Empower your strategy delivery
Our purpose is to elevate HR as a business-critical function. A robust people and organisational function is vital for organisational success.
At its core, HR is about building people and organisational capabilities that support strategy delivery and creating value for all stakeholders.
Catalysers who identify economic drivers, constraints, and mitigating risks (e.g. people, legal, compliance, business continuity, brand, investor capital).
Managing people is a serious business. Thus, standout business leaders have to depend on adaptable HR professionals capable of navigating new territories in a fast-evolving environment. Translating strategy into talent planning and connecting talent to value creation.
You deserve standout HR professionals with the right mindset, insight, strong business acumen, and a customer-centric perspective – who can actively contribute to the strategic delivery and company operations.
Testimonials
"We needed someone who understood our needs, and who delivered"
COO
From the ideal to reality
Many have encountered an HR function that many in the company perceived as administrative and rigid, out of step with future needs. Not having an effective and efficient HR function comes with a high price.
The biggest challenge is finding a standout HR professional driven by a strong business acumen, and with a customer-centric perspective.
Someone who understands the business, purpose, industry, and business risks, takes accountability for the people and organisational delivery of the business strategy, and who sees what matters in each business life-cycle phase.
In particular in start-ups and scale-ups or other organisations establishing an HR function.
Someone who becomes an integral part of the leadership team by being a relevant and trusted adviser and sparring partner, taking the initiative to provide solutions to complex issues.
The interpersonal connection between the CEO, finance, and HR becomes crucial.
Going beyond, standing apart
At its core, the future success of your HR function depends on a different mindset in HR. To identify the standout HR professional, traditional selection approaches will fall short.
We match and connect standout HR talent and standout leadership, and our process goes beyond the benchmark.
Beforehand, we conduct in-depth interviews with business leaders (hiring company), to clarify objectives, requirements, onward strategy, and current HR set/up – ensuring alignment with the people-focused leadership style and culture necessary to support a standout HR professional.
As for the candidate, the first step is for AI tools to analyse candidate CVs and profile, references, network, and recommendations to provide an unbiased assessment of hard skills.
Depending on the role, in the next step tests (personality, behavioural, cognitive, language etc.), and through gamified tools will assess business and strategic capabilities, competencies, and human skills (thinking, flexibility, adaptability, problem-solving etc.).
Our experienced HR leaders then undertake in-depth interviews with candidates to uncover standout talent. Above all, to assess the candidate's HR and business mindset, as well as ‘read back’ and discuss test results. Lastly, discuss the hiring company, leadership style, view on HR, company objectives, expectations, and requirements.
In the final step, we facilitate the successful standout HR professionals and standout business leaders (hiring company) to meet for a mutual in-depth interview process, where both parties discuss and conclude if there is a match for a successful partnership.
We also oversee what we consider to be a mutual onboarding and offer support to ensure a successful process.
Who are we?
We bring a unique blend of HR expertise and business perspective into play – as former leaders with broad international HR leadership experience, and now as a European network of advisers to leadership teams.
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We know HR
After +25 years we know HR like the back of our hand. As former HR leaders with broad international experience and HR business advisers, we are attuned to HR and organisational developments.
We know how to build capabilities to deliver the people side of the strategy. In the past, we have established HR functions from the ground up.
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We know the business HR
As former HR leaders with +25 years on international leadership teams and business advisers, we know the focus and expectations of business leaders, and how to bridge any gap in HR.
We have been a part of value-creating teams, as well as working in and advising start-ups and scale-ups.
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Our perspective
As HR leaders and advisers, we are driven by a strong business acumen and customer-centric perspective, with the objective of
cultivating organisational capabilities to drive the strategy and create values. In particular in start-ups and fast-growing companies.
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We know recruiting
HR leaders also recruit. We have recruited a large number of C-suites, leaders, middle-management, specialists, and built entire teams, in ~20 countries in Europe and Africa.
Since we understand the challenges, through a different approach we uncover standout HR professionals (or teams) and connect them with standout business leaders. As well as building entire HR teams.
This is why we consider ourselves strategic matchmakers. Both parties deserve the capability to create great value.
Act for your future
Book a FREE call or send us an email to discuss how you want to elevate your career as a standout HR professional.
Take charge of your future!