Locally prominent and nationally known executive search consultant Geoff Champion earned rave reviews for his contributions as a faculty presenter during a professional development program conducted by Canaan Ridge in Palm Beach, FL.
Champion, who heads ChampionScott Partners in Boston, led 14 senior executive search consultants attending the two and a half day Exceptional Search Consultant program through a rigorous learning module on Sales Effectiveness, one of the principal areas of instruction in the Canaan Ridge program for exceptional search performance. Participants cited Champion’s deep experience, practical insights and passion for his profession as critical factors behind his success as a faculty instructor, and for his contributions to the high quality of the overall program.
Champion provides search services to leading edge companies in the media/content, telecommunications, eBusiness, infrastructure technologies, software, consumer and financial services sectors throughout the world. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. His post graduate education includes the Executive Institute at Stanford University and the Management Centre, Europe.
Other program faculty included Mary Beth Barron, President of GlobalThinking, LLC; Ginny Clark, Career and Talent Management Expert and Author; Charley Polachi, Partner at Polachi Access Executive Search TM and Garland West, President of WestWord Communications and Founding Partner of Canaan Ridge.
Participants in the Palm Beach program included representation from major, mid-size and boutique firms, including Boyden, Carter Baldwin, CTPartners, DHR, Egon Zehnder, Korn/Ferry, Preng & Associates, Sheffield Haworth and Sherwood Talent Solutions.
Based in New Canaan, CT, Canaan Ridge is the only firm offering professional development programs targeted exclusively at the retained search industry. The next Exceptional Search Consultant program will be held in New York on May 2 – 4, 2010. For more on Canaan Ridge, visit www.canaanridge.com.
ChampionScott Partners is the world’s premier retained executive search firm focused exclusively on the technology industry and related sectors. Our firm delivers the personalized focus of a technology boutique combined with the research resources and global reach of a large international firm through our offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. We have conducted over 500 searches and played pivotal roles in the formation of over 200 technology companies around the world. ChampionScott Partners recruits CEOs, their direct reports, and Board Directors for companies ranging from start-ups to the Global 500 in the key technology centers of the U.S., Europe, Japan, China, India and Israel. On every engagement our team provides partner-level knowledge and judgment gained through our decades of experience in the technology industry.