FountainBlue

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

As we celebrate our sixth birthday and emerge into our seventh year of doing business, FountainBlue is pleased to leverage the networks connected, the communities developed, and the information shared as we shift our focus to coaching and consulting to early stage start-ups and recruiting and coaching for mid-size and larger corporations seeking more female and diverse talent for their management team. These activities are a natural progression for the event production and management services we’ve provided to the community, and a result of a need we saw in the market and for our members. A detailed description of our early-stage consulting and recruiting efforts is below.

FountainBlue Recruiting for Tech Companies

FountainBlue has built its reputation around leadership - the type of leadership that focuses an organization on the next opportunity ahead; the type of leadership that aligns silos to address strategic goals, and engage stakeholders at all levels; the type of leadership that parks egos and rallies all behind measurable strategic initiatives; the type of leadership that recognizes, synthesizes and engages all to tackle the technical, cultural, process, communication, and infrastructure challenges ahead.

To foster, support and deliver this type of leadership, FountainBlue works with internal HR teams or directly with hiring managers to connect Bay Area technology companies with exceptional and diverse talent for senior management roles in all areas, from engineering to marketing to finance and management, on demand or for direct hire. 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, vetting candidates, and presenting only the best-of-the-best.
• Our ten-step process for vetting 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.

We always do our initial searches on a contingency bases, so that we can prove the efficiency of our processes, the breadth and depth of our network, our focus on alignment with hiring manager needs.

For more information, e-mail us at recruiting@fountainblue.biz.

FountainBlue Business Advisory Services

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.