YELLOWCOUCH TEAM OF PROFESSIONALS

Filip Hrkal

Motto: “It is better to be average among the best than to be the best of the average.”

Over 15 years of experience in HR and diagnostics of potential
Chief assessor
Lecturer at the University of Economics, Prague
HR, Marketing, Corporate management, Statistics, Economics, Psychometrics
Czech, English, Spanish
Education: Escuela Superior de Marketing y Administración, Barcelona, Spain
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Václav Coubal

Motto: "Potential is more than knowledge.''

Over 30 years of experience in HR and diagnostics
Chief assessor, coach, 360° feedback leader
Lecturer at the University of Economics, Prague
Psychology, Psychometrics, Statistics, Corporate management
Czech, English
Education: Faculty of Psychology, Charles University in Prague
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Šárka Hradská

Motto: “Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm.”

Marketing support
Website administration
Administration of internal systems
Support in AC preparation
Translation of tools
Czech, English, German
Education: Czech Technical University in Prague

Hana Slobodová

Motto: “When you do what you've always done, you will get only what you've always received."

Assessor, psychologist
Conducting 360° feedback
Conducting competency interviews
Workshop facilitator
Psychometric interpretation
Czech, English, Slovak, Russian, German
Education: Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Lucie Kolářová

Motto: “The weak keep to the beaten track, the strong can make their own."

Website administration
Internal communication
Customer care
Receivables management
Czech, English, Russian
Education: Czech Technical University in Prague

YellowCouch – how it all began…

Václav Coubal founded CDC Consulting, a company specialising in the recruitment and development of employees in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Together with cut-e, the company laid the foundations of present-day YellowCouch. The company gradually expanded into Assessment and Development centres and later into divisions providing outdoor and teambuilding events.

Filip Hrkal and Václav Coubal met in a joint project. First, they connected through their hobbies and work commitments, and then through the vision of the course HR services and possibilities in the CEE region should take. An idea was born to bring quality online psychometrics on the CEE market, or to develop it. Following an exacting selection process, only one company met their qualitative criteria – the newly emerging cut-e GmbH in Hamburg, Germany.

Filip and Václav established cut-e czech, a company, which began collaboration with LMC (jobs.cz and práce.cz) and gradually created its own distribution channels in the CEE region (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia) and Myanmar. In 2017, cut-e czech became the largest provider of online psychometrics in CEE. In addition, the company delivered (and, together with competency profiles, developed) top-quality Assessment and Development Centres, 360° feedback, HR audits, coaching, mentoring, and a variety of other services. In 2016, the idea to establish YellowCouch came about, an institution uniting the world’s biggest HR and diagnostics specialists in the CEE region.

The cut-e headquarters was acquired by the U.S. multinational company Aon. The direct consequence of the acquisition was an extended portfolio of diagnostics products. Filip Hrkal and Václav Coubal officially established YellowCouch, based on CDS Consulting and cut-e group. At the same time, they prepare new technologies associated with Industry 4.0, coming robotic automation and artificial intelligence (AI).

Vinter – the world´s first virtual interpreter of psychodiagnostic results using AI – has been launched in CEE.