Thorsten Eger
Leadership certainty through growth and transformation
Interim and fractional Chief HR Officer / Chief People Officer (CPO) leadership, plus People & Culture advisory for growth, transformation and culture.
Four types of mandates -
One standard of ownership
From full-time interim or ongoing fractional CHRO / CPO accountability to focused advisory work, every engagement is scoped to the decision your organisation needs next.
Interim & Fractional CHRO / CPO Leadership
Stepping in at CHRO / CPO or divisional head level, either full-time on an interim basis or fractional on an ongoing part-time mandate, to lead the People & Culture function through a vacancy, crisis, growth phase or strategic inflection point, with full line accountability from day one.
Transformation & Culture
Leadership of transformation, talent management, organisational development and culture programmes, through to adoption.
Start-up & Scale-up
Building the People & Culture foundation early, from first hires to organisational design, without a full-time executive seat.
Executive & Team Coaching
Coaching leaders and teams through forming periods and helping build high-performing teams and organisations.
Built for handover -
From week one
An interim mandate that never plans its own exit is not transformation; it is dependency.
Every engagement runs through four phases.
Diagnose
A fast, honest read of the organisation: structure, talent, culture and the politics that determine whether change sticks.
Stabilise
Taking the seat, restoring trust and momentum in the function, and aligning the leadership team behind a shared plan.
Build
Leading the transformation and culture programme itself, with coaching for the team that will own it going forward.
Hand over
A deliberate transition to a permanent leader or internal team, with the function stronger than at the start.
Two decades inside the function -
Before advising on it
Thorsten Eger works as an independent interim and advisory People & Culture leader.
He has spent more than two decades in senior HR or People & Culture roles.
He has run People & Culture as a Centre-of-Expertise leader and as a generalist with P&L-level accountability, at local, regional, global & corporate levels, across start-ups, scale-ups, SMEs & blue-chip multinationals in IT, telecommunications, media, life sciences and trade fairs.
Companies include: Deutsche Telekom, Roche, Novartis and Johnson & Johnson across six countries: Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Russia, Canada and the UAE.
Career
Tools, recognition and
a few personal notes
Certifications that support the work, alongside the commitments and habits that sit outside the mandate.
Certifications
- Certified Executive Coach and systemic Organisational Development practitioner
- Certified for Hogan, MBTI, Korn Ferry LA/SP, Korn Ferry and Hays 360 Feedback and Human Synergistics OCI/LWS
- Certified IDI Coach (Intercultural Development Inventory) and ICS (Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory)
Beyond the mandate
- Strong DE&I advocate with external recognition (EDA nomination, D&I list in The Guardian)
- Volunteer: Tandem 50+, the ETH female leadership programme and Lufthansa Cargo Human Care
- Yoga and long-distance hiker
Alongside founders, boards and institutions
Alongside interim mandates, Thorsten takes a small number of advisory seats where People & Culture judgement sits with strategy.
People & Culture judgement at the table where strategy is set.
Embedded interim leadership across people & communications.
Recommending nominations of future ordinary and honorary members of the Aiglon College Association.
Context that supports the work
Teaching, publishing and a small professional network sit beside the firm.
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. Teaching International HRM and HR Leadership.
As HR Advisor and ambassador to allygatr, Europe's Future-of-Work venture builder, and its consortium members.
Regular commentary on the evolution of People & Culture, most recently on interim HR leadership, including why interim CHROs have become a strategic instrument, not an emergency fix.
A selective advisory affiliation across multiple boutique consulting firms. Used where specialised search or network support strengthens a mandate.
Recent writing
From emergency fix to strategy -
Changing role of the interim CHRO
How interim management moved from crisis turnarounds to a deliberate strategic tool, and when interim leadership creates the most impact. (Built on a real case)
Read on HR Today (DE)Presence
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Whether you need interim CHRO / CPO leadership at pace, ongoing fractional leadership, or senior advisory on a People & Culture decision, start with a short conversation.
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