Tom Verboven
Senior Director, Mercer. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Tom Verboven specializes in executive assessment, succession planning, and talent analytics, designing evaluation programs across more than 30 countries. Prior to Mercer, he served as a Managing Director in people and culture advisory at PwC, alongside earlier roles at Talogy and Cubiks.
1shows
1appearances
9statements
2resolved
1supported
0contradicted
50%fully supported
Everything Tom Verboven said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Verboven: Shift to AI Once It Beats Average Human Judgment
“Well, once AI is better than an average human judgment, we should stop using the humans and use AI systems.”
Verboven: Changing Company Culture Requires Hiring Leaders Who Only Partially Fit
“Because you also want to change the culture, maybe. So you need someone who kind of fits in, but not fully. So, so that person or that leader can change the, so there's a lot of discussion around what is now the ideal success profile of that specific leader.”
Verboven: Executive assessment jobs will eventually be replaced by algorithms
“I think the more we learn, the more we develop, I think at a certain time, My job will be replaced by an algorithm.”
Verboven: Job candidates will reject AI-only evaluation even if fair
“And also putting myself as a candidate, I would, at the moment, I would hate it to be assessed by a computer or an AI system. And even if it was fair, I would never feel like I'm treated correctly”
Verboven: Companies Frequently Rely on Outdated Leadership Competency Profiles
“Happens a lot. Old competency profiles. Yeah, totally not fit for what they're doing. Not fit for future happens all the time.”
Verboven: Research shows CEO appointments succeed only half the time
“And we see from research that it's success one out of two. It's like flipping a coin.”
Verboven: Graduates Face More Assessment Time Than Prospective CEOs
“As a graduate, you probably spend more time in being assessed than a CEO, because there's a perception of, okay, that woman or man went, was already a CEO, so they're probably intelligent. They probably know what they're doing. So they've spent two days assess…”
Verboven: Candidate assessment requires human conversation, not just tech data
“We need the human interaction, and that's also, I think, my job as an assessor. Technology can help us in giving up some data points, but we always need this, a conversation.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Tom's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 WE LIVE TO BUILDLEDGER | Senior Director, Mercer | 1 | 9 | 50% 1/2 | full record on We Live to Build → |