Leadership Advisory

ZS offers advisory on human capital and leadership topics for CEOs and executives. We are a premium boutique and implement tailor-made programs and interventions. As Leadership Advisors, we help our clients improve their performance and the value of their system.


Our clients are convinced with us that good leadership creates value. Good leadership is both an individual ability and the decisive success factor of a performance-oriented system. Values provide orientation in terms of meaning and success


For us, Leadership Advisory is personal work with clients on an equal level. In doing so, we focus on the individual and leadership team-specific level of behaviour, promoting constructive reflection, motivation and skills.

Case Studies

Our clients are companies and managers in special situations. Special situations arise, e.g. in strong growth, before or after a change of ownership, in crises and in transformation processes.

Case Study

Roland Berger: Coaching program for executives

Situation

Roland Berger as a Professional Service company offers his executives individual support regarding leadership performance. ZS regularly provides this support for individuals and teams.

Goals of the project

1:1 coaching of managers and leaders in special situations (promotion, on-boarding, leadership, team management). Improving company performance through good leadership.

Approach

Development and implementation of a coaching program in close cooperation with HR, offering a self-service program as well as regular success monitoring through aggregated feedback reports.

Success

Consistently positive feedback from the participants, program is very attractive even in times of crisis, better understanding of Roland Bergers‘ personnel needs and HR development.

Quote

»The ZS Coaches know the topics of
our executives and support our talent
development with maximum trust.«

»The ZS Coaches know the topics of our executives and support our talent development with maximum trust.«

Friederike Woermann-Seiger, Head of Global Talent Development

Case Study

HPM: Organizational development and growth

Situation

HPM Die Handwerker is a rapidly growing craft group with more than 100 companies and almost 4,000 employees. It grows dynamically with a buy-and-build strategy. In order to develop the management of the business from central owner driven management to a divsional organization with decentralized responsibility, ZS has supported the transformation process.

Goals of the project

Implementation of a new organization with a growth-oriented leadership culture and development of a strategic planning process. Motivation and committment of existing and new managers.

Approach

Development of a decentralized organization, coaching of managers, moderation of the transformation process and advisory function for the owner.

Success

2-year transformation process without loss of key people, sales volumes and earnings. Future viability ensured even with planned doubling of sales in 5 years.

Quote

»It is valuable to have integrated a trusted
coach in our sensitive organisational development
process. With a positive personality, he ensures
objectification and professionalization of the process.«

»It is valuable to have integrated a trusted coach in our sensitive organisational development process. With a positive personality, he ensures objectification and professionalization of the process.«

Philip Mecklenburg, CEO

Case Study

ROBUR: Executive Coaching, Pulse Checks & OKR

Situation

ROBUR is a fast-growing group of specialized industrial service companies. It pursues an ambitious Buy&Build strategy. Since the beginning, a formulated value matrix (4x4) has served as the basis for the group's growing together.

Goals of the project

ZS supports the ROBUR Group in regard to strengthening of management bodies, implementation of the value matrix and strategic alignment of various business units.

Approach

The partner companies of ROBUR Group are active in technically demanding areas and the employees and the company management work strongly data-driven. Therefore we at ZS Leadership Advisory support ROBUR Group on the basis of surveys, individual- and team assessments, 360° feedbacks and pulse checks. These tools provide data which is then used in individual- and team coaching sessions or in workshops.

Success

Introduction of a data-based approach to strengthen individual leadership behavior and team performance. Collaboratively developed strategy with large buy-in of all participants in some business units as well as introduction of OKR as a strategic management tool. Development of the stakeholder map to support strategic communication of top management.

