--- title: "About us · Performia" description: "Performia is an International company that deals exclusively in hiring, founded by Mårten Runow in 2001 and operating in more than 26 countries." url: https://performia.com/about-us language: en locale: en type: website publisher: "Performia International AB" updated: 2026-09-23 alternates: en: https://performia.com/about-us en-AU: https://performia.com/en-au/about-us zh-CN: https://performia.com/zh-cn/about-us es-CO: https://performia.com/es-co/about-us es-CR: https://performia.com/es-cr/about-us cs-CZ: https://performia.com/cs-cz/about-us es-EC: https://performia.com/es-ec/about-us et-EE: https://performia.com/et-ee/about-us fi-FI: https://performia.com/fi-fi/about-us fr-FR: https://performia.com/fr-fr/about-us el-GR: https://performia.com/el-gr/about-us es-GT: https://performia.com/es-gt/about-us hu-HU: https://performia.com/hu-hu/about-us ja-JP: https://performia.com/ja-jp/about-us ru-KZ: https://performia.com/ru-kz/about-us en-MU: https://performia.com/en-mu/about-us es-MX: https://performia.com/es-mx/about-us nl-NL: https://performia.com/nl-nl/about-us no-NO: https://performia.com/no-no/about-us ro-RO: https://performia.com/ro-ro/about-us sk-SK: https://performia.com/sk-sk/about-us es-ES: https://performia.com/es-es/about-us sv-SE: https://performia.com/sv-se/about-us de-CH: https://performia.com/de-ch/about-us zh-TW: https://performia.com/zh-tw/about-us uk-UA: https://performia.com/uk-ua/about-us en-GB: https://performia.com/en-gb/about-us es-VE: https://performia.com/es-ve/about-us --- About us # We help managers build productive Teams. ![Mårten Runow, founder of Performia](https://performia.com/marten-runow.jpg) — Mårten Runow · Founder & Chairman · 2001 Our purpose Building, maintaining and developing a team is probably the single most important skill any manager can have, and it is not something to delegate to some non-proven “expert”, because it is you, the manager, who lives with the consequences of a wrong decision. So we make leaders fully functional as Team Builders. Once you know how, you use that knowledge again and again and it never loses its value: instead of firefighting personnel problems, you keep your focus on the next project of business development. Once you have a real team built around you, what you really want to do suddenly becomes possible. And that is what Performia is all about. — Mårten Runow, Founder of Performia [Connect with Performia on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/performia/) Who we are Performia is an International company that deals exclusively in hiring. It was founded by Mårten Runow in 2001 and has since then opened in more than 26 offices around the world with more countries getting ready to start as we speak. Mr Mårten Runow has worked in the field of hiring for over 39 years, specialising in the use of testing for this purpose. At Performia we use Performance Checking and Personality analysis as the main evaluation questionnaires, but also many other tests such as Leadership index, IQ and Aptitude, etc., in order to find the best candidates to help our clients hire only productive people, ones who will be assets to their business. ## What we do Through powerful and yet simple to use Internet-based tools, Performia delivers solutions for any company, small or large. Though the Performia system is fairly new, the principles utilised are well proven and with Performia's background of 23 years experience in recruitment testing, you gain access to both competence and very high technical skill. Since the start in 2001 Performia has grown steadily and currently processes a flow of close to a thousand candidates every week in over 26 countries. Our clients consistently give the system high ratings and express great satisfaction with faster expansion speed, more stable personnel scenes, better profitability, higher job satisfaction and less stress. We are strengthening the business community through helping companies to grow faster and become more stable by effectively providing them with the know-how and system support to handle their own hiring and evaluation process with constant high quality and success. In their words ## Business owners who now build their own teams. Rated by clients on Google & Clutch > The only mistake you can make when using Performia is to not accept their recommendations. — Linda Steele · Former General Manager, CHOOKS fresh & tasty · Perth · Clutch > Been in business for 20 years and had plenty of staff come and go. Having done the Performia training and using their screening process has been a game changer! The support and advice along the way is fantastic too. — Kurt Walter · Business owner · Google > It's like I always say — getting the hiring superpower! It helps me grow my team with superstars. Amazing results for my business. — Darshan Thumar · 4+ year client · Google > Each time the assessments have been absolutely accurate. Performia really explores the qualities you need in different roles. — Karen Walsh · Business owner · Google > They can gain impressive insights about people based on their graphs. — Marnie Jones · Policy Manager, Sagecon Pty Ltd · Melbourne · Clutch > Performia has been a game changer in how we hire — but also in how we manage our team. Your team could make or break what you're trying to build. — Vernice Lo · Business owner · Google > I've used the Performia system for more than 20 years. It is bullet proof for portraying the real personality profile of anyone. — Peter Woodland · Long-term client · Google > The unique tools they give you help simplify recruitment and hiring, and help you avoid red-flag candidates and discover gems you may have previously missed. — Natasha Rooney · Performance Hiring graduate · Google > The Build Your Team training was fantastic! It really gave me the tools to build a strong team of sales people. Highly recommended! — Zak Chaib · Business owner · Google > Thanks to this method I have been able to create real production teams. For me, it is a six-star service. — Galo Arboleda B. · 10-year client · Google > The course was incredibly insightful, practical, and engaging. