We are neither a marketing agency nor a recruitment firm. That is the point.
Marketing agencies can make content, but rarely know what a CFO or a head of procurement actually reacts to. Recruitment firms understand people, but have no interest in making your leaders visible. Talent Attract sits in between: we know how decision makers look for people, because we have done it ourselves. And we know how to teach an organisation to do something different tomorrow, because we have taught it for 15 years.
- Executive search
- Five years as a partner in search firms and as an agent for executives. Mandates at CEO, CFO, COO and CHRO level.
- Trainer
- 15 years as a trainer and speaker in sales, customer service and leadership. The 4MAT method.
- Leadership teams
- Since 2007. Certified in the Enneagram, DISC, MBTI, JTI, Garuda and OCAI. LEGO, Novo Nordisk, Coloplast, Telenor.
- Hundreds of profiles rebuilt, our own analysis tool with a 0 to 100 score, 13,000 followers.
- Today
- Founder and CEO of Talent Attract Agency and Stancein. Delivers everything himself.
We know how decision makers look for people, because we have done it ourselves. And we can teach an organisation to do something different tomorrow.
Book an intro call →The headhunter who ended up teaching people to be found
I have spent five years in executive search, both as a partner in search firms and as an agent for executives in transition. I have handled mandates at CEO, CFO, COO, CHRO and Head of level in IT and tech, finance, pharma, telecom, engineering and logistics, from brief to closing. I have interviewed, researched and hand picked the people who never apply for a job, and I have seen how few of them can be found on LinkedIn when you look.
That experience is what Talent Attract is built on. Not theory about algorithms, but knowledge of what a researcher, a buyer and a chairman actually click on when they are looking for someone like you.
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Sales and customer service, before it became LinkedIn
Before executive search I spent eight years training salespeople, customer service staff and their managers, first as a partner at Limbic, then as senior consultant at Westergaard, which bought the customer service concept I had developed. Thousands of people in customer service, public service centres and IT support have been through those programmes. The results were measured on the bottom line: inbound conversion rates that went from 3.5 to 21 percent, and customer satisfaction that rose at the same time. It is the same principle we use on LinkedIn today: behaviour that can be measured, not activity that can be seen.
Leadership and people
I have worked with leadership teams since 2007, as a speaker, trainer and advisor in motivation, culture and leadership. I am certified in the Enneagram, DISC, MBTI, JTI, Garuda, OCAI and a range of validated five factor tests, and I founded Business Culture Institute, where we helped companies compose teams by both culture and diversity. Companies I have trained in include LEGO, Leo Pharma, Novo Nordisk, Coloplast, Telenor and GlaxoSmithKline. That is why leadership teams are where I do my best work: I know the CFO and the sales director should not have the same LinkedIn strategy, because they are not the same kind of person and do not need to reach the same people.
Trainer and speaker
I have stood in front of groups for 15 years, from two day courses to 20 minute slots at an industry day. I use 4MAT because it works: people need to know why before they will listen to what, and they need to try how before they do it at home. That is why my workshops end with people having changed something, not just having heard something.
Today
Founder and CEO of Talent Attract Agency and Stancein. I have rebuilt hundreds of LinkedIn profiles, built an analysis tool that scores a profile from 0 to 100, and I post myself to 13,000 followers about how LinkedIn actually works. And I still do executive search, just from the other side of the table: as an agent for the executives who want to move on without shouting about it.
People trust people
Logos come second.
Visibility without direction is noise
One audience. One message. Then it gets heard.
What cannot be measured does not get done
So we measure. Before, after and along the way.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Balder Vendt-Striim?
Founder and CEO of Talent Attract Agency and Stancein. Former Executive Search Partner at Hudson Nordic and Ballisager, partner at Limbic and senior consultant at Westergaard in customer service and sales, and founder of Business Culture Institute. Trainer and speaker since 2007 with a focus on LinkedIn, leadership, sales and customer service.
Does Talent Attract do executive search?
Not as a classic search firm. We act as agents for executives and pass mandates on to our search partners. In return, we know exactly what the search process looks like from the inside, and that is the knowledge we use to make your people visible to the right ones.
Which industries do you work with?
All where people buy from people. The experience is deepest in IT and tech, pharma, finance, engineering, logistics and B2B sales in general.
Let's have a short, no-strings conversation
A 30 minute intro call. Then you know if it makes sense, and we know what you need.