Your Career Deserves More Than a Resume.
I'm Maggie Walton. I work quietly with senior leaders navigating their next move, developing the documents, positioning, and career strategy needed to present their experience with clarity, credibility, and executive-level impact.
A Note From Maggie
I take the time to understand your career journey, your achievements, and what you're actually trying to do next. Every document I develop is built around you, your experience, and the opportunities you want to pursue, not a template with your name on it.
How We Work Together
Three ways I partner with senior leaders.
The Board Dossier
For directors, board candidates, Chairs, and senior leaders pursuing governance opportunities.
- Board CV
- Executive biography
- Board value proposition
- Governance positioning
- Leadership narrative
- Board-ready professional presentation
Board materials must communicate not only what a leader has accomplished, but what perspective, expertise, judgment, and value they bring to the boardroom.
The C-Suite Portfolio
For sitting and aspiring C-Suite leaders.
- Executive Resume
- Executive Career Portfolio
- LinkedIn Profile
- Executive Biography
- Cover Materials
- Leadership Positioning
- Career Strategy
Executive materials should communicate leadership scale, business impact, strategic contribution, transformation, and measurable achievements.
One-on-One Executive Advisory
For high-stakes career transitions where strategic thinking, interview preparation, positioning, and negotiation matter.
- Interview Preparation
- Executive Positioning
- Career Strategy
- Offer Negotiation
- Search Firm Outreach
- Job Search Advisory
- Career Transition Support
Advisory engagements are private and tailored to the individual's circumstances.
About Maggie
A former search consultant who writes for the room she used to sit in.
I spent years inside executive search, reading senior-level candidate materials and watching how boards, search firms, and leadership teams actually evaluate the people in front of them. That view changes how you write.
Excellent professionals are overlooked every day — not because the experience isn't there, but because it has been documented without strategic positioning. This practice exists to close that gap.
I work with clients personally and keep a deliberately limited roster, which is the only way this standard of writing holds up.
- Confidentiality
- Personal attention
- Executive-level standards
- Strategic positioning
- Leadership impact
- Career progression
- Strategic value
- Business achievements
- Professional differentiation
- Executive presence
- Future potential
Professional positioning, documented properly.
Engagements can be a single document or a complete career branding portfolio. Everything is developed individually.
Executive Resume Writing
Strategically developed resumes for executives and senior professionals, emphasizing leadership, measurable achievements, career progression, business impact, and professional positioning.
Professional Resume Development
ATS-conscious, professionally written resumes designed to communicate experience clearly while remaining readable and compelling to human decision-makers.
LinkedIn Profile Optimization
Professional LinkedIn positioning including headline, About section, experience, skills, and overall profile messaging.
Executive Career Branding
A complete professional positioning strategy that establishes a clear, consistent leadership brand across resumes, LinkedIn, biographies, and other professional materials.
Cover Letters & Executive Letters
Targeted professional correspondence aligned with specific roles, organizations, industries, and career objectives.
Executive Biography
Professional biographies for leadership profiles, company websites, speaking engagements, board opportunities, proposals, and professional introductions.
Career Strategy & Advisory
One-on-one guidance for professionals navigating transitions, advancement, job searches, leadership opportunities, or a change in professional direction.
Interview Preparation
Strategic preparation focused on communicating leadership experience, achievements, career narrative, executive presence, and value proposition.
Job Search Support
Strategic assistance with positioning, opportunity targeting, application materials, and professional presentation throughout the search process.
Why professionals choose Maggie Walton
Personalized Approach
Every engagement is developed around the individual's experience, career objectives, industry, and target opportunity.
Strategic Positioning
The goal is not simply to list responsibilities. The materials communicate professional value, leadership capability, achievements, and relevance.
Executive-Level Presentation
Documents reflect the level at which you are operating and the opportunities you are pursuing.
ATS-Conscious Formatting
Documents are structured for readability and compatibility with modern applicant tracking systems without sacrificing professional presentation.
Human-Centered Writing
Professional documents sound authentic, credible, and specific to the individual rather than generic or templated.
Confidentiality
Client information, career history, documents, and personal information are handled professionally and confidentially.
How it works
Consultation
We begin by understanding your professional background, career objectives, target opportunities, challenges, and what you want your next career move to achieve.
Career Assessment
Your existing resume, LinkedIn profile, career history, achievements, and professional materials are reviewed to identify strengths, gaps, and positioning opportunities.
Strategic Positioning
Your professional story is organized around the experience, leadership strengths, achievements, and value proposition most relevant to your career direction.
Development
Your selected documents are professionally developed and tailored to your objectives, industry, seniority, and target opportunities.
Review & Refinement
You review the completed materials and provide feedback. Revisions are made so the final documents accurately represent your experience and positioning.
The materials a senior search actually requires.
Executive Resume
Professional Resume
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
LinkedIn Profile
Executive Biography
Cover Letter
Career Portfolio
Leadership Profile
Professional Bio
Job Search Materials
Interview Preparation Materials
Layout illustrations only — no client documents are displayed.
Your resume is more than a record of your career.
A resume is a decision-making document. Someone with limited time uses it to judge whether your experience is relevant to a problem they are trying to solve. A record of responsibilities rarely answers that question. Positioning does.
- What you have accomplished
- What problems you solve
- What leadership you bring
- What value you create
- What makes you different
- What roles you are positioned for
- Why an employer should continue the conversation
Built for today's hiring environment.
Most applications pass through an applicant tracking system before a person reads them. Documents are developed to be parsed cleanly by that software and to read well for the recruiter or hiring manager who opens them next.
- Keyword alignment
- Job title relevance
- Skills alignment
- Resume structure
- Formatting
- Readability
- Career progression
- Quantified achievements
- Leadership impact
- Professional positioning
- Contact information accuracy
- Grammar and consistency
A resume does not get you the role. Clear positioning gets you considered — and being considered is where every senior appointment begins.
In Their Own Words
Client work and feedback are confidential. Testimonials appear here only where a client has given written permission to publish.
Verified client feedback will be published here as permissions are granted.
No testimonials are published without client permission
A Small Number of Clients at a Time
I accept a limited number of engagements so that every document is developed personally, with the attention senior-level work requires. If the fit is right, we begin with a private conversation.
Request a ConsultationThe standards behind every engagement.
Personalized Service
Every engagement is built around one individual's experience, objectives, and target opportunities.
Confidentiality
Career history, documents, and personal information are handled professionally and privately.
Strategic Positioning
Materials communicate professional value and leadership capability, not a list of duties.
Professional Presentation
Typography, structure, and layout reflect the level at which you are operating.
ATS-Conscious Development
Documents are structured for readability by both applicant tracking systems and people.
Executive-Level Documentation
Resumes, biographies, and profiles written to the standard senior appointments expect.
Career-Focused Advisory
Guidance on positioning, targeting, and presentation throughout your search.
Human-Centered Writing
Every document is written by hand — specific to you, never templated or auto-generated.
Let's build your next professional chapter.
Tell me where you are in your career and what you are aiming for. The first conversation is confidential and carries no obligation.
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