Executive Career Advisory
Executive Transition Advisory
Private, employer-sponsored executive outplacement and career transition support for experienced executives navigating a layoff, restructuring, position elimination or negotiated departure.
A More Personal Approach to Executive Transition
When an experienced executive leaves an organization, traditional executive outplacement is not always the right answer. Senior leaders often need something more personal than a platform, group program or standardized career package.
Executive Transition Advisory gives employers a way to provide departing leaders with direct, one-to-one support from someone who has spent more than 30 years on the hiring, recruiting and executive leadership side of the table.
The work is practical and individualized. The objective is to help the executive understand how the market will see their experience, establish the right positioning, strengthen their professional materials and build a focused strategy for what comes next.
What the Executive Receives
Built for Senior-Level Transitions
This service is designed for experienced professionals and executives whose next move requires more than simply updating a resume and applying for jobs.
Every engagement is handled individually. There is no group coaching and no standardized curriculum. The work is based on the executive's background, circumstances, goals and the realities of the market they are entering.
A Hiring-Side Perspective
I have spent more than 30 years in recruiting, human resources and executive leadership, evaluating candidates, counseling executives and experienced professionals, and making hiring decisions. My experience includes senior leadership roles with organizations including Caterpillar, Sodexo and The Home Depot.
I also remain directly involved in today's hiring market as the Founding Partner of AlediumHR, a national healthcare recruiting firm.
That means the guidance an executive receives is grounded in how employers and recruiters actually evaluate senior-level candidates.
Confidential by Design
The advisory relationship is between the executive and me. The sponsoring employer may receive confirmation that the executive has enrolled and is participating, but the substance of advisory conversations, job-search activity and career decisions remains confidential.
Employer Investment
Executive Transition Advisory
90-day engagement
There are no platform fees, subscriptions or long-term employer commitments.
For Employers
Executive Transition Advisory can be provided as part of a severance agreement, leadership transition, restructuring, reduction in force or other employment separation.
It is particularly well suited to organizations that want to provide meaningful support to a departing executive without placing that individual into a large, standardized outplacement program.
How Executive Transition Advisory Differs From Traditional Executive Outplacement
Traditional outplacement programs often serve large numbers of employees through standardized coaching, online platforms and packaged career resources. That model can work well for broader workforce transitions, but senior executives may need a more individualized approach.
Executive Transition Advisory is designed as private, one-to-one executive outplacement support. Each engagement is built around the executive's background, departure circumstances, positioning, target market and next career move. There is no group coaching, standardized curriculum or self-service platform.
The sponsoring employer provides the benefit, while the executive receives 90 days of confidential career transition support directly from Mike Maffei.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is executive outplacement?
Executive outplacement is employer-sponsored career transition support provided to an executive leaving an organization. It can include career strategy, executive positioning, resume and LinkedIn support, networking and recruiter strategy, interview preparation, and guidance evaluating new opportunities.
How is Executive Transition Advisory different from traditional executive outplacement?
Executive Transition Advisory is a private, one-to-one 90-day engagement rather than a large standardized outplacement program. The work is tailored to the individual executive and is provided directly by Mike Maffei, drawing on more than 30 years of hiring, recruiting, HR and executive leadership experience.
Who pays for executive outplacement?
Executive outplacement is typically sponsored by the employer and may be included as part of a severance agreement, restructuring, leadership transition, reduction in force or negotiated departure. Executive Transition Advisory is employer-sponsored at $2,495 per executive.
Discuss an Executive Transition
Individual executive looking for career guidance? View the Executive Job Search Strategy Session.
Mike Maffei — Executive Career Advisor | Tampa, FL | Nationwide