Stephan Meyer
Consultant
Experience
Consultant
E.ON
- Digital transformation of personnel development
- Establishing an online academy with web-based training
- Increasing customer satisfaction, measured by NPS (net promoter score)
Consultant
Zurich
- Developing a digitalization strategy for the insurance industry
Transition Manager
Daimler
- Managing the transition of Daimler’s IT departments worldwide to India and Romania
- Overseeing one of the largest outsourcing projects ever, with a volume of more than €3 billion
Program Manager
Online Retail
- Coordinating a portfolio of 20 projects: marketing, BI, IT, finance, HR, strategy
- Implementing Shopware and ERP MS Dynamics
Consultant
Gematik
- Leading digital transformation of the healthcare industry with focus on electronic patient records (ePA)
Interim CEO
Healthcare Startup
- Leading a Big Data initiative in the healthcare industry
Sparring Partner
PwC
- Advising at partner level on speeding up a digitalization initiative for the finance industry
Consultant
Deutsche Bahn
- Restructuring the sales department
- Introducing more agile and lean structures
Consultant
BER Berlin Airport
- Providing expert opinion on operational excellence and opening of the airport
Consultant
Volkswagen/Audi
- Facilitating an eight-figure Euro annual profit increase by restructuring service processes
- Developing a new approach for measuring service quality based on Big Data analysis
Head of Retail Department
Otto Bock Healthcare
- Founding the new retail department “Premium Products” to access a more affluent customer group
- Restructuring the organization and acquiring external financing
Consultant
Novartis
- Restructuring an entire IT quality management system for the international research department
- Ensuring compliance with GxP, SOX, and CMMI
- Directing internal and external vendor audits
Consultant
Visteon
- Preventing a site with 100 employees from closing down through problem analysis and crisis negotiations
- Simplifying processes and coaching the responsible manager
- Project controlling resulting in a successful crisis resolution
Consultant
Volkswagen
- Coordinating 90 simultaneous projects following a strategic realignment
- Optimizing processes and coaching 90 project managers
- Introducing an OKR-based reporting system combined with a balanced scorecard
Member of Executive Board
ICF Kursmakler
- Co-founding a private equity company and setting up a private equity/venture capital fund
- Acquiring potential portfolio companies and screening business models
- Responsible for all marketing activities
Consultant
Accenture
- Leading strategic alignment of cooperating domains
- Operationalizing a vision via KPIs and a balanced scorecard
Consultant
Deutsche Bahn
- Making a train ticket purchasable via the internet
- Defining and negotiating the required business processes within the organization
Consultant
Volkswagen
- Implementing a large-scale SAP material management and logistics application
Consultant
Deutsche Telekom
- Implementing the largest SAP billing system of that time
- Responsible for rollout and migration into 120 subsidiaries
- Managing a large, complex project with more than 300 consultants involved
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Automotive (6.5 years), Healthcare (4 years), Banking and Finance (3 years), Transportation (3 years), Pharmaceutical (3 years), and Telecommunication (3 years).
Business Areas Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (12.5 years), Operations (7.5 years), Strategy (6.5 years), Quality Assurance (6 years), Project Management (5.5 years), and Business Intelligence (5 years).
Summary
Dr. Stephan Meyer empowers his clients to achieve millions of dollars in additional profits. He received his PhD for his leading expertise in modernizing organizations – but here's what the diploma won't tell you: he's the secret weapon behind some of the most successful business transformations you've never heard about (because smart leaders don't broadcast their competitive advantages).
His added value is based on more than 25 years of restructuring and business transformations with both international blue-chip corporations and ambitious family-owned companies. Think Volkswagen, Lufthansa, Novartis, pwc, and Audi – the kind of organizations that don't gamble on consultants who merely talk a good game.
But here's where it gets interesting: While most consultants stop at strategy decks and PowerPoint presentations, Dr. Meyer goes deeper – to the very human core of what makes or breaks transformation initiatives. As a highly experienced psychological counselor, he's spent decades working with employed managers, entrepreneurs, and business owners on the internal challenges that silently sabotage external success.
Productivity paralysis? He fixes it. Self-worth struggles that hold leaders back from bold decisions? He dissolves them. Even panic attacks in high-stakes business meetings – those career-threatening moments nobody talks about at networking events? He's helped more than 50 clients transform these vulnerabilities into unshakeable confidence, achieving their private and professional goals with surprising ease.
This is the rare combination you've been searching for: The strategic mind that can architect million-dollar transformations AND the psychological expertise to ensure your people – especially your leadership team – can actually execute them without burning out, freezing up, or self-sabotaging.
Bottom line? If you're serious about transformation that actually sticks – not just another expensive consulting project that gathers dust in a drawer – you're looking at the profile of someone who's already helped leaders like you turn bold visions into bankable reality.
The question isn't whether you can afford to hire Dr. Meyer. It's whether you can afford not to.
Languages
Education
University of Gloucestershire
PhD in Business Admin · Business Admin · United Kingdom
Topic of dissertation: Radical organizational change by killing the (metaphorical) sacred cow.
RWTH Aachen University
Diploma in Psychology, study of business psychology and business management, main focus on organizational development. · Business psychology and business management · Aachen, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Team Kanban Practitioner
Kanban University
SAFe® 5 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)
Scaled Agile Inc.
Professional Scrum Master™ (PSM)
Scrum.Org
Professional Scrum Product Owner™ (PSPO)
Scrum.Org
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