Executive Onboarding and Transition Acceleration
"40% of executives hired at the senior level are pushed out, fail or quit within 18 months." (i) | ![]() |
90% of executives helped by PrimeGenesis since 2003 were still in place or promoted at 18 months. |
PrimeGenesis has reduced newly hired and promoted leader failure rates from 40% to 10% by helping them and their teams deliver Better Results Faster, leveraging PrimeGenesis' team, tools and perspective to get done in 100-days what would normally take 6-12 months.
"Incredible." "One of the most valuable things I've done in my business career."
Click here for welcome video by George Bradt
For leaders taking on particularly complex new challenges:
Full Executive Onboarding and Transition Acceleration Program
for newly hired, promoted or restarting leaders.
Onboarding Preparation Workshops to help those who have accepted, but not yet started a new job create their own 100-day action plans.
NewJobPrep.com to create your own 100-day action plan online, on-demand, at your own pace
For Hiring Managers:
OnboardingProgram.com - online guide to align, acquire, accommodate, assimilate and accelerate new employees for Better Results Faster.
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PrimeGenesis' Team, Tools and Perspective:
Team
We are senior line executives and organizational development experts with experience around the world, across industries and sectors. Our first-hand experience with our own onboardings and challenging senior leadership transitions informs our work. Profiles.
Tools
We wrote the book on executive onboarding tools for new leaders, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan and the definitive guide for hiring managers, Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time and a workbook to institutionalize a systemic approach to onboarding, The Total Onboarding Program.
Perspective
PrimeGenesis has been exclusively and single-mindedly focused on executive onboarding and transition acceleration since 2003. Our deliberate practice of this one thing means that we are comfortable navigating through landmines others do not even see. Mission and perspective.
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(1) "We've found that 40 percent of executives hired at the senior level are pushed out, fail or quit within 18 months." - Kevin Kelly, Heidrick & Struggles CEO, discussing his executive search firm's internal study of 20,000 searches in the Financial Times, March 20, 2009.
| The Economist July 15th 2006 Executive onboarding That tricky first 100 days Onboarding focuses on three areas that can cause a new executive to fail: getting up to speed, forging effective relationships and accomplishing what is expected. “The era when a chief executive could come in, take a couple of years to get to know the business then formulate a long-term strategic plan, is over,” says George Bradt, the founder of PrimeGenesis. Instead, a new boss should ideally have picked his new team and have a communications strategy – if not a fully worked-out business plan – in place on his first day in the job.Download this article. |








