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Bespoke Career Advisory
for Executives

The International Center for Executive Options (ICEO) is a global strategic partner to organizations and leaders offering executive career advisory services. We provide a distinct, transformational experience backed by the peer-level partnership of our advisors and experts.

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Leadership decisions have a lasting impact

As strategic decision makers and stewards of your corporate brand, the stakes are simply higher when considering executive talent.
Performance
Failing to set up executives for success as they lead through change can come at a high cost. Organizations that equip their leaders to lean into new career challenges should expect to achieve ROI on their investment.
Business continuity
Thoughtful succession offers an opportunity to achieve the greatest retention of intellectual knowledge and facilitates the smoothest handover for the departing leader, their successor and the organization.
Employer brand
Leadership career decisions are highly visible, internally and externally, adding complexity to reputation and brand management for both the executive and the organization.

Transformational experiences for senior leaders

ICEO provides a distinct, highly personalized, and transformational experience backed by the peer partnership of our advisors.
Mentoring
Whether leading through an M&A or transformation, navigating a new boss, or managing relationships in the board room, having a peer level mentor who has faced similar challenges will ready executives to stretch their boundaries and maximize their impact.
Onboarding & Integration
According to the Harvard Business Review, one-third to one-half of new chief executives fail within their first 18 months. Ensuring your leaders have the right support and guidance to help them accelerate their new role success will provide lasting value to the organization.
Departures & Succession
Whether it’s a sudden change like M&A, or the planned succession of a long-standing leader, providing your departing executives with comprehensive support ensures the best outcomes for the organization and the executive.
It’s a big element of your employer branding and should be a part of your change management toolkit. Having this level of coaching and partnership can be incredibly helpful so that you can deliver on what you need to get accomplished.
Margaret Lazo
Global HR Leader
Board Director

Expand your executive network

As an ICEO alum, you are invited to join our global executive network and unlock opportunities for professional growth and collaboration. Connect with industry peers, exchange insights, and stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving business landscape. Expand your network, enhance your knowledge, and make lasting connections.

Expand your executive network

As an ICEO alum, you are invited to join our global executive network and unlock opportunities for professional growth and collaboration. Connect with industry peers, exchange insights, and stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving business landscape. Expand your network, enhance your knowledge, and make lasting connections.
Having someone that has gone through exactly what I'm going through was incredibly important and comforting. My Peer Advisor had a similar background coming from a Fortune 50 company. There was always this coaching and insight, and he became a mentor to me through the process.
Lee Cooper
Board Member, Leiters

Executive insights

Hear thought-provoking perspectives to help senior leaders stay up to date on the latest thinking.
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Retirement Reimagined
There was a time when the word “retirement” conjured up images of gold watches, golf clubs, gardening, and grandchildren. From the perspective of businesses, it was a defined event, often occurring when employees hit a certain age. For individuals, it was a rite of passage, generally signaling the culmination of one’s career. Embarking upon a life of leisure was the well-earned reward for decades of service. Not anymore.
Zigging and Zagging: How Two Top Executives Switched Careers
At a time when some 40 percent of workers at all levels are considering leaving their jobs, a focus on exploring more unconventional career options rather than merely finding new employment in a similar role is especially apt.
How to Launch a Successful Executive Portfolio Career
After more than nine years as the Vice President of Global Markets, Policy, for General Motors and a long career on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Lee Godown was not interested in retirement. He wanted to step back, figure out what was most important to him and then decide what he was going to do next. Reuben Cohen U.S. Managing Director, LHH Leadership Transition Practice, International Center for Executive Options (ICEO)
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A Leap of Faith: How to Make a Late-Career Decision to Pursue Your Dream Job
Although he knew the exact type and level of job he wanted, Ken Daly had not formally applied for or even talked to a colleague about his career aspirations. In his own research, he learned an astounding and somewhat daunting fact: the odds against him making the leap from the business world to higher learning were about 100 to 1.