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Leading US-based executive branding firm helping C-suite and VP leaders communicate value and advance their careers.

The McGehrin Group LLC is a US-based executive branding firm that helps senior leaders present a clear, compelling narrative of their value. Serving C-suite and VP-level executives across industries, the organization supports clients in articulating their career goals and pursuing opportunities with confidence and confidentiality. Founded in 2001, the firm emphasizes ethical engagement and a no-sales-pitch approach, pairing strategic messaging with cohesive career assets to communicate leadership impact and readiness for board or executive-level roles. Its capabilities span shaping executive narratives, refining professional branding materials, and providing coaching to support interviews and negotiations. The company positions itself as a collaborative partner focused on delivering rapid, high-quality results while protecting client information. By aligning messaging with the expectations of search firms, recruiters, and boards, The McGehrin Group aims to empower leaders to navigate competitive markets and achieve meaningful career growth.

To empower executives to articulate their value and advance their careers through confidential, ethical branding guidance and recruiter-aligned messaging.

What we offer

Executive Resume Writing

Service

Transform your leadership narrative into a compelling executive resume that attracts recruiters and boards.

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C-Suite Branding Package

Service

Enhances visibility and leadership positioning for C-suite executives.

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Chief Product Officer Brand Package

Service

Empowers Chief Product Officers to articulate their value with a comprehensive branding package.

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General Manager Brand Package

Service

Empowers General Managers with comprehensive branding to showcase their executive leadership capabilities.

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Executive Market Readiness Assessment

Service

Evaluate your executive brand to enhance visibility and attract opportunities.

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Compensation Negotiation

Service

Maximize your total compensation through expert negotiation support and strategies.

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Partner Brand Package

Service

Elevate your partner status with personalized branding and strategic narrative development.

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Executive Coaching

Service

Accelerate your leadership growth with tailored executive coaching for high-performing leaders.

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Government & Defense Brand Branding

Service

Facilitates the transition of leaders from government to corporate roles with tailored branding services.

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Market segments

Market size by segment

Growth potential (CAGR)

Executive resume and personal branding

0.5 Billion USD8% CAGR

Services that create and optimize executive resumes, bios, cover letters, and value propositions to clearly communicate leadership impact to hiring decision-makers.

Board readiness and governance positioning

1.2 Billion USD8.5% CAGR

Assets and advisory that prepare executives for board roles, including board-specific resumes, governance-focused biographies, and messaging aligned to board and nominating committee expectations.

Executive coaching and leadership development

112.98 Billion USD9.11% CAGR

Private coaching, short-form strategy sessions, virtual events, and curated coaching resources designed to accelerate leadership effectiveness, succession readiness, and executive performance.

Compensation advisory and negotiation strategy

2 Billion USD9% CAGR

Advisory and coaching services that provide market compensation intelligence, total-compensation audits, counter-offer language, equity guidance, and live negotiation rehearsal to maximize offers.

Government-to-private sector transition and clearance positioning

0.5 Billion USD10% CAGR

Specialized branding and narrative translation that converts government or military leadership experience and security clearances into corporate language and value propositions for private-sector leadership and boards.

More information about our offering

Executive Resume Writing

Role-based executive resume writing service for C-suite and VP-level leaders, tailored to reflect responsibilities, outcomes, and leadership impact.

  • Ensure Quality Content
    Expertise from seasoned recruiters ensures your resume meets industry expectations, enhancing your appeal to hiring committees.
  • Tailored Executive Focus
    Personalized resumes that highlight specific achievements and leadership qualities relevant to the desired role, enhancing your market position.
  • Receive First Draft Quickly
    Minimize wait time with a prompt delivery of the initial resume draft, allowing for timely feedback and adjustments.
  • Benefit from Ongoing Updates
    Maintain a competitive edge with continuous updates and adjustments to your resume as your career progresses.

C-Suite Branding Package

A packaged executive branding service delivering a complete brand system for senior leaders, aligning messaging across resumes, biographies, LinkedIn, and board materials.

  • Build Cohesive Executive Brand
    This feature ensures that all your branding materials effectively communicate your leadership narrative, increasing your visibility and impact in the job market.
  • Maximize Recruiter Outreach
    Optimizes your profile for search to ensure you are highly visible to recruiters, increasing your chances of being approached for top-tier roles.
  • Enhance Professional Storytelling
    Creates engaging biographical content that positions you as an industry leader and opens doors to networking opportunities and board memberships.
  • Position for Board Roles
    This resume format aligns your experience with the specific criteria and expectations of board committees, increasing your candidacy for governance positions.

