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18 years in HR Management with solid background in executive search. Experience in multinational organisations and diversified holdings. Skilled in global talent acquisition, HR partnering for internationally dispersed teams, leadership development, and coaching. Working with the following regions: MENA (UAE, Turkey, Egypt, Uzbekistan), LatAm (Colombia, Brazil), India, SEA (The Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam), EU (The Netherlands, Latvia, Romania), Moldova.
As HRD I support corporate group functions at Dyninno group. Manage strategic human capital activities for Finance and Accounting, Treasury, Admin and Procurement, PR & Communications, Legal and Compliance.
Oversee and provide advice to management on various HR topics, like HR policies and procedures, staffing plans, compensation and benefits, global recruitment, professional development, labor relations and personnel related taxation in different countries of the company's presence, and etc.
Managing a dispersed team of 8 professionals. 
➡️Most people don’t realise they’re underselling themselves until the opportunities stop coming.
I’m a reinvention and discovery architect. I work with leaders and professionals ready to own their next chapter with purpose, drive, and impact. Our globally based clients range from Board Chairs and C-Suite executives of billion-dollar companies to non-profit leaders asking the same question: what’s next?
This isn’t coaching from the sidelines. We get in the ring with you. Together we design bespoke frameworks to clarify what you want, build the strategy to achieve it, and connect you with the right experts to accelerate progress. From sharpening your leadership collateral to launching new ventures or positioning your next career move, everything is focused on tangible outcomes and momentum.
Over the past two decades, I’ve built businesses, scaled startups, led global teams, and interviewed over 6,000 people across industries and cultures. I’ve lived and worked across Asia, Europe, Australia, and the US and learned as much from my mistakes as from my successes. What drives me is helping people cut through noise, rediscover their relevance, and create impact that lasts.
If you’re ready to stop underselling yourself and start leading your next chapter, let’s talk. 
I am a big enthusiast of people and a nomad still looking for home.
What does this mean and how did I get here?
My initial career took off in executive search in one of top three global companies in this niche - Spencer Stuart. My alma mater allowed me to grow from an Analyst to a Head of Practice.
I spent 9 years in the industry, built Retail&Foodtech practice from scratch, earned over $1,5 mln in projects revenue in just a year and a half - and totally burned out.
My dream job search and my exhaustive network brought me into tech start-ups.
For three years, I have been building HR strategy, including recruitment, onboarding and development in two very different start-ups - a quick-commerce ultrafast delivery and an i-gaming with AI-stack. Along the way, I started managing business processes - moving step by step through those which were not working, rebuilding them and implementing the new ones hand to hand with the C-level team.
For the last six years, my big focus has also been on people development - because no brilliant recruitment process will work if you do not care about growing your team’s diversified skills. I got certified in Hogan assessment, my favorite and one of the most valid psychometric assessment and development approaches - and conducted over 500 individual assessments by now.
My recent project had to do with a new level of teams building and development - communities, and in particular an open source AI community.
Being a passionate Burner and an experienced Burning Man events leader in Israel, Russia and the US, I believe that communities have much more potential than we can imagine - and my dream is to help tech teams to realize this potential.
Having lived in Israel, Russia and the US, I am still looking for home, yet meet amazing people striving to grow and build great businesses worldwide.
Currently, I am developing my own consultancy focused on tech talent recruitment and Hogan assessment, as well as community building. People first - I strongly believe in this motto and live by it.
DM me if you need to grow and develop your team and community - a free 30-minutes call will lead us to the greater next steps! 
Jakob Stengel is recognized as one of the global executive search industry’s leading board search and board evaluation experts, having been involved at the forefront of the board leadership and corporate governance agenda for more than 25 years.
Jakob is the CEO & Managing Partner of Case Rose | InterSearch and Global Head of Board Practice within InterSearch. In addition, he is the founder & chair of Board Network - The Danish Professional Directors Association, and the founder & chair of Board Mentors.
Case Rose | InterSearch is the premier Copenhagen-based international retained executive search and leadership consulting firm. As part of InterSearch, it operates through an unparalleled global network of more than 90 offices in over 50 countries across the world.
Case | Rose InterSearch has the by far largest database of board candidates in the Nordics, incl. the largest database of female board candidates.
Jakob joined the firm in 2012 after 5 years as a partner with 3 other leading global executive search firms; Boyden, Odgers Berndtson and Stanton Chase.
Jakob has versatile strategic and leadership skills, and significant consulting experience as a trusted advisor for a vast number of DK's Top 200-companies. Further, he has profound experience at strategic level from international and cross-cultural corporate environments.
His search experience spans over several industries and functional areas, primarily on Board- and C-level, and he is the most sought-after expert in the Nordics on high level searches after diverse candidates.
Jakob has co-authored a number of management books, incl. The Handbook of Board Governance (Wiley), and is a recognized media expert and frequent speaker on the topics of corporate governance, leadership and career management. He is the Editor in Chief of the magazine "Board Perspectives", and for 3 years he was an external lecturer on the MBA program at Copenhagen Business School, and has also taught on the Executive Board Program at INSEAD / SEI.
Jakob holds a Master in Law (LL.M.) from University of Copenhagen, and has more than 22 years of experience in serving as Chair / Non-executive Director on more than 10 different corporate boards.
Specialties:
Executive Search & Board Search
Board Leadership & Corporate Governance
Board Evaluation, Management Assessment & HR Due Diligence
Geopolitics
Strategic Optionality
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Succession Planning
Executive Pay & Board Remuneration
Executive & Business Coaching
Career Management & Development
Extensive international & multi-cultural experience 
I am a Senior Principal at ghSMART, where I advise boards and CEOs to improve outcomes of their executive selection, onboarding, and development, increase team effectiveness, and accelerate organizational change. I believe that great leaders elevate the quality of life of an individual, group, and society.
Prior to ghSMART, I was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company. I advised executives on their top organization and talent priorities to unlock growth and strategy execution. I have served world-leading companies across industries (such as energy, pharmaceuticals, consumer health, medical products, education, and telecom) on operating model transformation, organizational design, top team effectiveness, talent management, and Organizing for the Future.
For over 10 years, I have been a coach to senior executives and teams, focusing on topics of leading diverse teams, executive derailment, and top team effectiveness. I have completed my Executive Coaching certification at Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute, and am a certified practitioner with multiple personality assessment instruments, including Hogan Assessments.
I have earned my MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, and have a PhD in Economics and a Master’s in Systems Engineering.
I live in Potomac, Maryland with my wife, daughter, and two sons. I enjoy reading, cooking, traveling the world, amateur woodworking, and spending time outdoors (all my kids had their first night camping before they learned to walk). Outside of work, I am also involved in community organizations focused on Jewish youth and education. 
