Get Ahead
Executive search for over 25 years

With the best-fitting leadership personalitiesSuccessfully shaping the future

For over 25 years GET AHEAD has been advising companies on the appointment and validation of executives and supervisory/advisory boards. During this time, we have proven in hundreds of assignments that with the right leaders change and transformation can be shaped and sustainable business success can be achieved.

To successfully consult and find the right executive to best meet your current and future requirements, we need to know your industry. That's why every executive search consultant at GET AHEAD specializes in just a few industries and understands the challenges you face and the opportunities you possess. This in-depth industry know-how, combined with professional personnel selection based on empirical, evident and scientific findings (evidence-based personnel diagnostics) and our many years of experience, are the basis of our services – and our success.
Today, GET AHEAD employs more than 20 people. We have been working with more than 80% of our clients for five years or longer.

Global network

Locally dedicated, internationally experienced

GET AHEAD Executive Search is represented throughout Germany. In addition to our headquarters in Hamburg, some of our consultants are based in Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich. Furthermore, as a German partner of Friisberg & Partners International, we also successfully fill executive positions abroad, supported by executive search specialists in more than 20 countries.

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Why Get ahead

Six good reasons to work with us

1. Proven industry expertise
Consumer goods & retail
Digital & IT
Engineering & automotive
Energy industry
Finance & asset management
Life science & healthcare
Public & NGOs
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2. Efficient and successful selection processes
Distinctive consideration of personality, competencies and potentials
Customized requirements’ analysis using critical incidence questioning technique
Identification of critical success factors and mutual expectations for each assignment
Confidential access to candidate networks
Reduced time-to-shortlist
Placement rate of more than 95%
3. Sustainable success
Above-average prognostic validity of professional success
Candidates with demonstrably high competence for implementation
Successful placements with long retention periods
4. Highly competent consulting
Consultants with extensive industry expertise
Consultants with entrepreneurial personalities
Supported by successfully applying evidence-based personnel diagnostics
5. High acceptance by personnel decision makers
Our evidence-based approach increases the validity, objectivity and fairness of selection decisions.
Evidence-based personnel diagnostics help personnel decision-makers to achieve greater understanding and acceptance within organizations.
6. Keeping our finger on the pulse of time
Digitalization
Leadership
Diversity Management
Sustainability
New Work

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Get AheadExecutive search for over 25 years

With the best-fitting leadership personalitiesSuccessfully shaping the future

Global network

Why Get ahead

1. Proven industry expertise

2. Efficient and successful selection processes

3. Sustainable success

4. Highly competent consulting

5. High acceptance by personnel decision makers

6. Keeping our finger on the pulse of time

Get Ahead
Executive search for over 25 years