Chief Product Officer Brand Package

Complete branding package for Chief Product Officer including two-page resume, LinkedIn rebuild, long- and short-form biographies, board resume, product-to-revenue outcomes narrative, and lifetime revisions.

  • Showcases Leadership Impact
    Detailed resume emphasizing achievements, strategic decisions, and measurable outcomes relevant to CPO roles.
  • Ensures Long-Term Value
    Adapts branding materials as your career evolves, maintaining their effectiveness over time.
  • Enhances Visibility to Headhunters
    Optimized profile attracts more recruiter outreach, improving chances for career advancement.
  • Demonstrates Governance Experience
    Presents expertise in governance, risk oversight, and stakeholder leadership tailored for board applications.
  • Positions You as a Thought Leader
    Deliver compelling narratives suitable for various professional contexts, including speaking engagements and board applications.
  • Demonstrates Strategic Leadership
    Articulates how product strategies directly contributed to revenue growth and market expansion.

General Manager Brand Package

General Manager branding package including a two-page GM resume, LinkedIn rebuild, long- and short-form biographies, board resume, and end-to-end business ownership narrative.

  • Showcases Leadership Experience
    A concise and impactful GM resume that effectively highlights leadership accomplishments and business impact.
  • Demonstrates Financial Mastery
    Highlights the executive's responsibility for profitability and strategic direction, establishing credibility with potential employers.
  • Provides Board Readiness
    The board resume is tailored for candidates aiming for board positions, facilitating their entry into high-level governance roles.
  • Enhances Online Presence
    Aligns the executive's LinkedIn profile with their brand narrative, increasing visibility to recruiters and headhunters.
  • Ensures Lasting Value
    Clients can request updates and revisions to their materials as their careers progress, ensuring relevance.
  • Provides Versatile Career Narratives
    Biographies are tailored to various contexts, ensuring the executive can effectively communicate their story in different formats.

Executive Market Readiness Assessment

Assessment to measure an executive brand across six dimensions to determine headhunter readiness and track dimensions such as resume positioning, LinkedIn visibility, compensation alignment, headhunter readiness, personal brand, and strategic trajectory.

  • Prepare for Headhunter Engagement
    Gauge your brand's appeal to headhunters to optimize opportunities for advancement.
  • Position Resume Effectively
    Optimize your resume to align with current market demands and expectations.
  • Align Compensation Strategically
    Identify how well your current compensation aligns with market standards, ensuring you are positioned competitively.
  • Enhance LinkedIn Presence
    Boost your chances of being discovered by improving your visibility and engagement on LinkedIn.
  • Strengthen Personal Brand
    Understand and enhance your personal brand to ensure consistency across platforms.
  • Clarify Career Path
    Evaluate your career trajectory to align your goals with the market opportunities.

Compensation Negotiation

Negotiation service to maximize total compensation with market intelligence, audits, strategy, counter-offer language, and live coaching.

  • Leverage Market Insights
    Utilize up-to-date market data to validate compensation expectations and strengthen negotiation leverage.
  • Refine Negotiation Skills
    Provide tailored coaching to refine communication strategies and boost confidence for critical negotiations.
  • Uncover Compensation Opportunities
    Ensure clients fully understand their current compensation and identify areas for improvement before negotiations.
  • Enhance Negotiation Communication
    Empower clients to approach negotiation discussions confidently with pre-prepared language that strengthens their position.
  • Formulate Clear Negotiation Plan
    Create a comprehensive strategy that outlines objectives and tactics to optimize negotiation outcomes.
  • Strategize Equity Negotiation
    Equip executives with insights to negotiate equity components effectively, enhancing their overall package.

Partner Brand Package

Branding for Partners focusing on origination, ownership, and value creation; two-page resume, LinkedIn rebuild, biographies, curated deal/engagement track record, and ownership narrative.

  • Ensure Ongoing Relevance
    Revise your branding materials as your career evolves, ensuring continual relevance.
  • Comprehensive Overview of Value
    Present a detailed overview of your impact and achievements in a concise format.
  • Showcase Key Contributions
    Present a focused narrative on the deals you originated and the value delivered.
  • Articulate Impact Effectively
    Frame your contributions around strategic insights and tangible outcomes.
  • Transform Your Online Presence
    Enhance visibility to recruiters with an optimized LinkedIn profile that reflects your partnership status.
  • Versatile Storytelling Options
    Utilize tailored biographies for different contexts, enhancing your narrative versatility.

Executive Coaching

Executive coaching engagements for senior leaders including assessment, structured coaching, feedback analysis, executive presence development, career planning, and on-demand support.

