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Experience in change. Pioneer spirit in practice.

For more than 20 years, Breitenstein has been shaping organization in transformation. Our work is grounded in first-hand management experience, academic exchange, and an open-minded approach to emerging technologies and artificial intelligence. From this foundation, we develop practical solutions that put people at the centre, strengthen leadership, and make organisations fit for the future.

Our Team

People from different areas and cultures come together in our diverse team. Individual skills and experience and unique personalities – all united by a passion for transformation and change management.

Alexander Gisdakis

Partner & Managing Director

Petra Pötschke

Partner & Managing Director

Dr. Martin Kempen

Partner & Managing Director

Tim bookas

Founder & Partner

Stefan Fischer

Partner & Senior Advisor

Prof. Dr. Nicolas Müller

Associate Senior Consultant

Our values

It is important to us that we create a good basis for successful and sustainable change processes with our customers. This only works if everyone pulls together. That is why we base our collaboration on the following principles:

Trust

For us, trust means that we always stand by each other, support each other and help each other with challenges. We also live this trust in our collaboration with our customers. We work together hand in hand, at eye level and always with an open ear for needs, concerns, wishes and challenges - so that we are trustworthy contacts even beyond the duration of the project.

Respect

We are all equal members of the team, in which everyone is equally integrated. Everyone in the team is valuable with the know-how that he or she brings and deserves the same attention. This can be seen from the fact that everyone is treated with tolerance, fairness, recognition and appreciation, and that individual successes are also recognized and valued.

Diversity

Diversity is one of our great strengths. People of different nationalities, ages and genders with different ways of thinking and seeing things come together in our team. Diversity is part of our daily work and represents a great enrichment for us, from which we draw our creativity.

Collaboration

Our professional and cultural diversity is also reflected in our collaboration. Different perspectives give rise to new creative ideas and we can learn a lot from each other. Our collaboration is also characterized by the fact that everyone - regardless of the task - pitches in and masters it together.

Participation

Participation is when people can contribute their own experiences and values to a change process. Every change brings with it uncertainty and resistance. If you want to encourage full commitment, engagement and creativity, you need to create opportunities for people to actively shape this change themselves.

Holistic approach

We think holistically in our projects. In a transformation process, we first identify all influencing factors, but then do not view them as the sum of various individual parts. Rather, it is important to think systemically: relationships, dependencies and interactions between the influencing factors must be taken into account.

Our office in the heart of Munich

Our social responsibility

We firmly believe that our world must change in order to remain worth living in. That is why we also make our expertise and the successful strategies we offer our customers available to social organizations – usually without remuneration. This involvement in charitable and social projects is a central aspect of our corporate identity, it reflects our values and shows that we are committed to social responsibility.

Our cooperation partners

We believe that we can achieve more together! That’s why we build on our strong consulting network:

As one of the major HR strategy consultancies with a strong quantitative focus on compensation & benefits, grading, pension and HR services, Lurse is an important addition to our transformation journeys.

Hoffmann und Zachau (h&z) is a large German strategy consultancy with “brains, heart and hands” from Munich. Breitenstein Consulting has been supporting h&z consultants for many years in human resources, change and leadership topics in client projects.

eezy Spirit (formerly Corporate Spirit) has been a leading provider of quantitative measurement tools for employee satisfaction, leadership and collaboration for over 30 years. The instruments are available in over 30 languages and meet the highest security requirements. We have been using eezy Spirit for years and represent eezy Spirit Germany.

M&A projects have special requirements when it comes to managing data and cultural change. The various workstreams in M&A projects must mesh quickly and reliably. SmartMerger offers specialized software and templates with the highest security standards for such projects.

We support Covendit, a boutique M&A consultancy, with the human aspects of transactions.

OMMAX is a fast-growing digital strategy consultancy, partnering with global investors, mid-sized companies, and corporations to drive scalable growth, efficiency gains, and transformative success through digital solutions, tech, data and AI implementation. With their vision to build digital leaders worldwide, they foster innovation and drive sustainable growth and profitability.