What we do
Accelerate
team performance.
Build the team. Hire the right people.
Symphony Advantage helps leadership teams perform with clarity, trust, and shared purpose, and helps companies hire people who fit, perform, and stay. The Birkman Method® is the instrument that makes both work.
Steve Cornwell, Co-Founder and President of Symphony Advantage, leads this work.
The Birkman Method®
The Birkman Method® is a gold-standard behavioral assessment. In Steve's hands it becomes the practical tool that surfaces what a leader, a team, or an individual contributor needs in order to do their best work.
Leadership Development. Helping leaders increase self-awareness, see blind spots, and tailor their leadership style for greater impact. Coaching blends Birkman insights with executive judgment to align personal growth with business outcomes.
Team Effectiveness. Building trust, alignment, and clarity across leadership teams. Through structured learning journeys, teams move toward shared purpose, stronger decision-making, and higher-quality collaboration.
Talent Development. Personalized coaching rooted in behavioral data. People recognize their motivators, navigate their blind spots, and accelerate their development with insight that lasts.
Recruiting
We use the Hire Right, Now® Method to support the full recruiting lifecycle.
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Job scorecards designed for the role you actually need to fill
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Structured interviews that test for fit, drive, and staying power, not just skill
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Internal candidate review and assessment where appropriate
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Offer negotiation, onboarding design, and 90-day coaching.
The aim is not to fill a seat. The aim is to bring in a person who performs, stays, and strengthens the team they join.
Two reasons. The first is Birkman. The Method gives behavior, motivation, and stress patterns a vocabulary you can work with, instead of guessing your way through team dynamics or hiring decisions. The second is Steve. He has been doing this work for more than twenty years, with thousands of hires and hundreds of leadership teams behind him.
Together, they let companies move from intuitive people decisions to grounded ones, without losing the human judgment that makes hiring and team-building work.