Consulting

Eye-level exchange for entrepreneurs and leaders

The expectations placed on business leaders today are high: they’re required to make clear decisions, define strategy and structure, and provide direction – all within increasingly complex and uncertain environments. In Business Sparring, we think before we decide. Together, we reflect on the potential impact of your decisions, challenge assumptions, and explore your role as a leader and entrepreneur. The topics that arise are often multifaceted and varied. They span leadership, collaboration within the management team, organizational design, transformation, innovation, business success, and company culture. I support you in gaining clarity and confidence for well-founded decisions – and in successfully putting them into practice.

Placing value creation at the heart of your business

Some organizations seem to navigate increasing competitive pressure and rapid market change with ease. What sets them apart is not that they work harder – but that they engage with complexity in fundamentally different ways. After all, high performance isn’t achieved by simply pushing harder. What matters is keeping a clear focus on both leadership and value creation challenges. That’s where we begin – always at the root cause. This approach builds trust, is strikingly pragmatic, and often sparks a sense of forward momentum. That’s why we don’t offer standard solutions. Every project is tailored to fit the unique dynamics and needs of your organization.

When the conflict has taken hold of you

Conflicts often bring out sides of people that make it hard to return to calmer waters. In many cases, it turns out that the conflict itself isn’t the real problem – it’s how we deal with it. And quite often, we discover something surprising: the conflict contains valuable and functional aspects for everyone involved. That’s why it’s important not to react too quickly or to push for superficial resolution. More crucial is to look at what’s keeping the conflict alive beneath the surface – how it holds people captive, and how a more constructive way of dealing with it can be found. That’s where new possibilities for resolution begin to open up. We offer support both in acute, escalated conflict situations and in those where you want to ensure things don’t get that far in the first place.

Leading the people side of change

The course has been set – the change is ready to begin. But just because the strategy and vision are defined doesn’t mean implementation will happen on its own. Even when new structures and processes are in place, it doesn’t guarantee that they’ll be embraced by everyone involved. Uncertainty, frustration, and resistance often emerge. We support you in navigating your change initiatives. Our goal is to help you reach your project objectives swiftly, precisely – and most importantly, with a high level of acceptance among those affected. Our systems-theoretical understanding of organizations enables us to approach change in ways that embrace complexity – and make constructive use of conflict and resistance. Depending on your needs, we step in as change architects, coaches, or hands-on implementers. In every case, we work with tailored solutions that make a real impact.

Harmonizing all variables of organizational change

Rising market pressure and growing complexity are increasing the need for change at every level of the organization. Large-scale organizational shifts tend to put many things into question. In such situations, it’s just as important to know what should remain stable. Without that clarity, change initiatives risk becoming either overly reactive or stalling in a wave of resistance. Amid all the changes, it’s essential not to lose sight of the customer. Drawing on our systems-theoretical understanding of what makes organizations viable – in other words, capable of sustaining themselves – we help bring the many moving parts of a major transformation into a coherent whole.

Together with our experts in process and project management, we can design, accompany, and support even large-scale change initiatives all the way through implementation.