Special Situations
Wir kommen nicht über eine Branche, sondern über die Situation, in der ein Unternehmen steht.
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Executive Search bleibt unser Kern, ergänzt um Leadership Assessment sowie Karriere und Leadership Development.
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Beiträge und Publikationen zu Führung in Transformation, Restrukturierung und Private Equity.
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Unsere Partner waren selbst in leitenden Positionen in Corporate, Private Equity und Management Consulting tätig.
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.
A CEO in a tough transformation says: we just need the right CFO. What he meant was stability and trust. Why the search shows leadership maturity.
The executive search process mirrors a company’s leadership maturity Read More »
As an entrepreneur, you’re always on. Work and life merge. You travel, work on holiday and answer emails on a Sunday. For you, that’s freedom. For your team, it’s a job. And yes, I expect more from my team than the bare minimum. What gets to me?Needing important information on a Sunday and getting no
Nine to five doesn’t fit entrepreneurship Read More »
In the sale process the buyer asks one question: do I trust this team to deliver the plan? Why an exit stands or falls with the management.
Your exit stands or falls with your management Read More »
In a private equity turnaround only impact counts, no long analyses or alignment rounds. Why a new CRO has to deliver results from week one.
Private equity turnarounds: results, not talk about potential Read More »
Top grades, a Big Four logo, the best references, but no interest in the task. Why we hire character that creates value, not careers.
We don’t hire careers. We hire character that creates value, or no one at all Read More »
At the start I wanted to take on every project and keep every door open. Why that was my biggest mistake as a founder, and how focus brought the passion back.
Lunch with a view of the Odeonsplatz? Far from it. What a search consultant’s working day really looks like, starting at 4 in the morning.
In almost every turnaround there are two roles with the same titles: managers and doers. When liquidity only lasts days, the difference shows.
Managers polish slides, doers save cash Read More »
Big titles, international meetings, full calendars: the moment it became clear that success looks different from classic career success.
The moment my idea of success changed Read More »
CFO in a carve-out, CEO in a transformation: top candidates have no time, no patience and no appetite for rigid processes. That is where many searches break.
Top candidates are short on 3 things: time, patience and tolerance for rigid processes 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.
