High-stakes hiring · C-Suite & VP level

The most expensive decision your organization will ever make is the wrong person in the right seat.

The Decision Room™ is a limited, yet highly consultative engagement for organizations hiring at the C-Suite or VP level. It is not a search firm. It is not a recruiter. It is a rigorous process that brings behavioral science to the most consequential seat at your table.

What The Decision Room™ is

Most executive hiring processes are built around resumes, interviews, and references - three measures that are remarkably poor predictors of on-the-job performance. The Decision Room™ replaces gut instinct and social proof with validated behavioral science. Harry works directly with your hiring team to define what 'right' actually looks like for this role in this organization, at this moment, and then builds a benchmark to find it among your final candidates. In he decision room Data > Gut.

Customized to your role

01

Role Definition

Before we evaluate a single candidate, we define the behavioral profile of success for this specific role. Not a job description. A behavioral benchmark.

02

Assessment & Evaluation

Every finalist completes a validated normative behavioral assessment. The data doesn't make the decision...it informs it. Harry interprets the results in the context of your organization's culture and the role's demands.

03

The Decision Room™ Session

A structured facilitated session with your decision-makers. All the data, all the evidence, one room. Harry guides the conversation from intuition to insight.

04

Onboarding Intelligence

The engagement doesn't end at the offer. Harry provides a behavioral onboarding brief to help your new leader start with clarity and momentum.

The cost of getting it wrong

2 to 5×

the annual salary of the hire

A failed executive hire costs far more than a salary.

At the C-Suite or VP level, the total cost of a wrong hire can reach two to five times that leader's annual salary. The impact is not limited to replacing the role. It shows up in stalled strategy, lost momentum, disrupted teams, missed opportunities, and the time required to rebuild trust.

This engagement is for you if

You're filling a C-Suite or VP-level role and the stakes are too high to get it wrong

You've made costly hiring mistakes before, and you're not willing to repeat them

You want behavioral data, not just gut instinct, to inform your final decision

You need an outside perspective from someone who has no horse in the race and cares only about your company

Our commitment to you

I guarantee my work.

Follow my recommendation. If that hire doesn't work out within 180 days, I'll do the entire process again. On me.

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Inquire about The Decision Room™

This is a limited engagement. Harry works with a small number of organizations at a time to ensure the depth of attention each engagement requires. Start the conversation to find out if it's the right fit.

Harry Lakin

Helping organizations make the most consequential decisions they'll ever make, the ones about their people.

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