Post de Andreas Frische

Driving ESG efforts: Leadership Matters Sustainability has emerged as a top priority for businesses across the globe. To gain insights into how companies are navigating this, the MU ESG Practice and BDO Belgium partnered up to conduct a study involving 150 companies in 13 countries. Among other takeaways, the survey reveals that sustainability is both an imperative and an opportunity: 75% of respondents see the ESG transition as a means for value creation, and over 97% believe that sustainability will change their activities and business model. Three key factors have been identified as ensuring the success of a company’s transition to ESG and highlight the critical role attributed to leaders in this context: • Embedding sustainability into the business strategy • Leadership commitment • Employee engagement and empowerment These topics are naturally close to the core of how we serve our clients every day within our ESG expert team and beyond. Research clearly shows that effective leadership has the biggest impact on results, people’s success at work, inclusive workplaces and strategy execution. The path to sustainability proves to be a complex management task: the selection and development of leaders in alignment with their company’s strategy, context, situation and objectives, will be key to ensuring the success of organisations efforts to drive sustainability.  Click here to read more and access the full report: https://lnkd.in/ehSZDNak

The MU Consumer Practice & Retail Practice invites to their Communication Platform together with Alejandra Garcia, VP of Procurement at DSM, to talk about the Digital Rollercoaster. Join us on 13th May, 2024 at 9.00 a.m. CET via MS Teams. Digitalisation is one of the key challenges in the consumer industry. Most companies are going or will go through some form of digital transformation, but quickly realise the value they expected in the business case is not realizing in the way it was expected. Before cutting your digital budget, outsourcing the project or dismantling the team, Alejandra Garcia will share the good, the bad and the potential ugly of digital transformations and what you can do to capture it's full value. Read more and register to the event here: https://lnkd.in/guWdFYb9

MU Receives Recognition as a “Global Top 40 Recruiter” from Hunt Scanlon for Third Consecutive Year. I am very pleased to announce that Hunt Scanlon Media has once again named us on their esteemed 'Global Top 40 Global Recruiting' ranking for the third consecutive year. This recognition underscores our unwavering commitment to improving organisations' results through effective and diverse leadership. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eKsZF5W2

I am thrilled to welcome our new collague Pawel Kluska to our Warsaw team as a Senior Consultant. He embarked on his professional journey in Executive Search back in 2004. Over the past years, he has spearheaded senior-level searches across various sectors. These endeavours have spanned across Poland and the Central and Eastern European region. His expertise extends beyond Executive Search to encompass a comprehensive understanding of organisational dynamics and talent acquisition strategies, honed through years of hands-on experience in diverse industry landscapes. Read more and contact Paweł here: https://lnkd.in/eTj-Xdfe

My colleagues Maximilian Junck and Dominic Pfau have conducted an interview with Christina Sontheim-Leven,  Executive Board Member at CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA, to get her perspective on the future of AI in personnel and other decisions, as well as the importance of leadership culture, good management and diversity for a company's success. Christina Sontheim-Leven has been a member of CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA's board since October 2021 and is responsible for Human Resources and Organisational Development. CEWE is an international group of companies with more than 4,000 employees across Europe. Christina Sontheim-Leven is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment in order to attract and retain enough qualified employees, not only at the headquarters in Oldenburg, but throughout the entire group. Supporting HR in cultural and digital transformation processes, good leadership and employee development, especially through lifelong learning, are other key topics for her. Read the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/eeYEjhrW #AI #Inclusion #Diversity

I am delighted to welcome back our former colleague Christian Nyhlèn to MU, joining as the new Global Practice Head for Public Sector.    Coming back, Christian is building on an impressive career within the consulting industry, and also as a former long-standing colleague at MU. With nearly 20 years of experience advising company management and boards on strategy, Executive Search, talent management, and leadership, Christian is a trusted and respected leader in the field. Welcome back Christian!   Read the news at MU.com: https://lnkd.in/eDJgGg6R   #ExecutiveSearch #TalentAdvisory #ReliableLeadershipAdvice 

Last week five members of the global MU #Energypractice attended the #Windeurope conference in Bilbao. My colleagues experienced great response and interest from energy companies needing to transfer, grow and develop their future leadership capabilities. Our seamless international reach and ISO quality-assured services were yet again confirmed to be of great relevance, and we look forward to further discussions!   The MU Experts on site were: (featured here from left to right) -  Peter Torjussen, Isabella Valentini, Svein Olsen Mellemsæter, Albert Lara Mata and Erwin Visser – Practice Lead for MU Energy Practice.   Click the links below to learn more about the services we are offering and our Experts: MU Energy Practice: https://lnkd.in/edCZeRtf MU Experts: https://lnkd.in/ev3SE5Wk

We are thrilled to announce a valuable addition to our team in Brussels - Jeroen Debue! Jeroen brings a wealth of experience from both banking and leadership acquisition and advisory. MU's newest addition boasts 15+ years as a Financial Services and Insurance expert. Formerly a Management Consultant at Korn Ferry, he led exclusive direct/executive searches. Previous roles include Practice Leader at a top Executive Recruitment firm. He began as a standout Corporate Banker at Europabank, mastering SME financial solutions. We are proud to be the next step in Jeroen's journey, with the opportunity to work with our science-based client service.   Read more here: https://lnkd.in/enJTJtY8

Successful CEOs are often said to have certain traits and to behave in a certain way. However, such assertions do not hold up to real world scrutiny. In the real world, each CEO succeeds, or not, in a unique context. So, there can be no set of general traits or way of working that will lead to his or her success. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eTJe-A4N

Welcome to my new colleague Andreas Lambert who has joined MU in Denmark as Principal Consultant at our Aarhus office.   Andreas brings 10 years of Executive Search and Leadership Consulting experience from a well-established local Executive Search-company where he was Partner before joining MU. Andreas’ primary focus has been servicing local and international companies with complex value chains across industries at both executive and senior leadership level. Andreas has an international background (German and English heritage) and holds a Master’s degree specializing in Strategy, Organizations and Leadership. Andreas has a huge passion for sports and has competed at elite level in both squash and cricket while also serving the Danish Squash Federation as Assistant National Coach earlier on in his career.   Connect with Andreas here on LinkedIn, or contact him at andreas.lambert@mercuriurval.com or +45 30892193.