ida leadership consulting is a boutique consulting firm specialized in leadership performance, development, and succession.
Our Mission
We envision a world where leaders inspire performance, teams thrive in collaboration, and organizations reach their full potential across their ecosystem.
In that world, our mission is to ignite leadership progression.
Our Values
Awareness: Knowing self and appreciating others, events, possibilities and consequences.
Curiosity: Asking questions, exploring, testing, learning, innovating and intentionally pursuing new knowledge and new perspectives.
Action: Acting decisively, with sense of urgency and accountability.
Advancement: Committing to progress and growth, challenging the status quo and pushing boundaries.
Transparency: Embodying openness, honesty, integrity and authenticity.
Collaboration: Teaming, complementing each other and finding a better path together.
Nilgun Langenberg, Our Founder
Nilgun Langenberg, Founder & Managing Director of ida leadership, advices C-suite executives, so that they take better decisions and actions about their people and organization, ultimately performing better and transforming faster.
She is valued for her business acumen, market insights, pragmatic recommendations, and keen ability to challenge leaders to face the realities, perceptions and choices of action. As a practitioner and as a consultant Nilgun has worked with boards, CEOs, CHROs and senior executives as they address complex leadership challenges for individual leaders, teams and the total organization. Her holistic, strategic and systematic thinking capacity coupled with her result focused, action-biased, business savvy approach makes her a unique partner.
Her 30 years of work experience spans across top-tier global firms where she managed businesses, teams and client relationships delivering leadership progression globally.
At Korn Ferry, she led the EMEA Consumer practice for all consulting solutions, including organization strategy, assessment & succession, talent acquisition, total rewards and leadership & professional development. She has been a Leadership Advisor, an Executive Search Consultant, an Executive Assessor and a Coach in Executive Leader Institute programs of Korn Ferry.
Previously, she served as Office Managing Director at Korn Ferry Istanbul. Prior to that, she was a Partner with Heidrick & Struggles based in Amsterdam. Earlier in her career, she worked as Global Head of Talent Development for Sara Lee where she developed and deployed talent strategies, processes and programs. The start of her career was with Xerox in sales, marketing and HR roles.
Nilgun is a CTI-trained executive coach and certified in a broad range of assessment and development tools. She has been a featured speaker at conferences and client events addressing global audiences on subjects including Enterprise Leadership, Learning Agility, Leadership Succession, Talent Acquisition and DE&I.
She holds a degree in Business Administration from Bosphorus University of Istanbul, Turkey and an MBA degree from University of Ottawa, Canada. She is fluent in English and Turkish and speaks conversational German and Dutch.
Nicole Heupers
Nicole partners with organizations to navigate the human side of change, focusing on leader development and supportive environments aligned with future ambitions. Over nearly 25 years, she has enabled global organizations to achieve long-term results by aligning strategy, structure, and mindset. Her expertise includes large-scale change, culture transformation, top-team alignment, and leadership development. A creative thinker and former athlete, Nicole inspires disruption by embracing a “win vs. not lose” mindset.
Her roles have included Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry, Director of Leadership and Change at Schouten Global, European Change Manager at RWE and Senior Consultant of Leadership and Change at Rijnconsult and Deloitte. She holds a Master’s in Organizational Behaviour and a Bachelor’s in Public Administration, and is fluent in Dutch and English.
Our network
It takes a village to raise a child.
We design, develop and deliver solutions for our clients together with our elite network of senior consultants globally. They are experts in their fields, passionate about leadership progression and committed to our values.
In addition, we leverage our extensive network of senior executives who contribute to the immersive nature of our programs.
The “ida” story
The name ” ida” is inspired by geography and history.
In Greek mythology, Zeus, the king of the Gods, was born on Mount Ida on the island of Crete. Some traditions refer to Ida also as one of the two nurses who protected and raised Zeus.
Overall, Mount Ida is a multifaceted symbol in mythology, representing themes of divine birth, protection, and the interplay between gods and mortals.