I don't sell sessions.
I invest in a relationship of equals. My goal isn't for you to need me. My goal is for you to see clearly.
About me
Work with me and you won't get a programme. You'll get a counterpart.
For over 25 years I've been a sparring partner for people who lead — in companies, in teams, with themselves.
For over 25 years I've been a sparring partner for people who lead — in companies, in teams, with themselves. On a shop floor in Bavaria, on a major construction site in Singapore, in a hospital in southern Germany, in a trading office in Hong Kong.
My clients don't come to me because they have a problem. They come because they need someone who thinks with them, questions them, and is honest with them. Someone who stays until the impact is real.
My path didn't begin with an MBA. It began on the handball court and in medical school. Both shaped me. Sport taught me to make the right decision at the right moment and to trust the team. Medicine taught me to listen before I act.
Today I work as a Trusted Advisor and Sparring Partner — for individual leaders and for entire organisations. Across industries: manufacturing, healthcare, construction, logistics, retail. My approach combines modern personality psychology with the reality of the place where value is actually created.
What defines my work
As equals. With clarity. For real impact.
I listen before I answer.
I ask questions that are uncomfortable — but useful. And I'm honest, even when it would be easier to agree.
I work where it counts.
On construction sites, in hospitals, on production floors, in international projects. Not just in the meeting room. Leadership doesn't show up in the presentation — it shows up where the money is earned.
I use personality psychology.
LINC Profiling and 25 years of practice. Not as a method demonstration, but as a precise tool to bring clarity about strengths, drivers, and impact.
Clarifying boundaries
What I am not.
Not a consultant with a deck-tornado. Not someone selling methods. Not a motivational speaker. If a company is looking for someone who runs a pre-packaged programme and disappears after three workshops, I'm the wrong choice. If a company is looking for someone who thinks with them, questions them, engages with the reality on the ground, and stays until the impact takes hold in daily life — then we can talk.
Who I work with
Who I'm the right fit for.
I work with companies that are honestly facing a real change — not the next reorganisation attempt. With management teams who can hold clarity, even when they themselves are part of what has to change. With engagements where the pain is already tangible and the prospect is clear enough to justify the effort.
Company size typically sits between 300 and 1,500 employees — large enough for real complexity, small enough for impact in daily life. Across industries, with the focus where value is actually created.
A typical scene
That's exactly where my work begins.
The leadership team has signed off on the strategy. Everyone nods. Three weeks later, every individual is back to deciding by the old logic. The slides sit in the cloud, reality runs the way it always did. That's where my work begins — not in the presentation, but in the daily reality of leadership. Monday, 9am.
My network
Good work happens in teams.
By conviction, I'm part of selected consulting networks — because I know that some projects require the experience of a team you can trust.
Detego — Living Change
National network for agile transformation and new leadership.
detego.euAvance Group
Industry and productivity consulting — partner for shop-floor coaching and supervisor development since 2008.
avancegroup.euti communication
International training and coaching platform.
ticommunication.euRegensburger Business Institut
Consulting and implementation for change processes.
regensburg-institut.de
Between Europe and Asia
Intercultural leadership isn't a seminar topic for me.
For 25 years I've moved between Europe and Asia. I ran active sales in Hong Kong, led a major project with 120 people from six nations in Singapore as Managing Director, and supported international teams in logistics, trade, and construction. What needs to be settled at a dinner table in Wan Chai cannot be resolved from a German conference room — I know that, because I've lived both.
A case that shaped me
10,000 cars in the snow. And a company close to insolvency.
Hamburg, late November. A large car terminal with around 10,000 parking spaces, in economic distress. My mandate: restructuring. Then the call came from corporate headquarters — vehicles would no longer be unloaded by ship. 60 percent of revenue disappeared overnight. Of 240 employees, 120 had to go.
Together with the new Managing Director — a clever man who held his stance under extreme pressure — we steered the layoff process. That was supposed to be the hardest part. Supposed to be.
Then the electronic data for every vehicle disappeared. Physically they stood on the lot. In the system they no longer existed. Customers didn't get their deliveries. Employees who had just lost their jobs sat at the phone and had to give angry customers answers they didn't have themselves. Some cried. And in Hamburg — rare enough — snow fell on ten thousand cars.
We drove ourselves. Consultants at the wheel, snow on the windscreen, car by car to the scanning station. In parallel, we trained the staff to lead difficult customer conversations without losing themselves in them. That's what shaped me: it wasn't the strategy paper that saved the company — it was that everyone, management, staff, consultants, was willing to go to the place where it hurts.
The negative trend of minus 60 percent was stopped. Today the terminal runs at full capacity and has become, over the years, an economically stable factor in its industry.
That's exactly what I mean by „I go where it actually happens."
Off the clock
Handball is my metaphor. And my home.
The court, the team, the time-out with 30 seconds for the right decision. Much of what I know about leadership I learned there — on the field, on the sideline, in training sessions.
So if you find yourself reading more than a few sentences on this site about time-outs, plays, and the field of play: they aren't rhetorical costume. They're the language I think in.
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