
Leadership Coaching & Empowering Organization Development.
— Selected Experiences & References.
Forming High-Impact Leadership Teams: In various organizations, I have formed strong leadership teams committed to a common purpose. I have also experienced difficult and strained team compositions, which required coaching, strong leadership and decisive actions to eventually shape a high-performing team. By emphasizing accountability while enabling psychological safety, fostering individual contributions, and aligning leadership strategy, I have helped leadership teams and businesses maximize their potential.
Leading Global Business Unit: I led a large business unit with global operations, evolving it into a high-performance unit that was agile and adaptable to rapidly changing market conditions.
Creating Entrepreneurial Business Units: I have reorganized the structure and introduced new ways of working to shape entrepreneurial business units with a core set of operational principles, which allowed each unit to adapt quickly to market and operational opportunities, resulting in above-market growth and performance.
Shaping Digital Strategy and Transformation: I successfully transformed a fragmented, ineffective organization into a powerful digital strategy and operations unit by aligning software developers, sales teams, and product development groups into cohesive, high-performing teams.
Academic Experience: Teaching at St. Gallen Business School, I have provided students with the principles of adaptive organizations, leveraging the collective power of the organization yet securing strong leadership and accountability.