Founder
Thomas Dekant
Founder & Principal, TDL Vantage
About
Most organizations know they have a workforce planning problem. Few know how to fix it.
The symptoms are familiar: headcount decisions made on gut feel, HR and Finance working from different numbers, attrition that surprises everyone.
The root cause is almost always the same — workforce planning that lives in a spreadsheet instead of a business process. I have spent 25 years solving this problem at scale, across three of the world's most complex organizations.
At Deutsche Bank, I built global workforce analytics and planning functions across Frankfurt, Singapore, New York and Bangalore. At Credit Suisse, I introduced integrated workforce forecasting across Private Banking. At Saudi Aramco — where I spent 13 years as their Strategic Workforce Planning lead — I designed a fully integrated platform consolidating 20+ data sources, delivered manpower projections adopted as the company-wide standard, and contributed to USD 750 million in headcount optimization.
Now, through TDL Vantage, I work with organizations across the GCC and Asia — helping them build SWP capabilities from the ground up, or integrate existing workforce planning into financial and business frameworks. Company size is less important than ambition and readiness to change. Since August 2025 I have been engaged as Interim Regional HR Lead and HR Assessment Advisor for a large multi-country GCC operation, leading HR transformation across five countries while building the workforce planning foundations and governance frameworks the business needs to scale.
The organizations I work with are at different stages of this journey. Some are building their first real workforce planning process. Others have the basics and need to connect them to financial planning. Others are ready for scenario modeling and predictive analytics. The starting point is less important than the direction of travel — and I have walked this path at the most complex scale imaginable.