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expertise, act
with empathy
and generate
positive energy.
We are senior professionals with experience in industry, top-tier consultancy and start-ups. We have a deep understanding of the strategic challenges of our times across industries.
Thanks to the diversity of our backgrounds and our in-depth expertise, we can help you meet a variety of challenges: If you want to transform your organisation, we have professionals who are experienced in designing and developing change processes in large and complex setups. If you want to introduce and improve virtual work, we have a specialist team with technological know-how, excellent didactic skills and top-level strategic insights. And if your organisation is a start-up that wants to professionalise its company culture, we have experts who have been there too / who have worked in high-growth organisations.
Vita
Dr. Maria Meiler
Managing Director
Maria has been a leader, coach, trainer, and consultant for 15 years. She has worked in leadership positions at Google, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and the online startup world. Maria holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and is the founder of three companies.
Leaders trust her competent and empathic guidance, particularly in challenging situations. They seek her support in strategic realignments, deep-seated conflicts, and complex negotiation cases. Maria works on the interface of business & strategy, facilitation & mediation, coaching, and training.
Maria specializes in neuroscience-based methods. She furthered her education through postgraduate studies in neuroscience and is an ICF PCC coach, certified profiler, and negotiator.
Change Agent
Since the beginning of her career, Maria has been actively managing change processes. In particular at Google and at BCG, she worked in hybrid roles, as a manager, as a strategy consultant as well as an organisational change agent. Through her work, she empowers organisations by introducing new ways of working, emotional intelligence and targeted process adaptations. Her studies in organisational psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (second subject) continue to enrich her career today.
Pioneer to Virtual Work
Virtual work has been part of her operating environment from day one. She honed her digital and virtual teaming skills in the agile tech environment. Maria gained first-hand experience throughout her career in how remote work techniques, virtual tools and informal communication channels can boost collaboration and strengthen team and leadership to enable efficient decision-making.
Digital Strategist
At Google and as Senior Director Consumer Business of the online platform Experteer, she gained in-depth knowledge of digital business strategies. At BCG, she was a core member of the Digital Acceleration System. Maria actively managed ‘end-to-end’ sales and marketing strategies, she also worked with clients on process automation and programmatic methodology. She has learned to program for herself and has recently advanced in Machine Learning (Stanford program).
Co-Active Coach
Maria is a professional coach, trained by the ‘Gold Standard’ Co-Active, CTI, accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF), the world-leading coaching association. Her specialties are methods rooted in neurobiology and interpersonal coaching on negotiation and conflict management. She works as an executive coach and manages mediations.
Experiential Trainer
Inspired by modern techniques from design thinking and Liberating Structures, Maria has been developing a new and flexible training style. She has invested heavily in versatile, research-based training formats that follow a modular approach and are available online and offline. With the Virtual Academy, she has established an online learning portal with modern e-learning formats and tools. Additionally, Maria has been teaching at a German university for several years.
Professional Moderator
Over her career, she has developed sound moderation and facilitation skills. Lately, she has been moderating large events in the political environment (primarily energy and transport sectors) as well as for large associations and company events.
Team members
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OUR TEAM
Caroline
Höllein
Associated Partner
Caroline has undergone experience in personal development and leadership with herself and others before building her career as an executive and leadership coach. Starting in investment banking, she worked in a leading international strategy consulting firm before transitioning into an operational leadership role. She became the first female successor of the family’s 5th generation iron foundry. Caroline joined us in 2021 to co-found and co-lead the Female Power Retreats series.
Dr. Navin
Lal
Associated Partner & Co-Founder Emerging Leaders Training
Navin is an entrepreneur in the field of leadership development. He is focused on larger leadership development programs and executive coaching. Navin has worked in leadership positions in various roles, at BCG and as CEO of a regional juice producer and today as partner at TPC Leadership where he is heading the German office. As the co-founder of our Emerging Leaders Training program, he is a close partner and colleague with regard to leadership development, team building, and related activities.
Songya
Kesler
Associated Partner & Co-Founder Emerging Leaders Training
Songya is a three-time Silicon Valley entrepreneur who currently acts as managing director of a leadership consultancy, working with startups and corporations alike. She is a PCC-recognized Executive Coach and received her BSc. and MSc. from Stanford University and her MBA from the University of Cambridge. As the co-founder of our Emerging Leaders Training program, she is a close partner and colleague with regard to leadership development, team building, and related activities.
