CEO MONTHLY / CEO OF THE YEAR 2022 24 CEO MONTHLY / ISSUE 11 2022 14 Mar22259 Hiring Best Cultural Fit Leaders to Lead Change David Wongso of Davehunt International holds different energy to many other CEOs in his industry, as he has a firm eye on the future the next generation of leaders will build. Built from his experiences within various sectors and companies, through many crises, and working with people from all walks of life, he stands at the helm with insight unlike any other. Davehunt International is a consulting firm specialising in quality senior-level Executive Search, Leadership & Culture Advisory, HR Tech, EX (Employee Experience), and Holistic Wellness, with offices in Indonesia and Australia. Headed by Founder and CEO David Wongso, it successfully serves Indonesia’s top 5000 largest corporations, its expertise spanning in numerous industries with unique cultures. Davehunt collaborates with clients with mutual respect and high level of professionalism. Primarily, it serves conventional and digital banks, unicorns, public listed companies, conglomerates, large family-owned businesses, and professional service firms. Leveraging on the experiences in multiple industries and multicultural backgrounds, Davehunt hires the best cultural-fit leaders for its clients. Its consulting projects aim to advise and assist leaders to provide the best employee experience, attract and retain talents, and use culture as a competitive advantage for a sustainable growth. Primarily, the company works alongside business owners and C-Level executives to discuss challenges and solutions to strengthen capability of organisation and people. As CEO, David often works in person with clients searching for managerial to C-level top notch candidates in executive search services. He is especially well-suited for this due to his experience hiring talent and executives since 1995. Many of the talents he hired are at the board level now. David leads and assesses senior candidates with his 28 years of corporate experiences. In fact, one of the company’s unique selling points is that David himself has been entrusted as an assessor for directors of SOE in the last two years. So, as well as his expertise being distributed throughout the company – to inform and enrich the decisions of the rest of Davehunt’s staff and team – so that he remains personally involved. Davehunt has been assisting clients who are struggling to hire talents in data, growth hacking, cyber risk, information security, and digital marketing. From management to C-level, its clients are looking at leaders who can lead change, manage culture and digital transformation. David has learned from and experienced numerous crises, from the 1998 Asian financial crisis, the Dotcom bubble, the 2008 global financial crisis, subprime mortgage, and the pandemic, to the current crisis in Ukraine. Leading HR transformation and organisation changes in multiple industries and cultures gave him wisdom about cultural fit in leadership and style, effective change management, and communication with various stakeholders. As a result, David adapts his leadership style with millennials workforce who are part of his team and flexibly carries himself when working for multinational, SOE, or local conglomerate clients. He heads a team that supports him in research, business development, digital marketing, and project delivery – where he has a passion to coach young talents. When hiring, he looks for professionals who display the propensity for high potential, agility, soft skills, cultural fit, high energy levels, and integrity. Those character traits and soft skills are paramount in forming his team, as he believes everything else can be taught in a classroom or learned on the job. The industry has changed in other ways, too, since COVID, with clients and candidates adapting to remote and hybrid work and looking for ways and places to cut costs. Though Davehunt is the same in that regard and, over the past two years, it has seen some impact on its revenue, the company’s focus on adaptation has kept it strong. Hybrid working also provides better productivity; the time saved from 2-3 hours of commuting can be allocated for family, exercise and spiritual health. Not only has it adapted to the new hybrid and remote work – saving on property costs – but Davehunt has been resilient in cutting other costs whilst taking the time to upskill the team and remaining alert for new areas of growth. David has tooled the business and team so that they can weather crises and still be looking for ways to change further and adapt. That is truly the mark of an excellent CEO. Contact: David Wongso Company: Davehunt International Web Address: https://www. davehunt-international.com/ Oct22066
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