Executive Evaluation

We support Boards, Owners, CEOs and investors in evaluating senior executives against a specific leadership mandate, the organisational context and the stakeholder environment in which they are expected to perform.

Evaluation Criteria

Leadership Style and Judgement;

Strategic and Commercial orientation;

Ability to Operate Under Pressure and Ambiguity;

Stakeholder Management and Influencing skills;

Organisational Fit and Leadership Presence;

Resilience;

Motivation and Long-Term Ambition;

Decision Making;

Execution capability and Operating Cadence

We assess both external and internal candidates, often in parallel, to support succession and continuity decisions, leadership transitions and critical appointments.

Matthias Schulthess

Experienced judgement, discretion and context

Our evaluations are informed by direct exposure to leadership succession, executive search and Board advisory work across complex international organisations. Clients receive calibrated perspectives on leadership strengths, alignment with the brief, comparative positioning across candidates and their likely impact within the organisation.

Our evaluation reports are concise, practical and decision-oriented, providing clear, evidence-based leadership judgement.

Deep-dive executive interviews

We conduct rigorous interviews designed to evaluate leadership capability beyond functional credentials and career history alone. We combine independent assessment capability with deep market context, discretion in sensitive situations and an understanding of governance, succession and stakeholder dynamics at the most senior level.

Leadership diagnostics

We complement interviews with leadership diagnostics. These tools provide additional perspective on leadership style, behavioural drivers, potential derailers under pressure and broader team or cultural dynamics. Diagnostics support and enrich judgement. They do not replace it.

Our objective is straightforward: helping clients make better-informed leadership decisions that strengthen organisational performance and long-term value creation, while reducing execution and succession risk, including through the effective support of selection committees responsible for evaluating and appointing senior leaders.

Reto Jauch