About Vantaris

Twenty-seven years inside the executive system.

Vantaris Consulting is an executive leadership advisory practice based in Budapest, working with organisations whose executive decisions carry significant commercial, operational or reputational consequence.

Laszlo Cser

Founder

Twenty-seven years in leadership and organisational development, including twenty-two in senior corporate HR leadership. Roles have included Country HR Director and HR Leader CEE within multinational organisations, together with interim executive assignments across several sectors.

The relevant part of that history is not the seniority. It is that the work was done from inside the executive system: hiring, developing, supporting and — where it came to it — exiting senior leaders. The failures observed at close range over that period are the reason this practice exists in the form it does.

British-Hungarian, based in Budapest, working in English and Hungarian.

Credentials

Stated, not decorated.

Professional

SPHRi · SHRM-SCP · MCMI · Leadership Coaching Certificate

Academic

M.Sc., University of Manchester · B.Mus (Hons), Royal Holloway, University of London · Certificate in Management, Oxford Brookes University

Research

Ongoing research on executive derailment and on leadership-team resilience under compounding crises. A monograph and working papers are in preparation.

How we hold the work

Three commitments.

Confidentiality is absolute

The sponsor receives our assessment of the situation. The sponsor never receives the contents of a confidential conversation.

We say what we see

Including when what we see is that the problem is not the one we were engaged to address, or that no engagement is warranted at all.

We build capability, not dependency

If the improvement leaves when we leave, the engagement failed regardless of how it felt.

A conversation, not a pitch

If something is happening in your organisation where the quality of executive judgement will decide the outcome, the useful first step is a private conversation about the situation itself. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so.