History

“Who doesn’t know the past cannot understand the present. Who doesn’t understand the present cannot shape the future.“ (Hans–Friedrich Bergmann)

It is well known that a person’s unique biography has much to say about that person’s likely future behaviour and professional success. Probing into a person’s professional and personal history is therefore an essential element of any meaningful diagnostic process.

Exploring these backstories can give us an invaluable first insight and a yardstick for recognizing and measuring unique experiences and competences.

  • Founding of aestimamus by Christoph Aldering in 2012 with the aim being able to offer focused and exclusive services in the area of management diagnostics
  • Start with a small team, successively build up to currently 9 permanent consultants and assistants (2019) as well as 12 cooperation partners who support depending on specific projects’ need
  • 2014 entry of Dr. Judith Hankes as partner and shareholder
  • Both are now offering the experience from > 6,000 individual assessments (average approx. 150 assessments p.a./consultants) and a variety of assessment or management appraisal projects in different corporate contexts: SMEs / family-owned companies, major international corporations; in various industries (including Production, Finance, Retail, Energy, Professional Service)
  • The clear majority of clients have long-term framework agreements so that services can be provided at short notice and with necessary flexibility
  • Since the company was founded in 2012, 1.0 percent of all realized turnover has been donated to the hospice movement Emmerich e. V. (www.hospiz-emmerich.de) donated. Since that time a nearly 6-digit amount has come together

History

“Who doesn’t know the past cannot understand the present. Who doesn’t understand the present cannot shape the future.“ (Hans–Friedrich Bergmann)

It is well known that a person’s unique biography has much to say about that person’s likely future behaviour and professional success. Probing into a person’s professional and personal history is therefore an essential element of any meaningful diagnostic process.

Exploring these backstories can give us an invaluable first insight and a yardstick for recognizing and measuring unique experiences and competences.

  • Founding of aestimamus by Christoph Aldering in 2012 with the aim being able to offer focused and exclusive services in the area of management diagnostics
  • Start with a small team, successively build up to currently 9 permanent consultants and assistants (2019) as well as 12 cooperation partners who support depending on specific projects’ need
  • 2014 entry of Dr. Judith Hankes as partner and shareholder
  • Both are now offering the experience from > 6,000 individual assessments (average approx. 150 assessments p.a./consultants) and a variety of assessment or management appraisal projects in different corporate contexts: SMEs / family-owned companies, major international corporations; in various industries (including Production, Finance, Retail, Energy, Professional Service)
  • The clear majority of clients have long-term framework agreements so that services can be provided at short notice and with necessary flexibility
  • Since the company was founded in 2012, 1.0 percent of all realized turnover has been donated to the hospice movement Emmerich e. V. (www.hospiz-emmerich.de) donated. Since that time a nearly 6-digit amount has come together