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For executive leadership and transformation owners in mid-sized companies and corporates, in the DACH region and internationally.

Strategy that lands in the organisation.

I develop target structures together with your teams, take ownership of them, and support them through to implementation: as an advisor or as an interim leader, up to CEO level. I use AI where it works within the system of your organisation.

I develop target structures together with your teams and support them through to implementation.

Advisory experience and CEO accountability in one person

I have rebuilt organisations as an advisor and led them myself as CEO, with full accountability for the result. I know both sides: what a strategy promises on the slide, and what it has to hold up to in the day-to-day of an organisation.

I analyse the starting situation, develop the target structure together with your teams, support the staffing, and hand over only once the structure holds without me. The subject-matter expertise sits with your teams or in my network of more than ten selected consultants; the accountability stays with me.

Fulfillment is my word for it: from advisory through implementation to stabilisation and handover, because most strategies only fail after that point.

Where the mandate calls for it, I take on leadership myself, up to the role of interim COO or CEO — for me, Chief Enabling Officer: decision-making authority, with the mandate to enable teams and leaders to succeed.

How leadership and ownership shift over the course of a mandate

My leadershipYour teams' ownership

Shift of leadership and ownership over time My leadership is high during diagnosis and decreases across target structure and staffing. Your teams' ownership rises over the same period, until the structure holds without me.
  1. DiagnosisI analyse the starting situation.
  2. Target structureDeveloped together with your teams; I carry the responsibility.
  3. StaffingTogether with the teams, including recruiting.
  4. Stabilisation and handoverUntil the structure holds without me.

Thinking organisation and AI together

Systemic organisational consulting and leadership coaching always see an organisation as a whole: visible and invisible interactions, unwritten rules, power structures.

AI is the new force intervening in this system today. Whoever already understands the system also sees where it makes a meaningful difference.

I use AI operationally myself: in financial modelling and forecasting, in strategy and organisational design, and in facilitation, where it distills differing viewpoints into a shared picture.

Understand the organisation as a system first, then deploy AI precisely and efficiently where it actually works.

Why now

Most companies are investing in AI right now, and most see nothing for it. The reason is rarely the technology itself, but the structure, the leadership architecture and the strategy execution behind it. I've worked in this field for 17 years.

Only 5% of companies are AI “future-built” and achieve five times higher revenue growth.

Source: BCG, “The Widening AI Value Gap”, 2025
5 out of 100 companies

The three questions before every AI rollout

Where I support organisations

After a merger, acquisition or carve-out

Restructuring and strategic realignment, when responsibilities are blocked or holdings are operationally stalled.

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When the organisation has outgrown its structure

Organisational design and leadership architecture: clarifying target organisation, governance and roles so the leadership level becomes capable of acting again.

More on organisational design and leadership architecture

When strategy isn't landing in execution

Strategy execution, when staff turnover or political change have destabilised a strategy.

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Interim leadership: If a leadership position is vacant, or the transformation itself needs leadership within the company, I take on the role on a time-bound basis, as interim COO or interim CEO.

Executive Coaching

Sparring with someone who has led themselves. For people carrying responsibility: in new roles, in transformations, under pressure.

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Insights into my work

Mirion Technologies · Canna Capital Group · IT group, Munich · GIZ · Greenpeace · Amnesty International Switzerland

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Clients and partners, a selection with no claim to completeness, as well as UN entities.

Lufthansa CargoDHL GroupDeutsche TelekomSkyKrombacherKyoceraMitsui & Co.RIMOWACentres for practical teacher training of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ZfsL NRW)ACHTHY-LINEDeutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), German development agencyDeutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), German development agencyGerman Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)ECOWAS / CEDEAOOrange Digital CenterGreenpeace InternationalSiemensAmnesty International SwitzerlandVectorMirion TechnologiesMobilisation LabUNHCR, the UN Refugee AgencyUNDP, United Nations Development ProgrammeCanna Capital GroupLumenLufthansa CargoDHL GroupDeutsche TelekomSkyKrombacherKyoceraMitsui & Co.RIMOWACentres for practical teacher training of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ZfsL NRW)ACHTHY-LINEDeutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), German development agencyDeutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), German development agencyGerman Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)ECOWAS / CEDEAOOrange Digital CenterGreenpeace InternationalSiemensAmnesty International SwitzerlandVectorMirion TechnologiesMobilisation LabUNHCR, the UN Refugee AgencyUNDP, United Nations Development ProgrammeCanna Capital GroupLumen

From inquiry to proposal

  1. Brief introduction15 minutes, no obligation, by video or phone. We check whether your situation fits one of the three topics.
  2. Deep-dive on the starting situation60 minutes, on-site or remote. Concrete questions on structure, stakeholders and timing.
  3. ProposalDay or hourly rate, matched to the scope and duration of the mandate.

FAQ

A conversation shows whether it's a fit.

Confidential and non-binding. In 15 minutes you describe the situation, and I'll tell you honestly whether and how I'm the right person for it.

Book a 15-minute call

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