Christian is specialized in management diagnostics. Moreover, he works on tailoring development programs and concepts of corporate ‘talent management’.

 

Christian’s operational focus is on management reviews, audits and assessments, team diagnostics/-building, managing systematic feedback-processes as well as psychologically well founded executive-coaching programs. He also runs structured on-boarding, transition- und integration measures for high-value individuals facing new and critical challenges and he supports our clients in the course of restructuring and post-merger integration phases.

 

Furthermore, Christian also searches for critical management positions – particularly if there are social, psychological or culture-fit related issues. Here, he has often focused on small and medium investments of our private-equity and family-office clients.

 

He brings industry specific knowledge in the following sectors: industrial and technologies, energy & utilities, life sciences as well as financial services and Fintech.

 

Prior to setting-up Confidence-Consult, Christian was responsible for the ‘Leadership Consulting’ business of HEIDRICK & STRUGGLES in Austria and the CEE region. Before, Christian worked for ODGERS BERNDTSON (ex Ray & Berndtson) as regional "Head of Management Audit & Diagnostics" and also directed the regional Life-Science practice in CEE.

 

Christian, born in 1975,  started his career in leadership consulting in 2001 and had the role of a product manager for ‘management audits’ from the start with Ray & Berndtson CEE. Previously, he worked in corporate HR and organizational development for SKODA AS, part of Volkswagen Group.

 

Christian graduated from the University of Regensburg with a master's degree in Applied Psychology & Organizational Science. Moreover, he earned a PhD in Economics. Christian is an alumni of the BOHEMICUM (East-Western Transformation Studies, Universities of Passau and Regensburg) and author of several publications in the scope of Management Diagnostics and Intercultural Management.