Executive Services

The Strategic Partner Behind Impactful HR Decisions

Executive Services pairs you with a dedicated former HR leader who builds a deep understanding of your organization and combines senior strategic judgment with McLean’s proprietary research, diagnostics, and benchmarking data to drive measurable outcomes alongside you.

Partnership you can trust. Impact you can measure.

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Partnerships for all HR Leaders

For CHROs

We provide a deep, ongoing strategic partnership to navigate complex organizational dynamics, shape workforce strategy at the board level, and strengthen HR’s influence across the enterprise.

Your Executive Counselor is a former CHRO who will support your ability to shape organizational change and position HR as a strategic driver of enterprise performance.
Navigate pivotal moments such as restructuring, executive succession, and M&A with confidence and a clear path forward.
Enter the boardroom with evidence-based confidence, grounded in decades of McLean research.

Executive Counselor Membership Highlights

Unlimited scheduled and ad hoc 1:1 meetings with your Executive Counselor.
Two full-day sessions to develop strategies and set a path to measurable outcomes (virtual or in-person depending on membership).
Access to the CHRO Playbook to assess and elevate your capability, supported by the exclusive CHRO Resource Center.

For HR Leaders

We help you drive strategic impact across the organization, with a seasoned partner who helps you go further. Prioritize what matters most, mitigate risk, and turn research-backed strategies into measurable organizational outcomes.

Your Executive Advisor is a former HR leader who will help you execute with speed and confidence by connecting organizational strategy directly to HR strategy.
Prioritize the initiatives with the greatest impact and build the cross-functional support to execute them.
Translate McLean’s research into action, contextualized to your organization’s specific challenges, to deliver results.

Leadership Membership Highlights

1:1 sessions with your Executive Advisor.
Key Priorities Resource Plan developed by your Executive Advisor; your priorities mapped against McLean resources.
Peer-to-peer virtual roundtables with fellow HR leaders, broadening perspective on emerging research, trends and challenges.

Executive Services Member Exclusives

Gain greater ROI on the McLean membership with tools, diagnostics, and frameworks applied to the most critical enterprise challenges.

Key Priorities Resource Plan

Accelerate your success with a plan created by your Executive Advisor or Executive Counselor. Aligned with McLean resources, your plan will curate content and be a catalyst for what matters most.

Attend the next roundtable by contacting your account manager.

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Stay on track for success

Key priorities aligned with McLean resources
Highlights of key research Blueprints
Roadmaps aligned with initiatives

Contract Reviews

Save money and protect the organization with expert HRIS technology vendor management and contract review services.

Executive Counselor members also receive access to Price Benchmarking & negotiation services.

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Expert Advice to Help You:

Manage risk
Improve vendor performance
Improve your price negotiation skills

Meet our Executive Services Team

Meet the team of past CHROs, HR leaders, and business leaders who work both 1:1 with members, and collectively behind the scenes to provide maximum value.