Andreas might be the only person in the world who can make you love numbers and statistics. He is measuring all aspects of life and his favorite is kilometers, miles per hour and worn out sports shoes. In business, working with Andreas, you gain lots of new insights into an organization. A focused analytical listener he works as sparring partner, bringing in unbeatable data and fact based approaches for consideration. Combined with his long distance triathlon endurance he helps to overcome any challenge with a smile!
Arvid is your architect for approaches with fitting form, function and fun. He thinks day and night about how to design exciting learning experiences that last. In projects, Arvid’s passion for people development couples with persistent results orientation.
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Karsten brings a great spirit of collegial cooperation into every environment. He loves helping others move forward with his own expertise, building on 20 years of experience in the automotive industry and almost 5 years of consulting and training at oConsulting.
Since Katarina snatched her first electric saw from her uncle’s woodshop, you’ll find her surrounded with all kinds of tools and collections of wooden planks. This is because she loves the feeling of effectively building what is needed. In this way she is also moving things forward on her engagements. Quick wins first and then driving improvement through engaging all levels of leadership. Katarina walks by your side and will not leave before it’s done.
You are coincidentally with buddies in the Rhineland, and it is carnival? Only Martin can help. He captures all needs and preferences at one glance - and immediately has the right costume for everyone. With his mixture of straightforwardness and humor, Martin transforms even the most boring nerd into a hopping carnival bird. In a similar way, he systematically brings teams and leaders into a new role-play for fact-based performance orientation, so it is fun for everyone.
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You can see Matthias eyes shine when he is telling about his little son and how he is learning and developing – just like Albus Dumbledore when transferring wisdom to Harry Potter. Not only with his son, Matthias’ passion is to transfer wisdom and knowledge and see other people growing. He loves to build capabilities in organizations. Matthias: “To teach people new ‘wizard tricks’ and see how they apply these in successful projects is such a rewarding moment!”
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The birds aren't even singing yet. The sky is still dark. Starting the shift strong has been important to Vanessa since her days as a trained industrial mechanic. Clarity in communication is another thing that's very important to her. Maybe that's why she likes horses so much. The large animals also like things to be simple and direct. With her infectious laugh, fairness, friendliness, and attention to facts and data, Vanessa makes a strong impression on everyone, even horses!
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Merle has a natural gift of balancing rules with charm. Converting ideas to invoices, she even manages our consultants on their chase for the next improvement. Her way of linking entrepreneurial thinking with real-life support spreads from our Hamburg office to the world.
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Save water, drink wine – a Welshman who typifies the Aussie spirit, since moving to Melbourne from Paris over 20 years ago! Aled has a degree in French, qualified as a chartered accountant and has worked in Operational Excellence training and consulting for the last 20 years. His watchwords are “Quality” (be the best that you can be, everyday), “Communicate” (listen – remember the ratio of two ears, one mouth) and “Make it Fun”. These tenets underpin his overarching goals of striving for success and maximizing your potential.
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Amy loves her cup of tea and life has not always been one for her. As a little girl, born in a country adopted a closed-door policy at that time, she was always fascinated about the outside world, eager to explore new opportunities and rise to any challenge. This is how she grew into the energetic but humble consultant who understands the difficulties when going into a foreign country especially with totally different cultures. She helps businesses grow internationally by introducing the same operational excellence philosophies to Asian countries and overcome any cultural impediments that may occur. “A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water” according to a Chinese proverb.
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Carmen as a born Kiwi is not a lamb but a clever fox. When not driving operational performance, you’ll find her in pit lane running a top car racing team. With her engineering background and leadership skills she keeps the cars and her team on track, always with the pole position as a number one goal. Her passion is seeing people and teams achieve more than they thought possible. Yes, speed and results are always high on her agenda!
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From his college years and early career in California to his home turf in Greece, Gabriel is used to blue skies, but he is also ready to deal with an earthquake or wildfire out of the blue. He never gets tired of travel and being a private pilot helps him navigate in any complex environment. In his engagements he quickly zooms in from a bird’s eye perspective to the smallest detail to discover new improvement opportunities. Coupled with his analytical skills and love to acquire knowledge and passing it on, make consulting Gabriel’s natural habitat.
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Talking about statistics, there is only one per thousand people who is a polyglot and guess what: James is one of them! Fluent in English, German, Japanese, French and Dutch he is a master of communication and interactions. Through his lifelong experience with a broad range of cultures and business experience, he has a unique ability to observe where people are not grasping the situation at hand. As a trainer, this ability helps him to quickly recognize where a learning point has not been understood. As a consultant, he knows when and how to begin an intervention that will improve communications and assure that people can work together efficiently in common processes to achieve common goals.
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Coming from vibrant Mexico City Rodrigo owns a farm now – while lecturing in agricultural symposiums on the use of regression methods for effectively growing sheep. Which is a first reason to get to know him! Rodrigo loves managing and improving with data and facts. Having worked for global companies for years, e.g., in FMCG, Finance, and Pharmaceuticals, his definition of taking it easy is very flexible and led to projects all over Latin America, Europe, and even an interim assignment in Saudi Arabia.
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Sven spends all his free time sailing around Scandinavia. He loves fresh wind and all kinds of weather. Both, at high seas and in manufacturing his teams rely on his fast and systematic way of observing, his consensus-based goal development and his way of pragmatically implementing change. Change to Sven means working with the crew and with the captain. With Sven you dare to go for new destinations. And even if you hate rain, suddenly a trip to North Norway in October becomes a tempting option!
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Educated in computer science, deeply steeped in math, Val hit her stride when she somewhat accidentally fell into the world of process design, improvement & optimization. When not surfing the perfect wave in her spare time, she very much enjoys facilitating clients in the classroom on Operational Excellence methodologies, and derives equal enjoyment from supporting the practical application of those tools, with an eye toward pro-actively managing the impact of resulting change. On the job, she translates her rule number one “life requires a sense of humor” into her firm belief that all humans learn & function better when they are having fun!
O’Peep is a certified Master Black Belt who loves teaching Lean Six Sigma online – and it’s his personal ambition to make every Online Course a most practical and fun learning experience for everyone! You will quickly notice: O’Peep is a connoisseur – also outside the classroom. He loves burgers and enjoys a glass of fine gin every now and then. With colorful side stories from his O’Burger Shop and his O’Distillery, he will give you a tangible idea of the Lean Six Sigma concepts, methods, and tools.
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