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Joachim Leuck is a Managing Partner and Senior Executive Search Consultant with more than 35 years of professional experience in line management and consulting roles. For over 15 of those years, he has been advising boards, shareholders, and top management teams on filling executive, C-level, and board positions in industrial and manufacturing companies with complex supply chain and logistics structures.
Professional Focus
- Trusted advisor with expertise in leadership, succession, and transformation-related search mandates for senior executive and C-level positions as well as board positions.
- Co-Head of the global sub-practice Supply Chain & Logistics. Member of the Industrial and Consumer Retail Practice.
- Draws on a consulting background to rapidly internalize industry-specific dynamics and provide senior-level advisory also across the tech industry, professional services and human resources.
- Extensive experience advising mid-sized and large family-owned companies, both owner-led and externally managed.
- Mother tongue in German, fluent in English, with good command of French and Italian.
Business Expertise
- Co-led the German office of an international executive search firm, with overall responsibility for senior executive search and leadership advisory mandates.
- Held senior leadership roles in executive search, combining executive search and management audit mandates at C-suite, senior functional and board level.
- Consulting for clients in the services and logistics, industrial and manufacturing, and consumer goods and retail sectors, supplemented by selected clients in the TIME industries (telecommunications, IT, media, and electronics).
- Entrepreneurial background as Managing Director and Co-Owner of a medium-sized IT enterprise, providing first-hand insight into ownership structures, operational leadership and business transformation.
- Earlier career includes senior responsibilities in service portfolio and segmentation within a telecommunications environment (RWE/VEBA joint venture), as well as management and strategy consulting experience (McKinsey & Company).
Additional Expertise
- TIME Industries
- Human Resources
- Supply Chain & Logistics
- Professional Services
Areas of Expertise
Education & Certifications
- Diploma in Business Administration (Diplom-Kaufmann), University of Cologne; majors in Marketing and Organization.
Affiliations & Awards
- Top Executive Search Firm (2025) WirtschaftsWoche
- Top Executive Search Firm (2025) Handelsblatt
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