A generalist with depth and a structured, yet flexible approach
My mission is to move people and organisations to live their true selves, to accept change and to build their future.
A change management pioneer, Karl Kellenberger learned early on what it takes to solve complex change situations: interpersonal skills. His gift is to form and mould them, and to enhance and enrich them with scientific methodology. If your people matter to you, you will reap the rewards. Karl Kellenberger inspires his clients to discover new ways to live this philosophy, allowing organisations to grow into the future with and through their people.
His confident and humorous manner opens doors to lasting change in people at all levels of an organisation. Karl never merely scratches the surface with his methods. They drill down deep into an organisation and change the key dynamics in the company.
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Karl Kellenberger is known for his wide-ranging knowledge and interests. He combines psychology, economics and culture into a coherent, diverse and focussed process. He finds the right balance for every challenge.
Karl Kellenberger does not use pre-prepared models. He translates complex change processes into easy-to-grasp stories and standardized methods that convert the abstract into the concrete, give the process more meaning, and inspire people to achieve success.
Profile
- born in 1961
- raised and educated in England and Switzerland
- currently living in Gerlafingen, Switzerland
- management consultant since 1990
- Lic phil I in Psychology and Business Management, University of Bern, Switzerland
- MPhil, City University Business School, London, UK
- commendation from the Harley-Davidson University for educational excellence
Traction through experience
With his well-stocked toolkit, Karl Kellenberger calls on more than 25 years of project experience in change, strategy and leadership at all levels of the organisation and in many different industries. As a trail blazer in his industry, he pioneered change management in Switzerland and abroad.
Insights – stories
The Essence of Things
To make a really good coffee, you need many excellent ingredients: exceptional beans, the optimum grind and a high-quality machine to apply the right pressure and supply the correct water temperature. The result is a blend of high-tech and gut feeling combined with technical and human skill. For me, this is the perfect analogy for good management.
The Power of Colours
Our brain is not a black or white system. We need colors to better understand, retain and manage complexity. Colours create contrasts and provide clarity. I therefore use them deliberately to give clarity to models and processes. I like strong colours to enrich black on white.
The Door to the World
My library contains 2,000 books. Each one has opened up a new viewpoint and helped me build an open mind – wherever I need it as a consultant. “Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder”, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, is a book I highly recommend to people involved in change processes. He expands on the subject of our all-too-human fears by arguing for fragile systems that thrive and grow through change, become stronger and flourish in the long run, and are consequently more successful.
No Change without Care
Shoe care might be an unusual pastime, but I find a moment of tranquillity doing this after months or weeks working abroad. Leather is a fascinating material which changes with the passing of each day and transforms the marks of its own past into uniquely beautiful tokens of character. Very much like the successes of companies steeped in traditions. They require care. Like leather – it only starts to show its essential qualities after decades of skillful nurture and care.
All of this builds on Learning
Renew to Unlock
Unlock to Renew
Social creatures we are in essence – we learn together, we learn from each other, and we learn by virtue and through the power of our own reflection.
I was in the past, and I still consider myself blessed again and again to encounter and work with outstanding individuals. And to be able to take important insights from these encounters.
To these individuals I extend my warmest thanks for allowing me to learn in their presence.
Through you all I have learnt to develop methods, and stories that inspire people to grow above and beyond themselves in every conceivable manner and way.
My clients grow in situations that call for restructuring, re-design or the re-launch of whole businesses or organisations, developing people, strategies, cultures, and leadership on the way to attaining unexpected, and extraordinary results.
Starting with my professor of philosophy at boarding school in Appenzell, Dr. E. Bucher, continuing with my professors of psychology K. Foppa and A.P.O. Williams, my teaching therapist Regula Isenring, my teachers of management consulting Hellmuth ten Siethoff, and Heinz Groten, my management consulting colleagues, and fellow professionals Marnix Ryckaert, and Dr. Mic Schwab, and finally my personal coach Armin Pollmann with his lovely wife Andrea:
To you all I send my warmest thank-yous for times well-spent, and full of debating, working and insights!