Professional Services
Audit, consulting and other professional services are required to deal with disruptive technologies, heightened national and international competition, and innovative operational structures. At the same time, these services also face their own transformational processes. Today, clients expect consultants to partner with them extensively, jointly designing and mobilising their activities. Strong, innovative decision-making is key. Professional services companies can compete only if they have seasoned, outstanding leaders whose skills, drive and backgrounds match their business. Identifying and developing executive talent and leadership teams is essential for true service excellence, which in turn drives up top lines and increases profit margins.
Fresh mindsets for professional services
New competition is arising, while private investors are buying up enterprises with a view to cutting costs and streamlining operations. These new market conditions demand more than just a transition from helplines to digital services – businesses must also embrace new mindsets and use data to anticipate and tackle their clientele’s challenges.
We identify experienced senior executives in the following core areas:
- Audit, Assurance, Tax and Accountancy
- Information Services
- Outsourcing
- Law Firms
- Strategy, Operations and IT Consulting
Diversity for leadership teams
Each advisory case has its own particular requirements. Within our structured and transparent search process, we tailor our strategies to each individual situation, helping to create leadership teams with a broad spectrum of cultural, sectoral, digital and operational expertise.
Succession planning at the board level
Managing directors and the boards of professional services companies rely on our advisory expertise and assistance in identifying, assessing and developing succession candidates. Our services include assignment-specific safeguards that mitigate risk in expected and unexpected scenarios.
Capitalising on digitalisation
We help professional services companies to find expert leaders who can capitalise on the transformative capabilities of digitalisation and the industrial internet. With their integration as senior executives and board members, these leaders help their organisations to reach the leading edge of the digital transformation.