Winning Employees Who Stay.
How do you find employees who not only have the right professional skills, but are also truly a good fit for the role…
Dr. René Kusch
Managing Partner
“Relevance results from goal orientation, effectiveness, and fun.”
Dr. René Kusch is convinced that the right assessment helps people grow and creates value. As one of the leading Hogan experts in the German-speaking world, he helps people achieve strategic self-knowledge and helps leaders make conscious decisions. Clear, profound, sustainable, and effective.
As a psychologist, he combines his scientific expertise with entrepreneurial thinking and smart ideas while staying in the background and supporting those in the foreground. His appreciative approach creates a climate in which awareness of one's own competence can develop, in group as well as individual work. Dr. Kusch's approach is well proven and world-experienced.
Articles from Dr. René Kusch
RELEVANT at Zukunft Personal Europe 2026
From 15 to 17 September 2026, RELEVANT will once again be at Zukunft Personal Europe in Cologne. For us, the event is…
RELEVANT Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary
How time flies! 2026 is a very special year for RELEVANT as we celebrate our 10th anniversary. We look back on an…
How We Help Executive Search Firms and Recruitment Providers with Scientific Assessment
Many executive search firms and recruitment providers want to offer their clients not only a professional search…
HLX: Experience Leadership Development in a New Way
Effective leadership begins with understanding your own personality, behavior, and impact on others. Scientifically…
Certified, evidence-based, practical – diagnostics with real impact
In a working world shaped by constant change, growing complexity, and increasing demands on leadership, valid…
Integrity, Clarity & Inspiration – Employees in Germany want leaders who act ethically
German organizations place a high value on independence and vision. They tend to promote proactive, strategically…
Performance vs. Potential
Many high-potential programs focus on current performance—and in doing so, overlook true leadership potential. Yet…
360-Degree Feedback and Personality Assessments: An Effective Tool for Leadership Development
In many organizations today, leadership development is a key challenge: roles are changing rapidly, and demands are…
From values to impact – How inner drivers shape corporate success
What really drives people? What motivates them to get up in the morning, and what invisible forces shape their…
Spotlight on Germany: Emergent Leadership
Understanding the personalities of leaders who run and influence top companies in Germany can provide deep insights…
RELEVANT featured on Gründerszene / Business Insider
How accurate are personality tests in recruiting? And what do they really reveal about leadership potential? In a…
Not Everything That Glitters Is Gold: The Dark Side of Leadership
Charismatic, confident, impressive – at first glance, many leaders seem like the perfect candidates for top positions.…
Future Skills: What the Big Players Agree On – and How to Put It into Practice
Companies today and in the future face unprecedented challenges—geopolitical shifts, labor shortages, digitalization…
Schon gehört? Jung & Naiv - Politik für Desinteressierte
Am 03. Mai feiern wir den Internationalen Tag der Pressefreiheit. Vor diesem Hintergrund möchten wir auf die wertvolle…
Food for thought: Do We Need Less or More Diagnostics in Personnel Selection?
Companies are increasingly reporting difficulties in finding qualified staff and filling open positions. In HR…
Dr. René Kusch joins Mind Shift Talk: Personality as the key to successful transformations.
On July 5th, 2023, Dr. René Kusch was a guest on Mind Shift Talk with Stephanie Schorp, an inspiring (German) podcast…
The Importance of Competency Assessments for Sustainable Talent Management
More than ever, the future of organizations depends critically on reliably identifying and developing the competencies…
Rethinking Leadership mit Dr. Robert Hogan – ein Rückblick auf ein RELEVANT Highlight 2022
For many, the turn of the year is an opportunity to look back, evaluate and set ambitious goals for the coming year.…
Mini Me or Diversity? Data rather than anecdotes: Why diversity pays off empirically
“No one shall be discriminated against or given preference because of his or her sex, ancestry, race, language, home…
Unconscious Bias im Recruiting – Mini-Me oder Diversity? Belastbare Personalentscheidungen mit Hogan Assessments
Do you recall? March 8, 2022 was once again International Women’s Day. As usual, the (social) media were full of posts…
Freihändig verändern und führen (Podcast)
Personality is relatively stable and yet can also be subject to change. Oliver König and Dr. René Kusch shed light on…
Coachability: A Question of Attitude and Personality
In a perfect world, good coaching would produce good results. Any great executive coach would produce world-class…
How to Grow Humility in Charismatic Leaders
Emergent leaders, the ones that get noticed, promoted and pampered in their organizations, typically exhibit strong…
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