I work with CEOs, investors, and executive teams on one core issue:
How leadership decisions are made – and how they translate into performance.
“Leadership challenges are usually decision challenges.”
Dr. Frank Knoche
Most companies do not struggle because of a lack of talent. They struggle due to unclear leadership decisions, misaligned executive teams, and weak alignment between strategy and execution. What appears as weak performance is typically a failure of the decision system at the top.
What I Do
I improve how leadership decisions are made across three areas:
1. SELECT
Executive Search
I support boards, CEOs, investors, and CHROs in appointing senior leaders for critical roles across Europe. More: headfinders.com
Focus:
CEO and C-level appointments
Transformation and growth situations
Succession-critical leadership decisions
Investor-backed and scaling organizations
Goal:
Placing the right leader into the right context.
2. DEVELOP
Executive Coaching
I work with senior executives on decision-making under pressure. More: executivecoachings.com
Focus:
Faster, clearer decisions
Better prioritization
Reduced complexity overload
Stronger execution discipline
Goal:
Improve how leaders decide and execute.
3. ALIGN
Leadership Advisory
I support executive teams in improving alignment and decision clarity.
Focus:
Executive team alignment
Decision rights and clarity
Reducing friction at the top
Transformation and transition support
Goal:
Make leadership teams act as a coherent system.
How It Connects
One System Across Leadership:
Who gets leadership roles (SELECT)
How leaders decide (DEVELOP)
How teams align (ALIGN)
Together, this determines performance.
Not strategy alone.
Not structure alone.
Not individual leadership alone.
But the quality of decisions across the leadership system.
Dr. Frank Knoche
I work with leadership teams operating in environments defined by complexity, transformation, and performance pressure.
My focus is not leadership theory.
It is the architecture of executive decision-making.
Executive Decision Advisor
I typically work in three contexts:
Critical executive search mandates
Performance-focused executive coaching
Advisory work in leadership transitions and transformation.
I bring more than 15 years of experience in executive search and leadership advisory across Europe.
Founder of headfinders.com, focused on senior leadership appointments in transformation and growth environments.
My work spans:
Executive search for CEO and C-level roles
Leadership coaching for senior executives
Advisory work at executive decision interfaces
Credentials:
PhD, Health Sciences and Economics
Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach
PRINCE2 Practitioner (APMG)
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
Executive Search & Leadership Advisory since 2008
If leadership decisions materially influence performance in your organization, we should speak.
Insights Archive
Selected publications and articles on executive search and leadership decision-making are available in the insights archive.
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