Dr. Olaf
Stietz
Associated Partner
Olaf builds on extensive leadership experience. He worked in industrial management positions at Ruhrgas and IVG for more than 15 years, the last six years as Managing Director. He worked as a coach for the German and Swiss Society for Organisation. Olaf has been responsible for organisational and change projects as an external consultant over the last 10+ years combining direct practical relevance from his own management background with professional methods as a change agent.
Lena
Kuenkel
Strategy Consultant and Organisational Expert
Lena Kuenkel is an experienced project leader who brings deep experience in operational design and strategy development. She advises senior leadership teams in the development of working models and structures whilst creating positive and inclusive work environments. She led the European team at BCG’s non-profit foundation Centre for Public Impact building on a career as a strategy consultant. Lena holds degrees in business and economics from the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge.
Sebastian
Bartl
Strategy Consultant and Implementation Expert
Sebastian is a strategy consultant, experienced project manager and coach with a background at Boston Consulting Group. He develops and leads communication along all management and team levels and across business units, always keeping the organisation and employees in mind. He has led large-scale and prestigious programmes and contributed to growth acceleration and process optimisation during implementation. He has in-depth project experience in mining, machinery, industrial goods, finance, consumer goods and telecommunications.
Max
Röckmann
Strategy Consultant and Industry Expert
Max is an empathetic and dynamic project leader and strategist with profound experience in operations, strategy development and transformation project design. With his profound industry experience, he has been deeply involved in mid-sized automotive in recent years, developing project structure, organization and management on both, the strategic and the operational level. Max is characterized by his enthusiasm on an interpersonal level and a conceptual and structured way of working.
Katharina
Steger
Project and Content Management
With over 20+ years of experience in the industry, Katharina is well-versed in organizational procedures and has undertaken several transformation programs herself. She has worked as an executive business partner for large corporations such as Roche, Cochlear, and IT Systems. Katharina has vast experience in the areas of people development and empathic communication. Kat has been working in semi-virtual setups with distributed teams throughout her career.
Huria
Ogbamichael
Associated Business Coach
Huria was part of the United Nations global peacekeeping effort for 15 years, where she helped build multi-stakeholder networks and teams across organisations and regions. As an in-house advisor on change management and policy development she was responsible for establishing and maintaining teams, working groups and networks across organisational and regional boundaries. Huria is a core member of the Virtual Academy and a professional coach.
Ulrich
Kremer
IT, Design and User Experience
Uli brings over 25 years of experience in system development and consulting, with a focus on usability and user experience. He has supported multiple teams in the successful setup and development of communication portals. Enabling a simplified user experience is his priority. Uli brings extensive experience in virtual communication with agile teams to the team. He oversees IT, Design & User Experience for all operations at Maria Meiler GmbH.
Client voices
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High quality
and satisfaction
Maria Meiler was appointed to conduct a cultural change initiative at Morphosys’s R&D department consisting of approximately 300 employees. Coupled with our great ambitions for growth and employee autonomy, we have increased the quality of our work, raised our employee work satisfaction, and have come much closer to our efficiency goals. I was surprised by their ease, creativity and natural pragmatism, whether in terms of leadership development or team measures.
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Strong stakeholder
management
What is remarkable about Dr. Maria Meiler’s work is that she was able to align the diverse views and interests of all stakeholders to generate a feasible implementation plan within a tight time frame. In little time, we were able to develop an outcome as a base for our political decision-making processes. It was particularly impactful in our consultation with the Ministry of Transport of the German Government.
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More organisational
productivity
Maria Meiler´s team helped us implement procedures to improve our day-to-day work with smart strategy support, more efficient processes, more straightforward tools to manage tasks and generally create an operational framework with less unproductive burden that allows more time and resources for the creative and productive part of the work process.
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Expert input and
new approaches
I have benefited greatly from the cooperation with the expert team from the Virtual Academy. The training gave me a lot of ideas at hand. I gained a clear understanding of what projects needed to be successfully transferred from a real to a remote world.
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