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d-market, US small businesses, tech startups, B2B services in the US and globally. Executive recruiters, people management consultants at TEP offer you a buffet of expertise:
Talent Management
Executive Recruitment
Business Coaching
HR Consulting, OD
Organizational Behavior
Company Culture
Brand Strategist, Employer Branding
Fixed Mindset to Growth Mindset Transformation and more…
As your talent management consultant, executive recruiter, and mentor, we diagnose, transform, energize leaders, teams, organizations and company cultures. TEP.GLOBAL (“TEP”)’s human-centric and paradigm-shifting approaches have transformed and energized leadership, people, corporations, tech startups, small businesses, B2B services. We are different from all other “management consultants”. TEP’s own ORIGINAL methodology has turned
around many companies. Based on multi-disciplinary, diverse, and in-depth studies, the founder of TEP, “Dr. Vic”, has developed a unique, comprehensive, and refreshingly new approach to transform and energize people and organizations, with astounding results. From the old:
TEP breaks through rigid, outdated, unhealthy and inhuman “pressure cooker” workplace paradigms to liberate organizations from friction-inducing situations, such as “internal cannibalism,” destructive office politics, resigned workforce, and deteriorating bottom line. To the new:
TEP energizes and revitalizes the positive forces within an organization, resulting in cohesive teams, aligned leadership, and an engaged workforce. By transforming stagnation to growth –
From friction to flow:
TEP promises increased innovation, productivity, profitability, customer satisfaction, long term growth – and happy people. TEP specializes in executive assessment, recruiting, and people management in industries & services such as:
High Tech, semiconductor, information technology, SaaS
Renewable energy, sustainable industries, green tech
Telecommunications, IT outsourcing, cloud computing
Industrial services, machinery, automotive
Manufacturing, logistics, engineering
Public utilities, energy
Pharma, healthcare, chemical
Airlines, transportation
Food processing, ag-tech
All B2B, B2C services
Diagnose – We identify negative or counterproductive dynamics, visible or hidden, that hinder the healthy growth of leaders, teams, and organizations. Transform – We offer energetic interventions for organizations. We balance, strengthen, and harmonize both individual and collective vitality. Energize – We reset organizational energy that underpins, defines, and determines the outcomes. Diagnose
With interviews, Q&A, questionnaires, observations, and assessments, Dr. Vic and the TEP Team tune in to the pulses of organizations, pinpointing the disconnects, frictions, stagnations, inefficiencies, and misalignments. Identifying what is holding back growth, or undermining an organization’s health leads to treating the corporate “patients” and restoring healthy momentum. This is the crucial first step for transforming energy blockages both in people, leadership, and the organization, from friction to flow. Dr. Vic is a highly sought expert in diagnosing organizational ailments, thanks to his broad and in depth multidimensional talents, skills, and interdisciplinary educational background. With about 25 years of combined experience, his assessment accuracy rate is near 99.6%. Transform
TEP does not view an organization as a mere mechanical structure, but as a living entity consisting of various undercurrents and moving forces that need to be harmonized and aligned towards its vision and purpose. TEP does not promise any “quick fixes”, but a sure pathway that allows leaders, people, and their organizations to get unstuck and move forward, from friction to flow. Instead of the usual “prescriptions, remedies, even surgeries” offered by most other coaches and business consultants, TEP, as a “healing master”, goes underneath the symptoms, to address the root causes where true change takes place. TEP focuses on both the individual leader, and their entire organization at the same time. Energize
As your long-term partner for leadership and organizational growth, we continue our work to keep you on track, to build healthy habits after diagnosis and transformation. To avoid relapses we leaders like “personal trainers”, as well as teams and companies. We hold them accountable to continue strengthening their “muscles” and mindsets for delivering results, profits, and happiness. TEP promises breakthroughs in:
Human-centric leadership,
Activated and energized people,
Harmonized organizations,
Healthy bottom-lines. As your trusted advisor, coach, and organizational catalyst, we study, transform, and energize leaders, teams, employees, and organizations. Dr. Vic
CEO, Executive Recruiter | People Management, Talent Management, People Centered Workforce Consultant | Business Profiler®
Ph.D – Communications; MBA
Dr. Vic (Dr. Victor Porak de Varna) is a pioneer and thought leader in the fields of human potential, business energetics, workplace support & cohesion, and organizational energy. With decades of research, hands-on work and consultation across Europe and the Americas, Dr. Vic creates deep transformation to people, culture, and organizations. Dr. Vic’s five-facet experiences, education, and talents, both broad-scoped and in-depth, are summarized into “hardware” and “software”.
