Hogan is excited to announce Personality Guidance AG as the newest member of the Hogan International Distributors Network, covering the market for personality assessments in Switzerland.
Headquartered in Zürich, Personality Guidance offers talent acquisition and talent development solutions, as well as coaching and team development. The organization was founded in April 2021 by CEO and longtime Hogan practitioner, Nicole Neubauer. Neubauer has been active in the Swiss market since 2005.
“Nicole has a been strong Hogan advocate for nearly two decades, combining her wealth of expertise in personality psychology with an unwavering commitment to helping organizations thrive,” said Hogan CEO Wendy Howell Hogan. “She has a proven track record of success, and we look forward to the big things she has planned with this new endeavor.”
The team Neubauer has assembled at Personality Guidance has an in-depth knowledge of the Swiss market, in both the German-speaking Deutschschweiz region and the French-speaking Romandy region. Personality Guidance will be delivering Hogan certification workshops in Zürich, Lausanne, and Geneva.
“With my experience as a Hogan distributor for more than fifteen years, Personality Guidance will be a strong voice for Hogan in the very dynamic Swiss market and its Swiss Market Index companies,” said Neubauer. “But there are also many thousands of very successful small and medium companies in Switzerland that are niche players on the global market and have great potential to become new Hogan clients.”
As Hogan’s authorized distributor in Switzerland, Personality Guidance advises on placement, selection, and development decisions. The company’s top priority is always to find a custom solution that focuses on individual personality and contributions to a company or organization.
Hogan is excited to announce Artisan Consultoria as the newest member of the Hogan International Distributors Network, covering the market for personality assessments in Brazil.
“Brazil holds immense potential and is a focal point for Hogan,” said Simon Castillo, Hogan’s practice manager for international distributors. “We are confident that Artisan will significantly contribute to our market presence and relevance in the country.”
Based in Rio de Janeiro, Artisan specializes in evidence-based people solutions aimed at enhancing organizational performance. Since its inception in 2006, Artisan has cultivated a skilled team deeply experienced in consulting, training and facilitation. Today, Artisan serves an array of local and multinational companies across Latin America.
“Having utilized Hogan assessments in executive development for over a decade, stepping up as a distributor feels like the next logical evolution,” said Felipe Paiva, founder of Artisan Consultoria. “The Brazilian market stands to gain from an expanded range of services.”
As an authorized distributor of Hogan personality assessments in Brazil, Artisan is positioned to be a comprehensive provider of talent management solutions for organizations to improve and accelerate growth, development, and effectiveness in every level of the workforce.
Hogan looks forward to a fruitful partnership with Artisan and continued growth in the Brazilian market.
Last week, Hogan Assessments had a productive and busy visit to Tokyo, working alongside Optimal Consulting Group and Persol Research and Consulting Co. Ltd., our long-standing distributors for Hogan in Japan. It had been three years since our last in-person visit, and this trip was filled successfully with client and public thought leadership events, as well as business development meetings.
Our founder and president, Robert Hogan, PhD, spoke on “Rethinking Leadership,” Wendy Howell Hogan shared “Why Leadership Development Is Broken and How to Fix It,” and Zsolt Feher and Krista Pederson spoke on “Judgment,” “Global HR Trends,” and “Coaching the Dark Side with Japanese Characteristics.” Anne-Marie Paiement, PhD, supported and shared research on trends in Japanese leaders’ personalities, which clients found relevant to further implementing Hogan in their practices. These topics sparked plenty of questions and interactions with attendees, demonstrating Hogan’s expertise in cross-cultural leadership selection and development.
Tokyo is famous for its incredible food scene, and we took this wonderful opportunity to spend quality time and connect further with our trusted distributors. True to Hogan’s fun-loving culture, we had some wonderful sushi and modern French cuisine to recognize and acknowledge everyone’s hard work.
We look forward to continued collaboration and growth in Japan. Arigato gozaimasu for everyone’s efforts in making this trip a success!
A&D Resources, Hogan’s Scandinavia and Benelux distributor, now operates under the name Summit.
After A&D Resources merged with Summit Consulting, the two companies continued to operate under their respective names. However, they always had a vision of becoming one unified brand. From January 2023 onward, clients, partners, and prospects will see and experience the new brand, identity, and offices. Summit hopes its clients will appreciate it all as much as they do.
