The Bryan Group:
A Focus on Educational Leadership
Finding and developing your next leader in one of our nation’s most critical establishments, education, is a cardinal decision–a decision that requires thorough search strategy and a deep understanding of the needs of both the board and the community. Given the pressing need for top-performing leaders and administrators, The Bryan Group places a particular focus on executive search for public school superintendents and private, charter, and parochial school leaders.
“You need best-in-class leaders, and we make sure you get them.”
Our highly capable team is united under one goal: to introduce a new, but proven executive search process. We understand the universal traits that make a true leader and collaborative counterpart for your school board, and we’ve perfected the process of finding them.
This process embraces a research, data, and competency-based methodology to reduce both false positive and false negative candidate evaluations and dives well beneath surface-level characteristics. The way The Bryan Group approaches this method significantly increases confidence and ensures the time and energy invested in selecting a superintendent candidate is well worth the search.
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Additional Benefits of Working with The Bryan Group
A Working Relationship
Our professional search process works best when the district and our team form a close working partnership–we focus on transparency and candid discussions. The Bryan Group has a depth of knowledge in school and district best practices, and we’ll work closely with you to understand your needs and provide the guidance that makes the selection of the right candidate much more likely.
Superintendent On-Boarding
Key leadership transitions can be a challenge, even when the right hire is made. In the first three to four months, new leaders, stakeholders, boards, and communities are required to make big changes and adapt to new relationships. We facilitate this transition by developing an initial plan, providing feedback and coaching based on the evaluation process, and meeting with the school board to confirm expectations.
Unbundling Search Services
Our most important focus is meeting our clients’ specific needs, which often means modifying the search process to do so. Any search process is to be suited to each school district, whether they wish to evaluate a single candidate or engage in the full search process. With any modification, all fees and processes reflect the changes made so every individual client is getting exactly what they need.
Failure Factor Model
Most search criteria do not include derailers, i.e., those attributes that will lead to failure in the position regardless of the positive qualities the applicant possesses. The Bryan Group, however, creates a “failure model” to go along with its positive measures of role, competency, and leadership style proficiency. Derailers often go undetected in the traditional screening process, but our use of Guided Storytelling Interviews™ ensures we do not miss failure factors.
Candidate Pool
While The Bryan Group employs many approaches to sourcing top candidates–including networking, newsletters and newspapers, education job-posting websites, and candidate research –we also possess a unique and highly selective candidate pool. Job seekers are only permitted to join the pool after submitting an application that includes references, verification of degrees and certifications, resume, and statements of educational, management, and leadership philosophy.