NAKAMA supports C-level executives, leaders at the second and third management levels and team leads aiming to step up to the next leadership level.
For more than 25 years, we have assessed executives for demanding positions. Across more than 20,000 interviews, we have seen which profiles lead to a conversation, which positionings convince the market and what selection decisions ultimately come down to.
This perspective shapes everything we do. Combining the insight of an experienced Executive Search consultant with more than 10 years of Executive Career Coaching expertise.
When you want NAKAMA to manage your transition strategically and create targeted access to the hidden executive market.
Through a personal retained engagement, we take responsibility for positioning, target-market analysis, identifying relevant decision-makers and approaching them directly - exclusively on your behalf.
Discover Inverse HeadhuntingWhen you want to lead your own career transition, supported by strategic career coaching.
Together, we create clarity around your positioning, target market and approach. You implement the strategy yourself - with structured guidance and the perspective of Executive Search.
Discover Executive Career CoachingWhen your leadership experience and Executive USP are not yet communicated convincingly through your CV and LinkedIn profile.
We sharpen your Executive USP, refine your CV and translate your Executive Brand into a professional and consistent presence across LinkedIn and other relevant career platforms.
Discover Executive Branding & CommunicationOur services are designed for:
This may involve a concrete career transition, access to a new market, a change in leadership responsibility or preparing for a future move.
Many leadership positions are not publicly advertised. They emerge through growth, succession, investment, transformation or the realignment of responsibilities.
Decisions are often made before an official search begins: among investors and shareholders, within a portfolio, on supervisory or advisory boards, in personal networks or in confidential exchanges with executive search consultants.
Anyone who only responds to job adverts therefore reaches only the visible part of the market - and competes there with everyone else.
The alternative path starts with clear positioning: What responsibility are you looking for? In which environment can you make the greatest contribution? Which companies fit your profile? And which decision-makers should know you before a position becomes public?
NAKAMA helps you define your target market, sharpen your positioning and develop the route into the market that suits you.
You want to move your career transition forward and have NAKAMA create targeted access to the hidden executive market?
Through Inverse Headhunting, NAKAMA works exclusively on your behalf - from positioning and target-market analysis to identifying and directly approaching relevant decision-makers on the company and investor side.
You want to manage your transition yourself, but not without professional sparring?
Then Executive Career Coaching offers the right strategic and personal framework.
Your direction is set, but your CV and LinkedIn profile do not yet convey your positioning convincingly?
Then Executive Branding & Communication is the focused way to start.
As part of a separation agreement, your employer can fund professional support for your career transition. NAKAMA supports you with individually agreed services from Executive Career Coaching, Executive Branding & Communication and market access.
NAKAMA works with both companies and executives. We check for potential conflicts of interest before accepting an engagement.
Company and executive engagements are kept organisationally separate and treated confidentially. Information and contacts are never used across engagements.
We never approach executives from ongoing company engagements for our career services.
For the same placement, we never charge both the company and the executive a fee.
Our services are designed for C-level executives, leaders at the second and third management levels and team leads preparing to move into their next leadership role.
What matters is not the current title alone. What matters are responsibility, experience, direction and the question of which service fits the individual situation.
With Inverse Headhunting, NAKAMA takes on the systematic market approach: from positioning and target market analysis to identifying relevant decision-makers and approaching companies directly.
In Executive Career Coaching, we develop your strategy together. You then execute the market approach yourself, using NAKAMA as a professional sparring partner.
No. Executive Branding & Communication is a focused advisory service on the content and visual direction of your CV and LinkedIn profile.
It suits executives whose direction is largely set and who want to align their market presence professionally.
No. A career transition can begin long before an active search.
Particularly at leadership level, it makes sense to clarify positioning, target market and market presence early, and to start building relevant contacts before a departure rather than after.
Yes. The initial consultation and all information about your professional situation are treated confidentially.
The first orientation conversation is free of charge. We clarify your starting position and discuss which service makes sense for your situation.
Yes. As part of an executive outplacement, your employer can cover the costs of your career transition. The specific services and scope are agreed and billed with the commissioning company. Talk to us before you sign an agreement.
Let's talk about where you are today, the professional direction you want to develop and the type of support that best fits your situation.