ForChiefs Alliance e.V.

ForChiefs is an Alliance of transformation specialists who believe it’s the people who create great companies, great cultures, and great results. We work hand in hand with front-runners – or ‘Chiefs’ – to empower and support ambitious change using our first-hand experience from working in global organizations. We invest time to understand their needs, design a customized journey, make them fall in love with their potential, and create experiences that connect minds and hearts.

Founding Member

Shift Collective

With ForChiefs we co-founded Shift Collective, a group of innovative agencies and consultancies in Germany, that stands for a new economy. We have joined forces to provide even better support for organisations, with the capacity of over 100 people and the agility of 10 founder-managed companies.

We are all united not only by our mission to change the economy in a sustainable way, but also to be a role model for this new economy: With the Shift Collective we turn 10 competitors into one strong partner.

Startup Institute

- Responsible for the European Startup Institute activities, based in Berlin. 
- Managed the team and developed courses that help people accelerate their career by building their professional and personal skills and increasing their network within the startup community.

Director 

Delivery Hero

- Responsible for HR, Talent Management, Internal & External Communication, Office Management, Brand Development and Project Management.
- Developed organisational health, professionalised people and projects and fostered culture, to strengthen the organisation of Delivery Hero whilst going through fast growth.

Chief Development Officer (CDO)

- Responsible for the global marketing ambitions of Delivery Hero, leading a multicultural team of 80 ambitious and talented marketers.
- Created the winning consumer-oriented service for food delivery with the motto 'The easiest way to your favourite food'.

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

- Led a department of 35 marketers, responsible for the performance of KPN in the consumer market, with a 2.2 million customer base and a €650 million P&L. 
- Created a future-proof business model, improvinge NPS and growing the customer base.

Director KPN Mobile

- Led a department of 30 marketers, responsible for the performance of KPN in the residential market, with a 1.8 million customer base and a €800 million P&L. 
- Took the commercial lead of a +100€ million project for nationwide introduction and roll out of network upgrades.

Director KPN Residential

- Led a team of five marketers, responsible for launching, developing and growing KPN TV.
- Designed the TV strategy and TV portfolio, which turned the traditional telecom operator KPN into a TV brand and a media company.

Director Interactive TV

E-Plus Mobilfunk

- Led a team for introducing and expanding a nationwide network of 300 franchise brand stores.

Manager E-Plus Partnershops

KPN Mobile

- Created the first mobile internet portfolio ‘i-Mode’.
- Led the market introductions and mass communication campaigns.

Senior Marketer Consumer Market and Soho Market

Ben (predecessor of T-Mobile)

- Legal Advisory in the field of customer care and complaints management.

Legal Counsel

I inspire people, teams and organizations with growing pains to ignite meaningful work.

I am an off-the-chart ENFP, a challenger, an activator and an optimist.  I use my left- and right brain hemispheres simultaneously, always exploring routes to the full potential of my clients. I don’t just work for companies, I work for people. I prefer to work with frontrunners, who are the multipliers in organizations, also known as ‘Chiefs'.  I love crafting highly ambitious plans, supporting brave transformations and creating future-proof cultures with them. I build long-term relationships and follow my clients on their path of transformation. 

My approach is an intense cocktail of learning, experiencing, debating, deepening, speeding up, laughing and translating all into daily life. People leave my sessions energized and determined to start. 

I travel around Europe to work with a high variety of clients and always return to my favorite city Berlin, where I live with my wife and kids.

If you need a sidekick to help you drive your transformation or need a coach to support your team, please reach out to me at hugo@forchiefs.com

Hugo Suidman

A1 Telekom Austria Group

- Lead for group-wide AI/data development programs, including needs assessment and aligning with key stakeholders, designing relevant learning measures for all target groups (employees, managers and executives) while ensuring that the AI learning programs contribute to A1´s corporate strategy.
- Leadership and Team Coach, delivering Experimentation Journeys for both employees, leaders and teams at A1.
- Global Process Lead for Workday Learning, ensuring implementation and regular improvements of the Workday Learning Module.
- Project and Process Lead for A1´s Individual Learning Budget Project
- Providing consultancy to various business units in A1 Group with regard to learning and organisational development

Senior Learning & Organisational Development Expert, Group HR

Hacking HR

Hacking HR Partner for Vienna Chapter

one.Vip, member of Telekom Austria Group

HR Business Partner for the Sales Department of one.Vip. 

Additionally responsible for:
- Reorganization and restructuring processes of one.Vip during the merge of 3 companies (Vip operator, One and blizoo) into one.Vip
- Single point of contact for HR projects on local, cluster and Group level (performance management, culture change management, talent management)
- Training & development activities of one.Vip (including budgeting, training needs analysis, negotiations with vendors, reporting)

HR Specialist

Vip operator - member of Telekom Austria Group

Responsible for:
- HR strategy (definition of activities and KPIs, implementation and reporting)
- HR projects (both local and Group) ensuring that all projects are implemented on time and within budget constraints
- HR budgets and forecasts
- Employees' training and development
- Talent Management 
- Defining and implementing recognition and reward programs
- Recruitment (internal, external, employee referral programs, social media recruitment, etc)
- Personnel marketing and cooperation with third parties (universities, career centers, etc) in order to ensure high quality talent pipeline
- Employee Health & Safety

Crown Agents

- Responsible for 6 translators/interpreters ensuring that all translations/interpretations were done in timely manner and with high quality;
- Work planning and prioritization; 
- Reporting (monthly) to the Project Team Leader re. the work of the translation team;

Head of Translation Team

Interpreter/Translator

EU Customs and Fiscal Assistance Office (CAFAO - MAK)

Assisting Senior EU Experts in implementing HR project activities as part of the EU-Customs and Fiscal Assistance Offices for the Western Balkans (CARDS Programme)

HR Assistant

EU CAFAO-MAK

Experienced Human Resources Expert with demonstrated history of working in all HR areas, except payroll. Passionate about helping people and organisations grow.

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