“I’m extremely blessed to be associated with the world’s best in both “hardware” and “software”, such as Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor Vernon L. Smith, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama”, says Dr. Vic.
“Hardware”:
1. Human Capital & Talent Management
2. Academic & Research
3. Information Technology & Engineering
“Software”:
4. East and West Humanology & Spirituality
5. Musicianship & Other Interests
(1) Human Capital & Talent Management Consulting
Talent Management: 20+ years in Washington DC, Denver, and Switzerland, at Center for Leadership and Human Resources Management, and a globally operating Swedish Human Capital Consulting Group (“Mercuri Urval”), HR, talent acquisition & management, competency model design, development, & implementation;
Talent Assessment: Customize talent assessments, psychometrics, competency model development & implementation; consult, coach, train executives, HR, team leaders; carry out on their behalf hiring, promoting, team building, and employee training & motivation work;
Talent Acquisition: Consultant for multinational corporations, hire entire management team members in Europe and in the US for their subsidiaries; lead interviews, report to international headquarters (sometimes in German and French when needed);
Organizational Development: Improve organizational effectiveness, address and solve people challenges, build capacity and company culture, optimize performance and structure; effectuate corporate communication;
Competency models – customize, design & implement:
Customize competency models and support the entire hiring and promotion process, to recruit, sort, vet, and hire candidates. Apply research methodology for each organization to recruit, evaluate, train people. Create a unified talent management communication tool, unique to each organization, that enables leadership and management to share their communication about their talents and people. Train executives, upper management, HR directors, SVP, and C-suites how to use the models, and how to implement their unified talent management tools in reviews and all aspects of hiring, promotions, training, assessing people;
Future Readiness: Prepare businesses for growth, future expansion, and changes, help teams and organizations adjust to new paradigm shifts and people-centered leadership. (2) Academic & Research
Founded CFC research center (“Center for Financial Communications”) and lectured at University of St. Gallen (“UNISG”), published 21 publications in information and communication management, and mentored doctoral students. At the invitation of Prof. Vernon Smith (Nobel Laureate for Economics, ) Dr. Vic collaborated with Prof. Smith in 2005, which inspired Dr. Vic to prioritize humans as assets instead of as resources or liabilities. Applied academic competency modeling to corporate model development and simulation, to address the dynamics of human and organizational systems. (3) Information Technology & Engineering:
Studied electrical engineering and computer science for three years, learned computer assembly, programming, and software development. Skilled at dissecting problems into smaller pieces, problem solving, and understanding of engineering, logic, information and technology management. Developed databases and user interfaces as a freelance IT Consultant. A passion for wood and metal work since childhood, which translates into repairing organizations, leaders, and teams as the “inner architect”. LET’S TALK
“Software”
(4) East and West Humanology & Spirituality