Quote

»In ZS Leadership Advisors, Philip Scherenberg,
we have found a trusting coach who has
seamlessly integrated into our sensitive
development process. «

»In ZS Leadership Advisors, Philip Scherenberg, we have found a trusting coach who has seamlessly integrated into our sensitive development process. «

Jan-Jörg Müller-Seiler, CEO

About us

Our team combines expertise from corporate
performance consulting and executive coaching,
we know the topics of our clients

Dr. Tim Zimmermann
  • Economist (Doctorate in Economics) Hochschule St. Gallen
  • Since 2001 Senior Partner at Roland Berger, from 2018 Senior Advisor at Roland Berger
  • 30 years of consulting experience
  • Expert in organization, transformation, corporate performance and leadership
  • Licensed Systemic Business Coach (DVCT)
  • Managing Director ZS Leadership Advisory GmbH
Dr. Philip Scherenberg
  • Economist Universities of Konstanz and Zurich (lic. oec. publ.)
  • Philosopher LMU Munich (Doctorate in Philosophy)
  • Expert in executive coaching, leadership advisory and stakeholder management
  • Licensed Coach Columbia Business School
  • Executive Education Coach at the IESE Business School
  • Managing Director ZS Leadership Advisory GmbH

Network

The ZS network is our leadership think tank and
combines different competencies to create a broad
knowledge portfolio

Mark Boyden

Psychotherapist & Coach
London, Hong Kong, New York, Zurich

Mark Boyden

Psychotherapist & Coach
London, Hong Kong, New York, Zurich

Mark Boyden trained at Columbia University and is a certified assessor in NBI and Hogan Psychometric testing. Before his training Mark held senior management roles at several blue-chip organisations, giving him a deep, personal understanding into the challenges of leadership and business responsibility.

Mark’s psychotherapy practice provides long-term insight-oriented therapy to a wide range of clients from workaholic senior executives to adolescents with complex presentations. His expertise covers bereavement counselling and addiction and compulsive disorders. He has also worked with severe mental health issues at Guy’s Hospital, London. Since 2014 Mark has been a Director of Lionheart Consulting, providing specialist coaching to family offices, companies, philanthropic foundations, universities and government.

Other education and licenses: MBA, MA Psychotherapy, Ad.Dip, MBACP, UKCP, FCMI, MioD, CCCP.

Rudolf Repgen

Executive Coach & Advisor
Munich, Barcelona

Rudolf Repgen

Executive Coach & Advisor, IESE Business School
Munich, Barcelona

Rudolf has earned an MBA from the IESE Business School in the two-year Global Executive MBA program, is a lawyer and has completed a journalistic education. For several years he worked in senior positions in the media industry. Since moving to the IESE Business School in 2002, he has focused on the executive education of top management. He also supports companies, foundations and individuals to jointly implement programmes and partnerships with IESE.

At the same time, he supports coaching projects for the first management level at the Barcelona campus and is involved in mentoring EMBA students at the Munich Campus. The "DNA" of the IESE includes an active and socially engaged community of alumni. He accompanies their initiatives mainly in the German-speaking countries.

Management is increasingly driven by technology. For Rudolf, how the human factor can gain precisely through technology in the company is a core task of our future. This concerns him on the advisory board of the Fraunhofer Academy. He also leads a medium-sized business program of the IESE Business School and the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft on the entrepreneurial potential of artificial intelligence.

Christian Kraus

Executive Coach & Advisor
Berlin, Munich

Christian Kraus

Executive Coach & Advisor
Berlin, Munich

Passionate coach and leadership advisor to senior executives, start-up entrepreneurs and top-ranking officials in government institutions. 20+ years of management and entrepreneurial experience, has served as COO, CHRO and CEO with strong background in sales and organizational development.

"I love to work with individuals who strive for making change for the better. Positive social impact is important to me. I accompany my clients in particularly challenging situations. They describe me as authentic, outcome-oriented, challenging, trusting and honest."

MSc in Business Administration & Int’l Management from ESCP (Paris, Oxford, Berlin). Qualified as executive coach at Columbia University (NYC). Lives and works in Berlin and Munich.

Birgit Eckart

Neuro Agile Coach
Munich

Birgit Eckart

Neuro Agile Coach , BJE Coaching
Munich

As a Neuro Agile Coach, Birgit supports employees, managers and teams comprehensively and empathetically in increasing their performance and well-being. In addition to systemic approaches, she also uses methods based on neuroscientific findings, change and conflict management, tailored to the individual needs, values and strengths of her customers. If requested by the customer, she offers additive advice on resilience, stress management and nutrition.

Birgit's aim is to look at the customer holistically. She acts flexibly according to the customer's needs and offers digital formats in German and English, for example as a live online trainer.

