Tobias partners with clients across industries to assess and develop their executive talents leadership teams. Based in Frankfurt, Tobias brings over 17 years of experience in leadership advisory services, talent analytics, and strategic Management assessment and benchmarking. He works closely with clients, coaching and advising them in succession management, CEO and C-Suite assessments, individual and top team development journeys, and the design and rollout of company-wide Management audits and talent identification processes. Assessing a person’s readiness and future potential to be sustainably successful in a fast-changing world is one of Tobias’ key interests and passions. Previously, Tobias was a principal at Kienbaum Consultants International, a Germany-based global management consultancy, where he advised health care, life sciences, industrial, consumer, and financial services clients on management assessment and leadership development and effectiveness programs. In that role, he conducted top executive assessments for placement, succession, and leadership transition purposes, designed and implemented company-specific leadership frameworks, and led international consultant teams to identify global top talents. Before that, he spent almost ten years in academia at leading German universities, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and the University of Arizona, where he engaged in the study and research of intellectual competence, personality and individual differences, personnel selection and other industrial and organizational psychology related topics. Tobias holds a PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in psychology from Humboldt University of Berlin and an MA and BA (Diplom) in psychology from the University of Mannheim.