wrong... -

Most senior executives discover this partway through a job search: the approach that worked at the director level stops working at the VP level, and what works at the VP level is almost exactly wrong at the Sr. Executive level. The channels feel familiar. The resume looks polished. The interview prep is thorough. But the rules have changed, and nobody hands you the new ones.

Eight insights in 60 minutes: how you search, what you send, how you show up in the room. None of it is tips or tactics. It's a different picture of how executive hiring actually works, one I built through years of conducting my own searches and coaching executives through theirs.

What you'll take away:

• Why job boards and retained recruiters — the channels most executives default to — are the lowest-leverage entry points in a search
• Why a polished, well-formatted resume is often working against you
• Why standard interview preparation gets you ready for the wrong conversation
• Where the executive hiring decision actually gets made, and why most candidates never see it

Who should attend:

• Senior executives in active search who are doing everything they know to do, and not getting the traction they expected
• VP's and Directors in the materials and process industries who are building toward an executive role and want to get ahead of the process before they're in the middle of one
• Commercial and operational leaders with strong careers who have never had to run a serious executive-level search, and want to approach the next one with a clear strategy

Event Details

Date: June 16, 2026
Time: 9 am ET
Format: 60-minute webinar
Register: Register Here

Kendall Justiniano
Founder & CEO - Growth Arc Advisors LLC

Kendall Justiniano spent more than 30 years as a commercial executive in the materials industry, at Dow Chemical, PolyOne, and W.R. Grace, running P&Ls from $100M to $700M through the kind of transitions these searches come out of. He developed this methodology through his own executive searches and has since built it into the coaching work he does with executives in active search through Growth Arc Advisors.

• 30+ years as a materials executive: Dow Chemical, PolyOne (now Avient), W.R. Grace
• Founder & CEO, Growth Arc Advisors LLC: strategy advisor and executive coach to the materials sector