Why Kearney?

Long-time ago I thought consulting is not a great job for me - too much travel - but then I had the pleasure to work with Kearney at Unilever, my employer at that time. I was impressed: We put the ice cream out of home business upside down - logistics outsourcing, sales force effectiveness, new customer service models based on customer segmentation, new cross-docking Supply Chain concepts etc.! After the project, Unilever offered me the next level, line management position in Finance but I felt more hunger for this kind of impactful, transformative work that Kearney labeled "tangible results" in their marketing and recruiting campaigns - and I got addicted to it. So I applied exclusively applied at Kearney in autumn 1999 and almost 25 years later I am still around...

Again, why? Kearney gave me so many opportunities to develop with some remarkable highlights of my professional life:

• securing the launches of some of the most advanced civil and military aircrafts
• exploring South East and North East Asia in the course of a strategy and Supply Chain redesign program for a leading Chemical
• responding to our first RFP from the Middle East, winning it and founding our Dubai office - later doing the - at that time - largest Kearney project for a leading Middle East Chemical player - by doing so we built our presence from zero to now a sizeable operations of 5 offices across the entire region
• joining for 2.5 years our Johannesburg office, again, to build a footprint in a new territory - as a souvenir I still have my son with Johannesburg as his city of birth in his passport
• finally, developing our strategic IT practice in Europe and globally into a truly transformational Digital & Analytics practice while still working on large-scale enterprise IT transformations and platform migrations as my personal heritage...

... and all of this in a company culture where people not only treat themselves with all respect but with colleagues that turned into friends and trusted fellows over all the years. So I cannot wait to see actual and former colleagues in Düsseldorf on September 13, where we will celebrate our 60th anniversary of Kearney in Germany - big time!

What can one expect more from a professional life?

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