
The Top 5 Trends in German HR in the 2020s
The HR trends shaping work in the coming decade are already here – we present five that will impact Germany over the next ten years.

China: The Master of Succession Planning
Despite the current uncertainties in China, it has a strong economic outlook and a demand for talent from around the world. This is especially noteworthy for the global HR community.
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Well-Being at Work
(Wherever That Might Be)
Well-being at work has been growing in importance over the years. Without the right focus and action, the workplace can cause or contribute to many forms of both physical and mental illness. We showcase some of the latest thinking on well-being and explore its importance to organisations.
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Engaging a Remote Workforce – Maximizing Productivity
Many individuals and organizations have found themselves suddenly confronting the challenges of a remote workforce. ChapmanCG embraced virtual working from our inception. In this article, we share some best practices and insights from ourselves and global HR leaders.
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Global HR Leaders Look to an Agile Future
The workplace is changing in unprecedented ways. We see HR pushed to the forefront of businesses, playing a critical role in becoming a driver of agility, and enabling a new type of organisation designed around a more responsive and nimbler workforce.
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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
(And Why We Need It)
Today’s leaders must be able to understand themselves and their teams to be able to get the best of the people they lead. In this article, we look at the impact emotionally intelligent leadership has on organizations.
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Alan Mait
Managing Director
Consulting Team
Alan Mait is a Managing Director with ChapmanCG based in The United States. He is a trained Barrister-at-Law with 16 years’ executive search and recruitment experience spanning North America, Latin America, Asia, and the United Kingdom. Today, Alan is responsible for executive search for ChapmanCG’s top clients across The Americas region. Within the U.S., Alan has led successful searches for global, regional and country level HR generalist and specialist roles nationwide. Prior to joining ChapmanCG, Alan worked in Hong Kong with a highly reputable boutique retained search firm.
Throughout his career, Alan has learned the value of cultivating, maintaining and enhancing relationships with senior business and HR leaders, offering credible and accurate market information to aid key hiring decisions. His successes have fueled a desire to keep learning and to appreciate the unique challenges inherent in each hiring process. He is passionate about bringing greater diversity into organizations and helping the next generation of leaders achieve great things.
A keen sportsman, Alan spends most of his spare time in the boxing ring or gym and enjoys the occasional stroll around a golf course.
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Katherine Qu
Senior Director
Consulting Team
Katherine is a Senior Director with ChapmanCG, based in Singapore. She works with the global team to identify top HR talent across Asia, North America, and Europe.
Prior to joining ChapmanCG, Katherine started her own executive search business in Beijing, which focused on senior executive roles for leading Chinese companies in the consumer, healthcare and real estate industries. Subsequently, Katherine held positions with Hudson and Charterhouse Partnership, a boutique executive search firm based in Singapore. Katherine has also had extensive industry experience across different sectors with global leaders such as Pepsi, Pfizer, and Lenovo.
Katherine was born in China and was educated in both China and the United States, achieving her Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland. She has worked in China, Singapore and the United States, and speaks both Mandarin and English fluently.
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Lucy Allard
Director
Consulting Team
Lucy is a Director with ChapmanCG based in London. Her recruitment career spans over 10 years working across Singapore, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. She works with the team to identify high-calibre HR talent across Europe, as well as globally.
Prior to joining ChapmanCG, Lucy held a variety of senior consulting roles at Profile Search & Selection and a boutique Singapore-based search firm, where she was instrumental in growing the firm’s HR network. Lucy has also worked as an in-house search consultant within the travel and leisure industry. Before moving into executive search, Lucy worked at M&C Saatchi for several years in account management.
Lucy holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Manchester. Outside work, Lucy enjoys traveling and being as active as possible, be it skiing, yoga, tennis or simply running around after her three young children.
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Nicola Hasling
Director
Consulting Team
Nicola Hasling is a Director with ChapmanCG and is based in Houston in the United States. She leads senior searches for ChapmanCG’s major clients across a range of industries and identifies high-caliber CHRO and senior HR executive talent.
Prior to joining ChapmanCG, Nicola was with Heidrick & Struggles International where she was a core member of the firm’s CHRO, CEO and Board of Directors, Private Equity, and Energy and Natural Resources practices.
She has over 15 years’ experience in executive search, including managing the Houston office of a United Kingdom-based search firm and conducting senior-level assignments across Europe. In her earlier career, Nicola also worked in human resources management roles, corporate sales and for the diplomatic service in London and Prague.
Nicola grew up in the United Kingdom and holds an MBA from Henley Management College, England. Now living in Houston, Texas with her family, she is a keen tennis player and enjoys spending time with her horse, including competing in eventing.
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Nicola Hasling Joins Americas Team as Director
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René Rosso
Senior Director
Consulting Team
René is a Senior Director at ChapmanCG based in Germany. He focuses on senior executive HR search mandates across Germany and EMEA while partnering with local and global clients.
René has extensive experience and knowledge in the recruitment industry, having spent the last 8 years focussing on multi-sector HR positions.
Prior to joining ChapmanCG René helped established three recruitment agencies in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf from scratch. In his last position René launched and led the German business for Frazer Jones, a UK-based recruitment agency for Human Resources positions, where he was responsible for building the business and shaping local teams while delivering senior HR mandates for national and global clients.
René studied political sciences, Anglo-American history and English and holds a diploma in Information Economics from the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne. Before moving into the recruitment business in 2006, René worked in the media sector as information specialist, including five years at RTL, one Europe’s biggest broadcasting companies.
René, who supports his Borussia Mönchengladbach, enjoys quality time with family and friends, going to indie concerts and loves being outside hiking or running his yearly marathon and competes in his local triathlon club.
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Steve Brown
Managing Director
Consulting Team
Steve Brown is Managing Director with ChapmanCG based between Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. He leads the ChapmanCG team across Southeast Asia and Greater China. Steve has 20+ years’ experience in the search industry, gained in the United Kingdom and the Asia Pacific.
Steve has developed a strong track record of successfully delivering multiple high-profile HR searches across Asia, and across various industry sectors. He is passionate about fostering long-term partnerships with HR influencers and top HR talent regionally and globally.
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Tim Spriggs
Managing Director
Consulting Team
Tim Spriggs is a Managing Director with ChapmanCG based in the UK. He works with the team to identify high-calibre HR talent across EMEA and internationally.
Tim has worked on behalf of some of the top global multinationals and has a background in global HR search. He works with our teams across Europe, APAC and North America to foster our strong links between our global headquarters and the regions.
Tim spent five years in Singapore where he was instrumental in building the China business and covered international work out of Asia. Prior to ChapmanCG, Tim worked for JD Haspel, a boutique London-based executive search firm, where he specialised in EMEA HR search assignments across multiple sectors including technology, pharmaceuticals, financial services and natural resources.
Before moving into executive search, Tim’s passion for sport led him to his first career in sports marketing and media sponsorship with Octagon. He has a BA (Hons) in American Studies from the University of Nottingham, and a CIM Diploma from the London School of Marketing.
In his spare time, Tim enjoys running and cycling in the Chilterns and is known to have the occasional swim in the Thames near his home in Henley.
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