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Special Situations
We start from the situation a company is in, not the industry it operates in.
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Executive Search is at the heart of what we do, complemented by Leadership Assessment and Career and Leadership Development.
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Articles and publications on leadership in transformation, restructuring and private equity.
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Our partners have held senior roles in corporates, private equity and management consulting themselves.
Millions for people analytics, AI and HR software, yet the data is wrong. Why psychological safety is the foundation for reliable data.
Psychological safety isn’t a wellness programme. It’s your IT infrastructure Read More »
25+ years of C-level search: why home office is no philosophical question for PE partners and boards, but a question of protecting assets.
If all you control is attendance, you’re not running a company, you’re curating a museum Read More »
Strategy, capital, AI and data are there. What private equity lacks are people who turn them into results: personalities rather than perfect CVs.
Private equity doesn’t need perfect CVs. It needs people with character Read More »
Structured interviews and evaluation matrices, yet doubt remains. Why top appointments fail without a conversation at eye level.
I recently sat down with a CEO candidate after a final interview.Profile, experience and motivation all fitted. Yet he was hesitant. He said, calmly:“I’ve had three conversations and heard three different priorities. I still don’t know what this role really stands for.” The advisory board talked about profitability.The CEO about culture.Another stakeholder about possible portfolio
CEOs don’t walk away because of the salary. They walk away when the board isn’t aligned Read More »
Access blocked, company phone silent: why an executive’s market value is decided in the first 72 hours after being released from duty.
Your market value is decided in the 72 hours after you’re placed on garden leave Read More »
Europe’s defence spending reached around €381 billion in 2025. Why the bottleneck in the defence boom sits in leadership and not in the plant.
The bottleneck in the defence boom sits on the board, not in the plant Read More »
Scaling at any price is often just expensive vanity. An honest look back at a phase at TALENTspy when everything was geared towards growth.
Not all growth follows a strategy. Some of it follows ego Read More »
Repositioning, performance pressure, a well-written COO profile. Why the transformation can still fail at the job description stage.
When a transformation fails before it starts: at the job description Read More »
A company in repositioning is looking for a CEO, but the process drags on. Why speed in the appointment process is a leadership signal.
Speed is a leadership signal Read More »
Mit dreifacher internationaler Vorstandserfahrung, unter anderem für die IKEA Group, Vorwerk International und die Peek & Cloppenburg Gruppe, blickt Melanie Kleemann auf eine umfassende Karriere entlang der gesamten Value Chain zurück. Ihr Herzstück und ihre Leidenschaft lagen dabei seit jeher in den Bereichen kommerzielles Wachstum sowie (digitale) Transformation.
Ihre internationale Führungskompetenz wurde maßgeblich durch globale Rollen und mehrjährige Auslandsaufenthalte in Schweden und der Schweiz geprägt.
Melanie ist Partner bei TALENTspy und verantwortet die Bereiche Commercial Excellence, Consumer&Retail, Private Equity. Mit feinem Gespür für Markt-Dynamiken und exklusivem Zugang zu Spitzenkräften unterstützt sie Corporate-Entscheider, Private-Equity-Investoren, Gesellschafter und Aufsichtsräte dabei, kritische Schlüsselpositionen diskret, treffsicher und mit nachhaltigem Wertzuwachs zu besetzen.
