Robert A. Sedlák

I offer my clients more than forty years of experience as a consultant and coach. Clients repeatedly tell me that my individual approach, my consistency and my broad knowledge of methods are my strengths.

• Strategy development and implementation
• Planning and supporting far-reaching transformation in organisations undergoing fundamental (genotypic) change: strategic repositioning, digitalisation, innovation, managing ambidexterity
• Generational change and succession planning in organisations
• Advising and supporting family businesses through transitions
• Executive coaching

• Resilience – strong in dealing with challenges, with Yvonne Küttel, Institut für Selbstmanagement und Motivation
• Several years of training in systemic consulting and coaching with Prof. Dr. phil. A. von Schlippe, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Wittener Institut für Familienunternehmen
• Several years of training in a curriculum for consultants with a systemic background, Prof. Dr. D. Baecker, Prof. F. B. Simon and Prof. Dr. R. Wimmer, Management Zentrum Witten (MZW) Berlin
• Several years of training in systemic organisational consulting with Prof. Dr. R. Wimmer, Vienna
• “Observing systemically – acting in a solution-oriented way” with Dr. H. Lindemann, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
• “Performance Management Consultant” with Prof. Dr. Herbert J. Kellner, United States Online University, Carlsbad, California
• ZRM® basic course with Dr. Maja Storch, Institut für Selbstmanagement und Motivation, Zurich
• ZRM® certification course ZRM® Coach, Institut für Selbstmanagement und Motivation, Zurich

• Certified Management Consultant based on the guidelines of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI), USA
• Various master trainer licences from Prof. A. E. Ivey, SMS Inc., USA, and Dr. J. Hall, USA: Face to Face, Model for Management, Positive Power and Influence Program®
• Using and interpreting the Hogan Assessment Systems for the HPI, HDS and MVPI tests
• Trainer for the Positive Power and Influence Program®
• Use of ARP (Authority – Responsibility – Power: leading by shaping) and GPOP/GPTP (Golden Profiler of Personality), with Prof. Dr. R. Bents and Dr. R. Blank
• United States Online University, Executive Education Center: performance management, performance simulators, CQ communication system and conflict management with Prof. Dr. H. J. Kellner, Carlsbad, California
• ZRM® Coach
• Certified business mediator under the German Mediation Act (Mediationsgesetz), Mediationsakademie Berlin

• German
• English

• Studies in business administration specialising in marketing
• Training as a retail clerk and HR specialist

• State-certified business economist
• HR specialist
• Retail clerk

• Guest Professor at East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, since 2013
• Head of the ECNU-S&P Research Center for ICT-Enabled Systemic Changes and Innovations
• Management consultant and executive coach
• Various management roles in retail and services at Werhan and the Volkswagen Group

• Den Wandel managen. Systemische Ansichten von Natur und Unternehmen
  With Andreas Kühn. integra international, Großhansdorf 1996. ISBN 978-3-00-000309-7. English edition: Managing the change.
• Traditionelle Betriebe bewegen. Change-Prozesse in einem über 250 Jahre alten Unternehmen
  Contribution in: Jan Kuhnert, Stephan Teuber (eds.), Praxishandbuch Change-Management. Vahlen, München 2008, pp. 247–269. ISBN 978-3-8006-3408-8.
• Einführung in das systemische Modell und Leitlinien für Veränderungsprozesse
  Contribution in: Henning Henschel, Ingelore Welpe (eds.), Wilderness-Experience. Signum, Wien 2002, pp. 42–60. ISBN 978-3-85436-338-5.