Ethos is a one-of-a-kind partnership between Nolan Partners, Excel Sports Management, and Deutser. We combine Deutser’s market-leading organizational culture, performance, and leadership solutions with Nolan Partners’ sports and entertainment executive search capabilities to provide teams, leagues, and organizations the tools to build high-performing, championship cultures from the inside out.
Ethos
Leadership
Consulting
We are experts in guiding leaders through transition. We understand, protect, and evolve their most important asset and investment — their people. Our team of management consultants, executive search experts, leadership coaches, and social scientists works directly with leadership to address an organization’s most complex and challenging issues related to team alignment and performance. We are a trusted partner to leaders to manage the transformation every step of the way — from a robust understanding of where their team is today, to where it can go tomorrow. We design distinct approaches for each client, developing solutions rooted in their unique organizational culture.
Ethos
Culture
Advisory
Culture wins championships. We help protect the best of your existing culture and evolve the rest with intention. We’ll show you how to articulate it in a way that is unique to your organization and empower your people to own it and keep it alive and well. We infuse identity into every aspect of the organization — from performance management to physical spaces.
Mentoring
& Coaching
We develop and mentor executives at every stage in their journey. In working with leaders from all different backgrounds, industries, and stages in life, we have found coaching and personal development to be the most transformational ingredients to positive change and growth. Our unique approach blends data-driven learnings with bespoke pathways for each leader to grow.
Succession
Planning
Our succession planning experts and facilitators create space for critical conversations, and get your organization moving forward and thriving. We work with leaders step-by-step to manage every aspect of transition, while preserving the best of the organization’s culture and preparing for the future.
Strategic
Planning
We’ll help you map your plan to a granular level, always including a process to think through how to bring the plan to life — and action. Through scenario and strategic planning sessions, our team will help you workshop solutions and new ideas, so you’ll capitalize on current and future sustained success.
Who we work with
Org
Behavior
Competencies ensure alignment around organizational culture — what is expected daily of leaders, teams, and future team members. We help organizations define competencies and behavioral expectations at every level of the organization, creating performance management and hiring models to sustain a culture of performance.
Culture Audits
& Architecture
Our team of social scientists work with teams to uncover a robust understanding of organizational health and performance through a combination of proprietary quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews.
Mission, Vision,
Value
We help teams define who they are and what they believe. Our workshops get to the heart of issues and opportunities through unfiltered, challenging conversations, and real results. We take teams through immersive experiences to define elements of organizational identity and reach alignment.
360
Reviews
Our unique, in-depth approach to 360 reviews combines proprietary quantitative and qualitative measures with expert facilitation to provide a robust and customizable approach for any leadership team.
Influential
Environments
Physical space informs our experience, influencing how we think, act, and interact. It has the power to tether us to an organization’s identity and creates meaningful bonds. We leverage space design to infuse culture throughout every aspect of a team’s daily experience to improve culture and productivity.
Leadership
Retreats
We provide bespoke leadership retreats for any size team. Our transformative experiences are crafted to guide leaders on journeys of growth, self-discovery, and team-building.
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NOLAN PARTNERS IS A DIVISION OF EXCEL SPORTS MANAGEMENT
Excel Sports Management is an industry-leading, full-service sports management and marketing agency representing iconic sports and entertainment talent, marquee brands and world-class sports properties across a spectrum of integrated services.
The Nolan Partners team leverages Excel’s access and relationships across the industry for key leadership searches, to help identify and validate top executive talent based on actual working experiences. This level of reference checking significantly reduces hiring risk while equally maximizing the hiring upside.
