What drives our team and matters to you.
What we do for you:
Leadership. People. Development.
Getrennt gedacht. Gemeinsam wirksam.
Leadership rarely fails because of strategy. It fails because of people, teams and culture. That is exactly our field of work.
This is how leadership that acts and inspires is created.
„Leadership is not a title. It is an attitude."
The Leadership Academy
The TLA Difference
When the moment counts — it matters who stands beside you.
We connect. We enable. We deliver on promises.
Results — in quality and on time. At eye level for 30 years.
Experience that counts
Our consultants have been executive board members, managing directors, and transformation leaders themselves — with over 100 years of combined C-level experience, international M&A processes, turnarounds, and leadership responsibility for up to 2,000 people.
Practice. Real Fire. Lived Leadership.
Impact that lasts
Our question at the end of each session is: What will we do differently starting Monday? Every format is designed for transfer — for changing behavior and measurable results.
Transfer. Behavior. Results.
People who act
Transformation is achieved through people. Those who engage them gain momentum, energy, and trust. We combine structural clarity with emotional intelligence — because both are needed to truly embed change.
Mindset meets Structure. People meet System. Impact emerges.
Impact
Measurable impact that speaks for itself.
Selected snapshots from real mandates:
„I'm working with the team from The Leadership Academy now for more than 8 years. The reason for the long cooperation is simple: It works and pays off 10 times."
Christof H.
Managing Director Global Lead SDV
„I have been participating in leadership trainings over the past 25 years and to be honest, most of them were not worth the time and money spent. The Leadership Academy makes a difference: it provides customized pragmatic guidance on leadership & strategy development based on real life experience."
Tobias G.
Accenture Eng & RnD Lead Global
„Arbeit und Ergebnisse waren professionell, flexibel nach Kundenwunsch und fundiert. Insbesondere beeindruckt das kritische Hinterfragen von Teilnehmer-Statements und sie nicht mit Floskeln davonkommen lassen."
Michael N.
Accenture Germany
„Their Leadership and organization change/transformation services always have been maximum professional and efficient, enabling people to reflect, develop, act and achieve."
Hakan E.
P3 re:invent CEO
„The Leadership Academy resolved entrenched team conflicts, reunited warring parties behind a common vision, and thereby saved a strategically important project for us that we had already given up on."
Frank Egle
Project Lead & Innovationmanagement, Audi AG
„The Leadership Academy's coaching has tangibly transformed our leadership culture – practice-oriented, professional, with impulses that take immediate effect. Not interchangeable theoretical knowledge, but rather tools for real leadership situations. An investment that measurably pays off."
Bernhard Wieland
Managing Director, GREATSTAFF GmbH
„For me, working with the Leadership Academy stands out through genuine hands-on experience, high authenticity and the ability to inspire people for change in a lasting way."
Said Jusof Sediq
Senior Manager National Force, PHILIP MORRIS GmbH
„Höchste Professionalität und echter Praxisbezug: Die Schulungen der Leadership Academy haben unser Leitungsteam gestärkt und begeistert. Eine Zusammenarbeit auf höchstem fachlichen und menschlichen Niveau. Absolute Empfehlung."
Christine Albiez
Leitung Referat Kindertagesbetreuung, AWO München
Mission Statement
We strengthen leadership teams and organizations to truly succeed in transformation.
- With clarity in structure and responsibility.
- With emotional intelligence in collaboration.
- With implementation power in daily operations.
Our Ethos
Our Ethos
The Leadership Academy is a company with a strong ethos. We see our work as a declaration of love — to all who actively shape transformation and truly want to make a difference.
People are at the center. Achieving goals is too. Both belong together. Those who sacrifice one, lose both in the medium term.
Future-proof leadership emerges from genuine commitment, tangible implementation, and a smart fusion of experience, science, and attitude.
This is what we stand for. Every day.
How We Work
How We Work
We analyze systemically — because leadership problems rarely reside where they become visible.
We work pragmatically — because insight proves its true value through action.
We provide sustainable support — because true change requires time and consistency.
Operating at eye-level is our lived practice. We ask the questions that generate movement. We challenge where comfort hinders development. The result is changed behavior — visible and measurable.
The People Behind It
We — people who have been where you are now.
Because it's not what is said that matters, but what is achieved.
Our foundation.
Stephan Herkert
Founder
„Leadership proves itself the second the door closes and the team looks at you."
Claudia Herkert
Founder
„Culture is the sum of our actions — not what's written on the wall."
Olaf Gerwig
Partner
„Scaling means: reducing complexity before it reduces the team."
Julia Reuter
Partner
„Your most important stage is Wednesday morning — not the keynote."
Michael Meinecke
Partner
„Transformation is not a project. It is a decision that is re-made daily."
Simone Mündel
Partner
„Positive Leadership means being clear — with attitude."