Why Cornerstone
Add Cornerstone. Add Growth.
Cornerstone is a leading global leadership enhancement firm that offers executive recruitment, executive coaching, and career navigation solutions. Cornerstone has a globalized vision, with 60 offices in 40 countries since 1989; we aim to generate attractive investment returns for our clients by helping them appoint and engage new cornerstones for their operations. We work closely with clients to understand their needs and culture, then develop a customized search strategy to find the right fit. Our industry knowledge and executive search expertise identify and attract the best candidates for each search assignment. We often discuss the benefits of our structure and business model – which marries global branding with local ownership and anchor with three pillars of services.
Our Talent Management business provides a full range of services, from helping companies appoint new cornerstones for their business to grooming and engaging existing high potentials and outplacement supports.
Our local offices individually generate local advantages for our clients, but when paired with other Cornerstone offices, we create a decisive competitive advantage. We see our consultants as a key differentiator, allowing us to align our interests with our clients, develop new talent strategies and support existing high potentials, and enter into the right- sizing as needed on our client’s behalf.
When you partner with Cornerstone, you benefit from the breadth and expertise of the entire firm. When appropriate, all of Cornerstone’s offices work together on behalf of our client and your offices worldwide. With our operational experience, broad regional and industry expertise since 1989, insight into global macro and geopolitical trends, and a robust network of local and international relationships – we seek to provide innovative talent placement solutions, and coaching supports to help our clients achieve their business goals.
With offices worldwide, we fulfill our mission when you ADD Cornerstone, you ADD Growth—and we do this as one global firm.
Our Vision
Vision
We see a better world where our clients have purpose-driven leaders as their cornerstone, and their corporate culture is one of “doing well and doing good”.
Mission
To help our clients be more successful attracting and developing leaders who contribute to their organization’s long-term success.
Positioning
Cornerstone is a trusted partner who supports our clients’ in attracting, developing, and retaining talent, believing people are an organization’s greatest asset.
Our Values
Understanding
We are respectful and empathetic. While we are proud of our 30+ year heritage, we take more satisfaction in our clients’ success.
Dependable
We are committed to integrity. We deliver what we promise.
Human
We consider the needs of the internal associates, as well as those people being recruited, while supporting the organization’s various talent requirements.
Inspiring
We believe an optimistic “can do” attitude is the cornerstone of our success and can be inspiring to others.
The Cornerstone Edge
Our global reach, in combination with local experience & entrepreneurial mindset, enables our clients to succeed worldwide.
Our three primary business solutions are: Strategic Talent Acquisitions, Coaching Leaders, and Career Navigation Support. Along with outplacement support for departing employees, these services ensure the organization has committed employees and a positive reputation as an employer.
1. Our Partners
Our managing partners in each office possess ownership mindsets. They assume accountability for delivering projects that contribute to clients’ success.
Partners have industry and territory expertise and amplify their global reach through an integrated, highly qualified network of Cornerstone offices.
A “local” phone call enables clients to begin a global project. Watch our “Meet CIG” video.
2. Our Credibility
Since 1989, what has set Cornerstone apart is its success in delivering and supporting our clients’ key corporate talent. Achieving this requires us to adhere to our own high standards. We are gratified that our clients recognize our internal efforts and our success on their behalf.
We are members of the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC), the organization that sets the quality standard for the executive search and leadership consulting profession. All our executive coaches are members of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the world’s largest organization leading the global advancement of the coaching profession. Cornerstone is recognized regularly in rankings by industry trackers such as Forbes Media, Hunt Scanlon and others.
Benefit: The demands on today’s leaders are unlimited and unforgiving. It takes the highest levels of assessment and support in the recruiting process to evaluate true potential in a highly complex environment.
The search process alone, however, is no longer enough to assure the best return in a market where 40% of executive hires fail in the first 18 months. Many support services are needed to bring your new hire over the goal line.
Start by reading The Edge You Get from Cornerstone, and welcome to our website.
ADD Cornerstone,
ADD Growth.
Our three critical business solutions are Strategic Talent Acquisitions, Coaching Managers to become Leaders, Career Navigation Supports for your high potentials. In addition we protect your employer brand with outplacement supports for your departing employees.
Our global reach, local experience & ownership mindset enable our clients to succeed and grow worldwide.
At Cornerstone International Group, we put at your service a network of 225+ consultants at some 60 offices and 40 countries. You receive personal attention locally and the clout of a global organization.
This collective capability is recognized by Forbes as one of the top 20 organizations in executive search in America, and among the top 40 globally. We are also a global member of the Association of Executive Search Consultants, which is the voice of excellence for executive search and leadership consultants worldwide.