Fabian Raabe

Consultant & Storyteller
Munich

Fabian Raabe

Consultant & Storyteller, Senior Project Consultant FC Bayern München AG
Munich

Fabian loves to help organizations rekindle their "fire". With his experience in the highly emotional environment of high-performance sports and its fans, as well as his passion for systemic connections, the trained Future Leadership Consultant shows new perspectives on leadership, cooperation and customer loyalty.

With the elimination of structural energy predators, a return to value creation and the appropriate communication, customers and employees become real fans of their company.

Daniela Blumenwitz

Business Coaching & HR Consulting
Munich

Daniela Blumenwitz

Business Coaching & HR Consulting
Munich

Daniela is an HR executive with a strong focus on private equity and venture capital-financed companies in different phases of growth and industries.

Her HR projects include individual coaching and team coaching measures of top management, executive search for leadership positions at C and director level as well as advice and support on all strategic issues in the field of HR.

Qualifications: Dipl. Oec. University of Augsburg, Systemic Business Coach dvct

Anette M. Lang, M. A.

Specialist Executive Newplacement & Career Consulting
Munich

Anette M. Lang, M. A.

Specialist Executive Newplacement & Career Consulting
Munich

Anette Lang has been advising companies on separation processes for 20 years. With Executive Newplacement and Outplacement, she supports the design of a fair and conflict-free separation for all parties involved. The individual and tailor-made advice of managers takes place at the highest quality level.

Anette was for many years a partner and branch manager at a leading consulting firm for human resources management in Germany. Prior to that, she was for many years managing partner of a company for exclusive incentives for well-known international companies.

Qualifications: M.A. at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Tübingen, certified business coach.

Dr. Anke Soemer

Scientific Business Trainer & Coach
Munich, Berlin

Dr. Anke Soemer

Scientific Business Trainer & Coach
Munich, Berlin

Dr. Anke Soemer has been working in science management for more than 20 years and is an expert in research and transfer. At the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, she works as a Senior Advisor in the presidential field with a focus on research strategy and politics. Previously, she headed the development of young talent at the Max Planck Society.

Anke studied administrative sciences and law at the Universities of Konstanz and Ottawa and received his doctorate from the Technical University of Munich. She is a licensed business trainer and coach (dvct) and supports innovation-oriented organizations and researchers in strategy processes, acquisition and transfer of research into practice.

Matthias Haun

Sports Scientist & Systemic Business Coach
Munich

Matthias Haun

Sports Scientist & Systemic Business Coach
Munich

Matthias is a systemic coach and a qualified sports scientist. It is precisely these two educations, together with his career as a competitive athlete in wrestling, that shape his expertise. Whether as a lecturer at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, as a speaker for movement-specific topics in companies or his TV appearances as a health expert, once again support his credo "To move people mentally and physically".

"Both mental and physical position changes are essential for changes!" Says the expert for movement-oriented personality coaching. Matthias makes his more than 20 years of experience as a consultant, trainer and coach available to companies and individuals. The media-experienced coach also consults people in front of the camera.

Jörn-Hinrich Hinrichs

Actor, Trainer, Coach
Munich

Jörn-Hinrich Hinrichs

Actor, Trainer, Coach
Munich

As a trainer and coach, Jörn-Hinrich Hinrichs specializes in typed communication with his ACTivators. Whether in sales, in the management context or in the private sphere, we repeatedly, and often quickly, come across communicative limits ("Why do they never do what I tell them?"). The ACTivators break these boundaries. Without camera, but with actors. A role-play in which you don't have to play yourself...

Prior to founding ACTivators, Jörn-Hinrich Hinrichs was a trainer, consultant and key account manager in the field of training and development. He has advised and accompanied corporate clients in a wide range of personnel development topics and has developed cross-functional expertise in more than 1,500 self-provided trainings.

Ulrike Reinhard

Strategy Advisor, New Leadership & Business Culture
Heidelberg

Ulrike Reinhard

Strategy Advisor, New Leadership & Business Culture
Heidelberg

Ulrike combines everything it takes to enable real change in companies. As an outstanding observer, she has a razor-sharp grasp of people and situations. She knows what is coming. She speaks plainly. She remains appreciative and pursues the goal of your change with charming tenacity.

