Want to know more?

Hiring the CEO: how can Executive Search Partner help the Board? The success of the Board is 100% dependent on the success of the CEO the Board has hired. Hiring…

We spoke with Agata Kaczmarska, CPO PL and CEE dentsu Agata, over the last year you have introduced a very interesting benefit program for your employees related to health on…

Learn a trade for a rainy day. And share it. The ‘boomers over 50’ heard their grandparents say, “Learn the art and put it aside”. And they believed in it,…

Smart connection between Private Equity, Venture Capital and Executive Search Having the right people in place can make all the difference to a company, especially in the fast-paced and competitive…

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Toxic leadership exists in too many organisations – indeed we have seen it here in the UK at the very top of…

Metamorphosis of education In a society where we are constantly told that everything is uncertain and volatile, where companies are transforming and acquiring more agile and digital management models, where…

We spoke with Marta Jakowluk, Chief People Officer at UPC, and discussed the Merger & Acquisition process through the eyes of a CPO. Marta, for over a year you have…

From the 7th -12th  June, the 60th edition of the Salone del Mobile was again on stage in Milan. After a subdued September 2021, due to the many lockdowns, this…

Meetings are back! In one way this is good – I mean seeing people face to face is wonderful after so long being trapped behind a computer screen. However, it…

Thoughts on attracting, nurturing and retaining the talent to sustain your business. Workplace flexibility, better benefits and higher pay are not the only causes of the current so-called ‘Great Resignation’.…

We spoke with Jan Skvaril, who as a Czech, has lived in Bulgaria for the last 17 years, and acts in NEXT Consult as a Client Success Partner. His experience…

Why do organisations need HR Business Partners? One of the most recruited roles this year in Romania were HR Business Partners. They have been actively sought, regardless the domain or…

FOCUS distinguishes our office in Germany as #TopPersonaldienstleister in #ExecutiveSearch 2022. In cooperation with the renowned research institute Statista, FOCUS has identified the best personnel service providers in Germany. We are…

The energy company RWE is aiming for rapid growth in the renewables market with its subsidiary RWE Renewables. Katja Wünschel is to pull the strings as CEO Onshore Wind and…

Natasha Joseph recently joined our team in Johannesburg, South Africa. We are delighted to welcome Natasha to Friisberg & Partners International. She joins us as a Senior Associate with an…

Zoltán Pethõ was one of the key speakers at the recently launched onlyCEO Breakfasts in Budapest. Members are given the opportunity to share an important moment or dilemma in their…

Diversity & Inclusion is at the core of who we are, what we value and how we operate. This International Women’s Day we would like to celebrate the talented and…

We are delighted to welcome Sabine Pirkner leading our new office in Vienna.  With close to 20 years of experience in international board, C-level and leadership team assessment and development,…

An alternative to Reality is the Metaverse. The Metaverse is a virtual world, one to which we will connect using a range of devices to make us think that we…

Integration in a selection process: It represents a practical assignment where differences in experience and personality emerge clearly. The case also provides an objectivised basis for comparing and ranking candidate…

Contingency vs. Retained Recruitment Which is Better? In nearly every conversation we’ve had recently with executives across industries, we keep hearing that great people are harder to find and it’s…

Valentine’s Day is now a major shopping holiday. In the US, retailers will reap $20 billion in sales by the time the holiday is over and in the UK £1.37…

Friisberg & Partners International opens a new office in Romania Since 2016, Friisberg & Partners International has been represented by Qualia Executive Search in Romania, a well-known executive search company…

All leadership deserves development Having strong and quality leadership has proved to be a major asset in recent turbulent times. It is not a secret that companies who invest in…

All too often we mistake confidence for competence. Whether in business or politics, there’s a tendency to select leaders on the basis of their confidence rather than their competence. When…

What will be important in 2022?   After a challenging but very successful 2021, we look forward to 2022 with confidence. Sure, the pandemic is not yet over, but we…

The Budapest Business Journal confirms us as Number One. For the second year in a row, our office in Budapest has once again been confirmed as the number one Executive…

Friisberg and Partners International has been voted one of the best Executive Recruitment Consultancies in Germany. This is the result of the current study by WirtschaftsWoche – with around one…

Will 2022 end the pandemic? The hope is that 2022 will end the nightmare of Covid and enable us all to re-start our social relationships that have been paused over…

Professionals now have a much lower threshold for leaving behind their employer. Due to remote working, many organisations have hired employees who are only tied to their working community by…

A new year has just begun. It always brings new plans and dreams that we hope to realize – whether they are personal or related to our professional lives. The…

We spoke with our team in Milan about Christmas traditions in Italy. There are Christmas traditions in Italy that are widespread practically everywhere in the country, such as the Christmas…

We spoke with Floriana, from our office in Romania, about her plans for the holidays.   Christmas holidays have always been a reason for joy, for children or adults, even…

We spoke with Andrea, one of the Partners from our office in Prague, to ask her how she spends the holidays. Unlike many other countries, our main Christmas celebration is…

We spoke with Gadea Zumarraga to ask about her holiday plans…   In Spain, we have some interesting holiday traditions! For example, it is customary to wear red underwear on…

Mary Keane and Lorri Lowe, two of our Partners, both grew up in Ireland. We spoke with them about their memories of Nollaig (Christmas).   Lorri grew up speaking Irish…

We spoke with Benedikte and Hild, from our office in Norway, as they prepare to celebrate Christmas. In Norway the Christmas season, Julebord, begins slowly on November 28th,  the first…

We spoke with our team in Germany to ask how they are planning to spend the holidays. St Nicholas Day, 6th December, is a favourite holiday with German children. On…

We spoke with our Chair, Zoltan Petho, about how he celebrates the holiday season in Hungary. Our main day of celebrating Christmas is the evening of the 24th that we…

We spoke with Laurence Pinget about Christmas in her home town of Strasbourg. In the Rhenish Tradition, Christmas is one of the loveliest times of the year The oldest Christmas…

We spoke with our Polish team about their holiday plans. On Christmas Eve in Poland, many families share oplatek (an unleavened religious wafer), each person breaking off a piece as…