The Million Dollar Exec Search
For executives in their 40s and 50s who want a $1M+ role, run by a former Korn Ferry headhunter who spent 10 years placing people into exactly these seats.
Loren Greiff, THE Executive Search Coach for $1Million+ C-Suite Roles, Ex. Korn Ferry Headhunter.
Our clients have landed at
So why is the next seat so much harder to get than it should be?
This is for VP-level executives and above. You've run million and billion dollar initiatives and led teams through the kind of pressure that breaks most people. You've earned the next seat.
The market isn't reading the massive value you bring. It's reading your age, your pedigree and your comp number, and it makes decisions before anyone looks at what you've actually delivered.
None of that is in your head. I sat on the hiring side for 10 years, and I know exactly which assumptions get made about executives over 45 and in what order. This program is built to get you past them.
Is this you?
- You're getting fewer replies from recruiters, applications and warm intros than you did five years ago, even though you're better at the job than you've ever been.
- You've led through reorgs, hard decisions and made numbers work that didn't want to work. But turning that record into a $1M+ offer is harder than it should be.
- You state your comp and watch the conversation turn to "too expensive" before anyone talks about what that number pays for.
- Most of your pipeline is recruiter calls and job postings, and very few of your conversations are with someone who can actually say yes.
- You're watching peers land faster and at higher numbers while you're being asked about your gap, your age, or how long you stayed somewhere.
- Six months in, the search is taking more out of you than the job you're trying to leave.
- You've started wondering if you'll have to take whatever comes next just to keep the income going.
Go straight to the person who owns the budget and makes the hiring call.
Instead of waiting on recruiters or applying through job boards, we find the companies that need what you do, identify the people inside them who make the hiring decision, and build your path to them through your own network, with a clear, specific case for the problem you solve and what it's worth.
To some companies, you are too senior and too expensive. To the one sitting with the urgent, expensive problem only you have the unfair advantage to solve, you're their ONLY hire.
What we NEVER do
- Generic career coachingIf it's a template everyone else is using, we don't teach it.
- Job board strategyApplying online is the slowest and least likely route to a $1M+ role, so we don't spend your time there.
- Recruiter dependenceRecruiters work for the company and their job is to screen people out. We take you to the person who owns the budget.
- Resume polishing as the fixYour resume matters, but the real problem is usually how your value is being described. We fix that first.
- Negotiating yourself downYou'll learn to state your number with the evidence behind it, and hold it.
Loren Greiff, Ex. Korn Ferry Headhunter
THE Executive Search Coach for $1Million+ C-Suite Roles
I've coached 100+ executives into SVP and C-suite roles.
Managing Consultant I Digital Specialty Practice, Korn Ferry
President, Portfoliorocket.com
Podcast Host, Career Blast In A Half
Executive Board Member, Fast Company
You do not age out by living longer. You age out by living smaller. In my TEDx talk, "Ageism Loves Silence" I challenge the silence and self-editing that make experienced leaders easier to dismiss.
A $1M+ role doesn't go to the best logo on a resume. It goes to the executive who solves the decision maker's most expensive pain before it costs them.
Apply for the $1M+ Exec Job Search AcceleratorThe numbers speak for themselves.
None of this is hypothetical. It's what our clients are doing right now. Industry average for a senior search: about 9 months
Chief Human Resources Officer
Stacy landed the role in 70 days.
SVP of Product
Tom landed in big tech in 61 days.
CFO
Tess landed in 69 days with three competing offers.
VP & General Manager
Marcus came in underselling himself and was placed in 39 days. Less than three months in, his CEO is already planning his move to Chief Revenue Officer.
Chief Experience Officer
Diane went from $299K to $435K in total comp in under three months.
MedTech Executive to CMO
Renata landed at $375K base, 20% year-one bonus and $10K sign-on. Year two and beyond runs $450K cash.
Chief Customer Officer
Eli landed a role in a highly specialized healthtech niche in Miami.
Healthcare VP
His 30-minute interview with a pharma COO ran 74 minutes, with three intros to the leadership team.
Companies in active conversations
Hailey hadn't been in a search in 5+ years. Today four companies are in active conversations with her. She didn't apply to ANY of them.
Sixteen weeks from now, on a regular Thursday
The person you're meeting has already heard who you are and why you're relevant from someone they trust, before the call even starts.