With a focus on modern leadership and corporate culture, her consulting is clear, well-founded and individually appropriate. Creating sustainable value for her customers is her goal.

What distinguishes Ulrike from most consultants is her 20 years of experience in technical industrial companies. Of these, 10 years as an international executive in an M-Dax listed company. There is nothing she has not seen.

Elisabeth Raes (PhD)

Psychologist, team & leadership coach
Munich

Elisabeth Raes (PhD)

Psychologist, team & leadership coach
Munich

Elisabeth is fascinated by collaboration between people. After her master in Psychology, she graduated as a PhD on the topic of teamwork. Working in this area, very quickly pulled her into the practice of teamwork gaining experience as a team coach with all types of teams, from startups to c-level teams in big international corporates. Together with 2 colleagues, she wrote the book "High Impact Teaming – slowing down to go faster" in which they give a simple and actionable answer to the question: "What is the difference between a mediocre team and a High Impact Team?".

Since 4 years, she is affiliated with Unicorn – an international consultancy based in Leuven, Belgium and Munich, Germany that focusses on bridging the knowing - doing gap on leadership development, team development and culture transformation. Her ambition is to change mindsets and habits about teamwork and leadership for more purposeful and impactful collaboration.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Matthias Ehrhardt

Coach & Entrepreneur
Boston

Prof. Dr. Dr. Matthias Ehrhardt

Coach & Entrepreneur
Boston

Matthias is a professor, coach, and entrepreneur in the field of learning, change, and talent development.

For more than 20 years he has served as an executive coach, consultant, and facilitator for entrepreneurship, leadership skills, talent development, and media law at various business schools and universities. He has worked with startups, VC and private equity firms, family businesses, leading business schools, and global corporations.

Matthias has a master of administration studies (M.A.S.), a master in media psychology (M.A.) from the Massachusetts Schools of Professional Psychology, a PhD in law (Dr. iur.), and another PhD in art history (Dr. phil.). He is an alumnus of IESE Business School's AMP, Columbia Business School's CIBE, and Harvard Business School's Owners and Presidents Management Program (OPM). Matthias has attended IESE's International Faculty Program (IFP), the Columbia Coaching Certification Program (ECI/ACI), and is a founding fellow of the Institute of Coaching (ICPA) at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School affiliate.

Matthias holds numerous certifications in talent development, coaching, and training (CPLP, HOGAN, Learning Agility, Emotional Intelligence, ATD Master Trainer, TKI, MBTI, Design Thinking, etc.).

Dr. Moritz Gekeler

Co-Creation Facilitator & Coach
Berlin

Dr. Moritz Gekeler

Co-Creation Facilitator & Coach
Berlin

Multidisciplinary teamwork and design thinking is what excites Moritz. He guides organizations and people to co-create across different departments, teams or even companies. In this context he also coaches leaders.

2018 he founded the transformation agency mermaid & broccoli GmbH together with two partners. They support organizations in the effort to master the challenges of digitalization. Besides that, Moritz designs innovation processes for companies, start-ups and especially NGOs.

Moritz is an ICF ACC Coach. He lives in different countries and therefore likes to work virtually with his clients.

Frithjof Struye

Strategy Advisor & Growth Hacker
Mönchengladbach, Brussels

Frithjof Struye

Strategy Advisor & Growth Hacker
Mönchengladbach, Brussels

Frithjof has earned a Master of Communication Science at the University of Brussels (1995) and is an Alumnus of the IESE Business School AMP Program of 2017. He is a person full of energy, following a motivating, challenging and results-driven approach.

Frithjof is Managing Partner at Business Markers und has 25+ years’ experience in helping companies to grow organically, as well as through mergers & acquisitions. He is a passionate Business Development Expert, marked by distinctive strategic, tactical and operational expertise in international business environments. Frithjof has successfully implemented business growth strategies and he has the entrepreneurial drive to identify opportunities and execute global business development plans. Frithjof is an advocate of consistent market presence using recurring business models.

Furthermore, Frithjof is lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld/Mönchengladbach and board member of several organizations

Oliver Henzler

Executive Coach & Facilitator
New York

Oliver Henzler

Executive Coach & Facilitator
New York

Oliver partners with executives and senior leaders on developing their Authentic Presence. He is an external coach at an international consulting firm serving their senior partners. Together with Co-Creation Partners (New York) and Sum People (Zurich), he facilitates high performing team journeys and culture transformation programs where the mantra is: organizations only transform when their people do.

