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Adelheid Krohn-Grimberghe

Communication, Resilience, Personal Development

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Andreas Gärtner

Transformation consulting, Training, Facilitation

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Andreas Zink

Organisational Development, Leadership Development, Change Management

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Britt Schubert

Organizational Consultant, Trainer, Coach

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Christoph Grandpierre

Managing Partner and Founder of Metakomm Partnergesellschaft

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Claudia Schmidt

Organisational Development, Team Development

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Colin Daun

HR Operations Consulting

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Eric Szkoda

HCM Implementation, Project Management, Organizational Design

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Gesche Henties

Team Development, Organisational Development

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Gurdip Sahota

Project and Program Management, Controlling

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Johanna Elisabeth Kuhrau

Project Management, Strategic Marketing, Mergers & Acquisitions

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Liliane Grandpierre

Managing Partner and Founder of Metakomm Partnergesellschaft

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Lu Bowen

HR Transformation and Technology Implementation, Shared Services

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Michel Perron

Organisational Development, Leadership Development, Coaching

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Milow

Chief Happiness Officer

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Natalia Bogoyavlenskaya

HR Transformation, Project Management

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Sarah Baumann

Team Development, Leadership Development, Hybrid Working

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Tobias Hertel

Team Development, Communication, Moderation

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Verena Gibson

Organisational design, team development, executive coaching, C-level sparring, mediator and conflict resolution expert

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Adelheid Krohn-Grimberghe

Communication, Resilience, Personal Development

Transactional Analyst TSTA Consulting

Hypnotherapy (based on Milton Erickson)

Non-medical Psychotherapy

Trainer, Consultant and Coach

Tuebingen, Germany

Focus Areas:

  • Communication and professional presentation
  • Power of persuasion
  • Effective use of voice and language
  • Stress management
  • Burnout prevention

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Andreas Gärtner

Transformation consulting, Training, Facilitation

Experienced executive with over 20 years of professional experience in corporate groups, SMEs and private equity, thereof 15 years of management responsibility
Over 10 years of consulting experience with a focus on organizational and team development, management diagnostics and talent management, general personnel management
Industry experience in public administration, international services in aviation, personnel services and financial services

Education:
Master of Psychology, Master of Social Work, Master of Business Administration

Qualifications:
Liberating structures
HOGAN zertifiziert
BIP (Bochumer Inventory on work related behaviour)

Languages:
German: mother tongue
English: fluent

Frankfurt, Deutschland

Main topics:

  • Change Management
  • New Work and Enablement
  • Leadership development
  • Management Diagnostics
  • Development and introduction of new competence and leadership models
  • HR core processes (e.g. performance & talent management)
  • Development and restructuring of HR departments
  • Selection and introduction of appropriate HRIT solutions   
  • Facilitation
  • Training

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Andreas Zink

Organisational Development, Leadership Development, Change Management

25+ years of experience in global/regional HR, L&D, Facilitation and Consulting of which 15 years in people leadership/ management roles covering large and medium matrix businesses in companies and start-ups such as GE (Renewable Energy), IBM (IT), Alexion (Biotech), Ferring (Pharma) and Indigoag (Agriculture).

PCC (with ICF), Chartered FCIPD, Certified European Business Coach, MBTI practitioner, certified KornFerry 360 and Leadership Architect.

Fluent in German, English and Italian, intermediate French and Spanish

Marathon runner

Lausanne, Switzerland

Focus Areas:

  • Change and Transition Management
  • Organisational Development
  • Talent Management and Development
  • (Executive) Coaching
  • Culture and Employee Experience

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Britt Schubert

Organizational Consultant, Trainer, Coach

HR leader with 20 years of experience in diverse industries (finance, shipping) and +9 years in different roles leading people teams in a fast-growing online business, most recently as VP HR.
Focus areas:

  • HR Strategy
  • HR Transformation
  • Change Management
  • New Work Concepts
  • Leadership Development
  • People Growth
  • Coaching

Education:

  • M. S. Psychology
  • ceritfied Predictive Index (PI) Analyst
  • ZRM Ressource Management           
  • certified Systemic Coach

Fluent in German and English
Hamburg, Deutschland

What makes me get up in the morning:
A trained Psychologist and certified Systemic Coach, I lead by enabling and empowering others to thrive and achieve their goals. Committed to fostering transparency, clarity, and candor in both my personal and professional communication. Dedicated to building strong people functions to enhance organisational vitality, resilience and long-term success. Enthusiastic about introducing modern and efficient HR processes and solutions to boost organisational growth and change.
I am passionate about taking HR Strategy and Execution to the next level as your trusted and honest consultant and sparrings partner for your specific HR challenges and projects. I also coach HR professionals and people leaders to ensure sustainable success.

