CORNERSTONE BOARD SERVICES DIVISION

Having quietly grown to one of largest executive search and consulting organizations in the world, Cornerstone International Group is frequently retained to identify and evaluate potential Outside Members for Boards of Directors, Boards of Trustees, Boards of Governors, and/or Advisory Boards of small, medium, and large organizations in both the private sector and public sector, nationally and internationally.

Although some Boards are considered more prestigious than others, the Selection Committee of each Board demands the highest recruiting standards in terms of competence, compatibility, integrity, and confidentiality. Likewise, candidates for Outside Director positions require comparable professionalism, accuracy, and discretion.

	In prior decades, CEO's notoriously recruited "friends" onto their Boards; however, because Directors are increasingly being held accountable for their decisions, CEO's of today are finding less of their friends are willing to serve as Outside Directors. Consequently, contemporary Boards are tending to use executive search organizations like Cornerstone significantly more often to locate individuals who are willing and competent to serve in such Board capacities.
	As with other retained executive searches, Outside Director searches entail similar steps: (1) diagnosis and planning, (2) position specifications, (3) manual and computerized research, (4) sourcing and recruiting, (5) interview screening, (6) candidate dossiers, (7) client interviews, (8) careful reference checking, (9) offer negotiations, and (10) "onboarding" follow up.

Other Board Services

	Cornerstone International Group is also retained by client organizations to assist them in numerous other forms of Board consulting such as the following:
	Board Assessment (Individual and/or Group Assessment) Board Training & Development Board HRIS (Litigation Mitigation) Strategic & Succession Planning Reference Checking & Board Compensation Merger & Acquisition Consulting Change Management & Outplacement Leadership Audits & Evaluations Turnaround Management Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance