AWARDS AND PARTNERS
HAGER is EXCELLENT
WirtschaftsWoche has named HAGER Executive Consulting GmbH one of Germany’s Best Executive Search Consultancies for the ninth consecutive year.
FOCUS Business has named HAGER Executive Consulting GmbH a TOP Recruitment Services Provider in Executive Search for the 13th consecutive year.
Handelsblatt has ranked HAGER Executive Consulting GmbH among the Best Executive Search Consultancies for the fifth consecutive year.
As an employer, HAGER has been named a TOP Employer among German mid-sized companies by FOCUS Business five times, most recently in 2022. On kununu, employees rate HAGER 4.3 out of 5 based on 79 reviews, and 100 per cent would recommend us (as of October 2026).
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In 2025, the SZ Institute of Süddeutsche Zeitung and the market research institute Innofact assessed 177 executive search consultancies. Firms scoring an index value of at least 100 received the award, HAGER among them.
STRATEGIC PARTNER
HAGER Executive Consulting works together with the career network specialising in ‘IT careers for lateral entrants’ as part of a strategic partnership.
With the HAGER ACADEMY and its MASTER CLASS PROGRAMMES, we offer our customers advanced and further training at executive level.
Certified and exclusive training programme for advisory and supervisory board mandates
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS DIVERSITY & INTEGRATION
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS DIVERSITY & INTEGRATION
MEMBERSHIPS
HAGER Executive Consulting is an associate member of bitkom, the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media.
PropTech Powerhouse e.V. provides networking for players in the construction and property industry.
automotive BerlinBrandenburg e.V. – Your association for the automotive supply industry in the capital region.
ACADEMIC EDUCATION PARTNERS
HAGER MILESTONES
2023
Introduction of HAGER-GPT, an AI to support our consultants
Named a TOP Recruitment Services Provider in Executive Search by FOCUS Business for the tenth consecutive year, alongside awards from Handelsblatt and WirtschaftsWoche
2022
HAGER acquires CONVENIO, a consulting boutique in the digitalization sector
HAGER becomes ‘The Human Potential Company’: We are expanding strategic partnerships to offer holistic recruiting solutions such as interim management, IT lateral entry and supervisory board qualification
2019
HAGER welcomes its hundredth employee
2016
Introduction of the ‘4iProcess’® as a process approach for precise project support in the area of personnel consulting
2015
Partner of Horton International, with more than 45 offices worldwide across the Americas, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia
2011
HAGER is entering the market with ‘Employment Lifecycle Solutions’ ® (ELS) and is expanding its portfolio to include the HAGER Academy, Assessment and Change
2004
Martin Krill is appointed to the Management Board
1999
First multinational corporations as clients
1996
Ralf Hager and Oliver Badura found HAGER