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Executive Interview Coaching: Three Sessions
By the final panel, everyone left is qualified. What separates you is how you hold up in the room. This is a full process, properly prepared: three 60-minute sessions, recorded, for a board, chair or C-suite process. Every session is run by two of our practitioners, and the final session is a three-interviewer panel simulation.
Session 01: Baseline and diagnosis
We review the role, the organisation and the likely panel, then run a full interview and record it without coaching you first. It gives us an honest starting point rather than a rehearsed one. Most people find this the most uncomfortable hour of the process, and the most useful.
Session 02: Rebuilding the answers that matter
Every executive interview turns on four or five answers: why you are leaving, the gap or the short tenure, the programme that did not work, the results you cannot fully claim, and why this role now. We rebuild those until they are specific, honest and defensible under the third follow-up.
Session 03: Full panel simulation, three interviewers
Your final session is run as a live panel: three of our practitioners across the table, questioning you against the real role and the likely panel composition, with interruptions, scepticism and competing agendas. It is set deliberately harder than the interview itself. We then review the recording line by line, on content and on delivery, and give you a written assessment against the actual selection criteria. Because it involves three practitioners, the panel session is booked seven to ten days ahead; sessions 01 and 02 are available at short notice.
What is included
Three 60-minute sessions, recorded, and the recordings are yours to keep. A delivery review on video: pace, hedging, presence. A written assessment against the actual selection criteria. Preparation for the executive search partner’s screening call, board and chair formats, presentations and case exercises as your process requires. Support between sessions as the process moves, and offer negotiation support where the process ends in a package discussion.
Sessions run in person in Melbourne or online anywhere in Australia. Price includes GST. If you are interviewing below general manager level, our standard interview coaching covers the same ground from $199. If you are running a longer search rather than preparing for one interview, ask us about the Executive Transition Campaign.
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Get the Executive Interview Preparation Checklist as a PDF
Eleven steps for C-suite, general manager and director-level candidates, from the search partner’s screening call to the board presentation, the 90-day plan and the package conversation. Four pages, with tick boxes that work on screen or in print.
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