Individual sparring for decision makers

As a sparring partner, I support executives, entrepreneurs, founders, as well as shareholders of small and medium-sized family businesses, and high performers in middle management with their current business and professional challenges.

Through open, constructive, and critical dialogue, I work with my clients to achieve better results — for their company and for themselves as leaders. My sparring service is backed by many years of experience as a management consultant specializing in profitable revenue growth for (digital) service companies, as well as experience as a managing director and founder.

What happens in sparring:

In sparring, I provide objective, content-related impulses, ask open and critical questions, and bring in my professional expertise and experience. This allows you to question your ways of thinking, examine alternatives, develop solutions, and overcome obstacles. For interpersonal topics, I make particular use of solution-focused coaching communication, which is especially effective when it comes to implementation.

What my sparring clients especially appreciate about working with me:

• Focus on what matters: Restoring or strengthening the focus on what is essential.
• Quick understanding and targeted action: The ability to quickly grasp facts and identify key levers, serving as the foundation for good decisions and successful business activities.
• Finding solutions: Support for successfully overcoming minor and major business challenges through critical discussion, critical thinking and goal-oriented creativity.
• Risk assessment of approaches: Jointly analysing the risks of certain approaches and possible solutions. Offering impulses for designing solutions with 'calculable' risks.
• Critical perspectives and communication: Contributing critical perspectives and arguments, as well as the skills required to position and communicate important points of view and represent uncomfortable decisions on controversial issues.
• Productive stakeholder management: Identifying the motives, dynamics and tactics of various stakeholders, and their implications for successful action. Developing concrete action plans.
• Effective preparation for challenging meetings: Working through discussion goals, key messages, pitfalls, communication strategies, fallback solutions; exploring stakeholder management options before and after meetings.

Relevant, long-term experience for quality sparring: :

Thanks to my professional experience, I am trained to quickly adapt to different interpersonal environments and to the challenges my clients face. This includes close collaboration with operational teams, CFOs, CEOs, shareholders of companies with different ownership structures (such as family businesses, private equity, and public institutions) both domestically and internationally.