Raised in Jesuit and Benedictine monastery boarding schools, Dr. Vic learned from age 10 about meditative power and spirituality. As a descendant of an ancient Knighthood dating back to 1444, Dr. Vic inherited and adopted various cultural traits such as “German engineering, Swiss precision, Austrian playfulness, French artistry, fascination with the Eastern philosophies, combined with the American drive for freedom”, says Dr. Vic. Yoga & meditation teacher – Certified Kundalini as well as Kriya yoga & meditation teacher, Dr. Vic was first exposed to master yogi in India in his 20s, and has been practicing and teaching this Eastern philosophy of body-mind-spirit meditation. Special connection with His Holiness The Dalai Lama, who invited Dr. Vic to a meeting in Dharamsala in 2019 where he gave his blessings for TEP. (5) Musicianship & Other Interests
In his youth, Dr. Vic was a trained classical concert pianist, invited as one of 40 applicants worldwide to a piano masterclass at the Moscow Conservatory. Martial artist: Trained in various forms of martial arts such as Shotokan Karate, Aiki-Bujutsu, Iai-Jutsu and Ju-Jitsu, which all have a meditative mind-body-spirit component. Pilot: Private pilot with instrument rating with commercial pilot’s license. “The sky is not the limit! Go beyond!” says Dr. Vic. Other talents: Intuitive art of relating to people, combining the Eastern alchemist systems to Western ways of thinking, etc. MAKE AN APPOINTMENT
My Whys
My Whys - from TEP’s founder “Dr. Vic”
This work is my calling: To develop a human-centered workplace is how I fulfill my life’s purpose and my soul’s contract. With the founding of TEP, all of my life experiences, gifts, and education (business consultative, academic, humanistic, technological, innovative, artistic, and spiritual), have been integrated into one holistic approach to help activate and energize people, who will then transform their organizations and the world. There’s so much dormant energy and unused potential in people and organizations. Let’s create a positive cycle, where people want to come to work because it makes them feel whole, and at the end of the day they bring that positive energy home to loved ones. That’s how TEP energizes and transforms humanity: one individual, one team, one organization at a time, turning a vicious downward spiral into a positive, upward, and expansive trajectory. My ultimate vision is to bring awareness of frequency, resonance and harmony to the corporate world, and with that to all facets of humanity. Danielle
Co-founder, Advisor for Organizational Health and Psychology
(MEd) Master Degree in Education, (PhDc) Ph.D candidate
With her deep understanding of East West psychology, human potential, augmented human consciousness and capabilities, Danielle offers transformational healing and a wide variety of applied energetic modalities to restore organizational vitality and well-being. Mark
Talent Expert & Coach, Senior HR Consultant
CHRO, SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources)
MBA
Mark brings decades of expertise in talent recruiting and retention, organizational transformation as CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer) and Head of HR. An HR executive with extensive global HR leadership experience across Asia, Europe and the Americas, Mark is a true expert in building people-centered organizations as a trusted advisor and HR and talent innovator. Joanne
Brand Strategist, Employer Branding, Communication, Company Culture
JD (Juris Doctor)
Joanne is a global brand strategist, brand builder and marketer for organizations and leaders. She specializes in company culture, employer branding, and brand messaging. She is an expert in aligning strategies with narratives, changing internal and external communications, product-market-fit research and go to market analysis – all in sync with TEP’s work for energizing companies. Workshops
TEP is on the cutting edge of human-centered leadership training, thanks to its founder’s and TEP team’s unmatched diversity of skillset, mindset, and talents. The world is pivoting away from the 4th Industrial Revolution, to the new human-centered “Human Age” for leadership, organizations, work and life. While routine, mechanical, repetitive work is delegated to AI and robots, we need to make a paradigm shift to activate and energize people.
