Patrick Simonis

managing partner

“Leadership is about making sense of things. It’s about understanding what external developments mean for your business. About working with your team to identify the threats and opportunities in the market in good time, then setting the right course and taking action. It’s about investing in new competences, but also divesting old resources.”

An ability to quickly assess the situation, as well as curiosity and sincere interest. A sharply developed affinity for identifying qualities and pitfalls in dialogue partners. All of this in combination with a gift for raising difficult subjects and providing deeper insights. These are the qualities that majority-shareholding-directors and members of management and supervisory boards admire in me.

I have more than 30 years of experience as a consultant at the top level of the Dutch business community. For the first 20 years I worked mainly as an organisational consultant in the field of governance and organisational issues. Over the past 10 years I have regularly been asked to undertake more complex executive searches, precisely because of my deep understanding of how organisations work and of the personal and leadership qualities that the ideal candidate must have.