  • Enhance Leadership Impact
    Improves how you present yourself as a leader, making you more impactful during interactions at all levels.
  • Identify Improvement Areas
    This feature provides critical insights that help clarify strengths and areas for development from multiple perspectives.
  • Establish Baseline
    This assessment sets a personalized starting point to measure your coaching progress and achievements.
  • Plan Future Growth
    This planning session ensures you have a clear direction and actionable steps towards achieving your career aspirations.
  • Consistent Coaching
    Regular sessions provide a disciplined approach to personal development and accountability.
  • Receive Prompt Advice
    Immediate support during critical moments ensures you navigate challenges effectively.

Government & Defense Brand Branding

Executive branding for government and defense professionals transitioning to private sector leadership.

  • Communicate Leadership Impact Effectively
    Specialized understanding of how to convert military ranks, budget management, and strategic leadership experiences into terms that resonate with corporate boards and recruiters.
  • Craft Unique Brand Narratives
    Focuses on addressing individual experiences, ensuring the brand reflects the candidate's distinct leadership journey and capabilities.
  • Leverage Security Clearance
    Positions security clearances as valuable assets, enhancing credibility and trust with potential employers in sensitive sectors.
  • Articulate Value with Metrics
    Emphasizes the importance of quantifying military and leadership duties into clear, impactful metrics that demonstrate effectiveness to potential employers.

References

Methodology and sourcing behind the figures shown above.

Executive resume and personal branding

No explicit market-size or CAGR figures were present in the provided search results. Search results (LinkedIn posts, personal-branding blogs, DSMN8 summary, and academic article) indicate rising demand for personal branding and executive-level resume services (greater LinkedIn use, rising interest in personal branding). Using internal market-hierarchy reasoning: assume a premium average price per executive client (≈$2,000) and an estimated annual client base in the low hundreds of thousands (≈250k) across global executive resume, bio, LinkedIn and personal-branding services → ≈$500M (0.5B) annual market. Growth potential driven by increased social-media-driven personal branding, executive reliance on online presence, and premiumization of career services; a plausible CAGR is in the mid-to-high single digits (estimated 8% CAGR).

Board readiness and governance positioning

Search results show rising governance demand (succession readiness, IPO/governance scrutiny) but contain no explicit market-size figures. I estimated the niche as a subset of the global executive-search/board-advisory market: using internal market hierarchy (global executive search ≈ $8–12B) and assuming board-readiness/governance-positioning represents roughly 10–15% of that market (services: board-focused resumes, governance biographies, advisory, coaching, messaging). Midpoint yields ~$1.0–1.5B; selected $1.2B. Growth potential (CAGR ~6–10%) is driven by increased regulatory/ESG scrutiny, higher IPO and succession activity and investor governance expectations; midpoint 8.5% used.

Executive coaching and leadership development

Estimate uses recent syndicated market reports covering the broader executive coaching and leadership development category. Mordor Intelligence projects a 2026 market size of USD 112.98B with a 9.11% CAGR (2026–2031); Ken Research reports USD 103.56B in 2025 and the same 9.11% CAGR to 2031. Dimension Market Research provides a nearby estimate (USD 124.0B in 2026; 10.4% CAGR). A smaller MRFR coaching-only figure (~USD 17.64B in 2024; 5.7% CAGR) reflects a narrower scope. The 112.98B / ~9.11% CAGR represents the consensus for the broader executive coaching + leadership development market.

Compensation advisory and negotiation strategy

Search results show increased demand for compensation strategy, total-rewards consulting, benchmarking and negotiation coaching but contain no explicit market-size figures. Using internal market hierarchy knowledge (compensation advisory is a specialized subset of HR consulting/total-rewards consulting) and observable demand drivers — globalization of work, equity complexity, retention focus, and growth of boutique negotiation/coaching firms — I estimate a small global niche market of roughly $1.5–3.0B (midpoint $2.0B). Growth potential is strong given continued emphasis on pay equity, remote hiring, and total-comp package design; I estimate a CAGR around 9% over the coming 3–5 years.

Government-to-private sector transition and clearance positioning

Search results contain guidance on transitioning public-sector employees but no explicit market-size or CAGR figures. I used the ACFCS/OPM workforce figure (2.1M US civilian federal employees) and reporting of ‘hundreds of thousands’ at-risk federal roles to estimate an addressable pool of senior/cleared candidates. Assuming a focused subset (senior leaders/cleared personnel) convert to paid branding/placement services annually (tens of thousands), and average service pricing in the $3k–$10k range (executive positioning, cleared-candidate placement, board positioning, advisory retainers), the U.S. niche market is approximately $0.3–$0.8B; midpoint rounded to $0.5B. Growth potential (CAGR ~10%) reflects increased federal workforce churn, layoffs, growing demand for cleared talent in private sector/defense contractors, and rising spend on executive transition and employer branding services.

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