Sep 1st, 2023. Duesseldorf, Germany: Loidold & Partners GmbH founded

Team 03/09/2023 News

As of today, Loidold & Partners GmbH starts its business operations.

For those who prefer a visual experience, we’ve captured our insightful conversation with Mr. Loidold on video. Dive into the discussion and witness the passion and vision behind Loidold & Partners firsthand. If you’d rather read at your own pace, the complete transcript of the interview is provided below. Choose your preferred way to engage and enjoy!

Loidold & Partners is a consulting boutique that essentially offers Executive Search & Advisory in the Healthcare, Automotive & Mobility and Industrial & Tech sectors. It is strategically headquartered in Duesseldorf, Germany. In total, the company looks back on 15 years of consulting experience and over 200 advised Executive appointments on 5 continents, which customers buy now in a new, tailored boutique setup.

We wanted to learn more about this new contender in the market, and spoke to Matthias Loidold, Managing Director and co-founder of Loidold & Partners, about the company and it’s approach.

Mr Loidold, what was the motivation to found Loidold & Partners?

“The answer is very simple: To serve our clients better. In the least case, they get the very same quality and results they are used to, and the services they value. Just better, in the new setup. This is safe for them. We wanted to be an even better partner, which means the processes and team behind just “click”, which is important from the internal perspective, to deliver our services. In addition to that, we also see the demand for modern and integrated solutions, wherever this is required, adding complementary competence. The market does not offer that in fact, so we wanted to fill that gap.”

What is the “handwriting” of the new company?

“As mentioned, it is important to give clients what they need, with the quality and results they are used to from us. Now it is possible to serve more dedicated and tailored.

If you ask me, every client demand needs to be made simple, we always see our customers’ business holistically, when we understand the perspective of our clients. They all are human beings, Executives in a certain company, in a certain market with certain challenges. This holistic perspective, in my opinion, accounts for the success of crucial Executive & Search and Advisory, next to the pure toolset and the consultant’s style and competence. It also means that consulting excellence, intelligence, and modernity are increasingly important components today and in the future, which we simply wanted to take into our hands, in a company setup. We truly believe the new setup allows us to meet this demand, because we worked on it. So simple it sounds, but only then we can effectively simplify, to turn the challenges posed into plannable projects and results.”

Which clients do you target?

“In general, we do believe in focus and partnership. We are a boutique firm with a history. Because of that we target clients that have already trust into our consultants, in our sectors of expertise. We want to stay exclusive by design and offer partnership in return. Due to this approach, we only work with a limited number of clients at a time. We never delegate our work outside the company or our core partner network. If we take on a new client, this means we might not be able to serve an existing client, which we consider carefully. This is why we accept only new clients from our network or by warm referral.”

What do you expect in return from your clients for that commitment?

“In consequence of what I have said earlier, we have discovered a key ingredient for extraordinary success is to form alliances with our clients. Alliances of trust, of partnership, and to use the mutual history and memory. This means, we do not observe from the sideline. We become an integral but still advising expert part of our client’s core team. So what we want is engagements that are by principle always with a long-term commitment from both, our client’s and our side.”

What do your Partners do?

"As strived already, we have designed the company setup solely to our client’s needs. In addition to our core business, we can now offer additional services to our contacts, that are success-critical, just in case this is needed for success. If this is desired, it makes simply trust spread and uses our intimate view. In particular, our Executive clients tell us they also have a need for impactful advice in other complementary consulting fields, such as Footprint Strategy, Sustainability Strategy, M&A, Business Development or Supplier Sourcing. As I spoke about focus, all of this is not our own core competence. We use the core competence of others we know and verified well, as complementary expert Partners, that we have observed and evaluated over the years. Put simply, they also fit to our customer base, so that we can stand also for their quality and results. So our clients have much more “of the same mindset” with a single contact of trust.”

Does that mean these services are performed by your partners only?

“Take a consultant’s answer to this question: It depends! On what’s best for the client. Summarized, our partners have consulting expertise in their fields of Operations. We have Leadership & Talent expertise. If only one party performs a project, it might become one-sided, depending on the precise challenge. For example, we have seen a lot of Sourcing Strategy and Optimization projects that completely lack the talent perspective, so that the results cannot be sustainable, once the subject goes back inhouse. Short-term consulting results usually do are usually not in line with relevant inhouse talent to make it long-lasting. We even see it is a USP if “Operations” works with “Leadership & Talent” consulting hand in hand, which we can offer in combination with our Partners. I would not know of any other company setup in the market that could impactful offer both aspects.”

Does this setup complicate the business for clients that simply want your consulting in Executive Search & Advisory?

“Absolutely not. I spoke about the necessity to simplify any challenge, to make solutions impactful. These partners are just optional. However, it does not hurt to have these experts in the background, also in defining a classical Executive Search & Advisory project in the right way.”

Since you are a boutique firm, can your clients still expect “global reach”?

“In short, yes. Based on two pillars: Our own global experience is quite intense. Over 15 years we have been successful in 35 countries on 5 continents. And this is a lot. And we still “think global, act local” in order to keep that expertise alive. It helps that also our Partners act this way and may add relevant experience or insights to international assignments. So we can add the right trusted and verified competence wherever this is needed. ”

What would you advise your potential clients to do?

“Also for this question there is a very simple answer: Simply continue discussing with us, in order to talk about any kind of business challenge. In the least case clients will get a fresh perspective from a consultant that is acting in the client’s field, and that has heard a lot about problems and solutions. But it’s also likely we can design a solution, that can fly by design, to solve this challenge precisely and plannable. Which is what we all want.”

Sep 1st, 2023. Duesseldorf, Germany: Loidold & Partners GmbH founded