CRITICAL COMPETENCIES FOR SUCCESS

• Strategic Agility: This individual must be intellectually sharp and clearly capable of thinking on his/her feet while demonstrating outstanding business judgment. The Chief Executive Officer will possess the analytical skills to drive enhanced business practices for the organization, ensuring high levels of productivity and elevate the company’s portfolio and processes as points of differentiation in the marketplace.

• Results-Oriented: The Chief Executive Officer must be performance-driven and able to provide measurable results in a proactive manner. The ability to navigate and help fuel year-over-year growth is critical to success. The successful candidate will be resourceful, action-oriented, and possess a proactive sense of urgency and the ability to overcome obstacles to produce results in a timely fashion. Achieving these goals while working in a collaborative environment will require the political savvy to know when to push for action and when to step back to build consensus.

• Communication: This individual will possess very strong communication and persuasion skills, truly partnering with the executive leadership team. He or she should be comfortable, articulate, and dynamic in front of both external and internal audiences. She/he will be direct, candid and possess strong conflict resolution skills. This individual will be able to take analytical data and convert and convey the information.

• Perspective: This individual will provide a worldly perspective of macro and industry influences to assist in guiding the company in new directions. He/she will provide perspective coming in from outside the organization to aid in the collective leadership team’s understanding and acceptance of trends, insights, changing business perspective and management strategies. This keen perspective should be presented with patience and guidance rather than authoritative.