My expertise in more detail

  • Multi-national HR experience in Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland
  • Developing HR strategies in line with company strategy, deriving strategic HR initiatives and projects, roadmap planning and stakeholder management
  • HR operating model incl. core processes, staffing, change management
  • Leading cross-functional and cross-european HR teams in a matrix structure, building specialized teams with strong collaboration based on mutual trust
  • Designing and implementing state-of-the-art HR processes along the employee lifecycle (talent acquisition, employer branding, onboarding process, operational excellence, leadership and people development, performance management and talent conferences, change management, remuneration & rewards incl. salary rounds & bonus structure, offboarding)
  • Working with HR teams to embrace HR analytics and data-driven decisions, introducing HR tools and software (Workday, Prescreen) to build the foundation for reliable people processes and data
  • Working with top management on organisational development, including operating model, span of control and team setup as well as cultural beliefs and artefacts, change management
  • Introducing tools and concepts to deliver on strategy-relevant New Work approaches, such as: employee assistance programs, employee wellbeing, corporate learning, enhance work flexibility (mobile office policies, part-time, sabbaticals, temporary work abroad), salary transparency
  • Experienced in reorganisations and restructurings (merger, carve-out, layoffs with and without volunteer programs), negotiations with employee committee
  • Diagnostic interviews and selection esp. for top management functions as well as key HR functions
Coaching and Sparring for Senior Leadership and HR staff on personal positioning, leadership approach, resilience

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Christoph Grandpierre

Managing Partner and Founder of Metakomm Partnergesellschaft

Managing Partner at Metakomm

20 years experience in HR, passionate HR leader and trained lawyer

13 years in Managing Director positions at IBM, Barclays and Lowell

9 years experience in working abroad

Berlin, Germany

Focus Areas:

  • Organisational Design and Development
  • M&A
  • HR Transformation
  • Change Management
  • Shared Services
  • Labor Relations

2017 to 2020 Chief People Officer Lowell

2011 to 2016 Managing Director Barclays, Global Head of HR Services, London

2005 to 2011 Managing Director IBM Deutschland and Vice President Human Resources, Global Labor Relations

2000 to 2005 IBM, European Headquarter, Paris, several project management and HR Leadership roles

1996 to 2000 IBM Deutschland, Manufacturing, different HR and Management roles

1989 to 1996 Law studies at Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz with specialisation in labour law, Master in Law 1996

Extensive HR leadership and transformation experience in Germany, Europe and at the global level and across services, sales and manufacturing businesses. Deep expertise in Organisational Design and Development, Cultural Change, Integrations, Employee and Industrial Relations, HR Operations and Services, Talent Management, Compensation and Benefits, Business Development (M&A).
Successful leadership of significant growth and restructuring projects.

How my colleagues are describing me:

Highly innovative, strategic thinker with excellent implementation capabilities, solutions oriented, driving transformation and sustainable change in a cooperative and teaming oriented way, an inspirational global people leader and great communicator.

My specific passion is working with and developing people globally – preferably in challenging transformation projects.

I’m leveraging the experience of 20 years in leadership roles for my consulting work. This enables good discussions at the right decision making levels. Next to my strategic and analytical capabilities the experience in dealing with practical operational challenges in the execution of projects and implementation of decisions knowing about the dependencies in an organisation helps to develop the right solutions together with the clients. We define the optimal outcome, challenge the boundaries and achieve the maximum within the environment. This leads to a successful implementation and execution.

Here some examples of transformation projects from the last few years:

  • Group wide redesign and implementation of an enhanced target operating model within a midsize financial services organisation
  • Multi-country European M&A project from due diligence, deal design to post merger integration adding 5 country organisations with approx 1000 colleagues to an existing european structure of 3500 colleagues
  • Selection and deployment of a new group wide HCM solution for 17 countries for a services business
  • design, development and implementation of a completely new global organisation for HR Services for 130.000 employees in 52 countries, transformation und implementation of global processes and technology, setting up and leading more than 600 employees in 23 countries
  • design and reorganisation of pension plans transfering all employees from defined benefit plans to cash balance plans
  • leading the reorganisation of an entire organisation along the the value chain setting up a new structure of 18 legal entities for R&D, Sales, Services and Infrastructure including transfer of more than 8000 employees

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Claudia Schmidt

Organisational Development, Team Development

Over 15 years of professional experience in industry and public sector, thereof over 10 years in the corporate environment (Deutsche Bahn AG). Over 5 years in management positions, including Head of Sales and Head of Business Development. International experience.

