Cedac

What Cedac does

Cedac AG is a privately-held Swiss consulting firm founded in 2004, headquartered in Bern with additional offices in Zürich and Lucerne. The company specializes in assessment and development of leaders, key personnel, and teams, serving both private-sector companies and public administration organizations across Switzerland. Its service portfolio is divided into two interconnected lines: Assessment services (Selection Assessments, Potential Café, Development Assessments, and Team Check-up) that provide scientifically grounded aptitude diagnostics written reports, feedback sessions, and onboarding guidance; and Development services (LAB experimental learning, Peer-to-Peer confidential exchange networks, and One-to-One Coaching/Sparring) that deliver tailored leadership and team development. All services are delivered in German, French, Italian, and English by a team of approximately 25 specialists — predominantly work and organizational psychologists, coaches, and management consultants — and are positioned on the credentials of Swiss Assessment founding membership and 20+ years of operating history with 600+ assessments conducted per year.

The company operates a purely human-delivered, professional services model with no proprietary technology platform or AI-based tooling. Revenue is generated on a quote-based, per-engagement basis with multi-year contract cadences possible; no public pricing is disclosed. Go-to-market is consultative and relationship-driven, combining direct outreach, a multilingual website (DE/FR/EN), a corporate LinkedIn presence, a free blog/newsletter, and long-standing client referrals. Ownership is partner-held under a dual CEO-partner governance structure (Sladjana Baumann and Rahel Knecht) with no external venture or private equity investment evidenced. The firm has no subsidiaries, no disclosed M&A activity, no patents or trademarks, and no third-party partnerships or alliances, and its operations are entirely Switzerland-domestic.

Name

Cedac

Legal name

cedac AG

Website

https://cedac.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cedac AG is a Swiss consulting firm that provides assessment and leadership development services — including selection assessments, development diagnostics, team check-ups, coaching, and peer-based learning — for private-sector companies, public administration, and individual leaders across Switzerland, delivered in German, French, Italian, and English.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bern

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Assessment Services: Selection assessments, development assessments, PotenzialCafé (talent evaluation), and team check-ups. Conducted in German, French, Italian, and English. Results documented in written reports with recommendations, feedback sessions, and transfer advisory.
2. Development Programmes: Tailored learning experiences including the LAB format, Peer-to-Peer networks, and One-to-One coaching/sparring partner sessions for leadership and team development.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Cedac AG is a Swiss consultancy that conducts structured psychological assessments and delivers development programs for leaders, key personnel, and teams. The firm provides selection assessments, development assessments, team check-ups, and the Potential Café for talent identification, alongside development formats such as LAB (experimental learning), peer-to-peer groups, and one-to-one executive coaching. Services are delivered by approximately 25 specialists in occupational and organizational psychology across offices in Bern, Zürich, and Luzern, with more than 600 assessments executed annually in German, French, Italian, and English.

Product overview

Cedac is a Swiss HR consultancy offering a unified set of assessment and development services for leaders, key players, and teams. The portfolio consists of two interconnected service lines: Assessment services (Selection Assessments, Potential Café, Development Assessments, and Team Check-up) which provide scientifically grounded aptitude diagnostics to support personnel decisions; and Development services (LAB, Peer-to-Peer, and One-to-One Coaching) which deliver tailored learning experiences, peer exchange, and individual coaching. The offerings are integrated through a shared methodology and co-creation approach, all delivered by a team of occupational and organisational psychologists.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Selection Assessments

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 600 assessments conducted per year in German, French, Italian, and English

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Korn Ferry: Global organizational consulting firm offering executive search, assessment, and leadership development services — directly overlapping Cedac's selection assessment and leadership development offerings but at significantly broader scale.
• Mercer: Global consulting firm (part of Marsh McLennan) with a broad HR consulting practice that includes leadership assessment, talent evaluation, and executive development, directly overlapping Cedac's core offerings.
• Russell Reynolds Associates: Global leadership advisory and executive search firm providing leadership assessment, succession planning, and executive development — closely matching Cedac's selection and development service lines at a larger international scale.
• Spencer Stuart: International executive search and leadership consulting firm with a strong assessment practice, comparable to Cedac in helping clients make senior personnel decisions and develop leadership pipelines.
• Egon Zehnder: Swiss-founded global executive search and leadership advisory firm that, like Cedac, provides leadership assessment, board advisory, and executive coaching to senior leaders, but at a much larger global scale.

Regional players

• IMD Business School: Swiss-based business school offering executive education and leadership development programs for senior managers; while offering degrees/programs rather than assessments, it competes for the same Swiss enterprise leadership development budget as Cedac.

Direct peers

• DDI (Development Dimensions International): Specialist leadership and selection assessment provider with scientifically validated behavioral simulations and development programs — operationally the closest analog to Cedac's scientifically grounded assessment methodology.
• SHL (part of Expleo): Global psychometric assessment provider focused on selection, talent measurement, and leadership development — comparable to Cedac through its use of validated assessment instruments and standardized leadership evaluation.
• Hogan Assessments: Provider of personality-based assessment tools used for leadership selection and development, widely used in HR consulting — competes with Cedac in the same enterprise assessment space with a more productized, scalable model.

Emerging players

• Staufen AG: Swiss-German operational excellence and transformation consulting firm that also operates in leadership/team development, positioning it as a regional consultative competitor for Cedac's leadership and team engagements.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cedacag

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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