How the CEO’s Personal Brand Impacts Recruiting
You know your employer brand matters to your recruiting efforts. Companies with a strong brand get 50% more qualified applicants, spend 50% less to hire, and are able to hire faster. And a strong CEO personal brand can directly influence your ability to attract top...
Series B Founders: The Four Team Problems LinkedIn Can Realistically Help You Solve
By the time a company reaches Series B, most founders have already figured out how to build a product and prove demand. Your challenge now is scaling. Investors expect results, hiring accelerates, and you have more balls in the air than ever before. Series B is...
Series B CEOs: What Top VP Candidates Want to See from You
Series B CEOs know they need to hire strong leaders. But when they think about attracting those leaders, they usually focus on the job description, compensation, and product story. Those are table stakes. What the CEOs often underestimate is how much senior candidates...
What Is Executive-Led Growth?
Have you heard the term executive-led growth? Executive-led growth describes a modern B2B dynamic where company growth increasingly flows through the credibility, visibility, and voice of senior leaders, especially founders and CEOs, rather than through brand...
The Four Stages of Executive LinkedIn Presence
Most executives know they should be on LinkedIn but it isn’t clear what that actually means. Is it enough to have a profile? Do you need to post, and if so, how often? Turning to LinkedIn experts for advice doesn’t help, mainly because most of them are speaking to...
LinkedIn Strategy for CEOs Over $5M: How to Scale Your Presence Without Adding More Work
Crossing $5M in revenue changes almost everything about how a company operates. You have more customers, more employees, and more complexity. You’re building a leadership team. You have a sales organization. You are investing in marketing. If you have investors, they...
LinkedIn Strategy for CEOs Under $5M: How to Build Credibility and Create Demand
In the early stages of building a business, the CEO carries almost everything. You’re selling the vision, closing the deals, building the product, pitching investors, and trying to hire the people who will help you grow. With that level of responsibility, it’s natural...
When Layoffs Hit, Your LinkedIn Presence Is Career Insurance
Layoffs across big tech are creating a familiar kind of uncertainty, something even the strongest performers can’t control. But there is something you can control right now: your LinkedIn presence and how you show up publicly as a leader. In times like these, a...
The LinkedIn Hiring Formula: How to Attract Top Talent Before You Even Post the Job
When you’re hiring, the best candidates aren’t just looking at the job description. They’re looking at you. Before they apply, they check your LinkedIn profile. They look at the company page. They click through to see who else works there. They want to know what it’s...
Excellent LinkedIn Profile Examples for Executives, Senior Leaders & CEOs
We specialize in working with CEOs, but many of our clients have us engage with their entire leadership team. One aspect I enjoy most about working with these executives is showing them the potential of LinkedIn. Often, their perception of LinkedIn was formed years...
16 Inspiring LinkedIn Cover Photos (Plus How to Get Your Own)
As you think about refreshing your LinkedIn profile, one of the easiest and most powerful changes you can make is to update your cover photo. This is the image at the top of your profile, behind your headshot. It gives you a visual way to add polish, tell your story...
Are You Writing a B2B Business Book?
Insights from my conversation with author and strategy expert, Susan Schramm Is writing a business book one of your goals for the coming year? Executives are writing books at an accelerating pace. Some want to share a framework they have developed. Others want to...