The leadership challenges of an organization in trouble, or a healthy, strong growing company, or an entrepreneurial start-up are fundamentally different.
We help you to identify, engage, and attract executives with the experience, competencies, and personality according to your challenge.
Our strength is to analyse organisational structures and review the competencies of Boards to address social, governance, and environmental questions to ensure compliance. |
OUR SERVICES
Talent Attraction & Engagement
EXECUTIVE SEARCH We support your recruitment journey and help your organization to identify, engage, and attract truly excellent people with the experience, competencies, and personality according to your business strategy and culture. Here we unlock hidden passive talents on a regional and international level as well as expatriates across the globe.
We seek to understand each client’s strategic goals, the specific leadership roles and competencies needed to meet those goals, and the culture that new executives need to embody.
Throughout we serve as trusted advisor managing our client's and candidate's expectations through a transparent and reliable communication. |
Organisational Analysis
MARKET INTELLIGENCE & TALENT MAPPING Market leading businesses are increasingly requesting detailed market intelligence to either support a current search or to understand the industry landscape as a foundation for a future recruiting need. This service analyze the organizational structures of key companies of interest providing a clear view of the talent available across a particular location, industry, function or product line. This service provides you with:
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Competence Analysis
BOARD REVIEW & ANALYSIS We support Non-Executive Directors with competency based analysis of its own Board to determine and accelerate its journey to:
for a better performance in supporting the CEO and executive management. |
Finding, Engaging, and Retaining the right people is the biggest differentiator today in a successful business.
We collaborate across all sectors and functions with a truly global network of professional and experienced advisors.
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OUR ADVISORS
We put at your service a network of experienced advisors, and experts in their fields in business locations in Europe and North America.
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Advisor for Executive Search,
Board & Organizational Analysis Jacqueline Jakob Alcanada · Chicago · Munich |
Advisor for Executive Learning &
Leadership Development Wendi Barlow Geneva · Chicago |
Advisor for Compensation & Rewards, Employment Law & Worker's Council
Brenda Hecktheuer Berlin · Munich |
Jacquelines areas of focus:
Functions: General Management Human Resources Operation Management Research & Development Sales & Marketing Strategy Industries: Consumer Financial Services Health Industrial Management Consulting Technology & Communication |
Whatever the scale, from my largest to my most focused mandate, I take nothing for granted.
I consider each search as a unique challenge, providing exceptional solutions for my clients with focus on long-term success. I’m energized by being a connector of people to people, and people to organizations. |
Jacqueline brings in more than two decades of experience in Executive Search and Management Consulting on C-Level & Board Level and upper management. Jacqueline is deeply experienced in the industrial sector with focus on robotics & automation, automotive & mobility, engineering & machinery as well as professional consulting services.
Formerly as Global Knowledge Manager at Egon Zehnder she was responsible for the solution of ambitious and demanding Search Mandates as well as Board Reviews. Jacqueline was also entrusted with global Talent Management Service and major global key account management.
Before Executive Search, she served as Knowledge Manager clients in the Engineering & Machinery sector with the world’s first management consultancy, Arthur D. Little, founded in 1886. She started her career in Consulting as Project Manager for the Automotive and Financial Services Practice with the Fortune global 500 and public listed company, Accenture.
Jacqueline earned her degree in Business Administration with focus on Organization and Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences Munich, and a degree in HR from the Chamber of Industry & Commerce. In addition she pursues her learning journey with leadership services at the Northwestern University of Chicago.
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LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS
The core leadership skills
Contributed by Center for Creative Leadership The "Fundamental 4" Competencies for Leaders
Leaders at different levels of the organization face different challenges. Whether you’re an individual contributor, a first-time manager, a senior executive, or somewhere in between, there are 4 leadership skills you need to learn and master. |
Building commitment and getting results
Contributed by Center for Creative Leadership Influencing: The skill of persuasion
Influencing others down, up, and across in the organization is a critical leadership skill at all levels of the organization. By convincing or persuading others, a leader can create direction, alignment, and commitment and make his or her vision or ideas happen. |
White paper
Contributed by Center for Creative Leadership Unlocking Your Leadership Potential
Do you feel pressure from above and blame from below? How do you cope with feeling pulled in every direction? Do you have the skills, competencies, and perspectives needed to lead effectively and advance your career? |