Suitability diagnostics in recruiting

Growing up in rural East Westphalia, I developed a deep connection to nature at an early age, which has had a lasting impact on my personal and professional life.

My path began with a scientific degree in geography with a focus on ecology. I then worked in environmental services on the topics of recycling management, waste disposal and remediation.

My enthusiasm for working with people eventually led me into HR services and consulting. For more than 20 years, my focus has been on connecting the right talents with the right positions (nationally and internationally) – always with a special feel for the individual needs of companies and candidates.

Today I live in Cologne and support people in realizing their professional goals and companies in attracting the best talent for their teams. In addition to my extensive professional experience, my training as a systemic coach (IHK) enables me to provide my clients with holistic support in professional orientation, personal development and change processes.

In addition to my work as a personnel consultant, I have been a freelance trainer and career coach for a renowned academy in the field of life science management for over ten years. With empathy, precision and commitment, I am a “passionate service provider”.

My focus is on companies that make a positive contribution to society and the environment over and above their economic goals. I am particularly passionate about organizations that want to make the world a better place through innovation, sustainability and social responsibility.

I am an HR generalist with more than 25 years of experience. I came to personnel management by chance: After completing my doctorate in philosophy at the University of Constance in 1997, I initially worked in adult education and was offered a lectureship in personnel and organizational development at the Private University of Applied Sciences in St. Gallen and Zurich.

After a stint at CSC Ploenzke AG in Wiesbaden in 2000, I joined Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt am Main in 2005, where I got to know HR work in a corporate group. As part of the merger of Commerzbank and Dresdner Bank, I was responsible for the HR integration of around 3,500 people from the two IT organizations.

Family events have brought my wife and me back to our shared home, the northwest of Germany. From 2010, I was responsible for personnel controlling as well as personnel and organizational development at Bremer Landesbank. In 2014, I returned to the Rhine-Main region, my adopted hometown of Wiesbaden, and have lived there ever since.

From 2014, I worked as a senior manager at zeb.rolfes.schierenbeck.associates for eight years, advising numerous banks on all HR-related issues, and from 2021 I worked at DZ PRIVATBANK as a manager in the HR department. I have been a Senior Partner at PMCI since 2023 and am responsible for the Finance & Banking client area.

During my career to date, I have written numerous articles and books on human resources topics “on the side”. I also enjoy being active in research and teaching to this day.

In my private life, the interests I developed during my studies have never left me, so that today I am still interested in the history, literature and philosophy of the 18th to 20th centuries. Music plays a major role here. Unfortunately only passively, but that also means that I am still pursuing my long-standing hobby of high-quality reproduction of music (“high end”).

I studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich, specializing in design engineering, and later – yes, 30 years ago – I did my doctorate on the subject of artificial intelligence. Incidentally, this translation was even more incorrect back then than it is today…

After a total of 11 years as a software developer, project manager and executive at FAG Kugelfischer and IBM, I moved to the consulting division of KPMG in Frankfurt in 1998, where I worked with my team as an IT management consultant, most recently as a partner and managing director. The topics of leadership and change management have always fascinated and challenged me, at least since the IT outsourcing from FAG to IBM.

Having worked in personnel consulting since 2006, my core areas of IT, consulting and medium-sized industry have never really let go of me. In addition to the classic executive search, I have supported many individual candidates in their repositioning through career coaching in recent years. This dual perspective often helps me and “my” candidates in executive search projects.

In my private life, I have a diverse “migration background” within Germany: I was born in Bielefeld, graduated from high school in Schweinfurt, then via professional stations in Schweinfurt and Munich finally ended up with my family near Frankfurt am Main.

I completely reversed my decades-long aversion to golf in 2010 and even gave up playing tennis. Furthermore, during my time as a part-time retailer of Italian wines from 1991 to 2018, I adapted a much-quoted saying: “Life is too short for trivial wines.”