“Leadership 5.0”: Five elements of leading yourself, others, and your organization
“Team 5.0”: How to leverage members for group dynamics
“Organization 5.0”: How to leverage potential for paradigm shifts in culture, energy, growth
“Talent 5.0”: How to look at people in different ways: TEP, as a master profiler, offers new ways to hire, promote, and Identify high potential leaders (using “TEP quality gate”.) Presentations
On location or remotely, we present for C-suites, boards, and task forces of businesses entities (public or private), educational institutions, and research centers. On webinars, during corporate retreats, or in conferences, we can be either a keynote speaker or on panel discussions. Talent acquisition, people management, executive assessment – TEP prepares leaders, employees, and organizations with hard skills, soft skills, & subtle skills, for people-centered mindset, heartset, & soulset. Hard skills, Soft skills, & Subtle skills
Hard skills: Data analysis, pattern recognition, solution development & implementation
Soft skills: Emotional intelligence, human connection, communication, & collaboration
Subtle skills: Undercurrent, invisible “glue”, cultural fabric, & energy paradigm
Mindset, Heartset, & Soulset
Mindset: Put people in the center, shift the paradigm to people-centered operations with decades of experience and highest levels of education across various fields
Heartset: Ignite organizational potential, activate leaders and employees, with In-depth psychological, emotional, and mental training, insights, & practical applications
Soulset: Align individuality and humanity with the soul of an organization, through energized workforce, healthy culture, & purposeful company
For Leaders
Self Leadership
Show Up (Frequency): Charge your energy (values, beliefs, mindsets);
Step Up (Resonance): Empower with purpose and walk the talk;
Light Up (Radiance): Lead with motivation, intention, and action. Human-centered Leadership
People-centered - a new lens for hiring, promoting, and leading people, shifting focus from the industrial age to the human age;
Setting people up for success - activate dormant energy and engage;
Lead people to thrive vs. expect people to ‘fit in” an organization. For Teams
Group dynamics diagnosis - assess team leaders, team members, group cohesion and energy levels, identify misalignment and friction;
Energize, harmonize - activate and energize people: unleash individuality, creativity, and originality in team members; change narratives and undercurrents; establish communication, understanding, rapport; align, mediate, and help team members get along and collaborate;
Transform & sustain new dynamics - uplift teams to a higher level of cohesion, productivity: boost confidence, energy, morale, resulting in ease and flow in an upward energy spiral. We offer workshops, regular group meetings, assessments, coaching, mentoring. For Organizations
TEP promises breakthroughs and paradigm shifts, far beyond treating symptoms, for fast growing companies, M&A integrations, and established businesses seeking to thrive. Analyze the energy state: as a “business profiler®” and a change catalyst, TEP diagnoses and profiles both the entire organization and its leadership, departments, units, and teams; pinpoint the bottlenecks, stagnation and friction points;
Create a culture of possibility: suggest specific structural adjustments and cultural changes, to harmonize, energize, and create “flow”, resulting in healthy morale, work environment, and corporate culture (“the hum”);
Proactively guide an organization to be change-ready & future-ready: Setting the stage for an organization’s transformative changes for a healthy bottom-line, happy workforce, and future readiness. Talent Management, Executive Recruitment, Talent Acquisition, Leadership Assessment, AND More – What Our Clients Said About Us:
“Finally an initiative that works! Looking for the right way to improve employee engagement and motivation throughout our organization, TEP was able to go deeper to identify and address root causes with our organization. Our employees are visibly more motivated and engaged after we retained Dr. Vic. A truly transformational initiative!.” – Bertus C, CFO.
“If your company cares about your employees, your culture, and providing the best resources for both – then you simply must work with Dr. Vic. There is absolutely no one better. Victor is not just an insanely impressive person, he is a leader not only in education but in execution. That is rare. He walks the walk. To me, he is the authority on how businesses can tap into their existing resources and change the energy and culture of their organization… the value of which is priceless to organizations.” – Nicole F, SVP.
“Dr. Vic is a game changer for interviewing and assessing people. Dr. Vic’s management and leadership assessments were out of the ordinary. They were transformative for our organization and life changing for our people. One of the best investments you can do for your organization. His insight into candidates is unmatched because he sees talent in everyone. With his ability to go deeper and truly ‘see’ people – beyond anything I have ever witnessed before – he will find a way to energize and set your people up for success. ” – Frank G, Head of Talent Acquisition.
“I don’t know what you did to my team, but they’re all like new people. We hit all of our goals last year!” – Vincent T, CEO.
“Dr. Vic’s deep understanding of people’s energy is a killer combination. I consider the times we have worked together a consummate privilege. He most recently coached me 1 on 1 and helped me find a new career direction. During our recent session, his insightful and thoughtful guidance provided so much clarity for me that I was energized and inspired. ” – Noe R, VP Operation.
“Dr. Vic has a way of pushing the ‘good buttons’ in leaders and coaches them to do the same to their teams.” – Larry G., COO.
“Before Dr. Vic rescued us, the CEO was burned out. The managers were exhausted. The employees felt stuck and were unproductive. We thought we needed to fire most of them, restructure and hire new people, but Dr. Vic said we could revive the energy by doing things differently. Boy! He did magic to my company, it is now a happy and profitable business!” – Lori W., CHRO.
