• Hartmut Stuelten Leadership Practice
      Consulting The Leadership Practice

      we make shifts happen

    The Leadership Practice

    our expertise

    we are valued partners in making cognitive, psychological, and behavioural shifts happen.

    we ground our clients’ thinking in research-based dialogical practices of learning, reflecting, and growing.

    we enable our clients to become more purposeful, intentional, skill- and artful to create environments in their organizations in which people flourish.

    we have deep expertise in self-awareness, mindfulness, purpose, relating, thinking and conversing together & leading transformation.

    "The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make weaknesses irrelevant.”
    peter drucker

    our fields of practice

    we work in five interconnected fields.

    we work in five interconnected fields.

    "I have three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These are our greatest treasures.”
    lao tzu

    behavioral focus

    changing things is easy. making them better is hard. achieving lasting improvements requires very specific mindsets and practices. we support our clients to grow in these areas.

    • show up: it´s you, not them. any transformation always starts with yourself.
    • take one more step: feeling anxious due to complexity and unpredictability is normal. don’t let fear keep you from doing what needs to be done.
    • pay attention to what you pay attention to: transformations require clear focus, positive energy and robust relationships.
    • create the difference that makes a difference: foster an environment in which the full intelligence, passion and wisdom of everyone is utilized.
    • strengthen your muscles: you can´t fix yourself, your teams or your organization to greatness, you can only amplify what sometimes already works well.
    • try out stuff: experiment with and learn from lots of different things in order to continually get better at everything that matters to you
    • keep pushing: develop practices to nourish and spread what works well.

    "As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.”
    mohandas k. gandhi

    about silke

    bringing tenderness, tenacity, and imagination

    i am a linguist, philosopher and artist, using my passion for questions that matter and my creativity to reflect deeply on improving our individual and collective ways of working and being.

    my practice is informed by inquiry and by a belief in our ability to positive change. the essence of my work is therefore to help improve the quality of conversation, the quality of relationship and creative participation in organizations in the face of constant change.

    i help my clients to explore more deeply the role personal commitment, experimentation, language and visualization play in creating movement in organizations, thereby enabling them to become more proficient in understanding their thinking and in role modelling what they want to see more of in their organizations by way of appreciation and inquiry.

    in my experience, working in the here and now is necessary to, and beneficial for raising issues that managers are reluctant to bring to the table in their everyday work environment.

    my clients describe me as very relational while bringing analytical aptitude, mindful while working tenaciously on the question at hand, creative while exploring possibilities and emphasizing the importance of self-awareness and intentionality in our everyday life in the organization.

    prior to theleadershippractice i collected multi-faceted experiences in management positions. i have a master in american literature, philosophy and political science from the goethe university in frankfurt. psychology, mindfulness and neuroscience have for many years been special areas of focus. I am trained as relational coach.

    i am currently pursuing a phd in organization change at hult/ ashridge international business school in the uk.

    “Through your calm presence, empathy, insightful questions and precise observations, you helped me to take a fundamentally different view of myself and my abilities and to gain a better understanding of myself."
    chro

    about hartmut

    bringing clarity, challenge, and inspiration

    as a sociologist I am interested in how individuals and groups can develop more constructive and impactful patterns of relating and collaborating in order to make things that matter better for all.

    in working with my clients, I am particularly interested in exploring five interrelated aspects of organizational life: the quality of presence, the quality of participation, the quality of conversation, the quality of holding unpredictability, paradox and anxiety, and finally, the quality of diversity.

    my clients describe me as challenging whilst being empathic, as firmly grounded in solid theory whilst being completely focused on practical solutions, and as cutting through to the core of what needs to be addressed whilst being inspirational about the possibility of finding better ways.

    prior to theleadershippractice, i held numerous management positions in large, international corporations and consulting companies. i hold a doctorate in organizational change from middlesex university, a master in organizational consulting from ashridge business school, and a master in education from the university of hamburg. in addition, i have professional diplomas in executive coaching and in body-centered awareness. i am trained in systemic consulting and improvisation theatre. since the late 1990s, I have been a keen student and practitioner of meditation and mindfulness techniques.

    ”You have an authenticity that I often miss in other consultants. You are always firmly grounded and do not try to make things unnecessarily theoretical and complicated, but always focus on the core of the matter. You are the only consultant that my fellow board members and I say has been a privilege to work with."
    board member

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    “True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself – the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings in the midst of the ever-changing moment.”
    bruce lee

    contact

    silke natschke

    tel: +49-(0)176-43976524
    silke@the-leadership-practice.com

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