We advise you and work with you throughout the whole search process and beyond. We make use of our many years of expertise and industry know-how to identify and recruit top management candidates for all levels, right up to the board of directors and advisory board. We keep your company’s sustainable success at the heart of our teamwork:

• We advise you in defining the specialist capabilities and soft skills necessary for the leadership position you’re offering, so that you can hold your own as a company in today’s market.
• We develop tailormade search profiles which appeal to and attract candidates who are ideally suited to your requirements
• We advise you on strategic areas such as cultural change in your company, so that we can work together with you to develop appropriate interdisciplinary management approaches or support succession planning
• We assist and work with you to build and structure a strong leadership team which will chart the right course for your company’s future
• We help you develop a progressive and sustainable HR strategy to secure future-orientated human resource planning at all management levels

This is how we act as your reliable “market barometer” as well as your trustworthy ambassador when it comes to dealing with top level executives.

To secure the long-term progress of your company, we identify leadership personalities for you which will help shape your company culture and use motivation, courage, energy and responsibility to initiate any changes. With this focus in mind, here’s how we organize our work:

• Assignments are supervised by our senior consultants throughout the whole search process and beyond, to guarantee successful teamwork
• Our local boutique approach is combined with our robust worldwide network, which we can use to calibrate our search assignment if required
• Key positions at all management levels are occupied within the agreed time frames
• Suitable candidates for your assignment are evaluated and shortlisted, and the relevant profiles are prepared ready for your decision in combination with the underlying background checks
• Our experienced senior consultants have excellent network connections and they act as market barometers and trustworthy ambassadors for your company, alongside your future top executives
• We prepare, coordinate and follow up the negotiations between you and your potential candidates
• We support and moderate salary and contract models between you and your preferred candidates
• We closely monitor and coordinate all parties during the critical transition period
• We support your new leaders during their integration into your company and mentor them for their first twelve months

In short, we don’t just define our relationship with you in terms of search assignments. We consider trust, the utmost discretion, and long-term cooperation to be at the heart of our business – and your continued success is our continued success.

Our assignments show that we’re respected all over the world for successful recruitment to all leadership positions right up to boards of directors and supervisory boards. This is reflected in the rapid growth of our Executive Search area. In the year 2021, Forbes magazine named us one of “America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms” for the fifth successive year. Here’s our recipe for success:

• Our focus is on the passive candidate market: virtually all the executives we put forward were not actively looking for a new job before we contacted them.
• We don’t leave anything to chance: every assignment is monitored exclusively by our experienced senior consultants, who apply their in-depth specialist knowledge and robust network access to your assignment.
• We’re in a position to find ideally suited leaders for you using a timeline and milestones agreed with you, often in less than 90 days.
• Entrepreneurial thinking and acting are part of our DNA, and your continued success is our success.
• We’re 100 per cent results-orientated and we’re continually striving to improve for you. That’s why we continually scrutinize and optimize the processes we use - so that we can succeed for you.
• We work together with you to develop sustainable solutions for your company and put them into practice, from strategic planning and orientation of your leadership team through to follow-up planning.
• We see ourselves as your long-term equal partners who work with you and guide you, your leadership team and your candidates throughout the whole search process and beyond.

We’re proud of our results in recruiting business-critical leadership positions for our assignments, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. Through our many years’ experience in this sector we’re very familiar with the challenges companies face, whether they’re publicly listed or in private, family, or private equity ownership.

We’ve now successfully filled more than 2,500 key positions at management level, in specialist fields and industries all over the world.