Master’s in business administration & economics, PhD in economics

Fluent in German (mother tongue) and English

Berlin, Germany

Main focus:

  • Strategy development and implementation
  • Transformation projects and reorganization
  • Corporate culture
  • Team development
  • Stakeholder management

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Colin Daun

HR Operations Consulting

External HR Operations executive with 20 years of operational and strategic, cross-industry experience in payroll, HR administration and global mobility.

Berlin, Germany

Main focus:

  • Operational and strategic payroll
  • Global mobility (assignments, business trips, remote abroad, travel management)
  • Personnel administration
  • Recruitment, staff development and coaching of teams
  • Project management in most areas of HR Operations

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Eric Szkoda

HCM Implementation, Project Management, Organizational Design

A strong communicator with experience in HCM implementation and managing service providers in both traditional and agile project management environments, ranging from startups to large corporations. Has participated in various organizational design projects for clients with internationally operating structures.

Berlin, Deutschland

Core Focus Areas:

  • HCM Selection and Implementation
  • Project Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Communication and Enablement
  • Business Analysis
  • Organisational Design

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Gesche Henties

Team Development, Organisational Development

With over 20 years of work and consulting experience, including in public administration, she is an experienced expert in her field. As a trainer for managers from various sectors, she supports companies in achieving their goals.

Her qualifications at a glance:

  • Degree in social work
  • Certified Care & Case Manager (DGCC)
  • Member of the Systemic Society (SG)
  • Systemic counsellor (SG)
  • Systemic supervisor

Her working methods and areas of specialisation:
Gesche Henties works in a systemic and solution-orientated way to facilitate sustainable change. She specialises in multigenerational cooperation in companies. She supports teams and organisations in making optimum use of the potential of all generations and promoting effective working relationships.

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Gurdip Sahota

Project and Program Management, Controlling

Fully Qualified Certified Accountant F.C.C.A.  with 23 year experience in Finance, Controlling and Operations in management as well as consultancy roles in Barclays, Thomson Reuters, Accenture, Caterpillar

Participated in many complex transformational projects leading on commercial finance, management and statutory reporting and programme management including complex business case creation and value realization tracking.

London, UK

Focus Areas:

  • Business Case creation and development
  • Financial controlling
  • Project and programme management
  • Outsourcing and commercial negotiations
  • Operational excellence

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Johanna Elisabeth Kuhrau

Project Management, Strategic Marketing, Mergers & Acquisitions

Diverse professional experience from working in various industries and 
positions ranging from Marketing Communications in a law firm to IPO & 
Growth Financing at the German Stock Exchange.

Consulting experience encompassing Marketing for start-ups, Mergers & 
Acquisitions for medium-sized companies, and Digital Transformation for 
a DAX company.

Bachelor's degree in International Business with specialisations in 
Marketing and Strategy. Voluntary engagement at the Berlin-based student 
consultancy BCPro e.V.

Berlin, Germany

Focus Areas:

  • Project Management
  • Strategic Marketing
  • Growth & Expansion
  • Digital Transformation
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

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Liliane Grandpierre

Managing Partner and Founder of Metakomm Partnergesellschaft

Managing Partner at Metakomm

Master in educational science/adult education

Transactional Analyst CTA-C

Trainer, Consultant and Coach

Berlin, Germany

Focus Areas:

  • Team Development
  • Mediation
  • Agile Culture Transformation
  • Leadership Development
  • Conflict Management

Professional Background

 Education:

  • Master of educational science/adult education and communications
  • Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, degree in 1997

 Qualifications:

  • certified Transactional Analyst in Counseling, DGTA, EATA
  • Agile Culture Transformation (Teamworks, Hamburg)
  • Coaching (Professio, Ansbach)
  • Mediation (Zweisicht, Freiburg)
  • Hogan Assessment Certification (Hogan Assessment Systems, Inc.)
  • Organisational consulting (Business Manufaktur, Kaiserslautern)

 Experience:

19 years working as a trainer and coach having worked with companies at very different sizes and in many different industries (see client list below). The participants are from the age of 16 to 72 working in very diverse professions and at all levels from a young trainee to the CEO.

 Colleagues describe me as open, passionate, professional, spontaneous and humorous.

 Important basics of my work are:

  • Contracting
  • Enabling autonomy
  • Ethical responsibility
  • Implementability

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Lu Bowen

HR Transformation and Technology Implementation, Shared Services

More than 20 years experience in HR of which 10 have been focused on large scale business improvement projects across multiple sectors.
Deep expertise in HR Technology design and implementation having successful deployments of Workday, Service Now and Oracle People Soft.