Merging two companies and brands comes with change. But for Summit, it only means a better experience and service for clients. The organization continues to work with the same professionalism and offerings clients are accustomed to—plus more.
“We have been waiting for this exciting opportunity for a long time, and now we can finally present our new company, our new HQ location, and our new name, Summit,” said Karsten Søderberg, CEO of Summit.
“It is a unique combination of business psychologists and expert consultants that we have brought together in one company, under one name,” continued Søderberg. “Our highly experienced consultants complement each other in delivering the best leadership, organizational, and talent development services.”
The new Summit operates in both the private and public sectors across Scandinavia and Benelux. As a Hogan distributor, the company offers the Hogan assessments, leadership development, coaching, 360-degree assessments, team development, competency mapping, Hogan certification, organizational learning, talent acquisition, succession planning, and many tailor-made solutions.
The new headquarters location is Sundkrogsgade 7, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. The HQ phone number is +45 45 85 15 15, and the new general email is support@summitlead.com. Visit summitlead.com to see the new website and branding.
Hogan is excited to announce the appointment of Advanced People Strategies (APS) as an authorized Hogan distributor in Ireland.
APS has successfully represented Hogan for 18 years in the United Kingdom. In recent years, APS has experienced significant growth, providing supportive tools and services to maximize practical people development opportunities, including custom 360 solutions, individual coaching, team development, and the innovative SkillsPilot platform focused on quick and effective skills assessment and feedback.
“Our friends at APS have been a tremendous member of our international distributors network for nearly two decades, providing first-class services to clients across a wide range of industries,” said now-former Hogan CEO Scott Gregory, PhD. “With so much potential in the Irish market, we anticipate further growth and success for them moving forward.”
Despite the impact of the global pandemic and recent economic uncertainties, APS has trained and certified more than 1,000 practitioners in the last three years. Similar results are expected with the expansion into Ireland.
“The APS team has years of experience helping organizations implement successful people development strategies,” said APS CEO Chris Humphreys. “We are looking forward to supporting our expanding network of clients in Ireland with access and experience to make the most of the added value Hogan can bring for business leaders and HR practitioners.”
APS will celebrate the appointment with an in-person event, “Make or Break Your Organisation’s Future? Talented Leaders, Teams, and an Enabling Culture,” featuring Robert Hogan as keynote speaker. The event will be held at the Teeling Whiskey Distillery, Dublin 8, Ireland on Thursday, March 2, 2023. The conference will focus on critical people insights for business leaders, HR directors, and talent specialists in Ireland. Register today!
About Advanced People Strategies
APS has a dedicated team of leadership & talent development specialists, and is an authorized Hogan Assessments distributor for the UK and Ireland, providing certification, coaching, masterclasses, and team and leadership development programs. Drawing on Hogan’s world-class psychometric assessments and partnering with highly respected academic leaders, its highly qualified and experienced consultants help organizations build effective leadership skills, accelerating readiness and capability.
Hogan is excited to announce a new distributor agreement with Peter Berry Consultancy to represent Hogan in New Zealand.
Effective Thursday, December 1, 2022, PBC will become the authorized Hogan distributor in both New Zealand and Australia. With 30 years of experience as a leading provider of human capital consulting services, PBC will benefit organizations across New Zealand, helping them improve and accelerate growth, development, and effectiveness at every level of the workforce.
“PBC has been a tremendous asset to Hogan for decades, providing first-class services to a wide variety of organizations across multiple industries in Australia,” said now-former Hogan CEO Scott Gregory, PhD. “To have such a prestigious firm and valued member of the Hogan family lead our efforts in New Zealand is a win-win situation for all involved.”
This new agreement not only allows PBC to expand its geographic footprint, but also presents an opportunity for the firm to continue its accelerated growth.
“As we continue to grow our human capital consulting services, entering the New Zealand market as the official Hogan distributor extends our industry experience to enable businesses and governments to take meaningful action on the evolving needs of their talent management initiatives,” said Peter Berry, managing director, Peter Berry Consultancy.
