

Senior expert in strategy and organisational development
Markus Peterhänsel
Focus areas
- Strategy
- Strategy development
- Strategy implementation
- Organisation
Profile
Markus Peterhänsel, Senior Expert in Strategy and Organisational Development at transformis Consulting SE: strategy, implementation, organisational design.
Senior expert in strategy and organisational development
Markus is a conceptual architect with 20 years of experience in systemic organisational and strategy consulting. He designs tailored architectures for holistic organisational transformation in a strategic context, from concept to successful implementation. He draws on the intelligence of the system to develop, together with the client, solutions no one had seen before.
Consulting focus
Strategy Strategy development Strategy implementation Organisation Organisational design Change management Transformation Organisational learning Leadership Foresighted self-renewal Corporate culture Municipal utilities
“I help you answer your market-related questions about the future and design and effectively implement the resulting change.”
Project experience
- Various roles as designer, consultant and project lead in national and international corporate development processes at corporate groups and mid-sized family businesses across sectors, e.g. automotive, chemicals, retail, banking, pharmaceuticals, medical, food and municipal utilities
- Each project focused on repositioning and developing the business model, designing and implementing organisational structures aligned with the strategy, and fundamentally strengthening the organisation’s capacity for self-renewal.
Selected key projects
Europe’s largest purchasing group in technical B2B wholesale (PVH)
- Holistic transformation to align strategy and organisation for the future
Market leader in chemical park management in Europe
- Holistic transformation to align strategy and organisation for the future
Business unit of a DAX heavy chemicals company
- Advising on and supporting the strategy process and global strategy implementation
Long-established company in the food industry
- Company-wide strategy development and introduction of production systems to raise efficiency
Market leader in chemical distribution
- Strategic market positioning for Europe and implementation of the growth strategy
Leading US filtration technology group
- Market and customer analysis and strategic positioning for the Chinese market
Focus areas and expertise
- Developing and implementing process architectures for holistic, far-reaching organisational transformation, drawing on the intelligence of the system
- Designing and running strategy processes as a shared leadership task, for market positioning and shaping the future
- Developing and implementing new organisational and leadership structures with the communication and decision-making routines that go with them
- Developing and repositioning business models
- Developing and delivering tailored learning architectures that link organisational development with individual learning
- Introducing routines for foresighted strategic self-renewal
- Strengthening management teams’ ability to reach shared decisions on far-reaching questions of strategic direction
Qualifications & certifications
- Several years of training in systemic organisational consulting with Prof. Dr. R. Wimmer, Vienna
- Several years of training in systemic consulting and coaching with Prof. Dr. phil. A. von Schlippe, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Wittener Institut für Familienunternehmen
- Executive Education programme “Corporate Strategy” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management, Faculty Director A. C. Hax, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management Emeritus
- “Performance management” with Prof. Dr. H. J. Kellner, United States Online University, Carlsbad, California
- “Learning architectures” with Mag. M. Oswald, management trainer and organisational consultant, Vienna
- “Observing systemically – acting in a solution-oriented way” with Dr. H. Lindemann, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
- Facilitator training in the Metaplan method
- Value stream manager qualification with Mike Rother, University of Michigan College of Engineering, USA
- Advanced leadership programme, Hernstein Institut für Management und Leadership
- Languages: German, English
Education and professional background
- Degree in business administration specialising in accounting/controlling
- Training as a state-certified commercial assistant in accounting
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