London, UK

Focus Areas:

  • Project and Programme Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • HR Technology Solution Design and Implementation
  • Shared Service Design and Implementation
  • Business Process Re-engineering

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Michel Perron

Organisational Development, Leadership Development, Coaching

Extensive all-round corporate HR background in international human resource management, both in specialist L&D roles and leadership positions. Cross-industry experience in leading global IT and FMCG companies. Initial education in political studies and business management (MBA).
Consultant, coach and facilitator/trainer with qualifications in:
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI)
Robbins-Madanes Strategic Interventions
Situational Leadership

Lausanne, Switzerland

Focus Areas:

  • Organizational development and how to evolve a culture
  • Leadership development and career turns
  • Individual purpose, growth and progress
  • Individual or team coaching for performance enhancement
  • Team performance in virtual, cross-cultural contexts

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Milow

Chief Happiness Officer

Since two years, Milow has been supporting us with his impressive personality, his intuitive ideas and a deep serenity in everyday work and beyond.

Motto: Never give up!

Qualifications:
• Endurance
• High emotional competence
• Curiosity
• Great willingness to learn
• Protective instinct
• Good mood as a principle

Gruenheide, Germany

Main topics:

• Emotional training
• Team motivation
• Change of perspective
• Awareness
• Work-life balance

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Natalia Bogoyavlenskaya

HR Transformation, Project Management

Passionate HR Transformation and Digitalisation professional with 25 years of experience in HR and 15+ years as a project manager for international projects

MSc in Computer Science, BSc in Psychology (Honours)

Certified: ICF ACC, Hogan Assessments (HPI, HDS, MVPI), Scrum Master, PRINCE2 Foundation

Fluent in English, advanced German, native Russian

Düsseldorf, Germany

Focus Areas:

  • HR Transformation and Digitalisation
  • Project Management (agile and waterfall)
  • Recruitment 4.0
  • Renewal of organisational Culture and Ways of Working
  • Competence Strategy, Leadership and Talent development

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Sarah Baumann

Team Development, Leadership Development, Hybrid Working

Experienced Coach/ Supervisor (DGSv), team developer and trainer for managers, employees, teams and groups in various industries/ sectors. Personality profiler (Big 5). The basis for her work are solution oriented and systemic approaches and methods as well as reflective elements. She has worked as a manager and as a consultant.

Qualification: 
+ Master in Supervision and consultancy
+ Member DGSv
+ Member in a Supervision Group Hanover
+ Certified Agile Coach
+ Solution oriented systemic consultancy
+ Bachelor in International Business Administration

Hannover, Germany

Focus Areas:

  • Team Development
  • Coaching
  • Supervision
  • Management Development
  • Agility
  • Moderation of processes and conflicts
  • Remote work

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Tobias Hertel

Team Development, Communication, Moderation

5+ years of experience as trainer and coach for presentation and moderation.
7+ years of experience as moderator for events and panel discussions.
Several years of professional experience as a strategy consultant in the financial sector (compliance and anti-money laundering) and in the media industry (start-ups and agencies).

INSEAD, Business Strategy
M. Sc., Management
B. Sc., Communication and Media Management
State-certified stage actor

Mother tongue: German
Business fluent: English
Basic knowledge: Spanish

Frankfurt, Germany

Focus areas:

  • Presentation training
  • Moderation training
  • Rhetoric and body language
  • Storytelling – The power of good stories
  • Mastering nervousness and stage fright

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Verena Gibson

Organisational design, team development, executive coaching, C-level sparring, mediator and conflict resolution expert

Experienced sparring partner, mentor, coach, mediator, team developer and trainer for executives, employees and teams from various industries.

+ Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Economics
+ Certified consultant for organisational design for agile teams and companies
+ Deputy Head of the Business Division of the German Association for Mediation
+ Certified mediator
+ Member of the German Mediation Association (BMEV)
+ Strengths-based intervention

Berlin, Germany

Focus Areas:

  • CEO sparring and coaching
  • Female Leadership
  • Organisational Design
  • Digital transformation support
  • Mediation and conflict management
  • Leadership development
  • Team development
  • Facilitation of processes and conflict situations
  • Remote/hybrid working

The focus of her work is on supporting CEOs and executives in setting up/realigning the framework conditions of the organisation as well as conflict resolution in teams. She draws on her expertise in the field of organisational design based on Luhmann's systems theory as well as conflict resolution expertise based on her training as a business mediator. She relies on the understanding that companies are not made of people but of communication. According to this approach, the connection between conflicts/challenges and the existing framework conditions in the company can be explained more effectively. This is because people always behave in a context-dependent way. Therefore, the framework conditions are usually the reason for emerging conflicts and not the people themselves. In her counselling and support, she therefore applies the thinking tools of Future Leadership (according to the intrinsify academy) and solves leadership problems that could not be solved before.


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