Katja Bauer

For over 15 years, Katja Bauer has been supporting leading companies in Germany with filling key positions and building future-proof leadership structures. With a deep understanding of the challenges across various company stages – from scale-ups to family businesses to corporations – she advises organizations driving transformation and innovation.

Her executive-level career began as the first Head of HR at Zalando, where she significantly contributed to developing recruiting and HR structures during a phase of hyper-growth. Subsequently, she successfully built and optimized HR structures in numerous renowned companies such as reBuy, Flaconi, and Jamba before transitioning to executive search. In this role, she applies her comprehensive expertise in organizational and leadership development and, as a certified HOGAN expert, uses sophisticated personality analyses to precisely assess executives and support companies in optimally filling their key executive positions.