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Leadership and Culture in the Age of Tech and AI

Digital systems and artificial intelligence are changing markets, processes, the rhythm of decisions. The pace rises, complexity thickens. What gets overlooked in all of this is the inner and physical condition of those who lead.

I work with leadership teams on the quality of their leadership — on presence, inner stability, and the stance from which culture arises.

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The foundations of my work

My work brings together three fields of experience: entrepreneurial responsibility from fifteen years as a creative director and CEO, health-oriented personal development, and the practice of mindful leadership — grounded in Mindful Leadership and MBSR.

I know strategic decision-making spaces. And I know the inner dynamics that shape them.

Leadership is embodied. Energy levels, regeneration and the stability of the nervous system act directly on perception, communication and the capacity to decide. Health is therefore not a side topic. It is the foundation on which sound leadership stands.

This is how a culture emerges that is both humane and effective.

"Self-leadership arises from inner order."
Julian Wildgruber

Leadership & Culture Advisory

Within organisations, I accompany leadership teams through phases of growth, intensification and cultural development. The work creates a clearly facilitated space for dialogue, in which strategic questions are joined with inner clarity.

It is about:

  • the quality of decisions under pressure
  • alignment within the leadership team
  • a conscious way of carrying responsibility
  • cultural coherence between aspiration and reality

Most recently, among others, with the management of dm Germany as part of its summer academy.

Mandate-based. Discreet. As equals.

From Business To Being — film and format

From Business To Being is my documentary film project about leadership, meaning and consciousness in the working world. In dialogue-based formats, it has been used at Otto Group, Novartis, Roche, Siemens and Bosch, among others. The film is not used as an event. It serves as a mirror — for leadership and collaboration.

From Business To Being — used at Otto Group, Novartis, Siemens and Bosch, among others.

Out of this work, a format for leadership circles has emerged: From Business To Being | Live. A day on which the film becomes a mirror and the practice begins that carries afterwards — for executive boards and leadership teams who want to lead once again from inner strength and presence.

Film, impulse, shared practice, clearly facilitated dialogue. Not a seminar, not an event. A space in which the condition one leads from becomes the subject.

Creative Labs

The Creative Labs grow out of my years as a creative director and entrepreneur — and out of the work on leadership and creative formats for organisations.

Innovation does not come from habits of thought, but from overview, focus, and the ability to open ideas up in a disciplined way and to lay out new vantage points.

Creative Labs are concentrated spaces — incubators for co-creation and precise thinking. The view widens and, at the same time, gains in sharpness. This is how perspectives and sound approaches take shape.

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Impact

When leadership becomes inwardly stable, the concrete changes: decisions that had dragged on get made again. The leadership team pulls in one direction, rather than past one another. Conversations that had been avoided become possible to have. And people who had already left inwardly stay.

In this way, organisations gain what cannot be decreed: performance, a humane culture, the power to shape, and stability amid change.

Where vitality and humanity grow, success follows.

Enquiries for organisations

If you would like to strengthen the quality of leadership and culture in your organisation, it begins with a no-obligation initial conversation.

Discreet and personal.

Selected Clients

  • GLS Bank
  • AVE
  • dm
  • EOS
  • Fiat
  • Bosch
  • Hans-Sauer Stiftung
  • Hogan Lovells
  • Jägermeister
  • Novartis
  • OTTO
  • Siemens
  • Volkswagen