We act as your trusted allies to enable leadership excellence
At MANA Leadership Advisory, the focus is on guiding senior leaders, executive boards, and shareholders through their most challenging and high-stakes human capital topics. Built on trusted client relationships, MANA offers specialized advisory services that create and safeguard sustainable value.
Distinguishing itself from other industry players, MANA delves deep into the nuances of your organization's specific context to ensure our advisory is relevant, impactful, and tailored to your unique needs. Our team of seasoned advisors and people leaders empathetically navigate the subtleties of your mandate and leadership profiles, balancing thoughtfulness with straightforward performance orientation to drive results and change behaviors. MANA's specialized diagnostics evaluate individual leaders or entire teams, providing insights to align roles, surface and address dysfunctional dynamics, assess talent, and determine if development or upgrades are needed. We design personalized programs that nurture and enhance leadership skills, fostering leaders to play to their strengths, tackle development areas, and drive improvement within your organization. Our leadership advisory experts provide actionable advice, while managing the complexities of leadership and team dynamics.
Impactful Use Cases for High-End Leadership Advisory
MANA Leadership Advisory delivers impact via proven solutions in highly relevant human capital use cases tailored for the respective investor or corporate client.
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Deeply understanding your playing field
A Financial Investor (e.g., Private Equity) buys a company and needs to understand the capabilities of the top team and organizational dynamics to ensure informed decision-making to deliver on the investment thesis (before or post-closure).
A corporate CHRO must ensure that an A-Player Leader is selected from the finalist candidates provided by the executive search firm through an independent, objective hiring assessment or to ensure that an internal candidate is truly ready for the next step.
A senior executive enters a new mandate (or organization) and wants to rapidly and deeply understand his new top team, identify development needs or required upgrades, and help align roles while identifying dysfunctional dynamics that need to be tackled.
A Financial Investor (e.g., Private Equity) wants to assess diligently whether the right top team is in place to impress new investors during an exit cycle or to take the company public.
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Accelerating value creation
A Financial Investor (e.g., Private Equity) realizes that their last unutilized value creation lever is to elevate the effectiveness of the top team in one of their investments and wants to engage high-end leadership advisory services to unlock the full potential.
The board (or CEO) of a business aims to accelerate the impact of senior executives entering new roles or has selected leaders in their top team who require targeted support to address their development areas and elevate performance.
A Venture Capital Investor wants to enhance the leadership effectiveness of the founder and top team in one of their investments to ensure readiness for the next phase of growth.
A senior executive, who previously experienced burnout and has since resumed their duties, now finds themselves nearing the red zone again but remains committed to delivering within their role.
Leadership Advisory Services
MANA delves deep into the nuances of your organization's specific context to ensure our advisory is relevant, impactful, and tailored to your unique needs.
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Team
The highly experienced MANA team anchors their work in advising the leaders we engage with by holistically leveraging an authentic, empathetic, and performance-oriented approach.
Strategic Partners
Meaningful is an executive coaching firm focusing on supporting individual leaders and entire leadership teams especially in high pressure environments. They provide leadership advisory and executive coaching services to C-level executives and senior leaders especially regarding transformational efforts for organizations and individuals.
The Founding Partner and Managing Director, Markus Tomas acts as senior advisor to MANA and together, we undertake joint high-caliber leadership advisory mandates.
dla Digital Leaders Advisory supports clients that are subject to particularly strong pressure to implement change. In this challenging environment, dla helps to find executives and create the conditions in which they can succeed.
With a differentiating spike in the space of executive search mandates in the digital, technology and consulting space dla was recently acknowledged by the German Handelsblatt as one of the top-40 executive search firms in Germany.
Personality Meets Expertise. SLCT Group is a boutique executive search firm that specializes in interim C-Suite mandates, private equity funds, and their portfolio companies.
SLCT Group identifies the personalities that will guide and lead your company into a successful future in a dynamic world. Their reliable and robust network of clients, candidates, and top-level decision-makers, with cross-industry experience in the DACH region, enables consistent delivery of their complex mandates.
SPL is a boutique consulting company specializing in the operational implementation of critical business projects such as turnarounds, restructuring efforts, and digitization mandates.
With a stellar track record of consistently overdelivering on their objectives, SPL acts as a highly trusted and collaborative partner to their clients. SPL’s approach merges consulting and implementation expertise by delivering flawless execution from the initial definition of the mandate to the sustainable anchoring of the solution within the organization.
