Days 1–5: The foundation everything else is built on. You fill out one thing. We build the rest.

Your positioning

• Assigned level-specific executive coach/reverse recruiter
• The Results intake - a structured questionnaire that pulls out what actually matters: scope, revenue impact, team size, turnarounds, numbers. You are the only person who has this information, and everything downstream is built from it.
• Full resume rebuild, written from your results and reviewed by an executive coach
• Executive Impact Brief© - the one-page document you hand directly to a hiring authority
• Career Capital Strategy™ - which levels you can credibly reach, what each pays, and what the market expects at that level
• LinkedIn redevelopment - instructions for you to build your headline, about, and experience from your new resume
• One hour of executive coaching on positioning, authority framing, and what you are worth

Your campaign is built primarily on one audience who responds far more than any other: search firms and recruiters.

• Includes ~1000 talent targets: search firms, recruiters, fractional, interim, and in-house talent/executive search at targeted companies - mapped to your function, your level, and your market.
  
• Pull relevant first-connect lists to reach out to, if applicable.
• A mandatory do-not-contact list, built with you at intake
• Job search tracker and AI scripts for company vetting, interview questions, compensation modeling, and gap analysis
• 250 target companies mapped, including PEs and VCs if applicable, tiered from your Career Capital Strategy™, with the exact title to approach at each- yours to vet so we can target with personal messages in Phase 2
• Scripts for the talent pipeline - you approve
• You approve every list and message before anything goes out

Outcome: You understand exactly how to monetize your experience, how to position it to command higher-level opportunities, and what language signals the level you are targeting.

Next Two Months

Your campaign goes live:

• Live and sending by day 5–10 - thirty a day at safe, human volumes
• Fifteen-minute working session weekly for the first two weeks with your dedicated reverse recruiter: what came back, what to change, who to pursue, who to decline
  
• You have complete control over outreach
• Response coaching - how to answer a retained consultant, a contingency recruiter, and an internal talent leader differently, with templates for each; how to outreach to executives with customized, relationship-building outreach.
• Message iteration - we rewrite what isn't landing, once, based on real response data
• One hour of executive coaching and advisory for interview/value prep, vetting, negotiation strategy, converting non-aligned opportunities into advisory engagement, etc.
  
• Additionally, we research 250 target companies/ ~500 contacts including PEs & VCs for executives, tiered, built from your Career Capital Strategy™, with a line on each explaining why it belongs on your list
• Send connection requests to 500 of these executives to build your network and allow for next step.
• We pull the exact title to target at each one, LinkedIn URL, and scripts written to your record to use so you can cut, paste, and personalize. At a $50M company, that is the CEO. At $500M, it is the divisional president. At a PE-backed portfolio company, it is often the operating partner. Knowing the difference between a conversation and a bounce. Cut your job search time by 1/4 using this method.
• 4 (15-minute) calls with your executive coach for accountability or advising for the next two months.
• Let's keep going -> the full message library, your tracking system, a written playbook covering how to use a consultative strategy to engage. 
• And you keep the skill. Executives move every three to four years, and most start over each time - new resume, new panic, new monthly service. You will know how to build a target list, which title to aim at, what to say to a search partner versus a hiring authority, and how to read what comes back. Learn it once, use it for the rest of your career. We can always build a new list if you need to keep going.
• Ascend5 High Impact Network© - one year; we're starting the largest high-impact leadership network, and you will be part of this founding elite group

Your week:

• Answer your LinkedIn inbox - 20 minutes a day. This is the one thing that cannot be delegated
• Informational calls -1 to 2 hours a week
• Check what is landing, pause what isn't - 15 minutes
• Custom notes to executives and to the quiet ones you still want to reach - 30 minutes to 1 hour a week

Roughly one to three hours a week. No writing, no research, no guessing.

The Traction Guarantee

Your market will respond because we are positioning you as the high-impact leader that you are, and we are building you a customized pipeline. If there are any gaps in your history or experience, we will shore these up before we rapidly reach out to the market.

If it isn't responding by day 14, we rebuild - stronger positioning, revised messaging, retargeted pipeline - based on what the data and your instincts are telling us. We keep recalibrating until it does.

Also guaranteed:

• We position you for high-quality roles and justify the salary and role you deserve
• We target companies, leadership teams, and hiring authorities via AI aligned to your Career Capital Strategy & Roadmap©
• We map and engage the executive search firms and PE portfolios in your market
• We activate hidden opportunities that are never posted publicly
• We structure your LinkedIn network to generate warm introductions
• We provide interview strategy and opportunity evaluation throughout
• We save you 20+ hours a week of manual outreach, cutting the job search time by 1/2
• You understand how to use the right language that signals the level of role you are targeting
• We align your executive positioning with the roles that you deserve
• We develop a clear narrative that translates business impact into revenue and strategic value

Compare...

An external recruiter charges the employer 20–30% of your salary. At $200K that is $40K–$60K sitting between you and your offer, straight out of your negotiating room.

Managed reverse recruiting runs $3,000 a month, every month, for as long as your search takes. A four-month search is $12,000.

Ascend5 is only one fixed fee:

• new positioning (resume, LinkedIn development, justify the comp you deserve)
• interview/value prep
• an activated network for thirty days with talent; you keep everything, including building a much larger network for future opportunities
• check-ins for next two months

What we need from you

• 60–90 minutes on the Results Intake in the first two days. The fuller your answers, the stronger everything built from them
• 24-hour turnaround on approvals, lists, and messaging
• Your LinkedIn inbox checked daily once the campaign is live. This is the one thing that cannot be delegated
• 3–5 hours a week during the build, 2–3 a week after
• Willingness to engage with companies to help create solutions