As a performing artist, Oliver has acted in numerous theater productions and appeared in feature films as well as TV shows including the Blacklist (CBS) and Person of Interest (NBC).

Qualifications: MFA, Columbia University; BA with honors, Wesleyan University; ICF certified Coach; Human Synergistics accredited (LWS/LSI); Feldenkrais® practitioner.

Dr. Lena Kluge

Psychologist, Sportspsychologist & Business Coach
Bremen, Hamburg

Dr. Lena Kluge

Psychologist, Sportspsychologist & Business Coach
Bremen, Hamburg

Lena is a business and sports psychologist. In her individual coachings and workshops she supports people in various phases of life in reaching their goals and improving their personal development.

Lena works in different projects in the academic field and transfers psychological topics and research findings into practice.

Lena received her PhD in the field of motivational psychology. After her academic career, she gained experience in HR management.

Following, she worked as a professor of communication, as a HR Specialist Learning and Development and as a sports psychologist.

PhD in motivational psychology, sports psychologist, systemic consultant, insurance and financial investment agent

Oliver Oelkers

Branding/Coaching
Munich

Oliver Oelkers

Branding/Coaching
Munich

Oliver develops personal and product branding concepts. He loves to discover and implement sustainable, innovative, creative solutions and perspectives with his clients. He is convinced that you need good, right questions as a basis for really good ideas. That's why, for him, combining customized coaching and creative techniques is the perfect way to go.

Oliver holds a degree in design and has over 30 years of creative experience. For 20 years he has worked as a freelance designer, concept developer and creative director for companies with 1-200,000 employees. His clients include VW, Stora Enso and the Bavarian State Government. He is also a lecturer at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences for Communication Design. He completed his coaching training at the IESE Business School in Barcelona, among others.

Dr. Carolina Kleebaur

Leadership Coach & Trainer
CKC Impact Coaching

Dr. Carolina Kleebaur

Leadership Coach & Trainer
CKC Impact Coaching

Clarity, impact, and authenticity are guiding values for Carolina's work as a systemic leadership coach and trainer. With her LEAD & COACH approach, she supports leaders in a practical and eye-to-eye way to sharpen their role, attitude, and competencies to sustainably tap their own potential as well as that of the organization.

Her holistic approach is based on many years of experience as an internationally active transformation consultant in a wide variety of organizational forms and cultures.

Carolina holds a doctorate in organizational psychology and master's degrees in sociology, psychology, and communication sciences. She is certified at the German Coaching Association.

Christoph Bergdolt

Digital Advisor
Growth Expert & Business Coach

Christoph Bergdolt

Digital Advisor
Growth Expert & Business Coach

Christoph Bergdolt studied law at the University of Munich and Heidelberg and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in International Business from London. He is also a certified Systemic Business Coach (dvct).

As Managing Director and Member of the Executive Board at Swarco, AtoS and Siemens, he was responsible for the Global Business Units Mobility, Smart City as well as Transportation/Aviation, for product development, technology and growth. He is shareholder and executive partner at Transforce Partners a corporate finance, corporate support and business advisory consultancy. He is also a member of advisory boards in various industry networks.

Christoph is an expert when it comes to Digital Transformation and all related topics - strategy, processes, portfolio, sales, culture.

Matthias Zitzmann

Business Coach
Munich

Matthias Zitzmann

Business Coach
Munich

Matthias is a graduate in business administration and a Business Coach, accumulating substantial experience as a family entrepreneur and managing director of medium-sized enterprises. He has established, internationalized, restructured, acquired, and divested businesses in the manufacturing industry.

Currently, Matthias serves as a Senior Partner at "von der Heyden, Reitzel & Reichenberger" (vdHRR) in Grünwald near Munich, a leading executive consulting boutique in Germany.

"Through my extensive tenure as a managing partner, I possess comprehensive knowledge of family business intricacies derived from personal experience. Leveraging this background, I provide advisory services to my clients on a peer-to-peer level, contributing to the safeguarding of their businesses by identifying the 'right' candidate. It brings me great joy to share my expertise with others. Essentially, I view myself as a sparring partner for shareholders, management, and executives."

