Background
Tero Panhelainen is the CEO, a partner and an executive search consultant at Executive Hunt Oy. He has broad experience of leading, growing and developing businesses, and of working with senior executives, executive teams and key people. Experience of different business environments, situations of change and growth projects gives him a strong foundation for understanding clients’ strategic business, leadership and competence needs.
He is able to quickly grasp a client’s current business situation, objectives and key challenges, and to identify the competence needs that are critical to achieving them. He helps clients distil the real purpose of key roles, the capabilities essential for success, and the factors that decide success in that particular role and operating environment.
Expertise and way of working
In executive search assignments, he focuses in particular on searches for boards, senior management and other strategically important key people. His approach is based on a deep understanding of the client’s business, careful definition of needs, and the ability to build the role, the company and the opportunity into an attractive whole that appeals to the candidates best suited to the role.
Experience in business development, strategy execution and change management helps him identify what kind of leadership, competence and personal readiness different situations require. This supports both the client’s decision-making and the assessment of candidates in situations where the choice has a significant impact on the company’s future, competitiveness or growth objectives.
In his way of working, Tero is goal-oriented, solution-focused and practical. For him, a successful search does not mean merely finding the right person. The aim is to make sure that the person’s competence, leadership capability and motivation meet the organisation’s objectives in a way that enables lasting business success.
