Christina Janssen

Systemic organization consulting

Bonn and worldwide

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Christina Janssen: Strategy. Change. Leadership.

I support executive teams, leaders and organizations through change. Side by side, bringing structure, with an eye on the bigger picture and on the next step.

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At a glance

Experience: 30 years as a leader and consultant
International: 17 years in the US, India and Latin America
Background: Managing Director of Köhninger GmbH, manager at the United Nations
Clients: Roche, Procter & Gamble, KUKA, Evonik, WHO, UN Secretariat and others All clients

01 Situations

The plan is in place. Then it meets the organization.

Five situations in which assignments often begin.

1.1
Post-merger integration

Former competitors are expected to become colleagues. But structures and processes do not fit together yet.

Matching service: Change & transformation
1.2
New owners, new leadership

Within a few weeks everything has changed, and the leadership team sees the situation very differently.

Matching service: Strategy with executive teams
1.3
The strategy is not landing

The goals and the plan are in place. Inside the organization, resistance acts like sand in the gears.

Matching service: Change & transformation
1.4
Leading across continents

Teams, partners and headquarters on several continents need to build a shared sense of “us”.

Matching service: Leadership
1.5
Leading through constant change

The market is changing at speed. Leaders need to remain able to act amid this complexity.

Matching service: Leadership

02 Services

Three fields of work, clearly defined.

2.1

Strategy with executive teams

Leadership teams develop a shared view, make the necessary decisions and give the organization direction.
For

Global top executive teams and leadership teams
Formats
- Strategy development
- Executive team coaching
- Stakeholder analysis
- Clarifying expectations
2.2

Change & transformation

Steering complex, often global change processes in a way that brings the people in the organization along.
For

Companies and organizations in mergers and global change processes
Formats
- Process guidance
- Change formats and workshops
- Facilitation
2.3

Leadership

Strengthening leaders and teams so that they can act together despite uncertainty, across continents too.
For

Leaders, senior leaders and teams
Formats
- Coaching
- Team development
- Leadership development
- Conflict resolution

“Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.”

Jim Collins

03 Clients

Who I have worked for.

A selection from business and the public and international sector.

Companies 22

Roche
Procter & Gamble
KUKA
Evonik
Festo
Danfoss
Air Liquide
Freudenberg
Phoenix Contact
Giesecke + Devrient
Daiichi Sankyo
REWE International AG
Berlin Hyp
Azelis
KSB Pumps
Swiss Krono
Mäurer & Wirtz
GFT
IMS Gear
Pieris
Avantag Energy
EAC International Consulting

Public & international sector 9

WHO
UN Secretariat
UN Development Programme (UNDP)
UNHCR
UNICEF India
UN Staff College (UNSSC)
GIZ
KfW
Frankfurt Zoological Society

04 Working together

How working together runs.

Tailored, co-created and side by side.

Diagnosis first: The starting point is a systemic diagnosis: Where are tensions building up? What is blocking movement? What wants to emerge?
The role the process needs: I advise, guide or facilitate, depending on what the process needs at the time.
Tailored and co-created: Formats are developed with the people involved, so that the aims of the change can already be experienced in the work.
& Co: the network: For larger projects I work with a close-knit network of systemic consultants in Germany and around the world.

Three recent assignments

Project examples

4.1 Manufacturing

Post-merger integration

Situation

Former competitors are expected to pull together, but structures and processes are misaligned at every turn.

Key question

“How can we grow together without losing the strengths we each bring?”

Approach

Workshops vertically with top management and horizontally with the senior leadership team, plus individual coaching for the workstream leads.
4.2 Automotive

Strategy work in a plant

Situation

Within a few weeks: new owners, new plant leadership, new expectations. Very different views of the situation within the leadership team.

Key question

“How can we speak with one voice and give the organization direction?”

Approach

Mapping the stakeholder landscape, clarifying expectations with the new plant leadership, jointly making sense of signals from the environment.
4.3 Global high-tech company · 18 months

Leadership development

Situation

The market is changing at speed and the organization keeps adapting. Leaders need to remain able to act.

Key question

“How do we connect individual leadership development with implementing the new strategy?”

Approach

A program built around real business challenges and co-created with the client: dialogue sessions with the board, online modules, regional in-person days, peer groups.

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