Something needs to change
You feel stalled, have been passed over, face a difficult new manager, or are navigating conflict, ownership change, or reorganization.
Gandee Leadership Partners
A wholly owned subsidiary of John Gandee & Associates Inc.
Executive coaching for experienced leaders navigating transition, growth, and pivotal career decisions.
Work with John Gandee to clarify your next step, think through leadership challenges, and make informed decisions about your career.
ManufacturingEngineeringTechnologyBusiness DevelopmentFinancial ManagementProduct & Project Management
Who John helps
Make your next leadership and career decision a genuine step forward.
Gandee Leadership Partners serves experienced leaders who need clear judgment during transition, growth, and pivotal career decisions.
You are ready to grow
You are considering broader responsibilities, preparing for a senior role, or deciding what growth should look like in the next stage of your career.
A genuine decision is in front of you
You are preparing for an important interview or evaluating a position, employer, compensation package, relocation, or the decision to stay or leave.
Avoiding unnecessary career risk
Changing jobs is often riskier than professionals realize. Leadership IQ research involving more than 20,000 new hires found that 46% were considered unsuccessful within their first 18 months—nearly one in two.
The stakes may be even higher for senior executives. McKinsey has reported that 27% to 46% of executive transitions end in failure or disappointment within two years.
An experienced executive coach can improve your odds of making a successful move. A coach helps you evaluate opportunities, avoid common missteps, prepare for the hiring process, clearly communicate your value, excel in interviews, and make a strong impression on the senior leaders who make the final decisions.
Horse races are often won by a nose or less, a very small difference. The same principle applies when senior leaders compare you with other candidates being considered. Professional preparation by a true expert, can provide you with a winning margin.
Executive recruiting perspective
For 33 years, John has owned and operated an executive recruiting business. He has provided hundreds of executives and professionals with extensive guidance on career searches, résumés, interview preparation, and critical career decisions.
During his 25-year corporate career, he also recruited more than 100 senior professional managers, financial controllers, and business-development executives and managers.
Corporate operating experience
- Applied Automation UK LtdPresident and General Manager
- Combustion Engineering, Inc.Business Vice President, International Business Development
- Phillips Petroleum Company, Inc.Project Manager; International Business Development Manager; Proprietary Process Licensing
- Litwin Engineering and Construction, Inc.Project Manager; Contract Manager and Negotiator; Business Development Manager
Industrial fluency
- Capital equipment design and manufacturing
- Pulp and paper processes
- Chemical manufacturing processes
- Discrete manufacturing processes
- Electronic equipment manufacturing
- Software product management and design
- Business startup and management
- Extensive P&L experience
Current engagement structure
What we do for our clients
Coaching engagement$5,00050% to begin. Balance due 90 days after the first payment.
- Clarify the current career situation with our client.
- Create an inventory of marketable skills pertinent to the marketplace in general.
- Create an inventory of needed new skills and knowledge to move forward.
- Provide guidance and assistance in creating a detailed resume (inventory).
- Explore with client and devise an inventory of career alternatives.
- Provide guidance and assistance in creating several highly focused resumes, aimed at identified career alternatives.
- Provide phone interviewing training focused on tactics.
- Provide training on in-person interviewing focused on tactics.
- Coach / Prep clients before each interview with focus on specific objectives and potential objections.
- Debrief clients after every interview with focus on next step(s).
- Assist clients in expanding alternatives for moving forward.
- Assist clients in creating detailed professional employment contracts for those situations where a traditional offer letter is inadequate, particularly for high level P&L level clients.
- Assist clients in negotiating employment contracts with employers.
- Gandee Leadership Partners provides paid, confidential executive coaching—not recruiting services.
- It does not guarantee interviews, job offers, placement, representation, employer introductions, or access to employment opportunities. Paying John for executive coaching services does not provide preferential consideration for recruiting assignments or employment opportunities.
- John provides practical career and hiring-process guidance—not legal, tax, financial, mental-health, immigration, or employment-law advice.
Normally it takes sixty to ninety days working with our clients over six sessions to fully prepare our clients to begin searching and corresponding with those having available professional career opportunities.
We commit to working with our clients for one year, providing interview preparation, and “after interview” debriefing and strategizing for moving forward. This commitment covers the drafting of professional employment contracts, including negotiating assistance.
Our fee is $5,000 for projects as defined above. Our payment schedule is 50% to begin, and balance due 90 days after the receipt of the first payment.
Frequently asked questions
Direct answers before an introductory conversation.
What does the coaching focus on?
The focus is experienced leaders navigating transition, growth, and pivotal career decisions. Depending on your situation, conversations may address executive positioning, search strategy, interviews, and evaluating opportunities. Résumé feedback may be part of that work.
Does John find a job for coaching clients?
No. The executive coaching service is separate from recruiting and does not promise access, introductions, interviews, job offers, or placement.
What can the six sessions cover?
Normally it takes sixty to ninety days working with our clients over six sessions to fully prepare our clients to begin searching and corresponding with those having available professional career opportunities.
Is the service limited to Austin?
No. John is based in the United States and expects to serve clients nationally.
What is the engagement structure?
Our fee is $5,000 for projects as defined above. Our payment schedule is 50% to begin, and balance due 90 days after the receipt of the first payment. We commit to working with our clients for one year, providing interview preparation, after-interview debriefing and strategizing, professional employment contracts, and negotiating assistance.
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