De Vroedt & Thierry has an open, informal and transparent culture. Our partners and consultants are genuinely interested in the ambitions of your organisation and in the motivational needs of the talents in our network. This means that we intensively delve into both the client and the potential candidates: we continue to inquire and ask the question behind the question. We support clients in a professional, efficient and effective manner, with an eye for quality, creativity and new developments. Personal involvement defines the style of the partners, consultants and other employees of our firm.

As described in our book ‘Agile Talent, our entire search process consists of nine systematic steps in three stages: preparation, selection and verification.

Context scan – Our vision is that executive search is not only about ‘sec’ the most talented candidate, but about talent in a specific context. Talent is not universal, but situational and strongly context dependent.

Candidates are selected by our firm using the focused or ‘criterion-based’ interviewing method. This method brings a degree of objectivity to the proceedings, which contributes to a greater predictability of a candidate’s future success.

In our view, three factors should be involved in every selection of future proof top talent: ability, motivation and identity (skills, motivational needs and personality traits).

Learning ability (‘Learning Agility’, abbreviated LQ) and adaptability (also known as AQ or Adaptability Quotient) are two of the most important predictors of future success in the new world, a world in which the speed of knowledge acquisition is becoming more important than knowledge in itself.

We publish books on leadership (in the digital world) and on identifying and selecting talent, closely follow scientific research about our field, and provide guest lectures at clients, universities and business schools.

Beyond just ‘the usual suspects’ – Our office has extensive experience in  creating complementary teams. We believe that diverse teams look at themes from different angles and thus come up with better founded solutions.