Partners

Together with our cooperation partners,
we design solutions for our customers

Columbia University is the most important Ivy League university in the education of coaches. We are part of the Columbia Coaching and Learning Association with over 500 Columbia coaches worldwide.

DESIGNING TALENT is a leading program for talent development. We cooperate with DESIGNING TALENT on joint projects.

The IESE Business School is a world leader in Executive Education. We cooperate with IESE as coaches in various programs.

Services

Together with our clients, we develop goals, evaluate the current situation and carry out targeted interventions whose successes can be measured. We recommend our ZS products on 3 interrelated levels of action. In doing so, we regularly leverage tools and assessments such as
MBTI, TKI, Big Five (B5+), Hogan (HDI, HPS, MVPI).

Individuals
Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching

Occasions

  • Dealing with special situations
  • Preparing for an event
  • Improving Leadership

Topics

  • Purpose and Values
  • Strengths and personality profile
  • Leadership behaviour
  • Positioning in the management team

Process

  • Ongoing advisory in the sense of neutral experience-based sparring of the client
  • Assessments (Human Content B5+/F60, MBTI/TKI, Hogan) and debriefs in 1:1 sessions
  • Issue based  interventions
  • Regular Sessions 1:1
  • arget fullfillment check (Feedback, Supervision)

Results

  • The personal map
  • Leadership
  • Systematic preparation for a special challenge
  • Change of behaviour
On-Boarding
On-Boarding

Occasions

  • Personnel changes, new organisations
  • Establishing a manager in a new position
  • Relocation and expatriate deployments

Topics

  • Transparency about the opportunities and pitfalls of the new position, stakeholders and expectations
  • Know value profile and own strengths, self-positioning
  • Managing a stakeholder system
  • Communication strategy for first 100 days
  • Dealing with resistances

Process

  • Analysis of initial situation and target definition (research, interviews, assessments)
  • Coaching process according to the GROW principle (5 - 10 individual sessions)
  • Interventions with tools (value square, motivation levels, competence wheel, line-ups, etc.)
  • Individual action plan and ongoing implementation support, advisory in critical situations

Results

  • Transparency about framework conditions and objectives in the onboarding process
  • Personal map (inventory) of preferences and competencies
  • Detailed plan for the first 100 days
Personal Brand
Personal Brand

Occasions

  • Positioning in teams and organizations
  • Onboarding / Offboarding
  • Professional reorientation
  • Development

Topics

  • What is my USP?
  • What value do I create?
  • What is important to me?
  • What are my energy sources/eaters?
  • How can I present myself better?

Process

  • Assessments (Human Content B5+/F60, MBTI/TKI, Hogan) and debrief in sessions 1:1
  • 5 sessions on „5 Great Questions About Your Personal Brand“
  • 2-5 one-on-one sessions for implementation
  • Single session for target fullfillment check (feedback, supervision)

Results

  • Sharpening the individual profile
  • Clarity on options
  • Target orientation
  • Mindset für change
Teams
High Performance
High Performance

Occasions

  • Changing goals
  • New leadership, new governing bodies
  • Restructuring or transformation
  • Carve out oder Post merger integration
  • Implementation of Performance Program

Topics

  • Making decisions
  • Resolving conflicts
  • Creating motivation
  • Ensuring agility
  • Supporting innovation

Process

  • Assessments and survey (MBTI / TKI and 1:1 interviews) with all team members
  • Tailor-made team workshops
  • Development of a team charter as a framework for collaboration
  • Implementation coaching

Results

  • Creation of Individual behavior profile
  • Transparency of team dynamics
  • Objectives for team performance and action plan
  • Behavioural change of team members
360° Feedback
360° Feedback

Occasions

  • Deviation of self-image and perception of others in the Leadership Team
  • Strong performance differences in the leadership team
  • "Chaos-Management"

Topics

  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Behaviour in situatations of conflict