“Your coaching sessions are worth more than years of therapy. “ – Pamela V.
“I asked Dr. Vic to hire a high level executive for our American subsidiary, Dr. Vic interviewed this new American SVP, and reported back to me in French, and then to my German Subsidiary in German. – I have never experienced such a thorough feedback from anyone else. Dr. Vic painted a picture of this new executive as an entire human. Dr. Vic described his inner workings, and the road map on setting him up for success, like a ‘positive manual’. I felt like I already knew this new SVP even BEFORE he was hired.” – Jean P, CEO
“Dr. Vic is a master profiler. In my 30+ years of experience, I’ve never seen anybody go as deep when assessing people.” – Matthew V, VP of Human Resources.
“I met Dr. Vic 7 years ago, when he performed my assessment for a Leadership Quality Gate interview. Dr. Vic’s assessment, in the end, stunned me – his focus on my personality, my leadership traits, my strengths and weaknesses, and my empathy – were all spot on. I had never met this person before, and he knew more about me than I had even wanted to admit to. His assessment changed my life – not just my career, by landing the job, but it gave me affirmation of what I thought about myself – that I had the ability to be a manager, a leader in a great company.” – John J, Manager at a Fortune 500 company.
“By far the most valuable project I had brought to our organization!” – Tyler G, VPHR.
“TEP’s ‘Positive Energy’ brand delivers exactly what many companies need – to transform employees from self-protecting and limited mindset to an engaged, energized, collaborative, and inclusive workforce. Dr. Vic led my company’s ‘Changing Culture’ workshop. The tools that Dr. Vic gave all of us not only changed our attitudes about how we could be happier and more engaged at work, but also generated ideas about how to understand what motivates each person differently.” – Wendy S., Head of Organizational Development.
“The strength of Dr. Vic’s message comes from his delivery – he is very open, funny, and personal, and his dialogue is clever and inviting; his message is thought-provoking and helps promote staff enthusiasm, increase morale, and strengthen the relationships between our top managers and the rest of the staff.” – Adam T, Manager..
“Dr. Vic supported our fast growing US operations for 7 years, with assessing, selecting, and hiring more than 100 managers, executives, and specialists at the newly opened 4 manufacturing plants and the headquarters, employing over 4000 people nationally in the US.” – Mark D, Head of Talent Management.
“As the senior leader responsible for driving the Human Capital efforts in the USA manufacturing group, I relied on Dr. Vic’s counsel and expertise. Dr. Vic is an experienced, flexible, and innovative resource helping companies to drive Leadership effectiveness, Mentoring, and Developmental strategies, to be an industry leading and world class. I highly recommend Dr. Vic and thank him for his partnership and friendship during critical times.” – Kevin C, Chief People Officer, Senior Human Resource Leader.
“My experience hearing Victor Porak de Varna speak was transporting, as I listened to a wise man of the heart point the way to a path of thriving in business that transcends business itself, and includes the engine of human potential that creates new worlds.” – Kathleen H, Author & Coach.
“Dr. Vic is the real deal when it comes to organizational and personal transformation” – Kenton H, Managing Partner, a law firm.
“TEP helped me discover and harness my talent, power and potential. Victor and Danielle created my ‘energy profile’ with impressive precision. Their insight helped me understand what’s right for me so I can be ready for the future and set myself up for success in a world totally dominated by males.” – Jacqueline S., IT Government Contractor.
“Victor is a knowledgeable, passionate and articulate advocate for the power of channeling the positive energy and talent in people and teams in the workplace. His speaking style is an engaging combination of intellect, logic, story and heart! A delight.” – Amelia W, CEO.
“Victor captivated the room with his deep understanding of workforce issues in Corporate America and his commitment to help solve them. His insights and his work provide paradigm-shifting tools that can change the way we do business today.” – Carolyn P, CEO.
“Victor Porak de Varna speaks with worldly energy as he shares his universal message, connects from his heart, and inspires his audience to join him there.” – Jani M, Coach.
“Victor’s story combined with his expertise makes for an entertaining, impactful and educational experience.” – Amy Jo M, NY Times Bestselling Author.
