You’ve built a great deal on your own. Some things are hard to see from inside.

When patterns that served you well stop working, more speed won’t help, and neither will the next leadership framework. What helps is a clear view of what actually needs to develop now.

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Things are working. And yet.

  • Decisions take longer than they used to.
  • The same conversations keep coming back.
  • Responsibility gets stuck in the wrong places.
  • The team has outgrown the size where everything could be sorted out in the corridor.
  • For the first time, you need a layer of leadership between you and the team.
  • You and your co-founders never spelled out your roles. Now they’re rubbing.
  • There’s friction in the leadership team.
  • Or what made you successful for years simply isn’t helping right now.

The problem is rarely a lack of knowledge. More often, something has grown that is hard to see from inside.

Development doesn’t start with a method. It starts with a clearer view.

For more than 25 years I’ve worked with people at transitions like these. I don’t lay a standard model over every situation. First we make visible what is actually going on: in the person, between people, and in the system. What comes out of it isn’t a development plan. It’s a next step that fits the situation.

  1. see
  2. understand
  3. change

You don’t have to figure it all out alone.

Three levels

Leadership has more than one level.

With you.

A specific leadership situation won’t move, even though you’ve had your eye on it for a while. You want to understand what keeps repeating and where your leverage lies. You can start right here, no introductory call needed.

Find your starting point ↓

From €450 net plus VAT, a clearly defined process

Between you.

Something in the leadership team is grinding. Expectations go unspoken, responsibilities overlap, the same issues land on the table again and again. Then the question lives between people, and that’s where it gets worked on.

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30-minute briefing, no obligation

Across the organisation.

You want leadership to take root in your organisation, beyond a handful of individuals. You’re looking for development that starts from real challenges and keeps working in everyday business, long after the workshop.

Discuss a leadership journey →

30-minute briefing, no obligation

MIRROR

Sometimes what you need isn’t coaching yet. It’s clarity.

You describe a specific leadership situation. What becomes visible is what keeps repeating, where the tension sits and which lever will hold. You get a written situation report, and we talk it through.

You answer five open questions, which takes about 20 minutes. I read your answers myself and write the report from them. It reaches you two to three days before our conversation. In 30 minutes we test it together, correct what doesn’t fit and settle what to do now.

What you leave with is a reasoned working hypothesis about your situation. No diagnosis, no personality test.

  • Five open questions, in writing
  • A personal situation report, written by me
  • A 30-minute conversation

€450 net

plus VAT where applicable · for businesses only

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After your request you’ll receive an invoice, and the questions once payment has arrived.

And if your own perspective isn’t enough?

EDGE

EDGE widens the view to include the people you lead with.

You gather the perspectives of selected people who experience you as a leader. This isn’t 360-degree feedback or a personality assessment. It’s a focused picture of one concrete leadership challenge, over several weeks, with a practice phase in your day-to-day work.

  1. Clarify the situationWe sharpen which challenge this is about and what you want to look at.
  2. Gather outside perspectivesThree people you choose answer open questions. Beforehand we agree who gets to see what.
  3. Make patterns visibleWhat should stay, where friction arises, what would make a difference.
  4. Review togetherWe set their perspectives next to your own and choose your focus.
  5. Decide the next stepYou put it into practice, then we look at what has actually changed.

€2,900 net

Pilot price for the first three places: €1,900 net
plus VAT where applicable · for businesses only

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Intro call, 20 minutes, no obligation

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Leadership teams

A leadership team is more than the sum of good leaders.

Teams rarely hit their limits because competence is missing.

The harder part is what happens in between: expectations nobody states, responsibilities that compete, conflicts that look factual, decisions that keep getting stuck in the same places. Chances are all of you know this, and each of you sees a different part of it.

  • Clearer decisions
  • Conflicts that hold
  • Unambiguous responsibility
  • Trust without forced harmony

Every leadership team starts from a different place. That’s why working together begins with a briefing, not a package. You tell me where you stand, and together we work out what your team needs now.

Book a briefing for our leadership team →

30 minutes, no obligation

Leadership journey

Leadership doesn’t develop in the seminar room alone.

Programmes work when learning isn’t cut off from everyday leadership. That’s why a leadership journey is built together with you: with a clear aim, around real challenges, with learning formats, reflection, application and transfer into daily work.

For owner-led and mid-sized companies that want to shape leadership development with a partner who has been responsible for it himself.

  1. Business challengeThe company’s real task
  2. ExperienceLearning by doing
  3. ReflectionUnderstanding what happens
  4. ApplicationUsing it at work
  5. TransferWhat stays once we leave
Discuss a leadership journey →

30-minute briefing, no obligation

With you

For years, work was everything. I had no personal life, no distance from the business, and I was never truly satisfied, regardless of what the team achieved. I wanted to spend less time working in the business and more time working on it. I wanted to have a life again.

Thanks to David’s coaching, our internal coordination now runs more smoothly, motivation is higher, and I find it easier to communicate appreciation. My employees take on more responsibility, and my relationships with my clients have become more trusting.

I am able to enjoy my life so much more.

Jacob Harz CEO, Harz Holding GmbH · translated from German
Across the organisation
I have got to know David as a fantastic trainer, with a unique strength and authenticity when it comes to the topic of leading oneself. His guidance and insights have been invaluable in helping our newly appointed leaders to build up core leadership skills and navigate these uncertain times.
Viktor Szücs Senior Director Leadership Development and Cultural Transformation, Lufthansa Group
David Liebnau
Who you’d work with

David Liebnau.

Over more than 25 years in leadership development I’ve worked with more than 20,000 leaders in 25 countries, in groups such as Deutsche Bahn, Lufthansa and ZF. I started as Senior Learning & Development Consultant at Gallup. As Managing Director and Client Director at SYNK GROUP, I was responsible, among other things, for a programme for Deutsche Bahn that received the HR Excellence Award.

After more than 25 years, I’m less interested in the next leadership model than in what actually helps people lead differently when it matters.

A good fit if

  • your own role is allowed to be part of the picture.
  • the work is meant to be on real leadership questions.
  • insight is supposed to turn into change.

Not a fit if

  • the aim is to roll out standard training.
  • the cause is looked for only in other people.
  • motivation is wanted, but not a readiness to change.
Next step

Where do you want to start?

I work in English and German.