“After the Aufhebungsvertrag was signed, I needed someone who understood both Hamburg’s employer network and when to stay quiet. The weekly sessions kept my search moving without turning LinkedIn into a billboard. I wish we had started the target-list work a week earlier; the first intake was denser than I expected.”
Client stories
What leaders say after the search
Names are abbreviated to protect confidentiality. Each note refers to a real consultation type we offer.
“Our Works Council insisted on dignified support for two departing Geschäftsführer. NetOps Fusion reported milestones without leaking personal details — exactly the boundary we needed.”
“I came in convinced I wanted another permanent COO seat. The advisory package talked me into testing one interim mandate first. That single decision paid for the sessions.”
“Board positioning felt abstract until we rewrote my profile around governance moments rather than P&L slogans. Two Beirat conversations followed within a month.”
“Interview coaching for a PE-backed panel was blunt in a useful way. They caught a defensive habit I had developed after the exit announcement.”
Extended story
A divisional exit after a public restructuring
A northern German industrial group announced a divisional consolidation in the trade press. One of the directors affected already had a draft Aufhebungsvertrag and twelve weeks of garden leave. The brief to NetOps Fusion: rebuild a market narrative that acknowledged the reorganisation without sounding bitter, and open conversations in two adjacent sectors the client had never approached.
Intake took two long sessions — contract review with the client’s lawyer present for the first hour, then private positioning work. We rebuilt the CV around three P&L episodes, prepared a 45-second exit line, and mapped eighteen target companies. Six conversations were live within five weeks; an offer from a privately held competitor closed in month four.
The constraint that mattered most was the non-compete geography. Several attractive roles sat inside the restricted zone; declining them early saved weeks of false hope. The client later said the blunt target-list pruning was more useful than the interview coaching — though both were needed once a PE-backed panel entered the picture.