Value-based Leadership
Dr. Stefan Bornheim
“Today’s executive assessments and development frameworks are often oversimplified and guided by a technocratic mindset—systematically overlooking the success-critical dimensions that lie beyond meritocracy.”
Dr. Stefan Bornheim, Founder and Managing Partner TSBC

Ensuring an organization’s long-term viability through holistic, value-based leadership assessment and development beyond meritocracy.

Technological expertise and analytical skill are essential components of any modern leader’s toolkit. Yet despite their dominance in today’s selection and development processes, they remain insufficient when it comes to leading existential transformations or restoring competitiveness.

World-class leaders distinguish themselves through an exceptional balance of heart and mind. They navigate complexity, ambiguity, and politically sensitive conflicts with integrity, emotional intelligence, and a deeply anchored value system.

It is this very interplay that enables them to thrive amid accelerating change—where politics and economics increasingly intertwine, geopolitical powers realign, and established value chains are disrupted.

Because these competencies cannot be captured through standardized scoring models, our value-based leadership framework was designed to address this gap.

Read more about value-based leadership in the interview with Dr. Stefan Bornheim, Mr. Frederik Sonner, and Mr. Ole Matthiessen in Monocle, Volume 169. (click here to open PDF).

Our approach

Viktor Frankl
“Unlike animals, no instinct tells humans what they must do. And unlike people in earlier times, no tradition tells them anymore what they should do. Today, humanity no longer seems to know quite what it truly wants.”
Viktor Frankl, Österreichischer Neurologe und Psychiater

To set the right guardrails in a world defined by unprecedented change, pervasive ambiguity, and rising complexity, we must first understand the hearts and minds of those who lead.

At the core of our approach lies a simple conviction: true leadership begins with an understanding of one’s inner drive—how a leader’s nature interacts with the ecosystem around them.

We assess core beliefs, values, personality, moral integrity, confidence, and the ability to challenge oneself at the deepest level.

Only the symbiotic interplay between a leader’s heart and mind and their external environment enables individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve the extraordinary.

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