You state your target comp, explain what it gets them, and the conversation moves on to next steps instead of stalling on the number.
Someone senior gets in touch because your name came up in their network, not because you messaged them.
You're comparing offers instead of waiting to see if one arrives.
What we work on together
Most programs hand you a course library and a weekly call, then leave you to work out how any of it applies to your search. We work inside your search with you, from your positioning to the signed offer.
- Getting to decision-makersWe map who actually makes the hiring decision at each target company, usually the CEO, a board member, or the executive you'd report to, and plan how to reach them without going through recruiters or online applications.
- Your executive positioningWe turn thirty years of experience into a short, specific case: the problem you solve, the results that prove it, and why it's worth $1M+. People understand your value in the first two minutes, and you're no longer being compared against a stack of similar resumes.
- Choosing target companiesWe build a shortlist of companies with an urgent, expensive problem that matches what you've already done, so every conversation is with an organization that has a real reason to hire you.
- A referral pipelineA step-by-step system for turning your own network into referrals to decision-makers, even if you dislike networking or haven't kept up with your network. No cold messaging.
- Final-stage interviewsPreparation for the questions that decide who gets the offer at this level, including how to handle concerns about age, gaps or tenure without sounding defensive.
- NegotiationHow to state your number once, back it with the value it buys, and handle pushback without discounting yourself.
- A weekly search planA clear plan and weekly accountability, so you always know your next action and the search keeps moving instead of stalling while you wait to hear back.
How we work together. Three ways in.
The Million Dollar Map™
Executives who want to run their own search with expert guidance and accountability.
- The method
- The Million Dollar Map™, Loren's step-by-step method for reaching decision-makers and landing a $1M+ role without recruiters or job boards
- Group coaching
- 16 hours over the 16 weeks
- Private time with Loren
- Eight private 30-minute sessions (4 hours total)
- Loren On Call™
- Not included
- Materials
- Lifetime access to the materials and everything you build
The Million Dollar VIP
Executives who want to work closest with Loren. Loren is involved at every key moment: positioning, target company curation, a networking pipeline for referrals, interviews and offer negotiation.
- The method
- Everything in The Million Dollar Map™
- Group coaching
- 16 hours over the 16 weeks
- Private time with Loren
- 12 hours of private 1:1 time
- Loren On Call™
- Direct email and text access for fast feedback on outreach, interview prep and offers
- Materials
- Lifetime access to the materials and everything you build
The Million Dollar Platinum
Executives who need to land in the next 12 weeks. Loren is involved at every key moment: positioning, target company curation, a networking pipeline for referrals, interviews and offer negotiation.
- The method
- Everything in The Million Dollar VIP
- Group coaching
- 16 hours over the 16 weeks
- Private time with Loren
- 14 hours of private 1:1 time
- Loren On Call™
- Direct email and text access for fast feedback on outreach, interview prep and offers
- Materials
- Lifetime access to the materials and everything you build
A $1,500 non-refundable deposit secures your place, with the balance due within 5 days. Pay in full, or spread it over a payment plan.
The We've Got Your Back Guarantee
If you follow the method, act on the feedback and do the work each week, you'll be in final-stage interviews for a role at your target level within 16 weeks. If you're not, we keep working with you at no extra cost until you are.
FAQ
A retained search firm already has me in their database. Why do I need this?
Every one of my clients is also known to the big firms. Those firms work for the company that pays them. Nobody in that process is working your side of the table. That's the gap we close.
I haven't kept up with my network. Does that rule me out?
No. The referral system is built for exactly that. Clients reconnect with people they haven't spoken to in 20 years, and around 90% of those contacts re-engage.
Will my age come up?
It already has, whether anyone said it out loud or not. We address it in how your value is described and in final-stage prep, so it stops deciding the outcome.
Should I wait until the new year?
January is the gym in the first week of the year. Every executive who promised themselves a new role shows up at once. If the only reason to wait is that January feels like a cleaner start, you'll be starting your search in the most crowded month of the year.
I'm not sure which option is right for me.
That's what our conversation is for. Tell me where your search is now and I'll tell you which one fits.
Which one: wait for January, or get on it tomorrow?
That company won't find you on a job board. You find it, and you walk in through someone you know.
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