About Peter Berry Consultancy
PBC is a multidisciplinary global consulting firm with 30 years’ experience in the delivery of best-practice solutions aimed at maximizing the potential and demonstrated behavior of individuals, teams, leaders and organizations. PBC provides customer-focused, evidence-based people solutions that enable organizations to select the right people, develop key talent, build better teams, drive leadership capability, and enhance organizational performance.
In November, I spent a busy and productive week in Ho Chi Minh City with Talent Assessments Vietnam (TAV), one of Hogan’s newest distributors. TAV is a member of PACE Institute of Management, a highly regarded pioneer in business training, consulting, and business book publishing in Vietnam.
TAV is dedicated to the science of personality and has provided wonderful opportunities to enhance Hogan’s reputation in the market. While I was in Vietnam, I visited clients and prospects with TAV’s impressive consulting team, met with several CEOs of Vietnamese companies, and gave some presentations on leadership.
I had the opportunity to present about the science of personality at Talent Assessments Vietnam’s seminar. More than 130 business leaders attended to explore applying Hogan to their leadership selection and development challenges. Personality assessment is gaining recognition in Vietnam, and the interest in applying well-research methods is high. We were honored to be the focus of several business magazine articles and a Ho Chi Minh City TV news spot.
Hogan and Talent Assessments Vietnam also were sponsors for the 2022 SHRM Vietnam Summit, the theme of which was “Future of Talent: Write our New Human-Centric Story, Together.”PACE Founder and Chairman Dr. Gian Tu Trung opened the conference with a wonderful keynote about leadership, and I was honored to end the day with a presentation focused on leadership development. From our discussions, PACE, TAV, and Hogan share a passion for leadership and strong values about improving organizations through the leadership insights we provide.
In true Hogan fashion, hard work was balanced with leisure (including some yummy phở). At the end of the week, TAV consultant Nguyen Quy guided me through a visit to the Củ Chi tunnels and the War Remnants Museum—both sobering reminders of why leadership matters.
This blog post was authored by globally renowned psychologist Scott Gregory, PhD, during his tenure as Hogan’s CEO.
Awair, an authorized Hogan distributor, has expanded to include the United Kingdom among its markets. Founded in Italy, Awair’s markets included Italy and France before the recent expansion into the UK. Awair recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.
Hogan is excited for Awair to build on the business accomplishments achieved in 2021. “Given Awair’s success in expanding the Hogan brand in Italy and France, we felt they would be a strong contributor to our efforts in the UK as well,” said Zsolt Feher, managing director at Hogan Assessments.
“This milestone is an important recognition of our journey so far and is another driver for the international growth of our business. Awair is a unique distributor due to our operations in multiple countriesand our capacity to serve multinationals and large organizations,” said Francesca Antonini, CEO at Awair.
“We have submitted an ambitious business plan, which will require focus and effort. The UK market is very different from the other countries in which we operate, but we are positive that this venture will be a success,” said Andrea Facchini, managing partner at Awair GB.
“Awair is a unique and a fast-growing consulting firm in Europe, focusing its services on three main areas: talent assessment, leadership development, and cultural transformation,” said Paola Ballabio, managing partner at Awair. “Thanks to our range of services and the diversity of expertise of our international team we can add tremendous value for our clients, enabling their people and culture strategies.”
Alto Impacto, one of Hogan’s authorized distributors, is a leading HR and talent consulting firm with global presence managed by senior consultants who are leaders in their fields and practices and who have gained experience in multinational companies and top international consulting firms.
Located in Chile, Peru, and Bolivia, Alto Impacto has been a leading source of information and methodologies for applying science to talent processes in talent acquisition, leadership, coaching, culture transformation, as well as talent, team, and organizational development.
Alto Impacto has helped and supported local and global firms from all industries since 1998 and has represented and distributed Hogan Assessments since 2009. Alto Impacto uses specific models and methodologies to assess and help develop individuals, teams, and organizations. Their focus on putting together a precise and customized assessment solution for each client distinguishes them from other HR consulting firms.
Achieving Team and Organizational Effectiveness
Alto Impacto’s process for building organizational effectiveness is structured and systematic. Alto Impacto begins by gaining a very clear understanding of stakeholder needs and expectations and then translates those into key performance indicators and ideal organizational skills.
All of Alto Impacto’s consultancy projects involve an in-depth analysis of the current capabilities of the organization, including its teams, leaders, and collaborators. Alto Impacto defines key improvement initiatives for them, supports their progress, and helps them develop their individual, team, and organizational skills and competencies that impact key business indicators.
