FountainBlue

FountainBlue's Coaching, Recruiting and Consulting Services
One Conversation, One Leader, One Organization at a Time

Attraction, Retention and Development of Talent for Tech Companies

FountainBlue works with technology-based corporations to help recruit, retain and develop key talent who can lead strategically and deliver milestone-based, tangible results.

• FountainBlue’s Recruiting Services is focused on identifying and delivering exceptional and diverse talent for senior management roles in technology-based companies in all roles, from management to finance, from marketing to engineering. What sets us apart is:
• Our extensive network of exceptional senior talent with proven talent, as well as our network of strategic partnerships with key organizations with access to additional networks of talent.
• Our ten-step process for conducting each search, leveraging partnerships, assessing, vetting and coaching candidates, in order to present only the best-of-the-best.
• Our ten-step process for evaluating candidates for each search, ensuring that only 20% of candidates are presented to our clients, and optimal matches based on skills, passion, judgment and culture.
• Our emphasis on mentorship and coaching, with optional 90-day, milestone-based executive coaching offered with every successful placement, and our 90-day guarantee of success.
• Our way of doing business, always looking for a win-for-all, never forcing a fit.
• FountainBlue’s Talent Retention services works with internal HR departments, management team, and volunteers within the organization to 1) build connections between people and teams through the production of workshops and networking events, 2) identify and coach, consult and work with high-potential employees to help ensure they get challenging, rewarding work they are passionate about and 3) work with management to identify and serve the community and global causes of interest to their staff, including climate and energy, diversity and inclusion, human rights, education and local nonprofit support.
  
• FountainBlue’s Talent Development services work with internal HR departments and the management team to 1) identify, assess and develop high-potential talent and work with them to create a development plan aligning their passions and abilities and corporate needs, 2) connect high-potentials with each other from within and outside organization to build network, knowledge, and perspectives, 3) identify and create speaking and partnership opportunities to expand the knowledge, reach and experience of top talent, and 4) produce lunch-and-learn workshops around technology trends to keep all abreast of trends and provide speaking opportunities for high-potential talent. 
  

FountainBlue Business Advisory Services for Emerging and Growing Companies

FountainBlue provides strategy, marketing, coaching and recruiting services for growing technology-driven, clean energy and life science start-ups. We specialize in:

• Advisory Board Member and Board Meeting Facilitator: Gathering the right people around the table and facilitating a strategic discussion resulting in priorities tasks, as well as clear and specific roles and actions.
• Marketing Communications: Messaging about what you do for whom, with clarity about who you are, why you’re doing what you’re doing, who you want to serve and what you can do for them now and in the future.
• Business Development and Alliances: Identifying, prioritizing, recruiting, strategic alliance partners for three areas: financial service firms, credit unions/banks and technology companies.
• Advisory board recruitment: strategizing the best roles and people for your advisory board based on your marketing and business development objectives.
• CEO Adviser: General consultation on ongoing strategic and/or day-to-day execution challenges.