Our mission is to find perfectly polished executives.

Finding suitable executives is one of the greatest challenges for any company.

This is especially true today, in the light of digital transformation and the far-reaching changes we are facing across the globe. Besides finding the best-qualified professional, it is more important than ever to find an individual whose personality also fits the position in question. Due to our outstanding expertise, we support you in your strategic personnel decisions. Operating on a national and international scale, we help find executives to fill C-level, management, supervisory or advisory board positions with a long-term commitment.

Among our clients are many family-owned businesses, including numerous hidden champions, as well as global subsidiaries. Our key strengths are a transparent approach, a carefully curated portfolio of high-caliber candidates, and a trained eye for the people who can make a big difference.

What are the challenges you currently face in terms of personnel and human resource planning?

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Measurable success is what sets us apart.

Shining with all-round expertise.

Brilliant at | Executive Search

Leadership has never been more important than today, in these current times of digital transformation and global change. Excellent leaders with an agile mindset are willing to adapt and unite their teams behind a common goal. They are our hidden treasures.

To unearth them, we require an accurate picture of your company, the tasks at hand, and your corporate culture. We then commence our treasure hunt to find exactly the right candidate for you. Our high-quality standards and complex processes mean that we will work solely and exclusively for you. From start to finish, you can rely on openness and absolute discretion.

Brilliant at | Corporate Succession

Corporate succession is a complex affair. It is often a highly emotional process that can harbor hidden tensions. Understandably, company founders can find it difficult to hand the product of their years of labor over to the younger generation. After all, they have made the company what it is today.

Time delays and diverging visions concerning future strategies can place enormous strain on corporate succession. An experienced partner can smooth the process considerably and help achieve agreement. You can therefore rely on our experience during this time of transition. We have the foresight and finesse to help you find someone with whom you feel comfortable, leaving you to confidently step back and enjoy the freedom you deserve.

To complement our own areas of expertise, our selected network of partners can offer the following equally valuable services:

Brilliant at | Management Audit

As a qualified partner, we help you tap into the existing potentials within your company. Personnel decisions at management level are communicated in comprehensible terms. To this end, a transparent selection process with criteria such as professional skills, personality traits, and psychometric factors, build the foundation.

Whatever the outcome, everyone involved will personally benefit from the audit. In addition to your intuition, you will gain a clear idea from a company perspective of the best candidate for the job and why. Moreover, audit participants generally appreciate the transparency and honest feedback from external experts. This is usually more readily accepted than an internal assessment, and development potentials are easier to identify.

Brilliant at | Hogan Assessment^®

Personality is the deciding factor in executive roles. But which character traits enable us to predict how candidates will prove themselves in their intended role?

Using the established Hogan Assessment^®, we offer you a valid diagnostic tool that delivers answers to fundamental questions: What drives the management candidate? How willing is the candidate to achieve? How will the candidate perform in stressful situations? And, most importantly: Does the candidate’s values match those of your company? The special feature of the Hogan personality assessment (besides the high level of validity) is that external perception, i.e., the reputation of an individual, is considered. Specifically: How is an executive perceived by superiors, colleagues, customers, etc. in different situations? The Hogan Assessment^® is an invaluable tool with which we make a scientifically valid decision.

Brilliant at | Executive Coaching and Mediation

Leadership skills do not fall from the sky. Even experienced managers must first acclimatize to new constellations.

With 25 years’ experience of leading as an entrepreneur (more than 200 employees), underpinned by many years in top executive coaching, Ms Tiba-Ehlers can help you discover and develop your own leadership style. With her support, you can uncover your personal assets and remove any obstacles. You will thus gain new freedom to flex your skills and charm.

Our specialties are, among others, authentic leadership, mindful leadership, stress management, and handling and solving conflicts.

Brilliant at | Personnel and Organisation Development

With our partner for personnel and organisational development we support companies during structural and organisational changes.

In over 25 years of top management, Dr. Schmechta has been able to experience again and again that employees who can do more and achieve more than is actually expected of them are the real drivers and the most important asset of every company. That’s why he developed the “Footstep Management Concept” to precisely identify these talents both within and outside the company, to develop them in a qualified manner and to bind them sustainably. Thus, we always make our customers the “employer of choice”: THE attractive and sought-after employer in the competition for the best talent and specialists.

Personnel & Organization Footstep Management​ is a process-oriented management approach in human resources and organization to optimize processes and structures along the employee life cycle. It is focused on the identification, development and leverage of top-notch talent and efficient teams within the organization.

• We analyze your HR & organizational challenges.
• We prepare you for upcoming changes.
• We will implement the necessary measures with you.
• We accompany you in sustainably realizing your goals.

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Our areas of expertise.

We have in-depth knowledge of the markets and demands for personnel in the following industries. Placements here range from sales and marketing, operations, and R&D to finance and controlling, and management/executive board, advisory board… and many more besides.

What sets us apart.

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