Alto Impacto also has broad experience developing programs for strategic talent attraction and organizational development, including executive search, talent mapping, succession planning, leadership development, onboarding processes, among other services.
Alto Impacto focuses on generating business results by improving the effectiveness of organizations and teams, as well as their talent and leaders. They build personalized solutions to develop individual contributors, leaders, teams, and organizational culture, and they support clients to help them gain a sustainable competitive advantage.
René Kusch, PhD, has been working with Hogan Assessments since 2008, and five years ago, he founded RELEVANT Managementberatung, an authorized Hogan distributor headquartered in Germany. The firm has grown continuously in client base, client solutions, revenue, team members, and offices in Germany. RELEVANT offers solutions based on Hogan’s personality assessment suite for use throughout the entire talent lifecycle. Clients include small- and medium-sized companies in the German-speaking market, as well as multinational corporations headquartered in Germany. RELEVANT also caters to freelancers — including coaches, trainers, and consultants — as well as human resources consulting firms.
Five factors have been key to success in building this thriving business:
1. Partnerships -Being part of the Hogan family and having the opportunity to leverage Hogan’s strong global brand to build and grow the business is the bedrock of RELEVANT’s business success. It is important to RELEVANT to deliver fast, reliable, and high-quality services to partners, be they clients, business partners, or suppliers. To RELEVANT, that means being clear about what can and cannot be delivered, co-creating the solution in an iterative process, and being curious about their partners’ context.
2. Walking the talk – RELEVANT uses the Hogan assessment suite for talent acquisition and individual and team development. RELEVANT employees are aware of their individual and team autopilot modes, what they contribute to the organization, where they require support, and how they can support others. Team RELEVANT takes time to reflect on their collaboration, strategy execution, and results on a quarterly basis. They always try their own team development products on themselves first.
3. Diverse team of true believers – Members of Team RELEVANT bring a range of educational and experiential backgrounds. All of them love data, facts, and figures. They have a (conscious) bias for Hogan Assessments, and so does the circle of trusted and highly qualified freelancers RELEVANT closely collaborates with. Team RELEVANT has grown from three people five years ago to 15 as of late 2021. They currently have more job openings and hope to fill these positions soon.
“Focusing on the core of who we are as a team, our DNA, and our business purpose is fundamental when it comes to making decisions. Our joint understanding is that nothing is set in stone; sometimes we need to revisit decisions to alter their consequences,” stated Dr. Kusch. “All of us at RELEVANT work hard, are dedicated and have fun filling our various roles. Dr. Robert Hogan’s commonsense guidelines, ‘How to build Hogan Assessment Systems,’i very much remind me of building and growing RELEVANT.”
4. Product developments – To deliver the optimal solutions for clients, RELEVANT has been developing various support tools such as their interpretation strategy for Hogan profiles, which centers the Hogan Personality Inventory. RELEVANT has also created several tailored reports for leader selection contexts based on Hogan’s three core personality inventories, begun to create a toolbox for developing senior management teams and organizations, and just recently employed a manager for digital assessment solutions to continue developing client-centric IT solutions and environments.
5. Global reach, local presence – RELEVANT’s visibility in the German market has been increasing continuously. The customer base continues to grow, mainly due to client and market referrals. RELEVANT works closely with distributors all around the globe, from Asia to the U.S., to deliver projects. Despite increased digitalization and virtual collaboration, RELEVANT’s clients still appreciate face-to-face interactions. To accommodate that, RELEVANT has been set up across regions from the get-go. Today, team members are in physical offices in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, and Dortmund.
“It was and is a huge pleasure to follow RELEVANT in their exceptional business development, to support them in different situations as a business partner, and to have them as part of the European Hogan distributor community,” said Zsolt Fehér, managing director of Hogan Assessment Systems in Europe. “They are one of our fastest-growing distributors, their energy is contagious, and their competence and willingness to go the extra mile are outstanding.”
And to put it in their own words: Hogan makes personality RELEVANT.
Note
Hogan, R. (2020). How to Build Hogan Assessment Systems. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 72(1), 50–57. https://doi.org/10.1037/cpb0000148
