Vicario Consulting

What Vicario Consulting does

Vicario Consulting is a Swiss human resources consulting firm headquartered in Lausanne, founded in 1999 by psychotherapist Angelo Vicario. It provides an integrated portfolio of HR services spanning recruitment, assessment, coaching, training, outplacement, organizational development, and workplace health, the last delivered through a proprietary program branded TOM. Clients are Swiss organizations across both the public and private sectors, with Swiss Federal Railways (SBB/FFS) publicly named as a customer. The firm is structured as a Swiss Société Anonyme (SA) and employs 11-50 professionals with an aggregate 515 years of cumulative multidisciplinary experience, blending clinical, HR, and organizational psychology expertise.

Vicario operates through seven offices across Switzerland (Lausanne, Geneva, Bern, Zurich, Neuchâtel, Lugano, Sion), giving it physical coverage of all three major Swiss linguistic regions (French, German, Italian). The Zurich office was added in 2016 via a partnership with mpw rather than a greenfield build, illustrating a capital-light approach to geographic expansion. The most recent office, Sion, opened in 2020, completing the current national footprint. The firm is marking its 25th anniversary in 2024-2025, accompanied by public positioning around workplace health and the TOM program.

The business model is professional services consulting. Revenue is generated through project-based engagements, retained mandates, and structured programs across recruitment, assessment, coaching, and organizational development, with pricing following standard Swiss professional services rates. No technology platform, software product, or AI capability is disclosed.

Name

Vicario Consulting

Legal name

Vicario Consulting SA

Website

https://vicario.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Vicario Consulting is a Lausanne-based Swiss HR consulting firm founded in 1999 that delivers recruitment, assessment, coaching, training, outplacement, organizational development, and workplace health services through seven offices covering all three Swiss language regions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

HR Consulting Services

NAICS

Human Resources Consulting Services (541612), Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Performance Management & Productivity Consulting (BPAHAGAL)

Keywords

• HR consulting services
• Organizational development
• Talent management
• Workplace climate assessment
• Outplacement coaching

Headquarters

HQ city

Lausanne

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. HR Consulting Services: Professional consulting services including recruitment support, organizational audits, career assessments, outplacement, coaching, training, and workplace climate analysis. Revenue is generated through project-based engagements and consulting mandates for Swiss organizations.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Vicario Consulting is a Swiss HR consulting firm that delivers professional services across the full employee lifecycle, organized around three pillars: securing talent (recruitment support, selection/development assessments, 360° reviews, coaching, training), succeeding in change (organizational audits, team building, career assessments, outplacement, training), and improving work climate (HR audits, mobbing expertise, conflict mediation, health analysis). The firm also operates the proprietary Trusted Office Mentor (TOM) program for psychosocial risk prevention.

Product overview

Vicario Consulting is an HR consulting firm offering a comprehensive portfolio of human resources services organized around three main pillars: 'Securing Talent' (recruitment, assessment, coaching, training), 'Succeeding in Change' (organizational development, career assessment, outplacement, team building), and 'Improving Work Climate' (HR audits, mobbing expertise, conflict mediation, health analysis, Trusted Office Mentor). The firm was founded in 1999 and operates 7 offices across Switzerland. Services are delivered through consulting engagements rather than software products, with offerings spanning recruitment assistance, selection/development assessments, 360° reviews, coaching, training programs, career assessments, outplacement support, organizational audits, team building, conflict mediation, and specialized workplace health services including the proprietary Trusted Office Mentor (TOM) program for psychosocial risk prevention.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Trusted Office Mentor (TOM): A workplace psychosocial risk prevention program and concept developed by Vicario Consulting, focusing on employee health and well-being.

Products and services

• Recruitment Assistance (Aide au recrutement)

Quantifiable outcome

• 5.6 billion CHF annual cost of psychosocial risks to Swiss enterprises, demonstrating market need for their TOM workplace health programs

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• mpw (Management Partner Wenger)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic cooperation partnership established in 2016. The collaboration is based on comparable quality standards, values, and working methods. The firms enrich each other professionally and support each other with personnel and logistical resources. Their clients benefit from the combined experience and competencies of both aligned consulting teams. The partnership enables Vicario to offer all their services in the Zurich region.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• mpw (Management Partner Wenger): Swiss management consultancy partnership with shared values and consulting standards; partner of Vicario for Zurich operations. Comparable in offering HR-adjacent consulting services to Swiss SMEs and enterprises.
• Abegglen Management Consultants: Swiss management consulting firm specializing in HR, leadership development, and organizational consulting for SMBs. Comparable to Vicario in geographic focus and service mix including assessment, coaching, and HR advisory.
• Heidrick & Struggles: Global leadership advisory, executive search, and culture consulting firm. Close functional peer to Vicario in advisory-led talent, leadership, and culture work, delivered through senior consultant engagement.

Broad incumbents

• PageGroup: Global recruitment and HR services group active in Switzerland with similar recruitment support, talent assessment, and career transition (outplacement/Michael Page) offerings that overlap with Vicario's portfolio.
• Randstad Switzerland: Global staffing and HR services firm with substantial Swiss operations providing recruitment, outplacement, career transition, and HR consulting services. Comparable to Vicario across talent acquisition and outplacement product lines.
• Mercer: Global HR consulting and advisory firm under Marsh McLennan, providing consulting across talent, health, retirement, and organizational transformation. Directly comparable to Vicario's workplace health, HR audit, and people consulting services but at global enterprise scale.
• Spencer Stuart: Global executive search and leadership advisory firm comparable to Vicario's recruitment, assessment, and leadership development work. Both firms emphasize a relationship-driven, expert-led model rather than high-volume transactional staffing.
• Egon Zehnder: Swiss-founded global leadership advisory and executive search firm, closely comparable to Vicario as a high-touch, reputation-driven HR advisory firm rooted in Switzerland. Operates globally across similar service lines (assessment, coaching, leadership development) but at vastly larger scale.
• Korn Ferry: Global organizational consulting firm specializing in talent management, leadership development, organizational strategy, and assessment. Overlaps substantially with Vicario's recruitment, assessment, coaching, and organizational development practices.
• Willis Towers Watson (WTW): Global advisory firm with significant HR consulting, talent, and workplace health practices. Comparable to Vicario across organizational consulting, wellbeing, and people-risk work but with much broader international scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/VicarioConsultingSa
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/vicario-consulting-sa

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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