Process

  • Identification of relevant questions at the level of the individual, team and organisation
  • Definition of feedback donors (min. 3 supervisors, peers and employees)
  • Survey, sending and collecting the questionnaires
  • Evaluation of the 4 results (self-image, supervisors, peers and employees)
  • individual 1:1 debrief of results
  • Committment to activities for improvement
  • Checking success by repetition of survey after 6-12 months

Results

  • Professional and protected environment for individual feedback
  • Development potentials become transparent
  • Concrete measures are defined
  • High probability of success through implementation support of the development goals
  • Joint Learning Journey of the Leadership Team
  • Stronger alignment between feedback donors and feedback recipients
  • Continuous increase of team performance with 360° feedback tool
OKR
OKR

Occasions

  • Strategic realignment
  • Strengthening alignment in the Leadership Team or other management body
  • Dynamic market environment
  • Blind flight in terms of achieving the target

Topics

  • Clarity on prioritisation of strategic issues
  • Measuring and controlling progress
  • Create feedback events for leadership team
  • Increase transparency between departements

Process

  • Development of a higher-level guiding idea for the organization, business unit or departement
  • Definition of strategic objectives at the relevant levels of the organisation
  • Determine the critical success factors for implementing OKR in your organization
  • Training in the formulation of OKR
  • Moderation of the OKR process (presentations and feedback loops)
  • Transfer of the OKR process to internal capacity

Results

  • Create transparency with regard to strategic objectives, priorities and capacities
  • Better lateral and vertical communication within the Leadership Team
  • More team spirit
  • Occasional periodic review of strategy achievement
Organizations
Pulse Checks
Pulse Checks

Occasions

  • Transformation, disruption, change
  • PMI, change of command
  • Cultural controlling
  • Monthly, quarterly or annual

Topics

  • Leadership
  • Culture
  • Communication
  • Trust

Process

  • Definition of the relevant measurement criteria in the company
  • Elaboration of a compact, appropriate questionnaire
  • Definition of the circle of feedback providers
  • Conducting the survey (anonymous)
  • Evaluation and analysis of survey data
  • Documentation and presentation of the results
  • Moderation of workshops regarding the analysis and optimization of results

Results

  • Improving meeting formats
  • More regular votes in leadership circles
  • More Ownership on "Culture Topics"
  • Identification of "Elephants in the room"
  • Elimination of long-standing energy suckers
Leadership Alignment
Leadership Alignment

Occasions

  • Strategic realignment
  • Strengthening alignment in the organization with respect to the goals

Topics

  • Strategy development in single departments, business units or entire organizations
  • Orientation and innovation processes
  • Disruption, PMI and prioritization of projects
  • Optimized resource allocation
  • Managing unexpected growth in production-intensive companies

Process

  • Assessing the status quo around to be defined criteria; e.g. Technology, Human Capital, Structure/Organization Chart, Operations, Performance, Market, Competition
  • Defining goals and visions taking into account market, megatrends and economic developments in the respective industry
  • Developing concrete strategic action plans to bridge the gap between the status quo and Vision; delegate and track implementation tasks through OKRs as a strategic management tool

Results

  • Common target definition with mission & roadmap
  • Empowerment and ownership of all involved parties
  • Clear roles and responsibilities
  • Resilience of Individuals, Teams and Organization
Organizational Development
Organizational Development

Occasions

  • Reorganisationen, Post Merger Integration, Carve out
  • Effectiveness and efficiency issues
  • Grown crisis
  • Generational change or change of strategy

Topics

  • Structures, processes and leadership relationships
  • Management levels and management spans
  • Organisational flexibility and resilience
  • Performance of an organization
  • Organisational and leadership culture

Process

  • Organisational Performance Assessments (Org Audits)
  • Cultural Pulse Checks
  • Design of a continuous development process
  • Advisory on the appointment of management positions
  • Coaching and implementation

Results

  • Expert-based, neutral external audit
  • Stakeholder Map of Executives
  • Target and Transitional Organisations
  • Mission, Mission statement and Leadership Principles
  • Organizational development plan with milestones

References

We possess particular expertise and experience in supporting human capital matters for companies within the following sectors: Private Equity (Small& Mid-Cap), Venture Capital and Startups, Professional Service Companies, Medium-Sized Companies, Family owned Companies.

PE & VC

Tech & IT

Industry

Professional Services

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