Unicorn Wranglers

Play Your Career Hand™ for executives

At this level, the best roles may never be posted.

Your next move is not a volume-application problem. It is a positioning, access, and timing problem. Before a search opens, executive recruiters are already mapping the market and deciding whose name belongs on the list.

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The executive read

Your résumé cannot sound like a longer version of everyone else’s.

More than polished materials

Most career advisors wish you luck. I pick up the phone.

I have spent 20 years building relationships with headhunters, retained search firms, hiring leaders, and executive recruiters. At the executive level, I am not only helping you write the story. I am helping you understand the market in which that story needs to travel.

We clarify the roles, companies, and business situations where your experience has the most leverage, then build the positioning, relationships, and interview strategy to support that move.

Ways to work with me

Executive support with the scope clearly on the table.

Reposition the two tools the market sees first, book focused strategy by the hour, or use a ten-hour package across the parts of your search that need the most leverage.

Executive Strategy Session

$250

Per hour

Focused strategy for targeting, recruiter outreach, networking, interview preparation, internal advancement, negotiation, or a high-stakes career decision.

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10-Hour Executive Strategy Package

10 hours of strategy support

Use ten hours where you need them most across positioning, market mapping, outreach, interviews, negotiation, and ongoing search strategy.

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See every support optionInterviewing, outreach, negotiation, ongoing strategy, and higher-touch partnerships

Focused executive support

Executive Opportunity Mapping

Custom scope

Market strategy

Define the right companies, roles, ownership environments, and career moves before the search becomes a list of logos.

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Recruiter Outreach

Custom scope

Relationship strategy

Clarify which search firms and recruiters matter, sharpen the approach, and make your value easy to carry into the market.

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Executive Interview Strategy

Custom scope

Focused preparation

Prepare for board, founder, investor, and leadership-team conversations with evidence of scope, judgment, and results.

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Board & Executive Presence

Custom scope

Narrative strategy

Strengthen how you communicate leadership range, strategic point of view, and readiness for a larger mandate.

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Compensation & Offer Strategy

Custom scope

At decision stage

Evaluate cash, equity, mandate, reporting lines, risk, and leverage before committing to the next chapter.

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Executive partnerships

Executive Search Partner

Custom scope

Higher-touch partnership

A hands-on strategic partner across positioning, market mapping, relationships, interviews, and offer decisions.

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Ongoing Executive Advisory

Custom scope

Ongoing advisory

Confidential support for an active search, internal transition, board path, or the career decisions that do not fit neatly into a package.

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Every engagement is done directly with Rachel, never handed to a junior writer and never automated. Higher-touch partnerships are scoped privately after a conversation.

Free recruiter-calibrated diagnostic

Would an executive recruiter immediately see your value?

See what your résumé signals before the market makes a decision with incomplete information.

Read my executive signal

Make the next move intentional

Your next role should not depend on whether the right person happens to decode your résumé.

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Executive career intelligence

Your next move needs more than a better résumé.

Practical guidance for executive positioning, recruiter visibility, discreet searches, interviews, and offers.Browse the complete library →
01 · Résumé & LinkedIn

Should I turn on Open to Work on LinkedIn?

See what recruiters actually see, when recruiter-only visibility helps, whether the green frame hurts, and why one setting cannot fix unclear positioning.Read article
02 · Interviews & offers

How do I prepare for an executive interview without sounding rehearsed?

Reverse-engineer the mandate, build a deep evidence bank, practice flexible answer structures, pressure-test follow-ups, and prepare for each decision-maker.Read article
03 · Executive careers

How do I find my next executive role when the best jobs are never posted?

Define the mandate, build a target-company market, track the signals that create leadership needs, and map several credible routes into the conversation.Read article
04 · Interviews & offers

How do I explain a career gap without sounding defensive?

Name the gap, protect the privacy that does not belong in the interview, show current evidence, calibrate the level, and return the conversation to what you can do next.Read article
05 · Résumé & LinkedIn

Why aren’t recruiters finding me on LinkedIn?

Diagnose whether the signal breaks at search, the headline, the profile scan, the match, contact settings, or the evidence after the recruiter reaches out.Read article
06 · Interviews & offers

How do I explain several short job tenures without looking like a flight risk?

Name what happened, show the value inside each role, address the pattern directly, and explain why this next move is more intentional.Read article