Sörge Drosten

Sörge Drosten is Managing Director and owner of BOARDLINK Executive Consultants International GmbH and founder of the BOARDLINK Global Network. He has been one of the most renowned personnel consultants in Germany and Europe for twenty years. His clients include numerous family-managed companies as well as medium-sized businesses and large corporations placing confidence in him. During his career he has successfully completed more than 1,000 search mandates.

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Sörge Drosten served for 16 years as a managing director and partner with different responsibilities for the Kienbaum Group. As the managing director responsible for twenty international offices in America, Europe and Asia and as head of the global Technology Practice he left his mark and sustainably defined Kienbaum’s executive search division. Previously, Sörge Drosten worked as Vice President and Member of the Executive Board of the Korn / Ferry Group, leading the Technology Practice in Germany. To launch his career in corporate and human resources consulting, he chose the British No. 1, PA Consulting Group, where he successfully realized major mandates in the automotive industry and in the mechanical engineering sector. Working as a Human Resources Manager at EMEA level at Hewlett Packard, Sörge Drosten gained industrial experience in the field of technology and personnel. Sörge Drosten studied business administration at the University of Muenster, graduating with honours, and obtained his doctorate (“summa cum laude”) on “Integrated Organization and Personnel Development in a Learning Organization” after dual studies of business administration, psychology and sociology. Both „Wirtschaftswoche“ and Vertriebsmanager called him one of Germany’s “100 most important head hunters”. Sörge Drosten is a trained executive coach and certified for the assessment tools of Hogan (HPI, HDS, MVPI), SHL (opq), Saville (wave), Talogy, Bochumer Inventar zur berufsbezogenen Persönlichkeitsbeschreibung (BIP), DISG and Thomas Assessments.