CEO Advisory + Executive Search
AI won’t change the future of your company.
It changes the rules of the game.
The future of your company depends on how quickly your leadership understands these new rules.
We help CEOs align leadership and organisation with the new reality of work – and win the leaders who create the decisive business impact.
AI-Augmented Leadership
What kind of leadership does your company need for AI to unfold its full potential?
AI is not only changing processes. It is changing how work is distributed, how decisions are made, which roles companies still need and what leadership will have to deliver in the future.
This is exactly where AI-Augmented Leadership comes in. We help CEOs realign their own leadership and organisational logic for a world of work in which people and AI create value together.
That is why our work does not start with executive search. It starts with the question:
What kind of leadership does your company need to succeed in the new era?
Only then do we decide which leadership we develop internally – and which personalities we win externally.
Leadership does not start with recruiting.
Before we look for people, we create clarity about what kind of leadership your company will actually need in the future.
UNDERSTAND
What kind of leadership does your company need for its next stage of development?
How are AI, strategy and business model changing roles, responsibilities and organisation?
DEVELOP
Which leadership skills already exist within the company?
Which leaders can be prepared for and developed into the new reality of work?
WIN
Which personalities are missing?
And whom do we need to win externally to make the company’s next stage of development possible?
Understand Develop Win
Executive Search
We do not look for an executive.
We solve a business problem.
For us, a strategic appointment does not start with a job description. It starts with one question:
What must be different economically in 24 months because of this person?
- Which customers need to be won?
- Which business needs to be built?
- Which transformation needs to succeed?
- Which organisation needs to emerge?
Only when the expected business impact is clear does the search for the right leader begin.
The Leadership Business Case
Before we search, we clarify whom you really need.
Every strategic leader needs a business case. That is why, before a search, we define not only the requirements for a candidate, but the economic difference this person should make.
Business Problem
Which concrete business problem should the person solve?
Business Outcomes
Which results must be visible after 24 months?
Evidence
What must a candidate already have demonstrably achieved for us to trust them with these results?
Unfair Advantage
Which assets does the person bring that immediately improve your starting position? Customer access, market trust, C-level network, talent network, build-up skills or specific know-how.
Talent Solution
Which talent solution creates the greatest business impact in the shortest time? Internal Development · External Leader · Leader + Team · Human + AI Redesign
The job title describes the position. The business case describes why the person is hired.
Strategic Leadership Search
Executive search & headhunting for strategic key positions
We win leaders who do not just fit a position. They must demonstrably be able to fulfil the business case behind the position.
Executive Search
Targeted search for and recruitment of leaders for strategic key positions at C-level, management and leadership level.
Leader + Team
Sometimes a single leader is not enough. When speed is decisive, we check whether a leader with two or three well-established key people can significantly accelerate the build-up.
Strategic Talent Access
The best time to get to know an exceptional leader is not when a position becomes vacant. We create early access to relevant personalities and networks.
Frank Rechsteiner
Over 20 years of C-level recruiting.
And a new perspective on executive search.
For more than two decades, I have been working on one question: What kind of leadership makes companies successful in times of fundamental change?
Today, AI is not only changing technology. It is changing work, roles, organisations and therefore the demands on leadership.
That is why, with AI-Augmented Leadership, I combine CEO advisory and executive search. We first clarify what kind of leadership a company will need. Then we develop or win the people who can make that difference.
References
What matters is what changes.
Matthias Götz
My collaboration with Frank Rechsteiner was open, collaborative, and clearly structured—while also being highly goal-oriented. He challenged me and provided consistent guidance, which made our collaboration particularly effective. What was particularly helpful for me was that our discussions always resulted in clear next steps and concrete outcomes. At the same time, working together was simply a pleasure.
Christian Emde
The workshop led by Frank Rechtsteiner was a complete success in my view. The content was presented in a clearly structured manner, making it easy to follow while still providing sufficient depth. I found the combination of well-founded input, direct practical relevance, and skillful delivery to be particularly effective. As a result, the workshop is not only interesting and engaging, but also has a lasting impact and is of great benefit to me. I can wholeheartedly recommend Frank Rechtsteiner’s workshops.
Michael Diebel
Working with Frank Rechsteiner was a real benefit for me in every way. He brings remarkable clarity to topics that are often presented in an unnecessarily complicated manner. I was particularly impressed by the combination of structure, substantive expertise, and a very engaging, focused style of presentation. Nothing felt arbitrary; instead, everything was well thought out and logically structured. This creates a framework in which you don’t just listen, but truly understand and can think things through. I took away many valuable insights and left the workshop with a much sharper perspective.
Erik Tischner
I was truly impressed by the workshop with Frank Rechsteiner. His facilitation style is clear, confident, and at the same time very engaging. The content was presented concisely, was easy to follow, and was always relevant to real-world practice. I was particularly impressed by how quickly the individual ideas came together to form a coherent whole. You leave the workshop not only with new ideas, but with genuine clarity and direction. For me, it was a very valuable and inspiring experience.
CEO AI Playbook 2027
The 7 new rules for leadership and recruiting.
AI is changing productivity, organisation, leadership and recruiting. The CEO AI Playbook 2027 shows seven changes CEOs should prepare their organisation for now.
What kind of leadership does your company need next?
Do you want to fill a strategic key position? Then don’t send me the job description first.
Let’s first talk about which business problem this person should solve – and which talent solution creates the greatest impact for it.