Tom Verboven

Senior Director, Mercer · 1 appearance on the record.

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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.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

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.”

Tom Verboven Jun 18, 2024 ▶ 11:48 Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire

How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said9 Episodes1

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Insight

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.”

Tom Verboven Jun 18, 2024 ▶ 30:20 Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire

Insight

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.”

Tom Verboven Jun 18, 2024 ▶ 6:38 Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire

Prediction Not checkable as stated

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.”

Tom Verboven Jun 18, 2024 ▶ 34:13 Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire

Opinion

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”

Tom Verboven Jun 18, 2024 ▶ 37:47 Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire

Assertion Not checkable as stated

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.”

Tom Verboven Jun 18, 2024 ▶ 4:47 Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire

Assertion Supported

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.”

Tom Verboven Jun 18, 2024 ▶ 11:48 Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire

Insight

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…”

Tom Verboven Jun 18, 2024 ▶ 15:16 Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire

Insight

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.”

Tom Verboven Jun 18, 2024 ▶ 37:34 Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire

Assertion Partly supported

Verboven: Executive Assessments Remain Primarily In-Person Post-COVID

“At that level, most of the time it's still physically in person. I'd say the most of the assessment now changed a lot since COVID of course it's virtual, but at that level, there's still a preference for in-person assessments.”

Tom Verboven Jun 18, 2024 ▶ 18:07 Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire	Jun 18, 2024	21m

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