I evaluate your current sales team, build your Ideal Leadership Profile, and create the recruiting plan. You run recruitment — sourcing and reaching out to candidates. I stay involved through selection: structured interviews, validated assessment, and helping you judge who's actually the right fit, not just who looks good on paper.

The team audit is conducted onsite; candidate interviews and coaching happen virtually. Typical engagements run 1–3 months. Travel costs beyond the local area may be added separately.

$10,000 flat — 40% ($4,000) at kickoff, then $1,000/month for 6 months. If the onsite audit requires travel outside the local area, that cost is billed separately.

I'm not handing you a report and walking away — I stay engaged through candidate evaluation and selection. If you're unhappy at any point during the 6-month payment window, you simply stop paying — no dispute, no clawback of what's already been paid.

Businesses with the bandwidth and relationships to source and reach candidates themselves, but who want an expert eye on the harder call — knowing which candidate is actually the right fit, not just who interviews well.

Retained Search means I handle everything, start to finish, including sourcing and outreach. Revenue Team Audit and Strategy splits the work: you own recruitment, I own selection — plus the diagnostic and plan behind both. Same rigor, half the fee, because you're carrying half the labor.

Retained search is an engaged, diagnostic-driven process — not a résumé-matching service. Every search runs through the Sales Leadership Certainty System™: Diagnose, Define the Role, Find the Leader, Prove the Fit, and Accelerate Success — built around your business, not a generic candidate database.

Leadership roles like VP Sales, Director of Sales, Commercial Director, and GM, plus hard-to-fill individual talent like key account managers and sales engineers when the role controls major accounts. Timelines vary by role and market — every search starts with a diagnostic conversation.

22% of first-year total compensation, paid in three stages: 20% at kickoff, 30% when your new hire starts, and 50% billed weekly over their first six months. The staged structure is the risk-sharing mechanism.

I stay involved through a 90-day onboarding partnership. If you're genuinely unhappy at any point in the first six months, you simply stop paying — no dispute, no clawback of what's already been paid.

Founder-led or family-owned Ontario companies, roughly 75–750 employees and $25M–$500M in revenue. Most of my work is with construction, building-products, and industrial manufacturing companies, though the fit is really about size and structure more than sector.

Doing it yourself looks free, but the real cost is your time and the cost of a bad hire. A staffing firm matches résumés at volume and charges 15–20% regardless of outcome. I run a diagnostic-driven process at 22% staged over six months, backed by the walk-away guarantee.

When there's a sales leadership gap and leaving it empty isn't an option, I step in personally to run the function myself — making the calls, managing the team, keeping the business moving — until the right permanent person is in place.

Scope and time commitment are worked out based on what the gap actually needs. There's no fixed term — it ends the moment you no longer need it, whether that's a permanent hire or the gap otherwise being resolved.

$1,500 CAD per day, billed only for the days actually worked. No retainer, no minimum commitment, no long-term contract.

Yes. I help transition the new permanent person in, the same way I do with any placement, so the interim period doesn't cost you momentum.

Businesses with a genuine sales leadership gap who need someone actually running things, not just advising. Availability is limited — I take this on selectively alongside my search practice, so reach out and I'll tell you honestly if it's a fit.

There's no salary, benefits, or long-term commitment — you pay only for days worked. Retained Search is about finding your permanent leader; Fractional VP covers the seat while that search happens. Several clients use both together.