Hiring on all cylinders

With the right talent, everything clicks. The trick is finding the right

people while keeping your business moving forward. The wrong

hire or an extended vacancy can make you lose momentum. Put

the right person in place and you’re on a better pace than ever.

An Overture seArch Offers.Value-added services. Job descriptions, success profile development, compensation benchmarking, compensation package design, leadership and management assessments, on-boarding and follow-up.

Dedicated project resources. Hiring efforts powered by the Center for Recruiting Excellence (CRE), Project Management Office (PMO), research, quality assurance, candidate tracking systems and more.

Experienced stewards. Team members with at least 15 years of experience and strong connections to the community and a variety of industries.

A thorough grasp of your business. By conducting an extensive client interview, we gain a solid understanding of your business, your needs and your goals.

The Overture Group finds the right people for your organization so you can keep moving—and pick up speed. As one of the Midwest’s premier professional/executive/management search and interim placement firms, we tap into a network of the top finance, accounting, human resources, operations and technology professionals to find your fit. With expertise in every element of the hiring process, we can guide you from pre-search preparation to post-placement training. We’ll find you people so perfect, you won’t be able to imagine how you ever got along without them.

eXecutIve, PrOfessIOnAL AnD MAnAGeMent seArchThe right partner for the right person for the job.

The Overture Group is your partner in continuous productivity. Many search and placement firms can find people for a position, but The Overture Group finds candidates that do more than fill an opening—they complement your team and elevate the effectiveness of your business. Before we so much as draft a job description, we get to know you and your team and determine your exact needs. Then, we tap into our network of highly skilled professionals, quickly delivering you your perfect fit.

InterIM MAnAGeMentTalent in the nick of time.

An unexpected vacancy can slow your momentum—unless you have a talented individual ready to step to the fore. The Overture Group provides interim replacements ready to take on day-to-day responsibilities and support your long-term strategy. Our rich network and in-depth industry knowledge ensure that interim professionals come aboard with full knowledge of your organization and their responsibilities.

rOLes we fILL.Professional, management and executive positions in:

• Accounting/Finance

• Human Resources

• Operations

• Information Technology

InDustrIes we serve.• Manufacturing and Distribution

• Services including Professional Service firms

• Not-for-Profit

• Financial Institutions

eXcePtIOnAL resuLts.

95%of our people that we have placed in the past three years are still working for our clients.

the heArtLAnD Of tALent.With a strong Midwest focus, The Overture Group is able to introduce our clients to the finest professionals in the region. Our strong Midwestern roots have allowed us to cultivate a network that’s unmatched by national recruiting firms. We know the area markets, industries and where to look to find the right people for your job.

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Brandi Adam Mueller graduated with her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Iowa and is a Dale Carnegie graduate. She is now a Managing Director with The Overture Group, playing a leading role in creating efficient and effective work productivity. Always dedicated to getting clients exactly what they want and need, Brandi is a seasoned professional with more than a decade of executive search experience.

Successfully completing over 150 positions in the Midwest, Brandi is known for her “can

do” attitude and direct style of recruiting. She is an active member of Daybreak Rotary and is involved in the United Way. Brandi is also a 2009 Leadership of Five Seasons Alumni and a 2010 Corridor Business Journal “40 Under 40” recipient.

When Brandi isn’t focusing on making talent connections, she enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, cooking and eating good food and relaxing on the water.

BrAnDI ADAM MueLLer / Managing Director, IA / badam@theoverturegroup.com

Bob Lindeman is a Managing Director of The Overture Group. For more than 25 years, Bob was a Partner and Managing Director at the fifth largest accounting and consulting firm in the Unites States, which focused on middle market companies. Bob consulted on executive- and management-level searches, ownership and management succession plan development and transition planning, financial and strategic planning, operational and process improvement, sales force compensation, annual and long-term

incentive plans and organizational and succession planning.

Bob is a member of the Illinois CPA Society, the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants), Society for Human Resource Management, WorldatWork (American Compensation Association) and the Institute of Exit Planners. Bob also sits on two privately held company boards and on the Advisory Board of Catholic Charities in the greater Chicagoland area.

BOB LInDeMAn / Managing Director, IL / blindeman@theoverturegroup.com

John Liacone is a Managing Director with The Overture Group. He has decades of experience providing executive search, interim staffing, human resources management and career transition services that have helped guide organizations and individuals to meet their goals and objectives.

