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90-Minute Discovery Session
An in-depth session before the programme begins, mapping your goals, your current searches and where the craft or the career feels stuck. This shapes everything that follows.
Before month oneTalent Leader Coaching
For the people leading executive recruiting and talent acquisition functions. Leadership coaching on how you lead your team, mentoring in the craft itself, and your own career, from someone who built and ran Zalando's executive recruiting function.
Most people in recruiting are coached on process. Almost no one coaches the people leading it.
On why this track existsThe Programme
Eight sessions over four months, moving through four deliberate phases: an honest baseline on where you stand as a leader, real work on how you lead your team and the craft itself, how you're positioned and seen, and a concrete plan you're held accountable to.
An honest baseline: where you are now in your career, and the strengths and gaps you bring as a talent leader.
The mentoring core: search strategy, assessment design and the judgement calls that only come from leading the function, plus how you manage and develop your own team.
How you're actually seen inside your organisation, strategic partner or order-taker, and the direction you want your own career to take: deeper into talent leadership, into broader People leadership, or somewhere else entirely.
Managing up: real influence with the stakeholders and executives who decide how your function and your team are perceived, then a 90-day plan with accountability built in.
What's Included
An in-depth session before the programme begins, mapping your goals, your current searches and where the craft or the career feels stuck. This shapes everything that follows.
Before month oneTwo structured 60-minute sessions each month, moving between coaching on how you lead your team, mentoring on the searches and decisions you're actually working through, and your own career. Prepared in advance, documented afterwards.
2 × 60 min / monthA written review after every session, anchored in your own words, plus practical work between sessions. A record of your thinking that accumulates across the programme.
After every sessionWhen a real decision lands, a difficult conversation with someone on your team, a tricky stakeholder situation or a candidate call you want a second opinion on, you don't wait. Voice note, message, or a quick call.
24-hour response · WhatsApp or voiceLive, case-based mentoring on what you're dealing with right now: a team member who isn't performing, a stakeholder relationship that isn't working, or a senior search you're running. Not theory.
Woven throughoutTwo 30-minute sessions in the months after the programme ends, to check the changes hold, both in the craft and in how you're now positioned, and adjust the plan against reality.
2 × 30 min · post-programmeWho This Is For
This track is for talent leaders, whether your background is executive recruiting or broader talent acquisition, who want two things at once: to genuinely sharpen the craft, and to be more deliberate about their own career, the way they help candidates be deliberate about theirs.
It is not generic career coaching, and it is not a training course. I work with a small number of clients at any one time and only take on engagements where I believe the fit is right.
"I coach my team on how to present themselves to the business. No one's ever coached me."
"I lead the function that runs searches for the business, but no one's investing in my own growth."
"I can run a search brilliantly. I'm not sure I'm actually leading my team well."
"I want a seat at the leadership table, not just a headcount report to give."
"AI is reshaping how my whole function works, and I want to lead that shift, not just react to it."
"I run the process well. I want to be seen as a strategic leader, not just someone who executes."
If this sounds like you, read on.
The Investment
The programme runs for four consecutive months from an agreed start date and a commitment to the full programme is required. That is how the work delivers results. The investment is discussed openly on the first call, before you decide anything.
Payable in two instalments: half upfront, half at the midpoint · German VAT applicable where relevant · Employer invoicing availableBring a team situation, a search or a career question. A real 30 minutes of thinking, not a pitch.
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