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
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 DevelopmentProject Management
Who John helps
When leadership and career decisions matter.
Gandee Leadership Partners serves experienced leaders in Manufacturing, Engineering, Technology, Business Development & Project Management who are navigating 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 major 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.
Why John
He has seen career decisions from both sides of the table.
Being qualified. Communicating your value. Knowing whether the opportunity fits.
Three different questions. A coaching relationship gives you room to work through each one.
Executive recruiting perspective
Approximately 33 years evaluating and advising senior candidates and understanding how employers make decisions.
Operating experience
Earlier work as a chemical engineer and engineering manager, followed by corporate executive leadership and vice-president-level responsibilities.
Industrial fluency
Experience across manufacturing, forest products, building materials, plant operations, maintenance, production, and continuous-process settings.
Business-building judgment
International business-development and startup experience, grounded in the practical realities senior leaders face.
Current engagement structure
A clear structure. Space for your situation.
Coaching engagement$5,000Six-session core engagement with continuing access.
6 sessionsA focused core engagement
60–90 daysFor the six-session process
12 monthsTotal coaching relationship
Clarify the situation
Understand the current circumstances and the decision that needs to be made.
Define the opportunity
Identify the role, environment, and conditions that would represent a better move.
Strengthen positioning
Clarify your executive narrative and how your experience should be presented.
Build the strategy
Develop a practical approach to the search and the relationships that support it.
Prepare thoroughly
Practice for interviews, difficult questions, and important career conversations.
Evaluate and transition
Assess opportunities, compensation and relocation realities, and next steps.
Beyond the six sessions
Continuing access for the decisions that follow.
Following the six-session core engagement over approximately 60–90 days, clients receive continuing reasonable access to John’s practical guidance for the balance of the twelve-month coaching relationship. Communication methods, availability, and scope are defined in the engagement agreement.
A clear distinction
Coaching is separate from recruiting.
Gandee Leadership Partners is a paid, confidential executive coaching service. It is separate from executive recruiting.
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.
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?
Possible subjects include whether to remain or leave, target roles, executive positioning, résumé feedback, relationship strategy, interview preparation, compensation and relocation conversations, opportunity evaluation, and transition planning.
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?
The $5,000 engagement includes a six-session core process over approximately 60–90 days, followed by continuing reasonable access for the balance of the twelve-month coaching relationship. Details are defined in the written engagement agreement.
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