Executive Compass is an associated group of highly-experienced, like-minded career professionals who share an enthusiasm for people and their professional transformations. We are a senior-level executive career guidance group located in Dallas, Texas.  You can feel secure knowing that you will work with the most knowledgeable, skilled, and practiced professionals.

Executive Compass is one of a few professional groups to recognize the client's knowledge and ability and "represents a way of doing business that places the person first."

We're unique because we allow you to choose the best path for you. We surround you with your own personal success team. Only Executive Compass encourages and allows you to make transitions from your Executive Compass group to an individual session with an Executive Compass professional whose expertise might better suit your challenge of the moment. You simply won't find that freedom, or that power for change, anywhere else.

PRINCIPALS
tom englander

 “I see the forest AND the trees”

Tom is a “big picture” guy who knows how to come up with creative ideas and then translate these into operational processes that balance achieving results with a concern for people.  He is equally comfortable and effective in the boardroom, on the shop floor or in conversations with clients.

Currently, Tom is President of Executive Smarts, LLC an executive search and interim management firm.  His successful business experiences span several industries (Outplacement, Organizational Consulting, Construction, Medical Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Goods) as well as multiple functions (Strategy, Corporate Leadership, IT Implementations, Finance, Human Resources and Career Consulting/Coaching). 

As Senior Vice President for Right Management Consultants, Tom worked with hundreds of executives and managers helping them plan for then achieve their next career step.  For fifteen years prior to that, he worked with thousands of professionals and executives, helping them make and execute career choices.

Tom holds a Masters in Management Science from UT-Dallas in Finance and Strategic Planning, an MBA from TCU (Ft Worth) and a Bachelor’s of Science in Applied Math from the University of Washington (Seattle).  He is recipient of the first Helen Harkness Award for professional excellence awarded by the International Association of Career Management Professionals.

Tom is known as a change leader, not merely a change agent.  “What’s right is more important than who’s right.”

JIM STEWART

“Helping Executives Find Meaningful Roles in the Economy”

Jim Stewart is a serial networker and entrepreneur.  He speaks to a wider variety of groups and associations focused on effective networking and career management.  Jim has met with thousands of senior level, in-transition executives building effective networking “hubs” and understanding why executives lose their career direction. 

A consistent message from in-transition executives is that the skills to find a job or different from the skills to perform a job.  The solution is knowable and within reach of every executive.  The answer resides in a well thought out written career plan and identifying their differentiation and positioning for the target audience.  Executives must have a personal peer-to-peer advisory board to help build effective networks and provide critical feedback on direction and plan execution.

Prior to founding Executive Compass (a firm that assists in-transition senior-level executives) and Executive Smarts (an interim executive and executive search firm) Jim served as CEO for durable goods manufacturing companies in the automotive, appliance, and building products industries.  He led multiple acquisition, integration and divestiture teams for private equity, holding companies and mezzanine investors.  He provided leadership in international business development, built and operated manufacturing plants, managed ventures and business relationships across wide geography with “Fortune 1000” companies.

More recently, Jim has focused on talent acquisition (both interim executives and executive search) for companies that needed help in restructuring, diversifying their operations or improving their competitiveness.  Jim founded Process Executives to provide Baldrige, Shingo and Six Sigma operating improvement consulting.

Jim is a graduate of Texas A&M University and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Executive Management Program.

What makes Jim unique is his insatiable quest to make the work search process easier for people.

“Be prepared at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become”.