

Senior Consultant & Analyst | Head of sustainability competence team
Dr. Holger Schallehn
Focus areas
- Sustainability
- Strategy
- Strategy development
Profile
Dr. Holger Schallehn is Senior Consultant & Analyst at transformis Consulting SE and heads the Sustainability competence team. Focus areas: sustainability, strategy and strategy development.
Profile
In strategy and sustainability projects, Holger uses figures, data and facts of every kind to give companies new perspectives on their organisation and their environment. On this basis, and with strategic foresight, he develops tailored solutions to the challenges identified and supports their implementation. An economist, he already focused on sustainable corporate management in his doctoral research.
Consulting focus
Sustainability Strategy Strategy development
“Solution-oriented analysis lays the foundation for effective strategy development.”
Project experience
- Experience in transformation projects at large organisations, particularly organisational, market, customer and supplier analyses using (statistical) data analysis in MS Excel, SPSS or similar tools
- Experience in sustainability consulting on strategy development and implementation and ESG reporting
Selected key projects
Wholesale company
- Supporting how sustainability is anchored in the organisation (from bundling the first initiatives to implementing the sustainability target vision)
- Supporting further organisational development and efficiency projects
Municipal multi-service group
- Supporting the set-up of the corporate development unit and the process for handling strategic group projects
Sustainability transformation project in cooperation with business and government
- Supporting a multi-year research project, including market analyses and consumer studies
Organic food retailer
- Supporting an SAP implementation project focused on data quality management
Municipal utility
- Site analyses and a concept to optimise warehouse processes
Large manufacturer of medical devices
- Support in conducting customer analyses
Focus areas and expertise
- Helping to plan, conduct and evaluate strategic market and customer analyses
- Designing, programming and implementing client-specific analysis tools to capture market and customer data in strategy processes
- Statistical evaluation and presentation of the results in text and graphics using MS Excel, SPSS or similar tools
Qualifications & certifications
- “Sustainability Management” certificate, University of Bayreuth
- GHG accounting | Corporate Carbon Footprint according to the GHG Protocol, Dr. Nathanael Harfst, Controlling, Energie- und Klimamanagement
- Qualitative interviewing, Sven Püffel (M.Sc. Psychology), Hochschule Fresenius Hamburg
- Facilitation, Dr. Christiane Zerfaß, Kronos Network GmbH
- Workshop: Being Digital in a systemic context, Dr. Nina Haas, osb
- Using and interpreting the Hogan Assessment Systems for the HPI, HDS and MVPI personality assessments
- Microsoft Certified Application Specialist (MCAS) in Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Languages: German, English
Education and professional background
- Senior Analyst, transformis®
- Analyst, transformis®
- Academic staff member at Reutlingen University
- Data analyst in the retail sector
- Doctoral studies in sustainable corporate management
- Economics (M.Sc.) with a focus on information and process management, strategic management
Sustainability management as a success factor
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Carbon neutral: a guide for companies in the context of political climate targets
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Understanding and managing Scope 3 emissions: a guide based on the GHG Protocol
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Materiality assessment under the CSRD
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GHG accounting for companies: a practical guide to recording and reducing greenhouse gas emissions
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Sustainability and finance
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Further reading from this article
- Sustainability management as a success factor
- Carbon neutral: a guide for companies in the context of political climate targets
- Understanding and managing Scope 3 emissions: a guide based on the GHG Protocol
- Materiality assessment under the CSRD
- GHG accounting for companies: a practical guide to recording and reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Sustainability and finance
Articles from the subject area of Dr. Holger Schallehn
- Sustainability strategy: connecting goals and delivery
- Carbon neutral (CO₂-neutral): a guide for companies
- CSRD explained: EU sustainability reporting
- Scope 3 emissions under the GHG Protocol explained
- Corporate carbon footprint: measure and cut emissions
- Double materiality assessment (CSRD) in four steps
- The whole team
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