The consultancy for
leaders and leadership teams
We make
leadership work.
We say what others tiptoe around. And we stay with it until you reach your goal.
How we workOur name is a promise in German: Dranbleiben means staying with it until it sticks.
How we work
The Dranbleiber approach:
Our mind-map diagnostic creates a setting where nothing essential stays unsaid.
Once every topic is on the map, the decisive step follows: the courage to simplify. Complexity is the biggest obstacle to change.
We do not run a workshop and disappear. We agree on what needs doing and stay with it until it is done.
Voices · translated from German
Die Dranbleiber! New and surprising ways of working. Straight to the point, even when it stings.
After an intense stretch of work together, we moved closer as a leadership team and had a clear roadmap for the next 12 months.
With Die Dranbleiber we were able to work through every critical sticking point and leave with tangible results.
Strong in communication and facilitation, always thoroughly prepared, excellent command of method. A clear recommendation.
Formats
Our core offering: five formats.
From multi-module programs with training sessions to confidential one-on-one coaching and sparring, for individual leaders and entire leadership levels alike.
Team or leadership team, even in the middle of upheaval and change: our proven workshop format turns a group of individuals into a team that holds together. Step by step, until it lasts in everyday work.
Facilitating management offsites, board retreats and change initiatives. We make sure the topics that really matter get on the table, especially the uncomfortable ones.
Structured resolution of team and leadership conflicts. We name what keeps the conflict going and stay with it until it is settled.
Insights Discovery® profiles and the team workshops or coaching built on them, for when communication patterns need to be questioned and improved systematically.
Focus Topics
Beyond that: focus topics with partners.
DranbleiberKraus & Partner
Shaping a major transformation
When our work with leadership teams grows into broader organizational development, K&P brings the capacity that takes: transformation experts since 1987 and co-owner of Die Dranbleiber. They design effective structures and processes, we implement them together with the leaders.
DranbleiberExponential Executives
Using AI in your own leadership
Here the focus is on the leader: how does AI change their own work? The Vibe-Coding Masterclass makes it tangible, hands-on from the first self-built prototype to a new view of leading in the AI era. Exponential Executives opens the door to the technology, we translate it into leadership practice.
DranbleiberWEBUILDAI
Embedding AI across the organization
This is about the bigger picture: processes, strategy, architecture. The name WEBUILDAI is literal: they build, from analysis through design to production. They build, we anchor leadership, collaboration and acceptance in the team.
DranbleiberInsights Discovery®
Improving team effectiveness
When teams stay below their potential, ability is rarely the reason. The friction sits in communication and the way people work together. Insights Discovery® makes preferences visible, gives a team a shared language and lays the groundwork for psychological safety and real team effectiveness. As a Licensed Distributor we also open the path to becoming a practitioner yourself: access, terms and a contact afterwards.
Dranbleiberfem:up
Strengthening presence and impact
Leading effectively also means being present: how you enter a room, how you speak, how you hold it. With fem:up we bring in trained actresses who work on exactly that with methods from the stage, rooted in female empowerment and increasingly with mixed groups.
Clients
From start-up through the Mittelstand to the DAX corporation.
Small business, global corporation, university or church: we feel at home in any kind of organization, because we know them from the inside.










Team
Direct. Experienced. Close by.
We are not a consulting factory. The people you meet are the people who do the work.
„Most friction in a leadership team is not about the content. It is about the people. That is exactly where I start.„
„A strategy is only worth as much as each person has made it their own.„
„I know the difference between a workshop that feels good on Friday and one that changes something on Monday.„
+ a network of specialists we bring in when an engagement calls for it
Prof. Dr. Georg KrausFounder & Managing Director, Kraus & Partner
Kevin PfanderManaging Director, Kraus & Partner
Jelmer PeerbolteVenture Builder · Ex-McKinsey
Frederic BauerfeindFounder, WEBUILDAI · AI implementation
Aragorn MeulendijksFuture historian & AI expert
Patrick WillerInnovation Catalyst
Uwe JohnCoach & theater director
Tatjana PoloczekEmpowerment trainer & actor
Anna RöserCoach & founder of fem:up
Dr. Tobias BachCoach & mountain guide · sports psychologist
Florian SchmidtSystemic coach & change manager
Viola PloskiLearning transformation expert · Kraus & Partner
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Contact
And what is on
your mind?
Write to us or call. We reply within 24 hours. We are based in Cologne and work across the German-speaking region and internationally, in German and English.
Common Questions

Andrea WerrHead of Organization Operation Management
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