Strategy that gets delivered.

Senior strategy and management consulting for leading European organisations: shaping the big decisions and making them work.

Ten years of board-level programmes, first at E.ON Inhouse Consulting, independent since 2022.

Carve-outs, M&A and integration, performance programmes, market entry

Corporate Transformation in detail

Scale of selected programmes

years in management consulting
10+
EBIT target in a transformation programme
€100m+
people in a delivery organisation I designed and set up
300+
countries in one IT carve-out
40+
founders supported in start-up consulting
700+
industries
6+

Industries

Energy is where I’ve worked longest. The independent years added financial services, insurance and technology.

Highlight industries by area

  • Energy & Utilities

    Grid, retail, generation and trading, district heating, new energy ventures

    Seven years, 10+ programmes

  • Financial Services & Payments

    Pan-European digital payments

    Large-programme delivery

  • Insurance

    Agile transformation of a leading European insurer

    Board-level

  • Technology & AI

    AI startups, software companies, digital platforms

    Strategy, scaling, products

  • Retail & E-commerce

    B2C retail strategy, own e-commerce company

    Founder and adviser

  • Industrial Manufacturing

    Commercial due diligence on mid-sized manufacturers in building products and automotive supply

    The investor’s view

Portfolio

Three areas of expertise, each kind of work with a result and selected engagements behind it. Clients are not named.

Corporate Transformation

Carve-outs, M&A and integration, performance programmes, market entry

Transformation and performance programmes€100m+ EBIT target

Programmes that move EBIT, cost or growth

  • Regional grid operatorTransformation of a regional grid operator
  • Energy retailerGrowth and retention in energy retailChurn down 4 points, customer lifetime value up 10–15%
Carve-outs and separations500+ systems separated, 99.9% uptime

Separating a business: organisation, people, assets, IT

  • Energy generation and trading companyIT carve-out across 40+ countries
  • German utility, within a tier-one consultancy teamCarve-out of a district-heating businessNine-figure revenue business
M&A and post-merger integrationOne delivery organisation for 300+ people after a merger

From the sale decision to one integrated organisation

  • German energy group, regional grid companiesDelivery organisation for a post-merger integration
  • Founder-led company in Central EuropeSale and integration of a founder-led company
  • German mid-sized manufacturers, with PwC Management ConsultingCommercial due diligence on two manufacturers
Board-level crisis responseGrowth proposals worth billions of euros

Fast, structured decisions under pressure

  • DAX-listed groupBoard-level crisis response and recovery strategy

AI & Digital Value

Where AI and digital create value, and how to capture it

AI and digital opportunityDigital and AI as levers in a major EBIT programme

Where AI and digital change the economics

  • Regional grid operatorTransformation of a regional grid operator€100m+ EBIT target
  • Leading European financial institutionDelivery set-up for a pan-European payments programmeRunning from the first planning interval
  • AI startups, software companies, SMEsStrategy and scaling for AI and tech companies
Digital platforms and migrationPlatform and proposition for a new UK energy retailer

Platform strategy, architecture and consolidation

  • European energy groupDigital platforms and new ventures in the UKNew businesses set up in the UK
Market entry and venturesNew businesses set up in the UK

New markets, propositions and businesses, up to board approval

  • Energy retailerGrowth and retention in energy retailChurn down 4 points, customer lifetime value up 10–15%
  • Also relevant hereDigital platforms and new ventures in the UK

Delivery at Scale

Operating models and large delivery organisations, often scaled agile

Delivery-organisation set-upStrong decrease in development time and cost

Large delivery organisations, working from day one

  • German energy group, regional grid companiesDelivery organisation for a post-merger integration
  • Leading European financial institutionDelivery set-up for a pan-European payments programmeRunning from the first planning interval
Portfolio governance and agile offices15% cost-reduction target, group-wide

Lean portfolio management, Obeya, agile and value management offices

  • German energy groupPortfolio steering across a group
  • Also relevant hereDelivery set-up for a pan-European payments programme
Executive coaching and trainingCoaching at board level

Leaders and teams able to run the new model

  • Leading European insurer, as part of an MBB teamAgile transformation at a leading insurer

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Why clients bring me in

Board level to team level

I’ve worked with management boards and with the teams that deliver, and I know what gets lost between the two.

Strategy and delivery in one person

From the business case to the first planning interval, with no handover gap between those who decide and those who build.

Tier-one standards, without the overhead

Trained at E.ON Inhouse Consulting, advising the group’s top management from early on, and experienced inside MBB and tier-one teams.

A builder, not only an adviser

I have co-founded three companies and advised more than 700 founders. I know what it takes to turn a plan into a running business, because I have done it successfully before.

Roles in programmes and projects

Usually one of several senior seats around the client’s own leadership. The highlighted seats are the ones I typically hold.

Board and sponsors
Management board
Steering committee
Steering committee
Programme leadership
Client’s programme lead
Programme and agile office
Release and solution trains
Product management
Teams
Delivery teams
Start-ups and founders
Founders
Corporate Transformation

Adviser to the board

Direct work with management boards: crisis response, growth initiatives, and coaching board members on leading an agile organisation.

Engagements

Select a highlighted seat to see what the role involves.

Adviser to the board
Direct work with management boards: crisis response, growth initiatives, and coaching board members on leading an agile organisation.
Decision preparation
Board and steering-committee papers that turn analysis into decisions someone owns.
Lead of the consulting team
Leading consulting teams of three to six people alongside the client’s programme lead, from the plan to the handover.
Transformation office
Setting up and running the office that steers: plans, risks, decisions and reporting.
Agile office
An agile office for a large delivery organisation, set up to grow into its value management office.
AI in delivery
Bringing AI into how a large programme plans, builds and steers.
Train engineer
Interim Release or Solution Train Engineer, with a structured handover to an internal successor.
Agile and leadership coaching
Coaching teams and their leaders on the new way of working, including training and leading Scrum Masters.
Plan and review
Before the start: business plan, market analysis and financial plan, and independent reviews of the venture for funding bodies, banks or investors, such as the expert statement for the start-up grant. Delivered under the Gründungspilot brand.
Launch coaching
The first months: offer and pricing, first customers and the processes a new business needs, coached step by step.
Growth consulting
Once the business runs: strategy, operating models that hold up as the team grows, and integration after acquisitions.

Startups and founders

Start-up consulting is the firm’s second core service, delivered under the Gründungspilot brand.

Business plans

Developed together with the founder: market, offer, financial plan and the reasoning behind them.

Market analysis

Market size, competition and positioning, so the plan rests on more than an assumption.

Independent reviews

A second opinion on a venture’s viability for whoever has to decide: funding bodies, banks and investors. That includes expert statements for the start-up grant, plan reviews for bank financing and commercial due diligence.

Coaching

From the first idea to the first customers: positioning, pricing, processes and the steps into self-employment.

Startup consulting in detail

Where strategy meets delivery

I’ve spent more than ten years where strategy meets execution: with management boards deciding on major change, and with the programmes and teams that have to deliver it. I learned the craft at E.ON Inhouse Consulting, the group’s internal consultancy for its top management, and went independent in 2022. Since then I have worked for leading European organisations in energy, financial services, insurance and technology, directly and as part of MBB and tier-one consulting teams.

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Get in touch

The quickest way to reach me is LinkedIn. Based in Berlin, working across Europe, in German, English and Polish.

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