Meaningful is an executive coaching firm focusing on supporting individual leaders and entire leadership teams especially in high pressure environments. They provide leadership advisory and executive coaching services to C-level executives and senior leaders especially regarding transformational efforts for organizations and individuals.
The Founding Partner and Managing Director, Markus Tomas acts as senior advisor to MANA and together, we undertake joint high-caliber leadership advisory mandates.
dla Digital Leaders Advisory supports clients that are subject to particularly strong pressure to implement change. In this challenging environment, dla helps to find executives and create the conditions in which they can succeed.
With a differentiating spike in the space of executive search mandates in the digital, technology and consulting space dla was recently acknowledged by the German Handelsblatt as one of the top-40 executive search firms in Germany.
Personality Meets Expertise. SLCT Group is a boutique executive search firm that specializes in interim C-Suite mandates, private equity funds, and their portfolio companies.
SLCT Group identifies the personalities that will guide and lead your company into a successful future in a dynamic world. Their reliable and robust network of clients, candidates, and top-level decision-makers, with cross-industry experience in the DACH region, enables consistent delivery of their complex mandates.
SPL is a boutique consulting company specializing in the operational implementation of critical business projects such as turnarounds, restructuring efforts, and digitization mandates.
With a stellar track record of consistently overdelivering on their objectives, SPL acts as a highly trusted and collaborative partner to their clients. SPL’s approach merges consulting and implementation expertise by delivering flawless execution from the initial definition of the mandate to the sustainable anchoring of the solution within the organization.
Meaningful is an executive coaching firm focusing on supporting individual leaders and entire leadership teams especially in high pressure environments. They provide leadership advisory and executive coaching services to C-level executives and senior leaders especially regarding transformational efforts for organizations and individuals.
The Founding Partner and Managing Director, Markus Tomas acts as senior advisor to MANA and together, we undertake joint high-caliber leadership advisory mandates.
dla Digital Leaders Advisory supports clients that are subject to particularly strong pressure to implement change. In this challenging environment, dla helps to find executives and create the conditions in which they can succeed.
With a differentiating spike in the space of executive search mandates in the digital, technology and consulting space dla was recently acknowledged by the German Handelsblatt as one of the top-40 executive search firms in Germany.
Personality Meets Expertise. SLCT Group is a boutique executive search firm that specializes in interim C-Suite mandates, private equity funds, and their portfolio companies.
SLCT Group identifies the personalities that will guide and lead your company into a successful future in a dynamic world. Their reliable and robust network of clients, candidates, and top-level decision-makers, with cross-industry experience in the DACH region, enables consistent delivery of their complex mandates.
SPL is a boutique consulting company specializing in the operational implementation of critical business projects such as turnarounds, restructuring efforts, and digitization mandates.
With a stellar track record of consistently overdelivering on their objectives, SPL acts as a highly trusted and collaborative partner to their clients. SPL’s approach merges consulting and implementation expertise by delivering flawless execution from the initial definition of the mandate to the sustainable anchoring of the solution within the organization.
Meaningful is an executive coaching firm focusing on supporting individual leaders and entire leadership teams especially in high pressure environments. They provide leadership advisory and executive coaching services to C-level executives and senior leaders especially regarding transformational efforts for organizations and individuals.
The Founding Partner and Managing Director, Markus Tomas acts as senior advisor to MANA and together, we undertake joint high-caliber leadership advisory mandates.
dla Digital Leaders Advisory supports clients that are subject to particularly strong pressure to implement change. In this challenging environment, dla helps to find executives and create the conditions in which they can succeed.
With a differentiating spike in the space of executive search mandates in the digital, technology and consulting space dla was recently acknowledged by the German Handelsblatt as one of the top-40 executive search firms in Germany.
Personality Meets Expertise. SLCT Group is a boutique executive search firm that specializes in interim C-Suite mandates, private equity funds, and their portfolio companies.
SLCT Group identifies the personalities that will guide and lead your company into a successful future in a dynamic world. Their reliable and robust network of clients, candidates, and top-level decision-makers, with cross-industry experience in the DACH region, enables consistent delivery of their complex mandates.
SPL is a boutique consulting company specializing in the operational implementation of critical business projects such as turnarounds, restructuring efforts, and digitization mandates.
With a stellar track record of consistently overdelivering on their objectives, SPL acts as a highly trusted and collaborative partner to their clients. SPL’s approach merges consulting and implementation expertise by delivering flawless execution from the initial definition of the mandate to the sustainable anchoring of the solution within the organization.
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