Why I end up in such situations, and what sets me apart from someone who started at PowerPoint.

The path

I did not start with strategy, but in the engine room. Six years of SAP base work: system copies overnight, release changes across the weekend, the kernel patch that went wrong. After that, two years on the other side of the table, as the provider who calculates the offers I read for clients today. I have been independent since 2011.

This order is no coincidence. Whoever has once brought a live system back up at three in the morning judges a program status differently than someone who knows progress only from slides. It is exactly this judgment competence that a board buys when it hires me.

I measure myself as I demand of every program

The home page says: references without numbers are assertions. It would be dishonest to exempt myself. For fifteen years I have let my clients rate me against a fixed catalogue of around eighty criteria. The average across all references is 5.6 out of 6. More important than the good number is the honest criticism: without it I would not know my gaps, and could not close them.

Where I am not your expert

266 months sound like „expert in everything“. They are not. My strength lies in transformation and transition, where technology, subject matter, organization and people come together at the same time. Where I am not yet the expert: the disciplinary leadership of a whole organization over years. I say this openly, because whoever names their limit is more credible in everything else.

What you pay the independence for

My role stays, deliberately, that of the outsider — and that is not a detail, it is the core of what you get. I do not go native in any organization, I collect no political baggage, and I owe no one a favour. That is why I can say out loud what internally no one dares to anymore, because inside it costs positions or relationships. I am measured on one thing: whether your program delivers. That outside view is the hardest thing to replace from within — and most valuable exactly when it gets uncomfortable.

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