When senior executives leave a corporate role, most believe they face a simple choice:
Option 1: Another role in another company
Option 2: Some form of independent advisory
It sounds straightforward — but it never is.
After 20+ years working with executives across Europe, the US, and Latin Amer...
You wake up on a quiet Tuesday morning, coffee in hand, and glance at your calendar. It’s full of meetings, calls, and reminders.
Today, something feels different.
For the first time in years, you’re asking yourself:
“What if I didn’t have to follow the corporate roadmap?What if I could design my...
Senior executives who are preparing to take the leap into independence often ask me the same question:
“What kind of consulting business can I realistically build in five years?”
My answer is always the same. It is all about your decisions how you define this:
The clients and mentors you learn f...
I hear this question more and more often lately.
Especially from executives who spent 20+ years inside major organizations.
They’ve led teams, owned budgets, driven international transformation. But they’ve never had to acquire clients themselves.
Never issued an invoice.Â
Never carried the full ...
99% of the executives I talk to want to start their own company. The exception actually does it.
Every week, I speak with executives who consider starting their own consulting business — “someday.”
They like the idea of independence.They like the sound of being their own boss.But they still keep ...
Over the years, I’ve spoken with hundreds of senior executives.
Almost all had the same dream:To finally work for themselves.
They imagined the upsides:
âś… Flexible scheduleâś… Work they actually loveâś… No politicsâś… Freedom to choose projectsâś… Staying relevant and impactful even at 60+
But here’s the...
Over early coffee in Munich, a former COO slid a notebook across the table.Fourteen ideas: Strategy. Pricing. Transformation. M&A. Culture.“I can do all of this,” she said.
She wasn’t wrong.Then she exhaled.“I just don’t know where to start.”
Her problem wasn’t lack of skill. It was too much of i...
For years, maybe decades, everything seemed perfectly aligned.
You wake up driven by a simple but powerful question:
“What can I build today to grow our market share even further?”
This was the question I asked myself with pleasure for years.
And it worked.In some segments, we achieved over 60%...
Years ago, when I first stepped into sales leadership, I still thought the goal was simple: fill the funnel.
Every lead was a good lead. Every customer a win.
But then came the lessons.
One type of clients was simply too small — they kept us busy, but little profitable.
Another used us as leverag...
It was the early 2000s, and I was in New York, attending a management seminar in a high-rise overlooking Central Park.
We were just six people in the room — an intimate group, but the man leading us was anything but ordinary.
His name: Larry Bossidy.
Bossidy had spent years at GE as one of Jack W...
Friday morning. Corner office. Floor-to-ceiling glass.I was looking down at the river but couldn’t feel much.The team had hit their targets.My calendar was full.The paycheck was more than decent.On paper, it looked like I’d made it.
Inside, it felt like I’d built a cage — a comfortable one, but a...
Late Wednesday afternoon. Desk cluttered. Coffee lukewarm. My cursor blinked at the top of a new document like it was daring me to type.
I’d blocked the hour to “work on the business.” I’d opened six tabs: one for market sizing, one for an old McKinsey deck, one for logo color options. You know —...
