The Katris Group partners with Fortune 500® clients to link leadership, culture, and shareholder value.
CONSULTING & ADVISORY SERVICES
The Katris Group specializes in board governance consulting and provides high-touch search, talent management, and board bootcamps to America’s most respected companies through three services—Board Director Search, BoardLink℠, and OnBoard℠.
By developing a deep understanding of our clients’ governance and leadership goals, corporate strategy, and culture, our services enhance our clients’ ability to retain, develop, and recruit world-class leaders.
In addition to traditional board search, BoardLink℠ is a reverse-engineered board search by which Fortune 500® corporate boards retain us to proactively seek director opportunities for their most accomplished executives. In today’s dynamic business and governance environment, securing an appropriate outside board on which to serve is often attained in a random and inefficient manner that distracts executives from running their businesses. The resulting board opportunity enhances retention, professional development, succession, and value for stakeholders and shareholders.
OnBoard℠ is an immersive two-day professional development program offered in partnership with SellersEaston Media Co-CEO Pattie Sellers for Fortune 500® companies and their star and emerging-star leaders. Pattie co-founded SellersEaston Media following a successful career with Fortune Magazine where she created Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women rankings, co-founded, and chaired the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit through 2020, and oversaw the Fortune U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Program Partnership and the Goldman Sachs-Fortune Global Women Leaders Award.
Services
board director SEARCH
We recruit highly accomplished leaders to serve on America’s corporate boards. Based on a thorough analysis of the current and desired board composition, a skills matrix is created for director succession and board refreshment planning. By defining the specific industry and functional expertise that aligns with the company strategy, we recruit current and future leaders with a laser-focus on enhancing culture and shareholder value.
boardlink℠
BoardLink℠ is a proprietary reverse-engineered board search. We are retained by Fortune 500® corporate boards to proactively seek director opportunities for their most accomplished executives. Through BoardLink℠, we act as an agent for executives on their boards’ behalf to identify and secure invitations to corporate boards utilizing a deliberate and strategic process. The resulting board opportunity augments retention, professional development, succession, and stakeholder and shareholder value.
OnBoard℠
OnBoard℠ is a curated program that demystifies the opaque governance landscape and imparts a deep understanding of the responsibilities, structure, and mechanics of corporate board service. Through interactive workshops participants develop their brand, go-to-market collateral, and strategic and tactical methodologies to identify and secure board directorships. The strategic roadmap against which participants execute heightens market visibility thereby increasing the probability of joining a board that is professionally enriching and adds value to their companies.
Stephanie Katris
Stephanie has more than 30 years’ experience building and growing innovative businesses in consulting, technology, and legal and financial services. She has a successful track record of advising companies from start-ups to Fortune 1000® companies.
She founded The Katris Group in 2015 after establishing the Board of Directors practice at a boutique executive search firm. She began her career with Heidrick & Struggles prior to being recruited to Citadel LLC, one of the world’s largest and most successful alternative asset managers. Partnering with Citadel founder Ken Griffin, Stephanie developed the firm’s first talent management, recruiting, and compensation strategies resulting in exponential global growth across the enterprise for its stakeholders and shareholders.
After Citadel, Stephanie joined VISANOW as one of its first C-suite executives. VISANOW is an employment-based immigration services provider that combines legal expertise and proprietary technology. She established and led recruiting and built the human capital and administrative infrastructure for the company—the only enterprise platform that eliminates the friction and offers companies a transparent, seamless, elegant solution for hiring and managing highly skilled global workforces. VISANOW was acquired by General Catalyst Partners and was rebranded Envoy Global.
Stephanie earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and a JD from Northern Illinois College of Law. She serves as a Faculty Member of World 50’s Next Director Program.
SELECTIVE
We are highly-selective and accept a limited number of engagements ensuring collaborative partnership with our clients. Led by Stephanie Katris with the support of specialized research professionals, mission-critical strategy and execution is not delegated resulting in high-touch client service, successful outcomes, and long-term client relationships and repeat engagements.
custom
We customize solutions to address corporate America’s increasingly complex and dynamic leadership and governance challenges. We don’t accept concurrent engagements in the same industry and The Katris Group clients do not compete for the same talent or target company universe. Until an engagement comes to a successful conclusion we will not work with our clients’ competitors.
results
We gain a thorough understanding of our clients’ leadership and governance needs. Based on each client’s unique criteria, we recruit the best leaders of today and the future. Based on relationships in Fortune 1000™ boards and C-Suites, we provide our clients with outstanding leadership and board of director solutions that result in enhanced stakeholder and shareholder value.