John started his career more than 25 years ago in the financial industry as a Manager/Director of Information Technologies. John has worked in various talent management environments including corporate recruiting, consulting, contingency, executive retained search/interim staffing, career transition services and as a Human Resources Manager. Prior to co-founding The Overture Group in 2010, he was a Director with the fifth

largest accounting and consulting firm in the United States.

John earned a BS degree in Information Technology with a secondary focus on Business Law/Accounting from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He has completed graduate studies in Business Administration at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois.

John is a member of the Human Resources Management Association of Greater Chicago and the Society of Human Resource Management. He is the sponsor and founder for the CFO Transition Group in the greater Chicago area and the Career Management Committee for the Chicago Chapter of Financial Executives International.

JOhn LIAcOne / Managing Director, IL / jliacone@theoverturegroup.com

At The Overture Group, we’ve assembled the best team to assemble your team.

We are supported by a staff of Directors and Associates with a

wide breadth of experience. Working as a team, we are able to use

our collective expertise to find the best candidates for the job and

ensure their successful transition into your organization.

eXPerIence.Every team member draws on extensive experience in retained search and recruiting. We have served in many capacities during our tenure with large and mid-market corporations and professional services firms.

KnOwLeDGe.We understand your specific industry and unique needs. Our proven methodology translates into creative, flexible and scalable solutions.

LeADershIP.Every Overture executive leads in the professional community—we head two of Chicago’s largest CFO clubs and remain active in alumni networks.

PArtnershIP.Our personalized consultations reflect a desire to build lasting relationships.

MethODOLOGY / the scIence BehInD the hIre.Refined through years of search and placement experience, The Overture Group’s hiring methodology ensures that we find the next invaluable member of your team. We begin the process by helping you clearly define the skill set needed to be successful in the position. We then develop or redefine the job description for the position to be filled, either for a permanent placement or interim basis. And finally, we work with you to determine the personality traits that will best fit your organization. Once these critical steps are completed, we’re able to begin sourcing the best potential candidates to present to you. When the final candidate is selected and your offer is accepted, we assist you with the on-boarding process to assure the success of the hire.

We’ve worked with other search firms that didn’t put nearly as much advance work into identifying what our particular needs were, not only for the position in general but at the moment in time of the hiring. We appreciated the care and thought they put into the process and the attention they put into specific needs that we had.

Society of Actuaries Gregory Heidrich / Executive Director

The Overture Group will provide you with high caliber talent and will work on your timeline, however short or extended that may be. The candidates we met with were all highly qualified and professional. We were able to meet with all candidates within a tight timeframe and had someone ready to start the next week.

In the Swim Steve Burns / CFO

Our experience with The Overture Group led to a very successful addition to our firm. Looking back on the entire process, we were fortunate to engage a firm that was capable of providing us the hands-on guidance and support that The Overture Group delivered and highly recommend them to others.

Prairie Capital Advisors Robert Gross / Senior Managing Director

In my career I have dealt with numerous executive search firms, but none as satisfying as my experience with The Overture Group. Overture made my decision “difficult” because of the slate of qualified candidates that I was able to interview. The search process was completed in the timeliest and most efficient manner, thereby greatly reducing the lead time to bring this qualified individual on board.

Penray Howard Laga / President

Every detail in the hiring process was handled. The amount of time and energy Overture put into the search would have been a full-time job for an internal person and, quite honestly, would not have been as professional and in-depth. At the end of the process, you will end up with the perfect candidate—but more importantly, throughout the process, your every question, thought and concern will be answered professionally and promptly.

Family-Owned Manufacturing/Construction Company Amanda / Controller

I have very successfully utilized The Overture Group’s services in the past and continue to work with them today in search of quality personnel. I am more than impressed with their drive and desire to find our organization the right fit to fill a position. They really go to work with our best interest in mind.

Peoples Trust & Savings Bank Mike Segner / President & CEO

• Client interview

• Needs assessment

• Job description, development, success profile

• Salary benchmarking

• Strategy meeting

• Direct research

• Develop target list

• Position marketing, networking/posting

• Phone screen

• Develop interview list

• Initial candidate assessment

• Candidate development

• Candidate slate presentation to client

• Client interview process

• Background check

• Leadership assessment (optional)

• Offer strategy

• On-boarding

• Client/candidate follow-up

Visit theoverturegroup.com, or contact one of our executives, to learn how you can be

Hiring on all cylinders

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550 Warrenville Rd. Suite 210 Lisle, IL 60532 630.352.4029

PO Box 1285 Cedar Rapids, IA 52406 319.360.9134