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to enhance their recruitment skills. — Catherine Burford · Course participant · Google > I've never worked with a company with such good customer service. — Former Managing Director · Construction company · Sydney · Clutch Good questions ## Frequently asked questions ### What does Performia actually do? We make managers into Team Builders. Rather than filling one seat and leaving, we give you the system and the know-how to attract, assess, select, develop and integrate productive people — so hiring stops being a bet and becomes a skill you keep for good. ### How is this different from a recruitment agency? An agency hands you a candidate and moves on. Performia trains you to run your own hiring on our online system, so the ability stays inside your company. Once you know how, you use it again and again — and it never loses its value. ### What do you actually measure in a person? The four things a CV and a good interview can't show you — the four points of our emblem: Knowledge, Performance (real productivity), Motivation and Personality. Together they tell you whether someone will genuinely be an asset to your team. ### Do I need to be an HR expert to use it? No — you need to become an expert in your own people. We train you, live or online, in roughly 3–10 days depending on how deep you want to go, and back you up with ongoing support and quality control. ### Can I try it before committing to a licence? Yes. You can start with individual tests and interviews: your local Performia office evaluates your chosen candidates and delivers the results with a clear recommendation. Most clients start here before becoming licensed to run it themselves. ### Does it work in my country and language? Performia operates in more than 26 countries, with tests and interviews in over 25 languages — the same standard everywhere, whether you hire in one location or many. ### Isn't doing hiring properly slow? Quality first — but not slow. Even with many candidates, the right one surfaces quickly, because the process is built on certainty rather than guesswork. Fast is the result of getting it right, never a shortcut around it. Performia's Vision Our goal at Performia is to serve the Business community around the world with practical and useful information and systems in order to evaluate candidate's productivity, personality, motivation and knowledge in order to hire productive well intention people and thereby increasing the value and overall expansion of these companies. [Contact your local office](https://performia.com/contact-us) --- ## About Performia An online system for hiring success. Performia will support you to attract productive applicants, pinpoint valuable candidates and make your team more effective — in over 25 languages. Performia measures four things in every person: Knowledge, Production, Motivation, Personality. ## Contact - **Headquarters**: Performia International AB, Bergviksgatan 27, 152 50 Södertälje, Sweden · +46 8 586 101 40 · info@performia.net - **Contact page**: https://performia.com/contact-us - **Social media**: [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/performia_international23/) · [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@performiaInternational) · [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/performiainternational?mibextid=ZbWKwL) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/performia/) ## More from Performia - [Performia — Effective Hiring Solutions](https://performia.com): An online system for hiring success. Performia will support you to attract productive applicants, pinpoint valuable candidates and make your team more effective — in over 25 languages. - [Services · Performia](https://performia.com/services): We help you build your team by putting the right people in the right jobs. - [Contact us · Performia](https://performia.com/contact-us): Contact Performia International — headquarters in Sweden and offices in more than 26 countries. - [Insights · Performia](https://performia.com/insights): Performia Insights — practical, in-depth reads on hiring, motivation, productivity and building teams that lift, from founder Mårten Runow. - [Never make the wrong hiring decision again · Performia](https://performia.com/insights/the-productivity-curve): Every team follows the same productivity curve of trouble makers, doers and performers. A clear, complete guide to reading it, and to hiring so your whole team's curve shifts to the right. - [One heavy weight can hold your whole company down · Performia](https://performia.com/insights/helium-and-sand): Every person is a balloon: lift that drives them up, and weight that pulls them down. A clear, complete guide to the one weight that grounds a whole team, and to why how a person looks tells you almost nothing about whether they will produce. - [The best candidates are choosing you, too · Performia](https://performia.com/insights/to-make-a-selection-work): Great candidates weigh far more than salary, and in a strong market they are assessing you too. A clear, complete guide to the three doors, your company, your hiring experience and the manager, that decide whether the people you choose choose you back. - [Business Hiring Analysis · Performia](https://performia.com/business-hiring-analysis): Answer a few questions about your organisation and hiring needs, and Performia will advise you on the most effective way to build your team. - [Privacy Policy · Performia](https://performia.com/privacy-policy): How Performia International AB collects, uses and protects your personal data. ## This page in other languages - [Australia (en-AU)](https://performia.com/en-au/about-us) - [China (zh-CN)](https://performia.com/zh-cn/about-us) - [Colombia (es-CO)](https://performia.com/es-co/about-us) - [Costa Rica (es-CR)](https://performia.com/es-cr/about-us) - [Czech Republic (cs-CZ)](https://performia.com/cs-cz/about-us) - [Ecuador (es-EC)](https://performia.com/es-ec/about-us) - [Estonia (et-EE)](https://performia.com/et-ee/about-us) - [Finland (fi-FI)](https://performia.com/fi-fi/about-us) - [France (fr-FR)](https://performia.com/fr-fr/about-us) - [Greece (el-GR)](https://performia.com/el-gr/about-us) - [Guatemala (es-GT)](https://performia.com/es-gt/about-us) - [Hungary (hu-HU)](https://performia.com/hu-hu/about-us) - [Japan (ja-JP)](https://performia.com/ja-jp/about-us) - [Kazakhstan (ru-KZ)](https://performia.com/ru-kz/about-us) - [Mauritius (en-MU)](https://performia.com/en-mu/about-us) - [Mexico (es-MX)](https://performia.com/es-mx/about-us) - [Netherlands (nl-NL)](https://performia.com/nl-nl/about-us) - [Norway (no-NO)](https://performia.com/no-no/about-us) - [Romania (ro-RO)](https://performia.com/ro-ro/about-us) - [Slovakia (sk-SK)](https://performia.com/sk-sk/about-us) - [Spain (es-ES)](https://performia.com/es-es/about-us) - [Sweden (sv-SE)](https://performia.com/sv-se/about-us) - [Switzerland (de-CH)](https://performia.com/de-ch/about-us) - [Taiwan (zh-TW)](https://performia.com/zh-tw/about-us) - [Ukraine (uk-UA)](https://performia.com/uk-ua/about-us) - [United Kingdom (en-GB)](https://performia.com/en-gb/about-us) - [Venezuela (es-VE)](https://performia.com/es-ve/about-us) Source: https://performia.com/about-us · © Performia International AB