The consultancy for
leaders and leadership teams
We make
leadership work.
We say what others steer around, and we stay with it until the goal is reached.
How we workOur name is a promise in German: Dranbleiben means staying with something until it holds.
How we work
The Dranbleiber approach:
Our mind-map diagnostic creates a setting in which everything essential is put on the table.
Once every topic is mapped, 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 the goal is reached.
Behind it: proven models and a clear stance.
Our approach in detailVoices
Die Dranbleiber! New and surprising ways of working. Straight to the point, even when it stings.
Bosch Service Solutions
After an intense stretch of work together, we moved closer as a leadership team and had a clear roadmap for the next 12 months.
1&1 Versatel
With Die Dranbleiber we were able to work through every critical sticking point and leave with tangible results.
Deutsche Bahn
Strong in communication and facilitation, always thoroughly prepared, excellent command of method. A clear recommendation.
Vantage Towers
Formats
Our core offering: five formats.
From multi-part programs with modules and training through to confidential one-on-one coaching and sparring, for individual leaders as well as entire leadership tiers.
Team or leadership team, including in the middle of upheaval and change: our proven workshop format turns a group of individuals into a team that holds. Step by step, until it holds up in everyday work.
Facilitation of management offsites, board retreats and change initiatives. We make sure the topics that really matter reach the table, including the uncomfortable ones.
Structured resolution of conflicts within teams and between leaders. We name what keeps the conflict alive and accompany the way out of it.
Insights Discovery® profiles plus team workshops or coaching built on them, wherever communication patterns need to be questioned and systematically improved.
Specialist topics
Beyond that: specialist topics with partners.
DranbleiberKraus & Partner
Navigating a major transformation
When work with leadership teams grows into broader organizational development, K&P brings the capacity it then takes: transformation experts since 1987 and co-owner of Die Dranbleiber. They design effective structures and processes, we deliver alongside the leaders.
DranbleiberExponential Executives
Using AI in your own leadership
Here the leader is the subject: how does AI change their own work? The Vibe-Coding Masterclass makes it tangible, hands-on from a first self-built prototype to a new view of leading in the AI era. Exponential Executives opens up the technology, we translate it into leadership practice.
DranbleiberWE BUILD AI
Embedding AI across the organization
This is about the bigger picture: processes, strategy, architecture. WE BUILD AI is named that way because things get built, from analysis through design to productive operation. They build, we look after leadership, collaboration and acceptance in the team.
DranbleiberInsights Discovery®
Improving team effectiveness
When teams stay below their potential, ability is rarely the reason: communication and interplay are where it catches. Insights Discovery® makes preferences visible, gives a team a shared language and lays the ground for psychological safety and real team effectiveness. As a licensed distributor we also support the path to becoming a practitioner: access, conditions and guidance afterwards.
Dranbleiberfem:up
Strengthening presence and impact
Leading effectively also means being present: how someone enters a room, how they speak, how they hold the room. With fem:up we bring in trained actors who work on exactly that with methods from the stage, rooted in female empowerment and increasingly in mixed groups.
Clients
From start-up through the Mittelstand to the DAX corporation.
Small business or global corporation: we are at home in every 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 content but about people. That is exactly where I start.„
„A strategy is worth only as much as each individual has made it their own.„
„I know the difference between a workshop that feels good on Friday and one that actually changes something on Monday.„
+ a network of specialists, brought in when a mandate calls for it
Kevin PfanderManaging Director, Kraus & Partner
Prof. Dr. Georg KrausFounder & CEO, Kraus & Partner
Jelmer PeerbolteVenture Builder · Ex-McKinsey
Frederic BauerfeindFounder, WE BUILD AI · 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
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Contact
And what is on
your mind?
No form. No hotline. Write or call us directly. We reply within 24 hours at the latest. We are based in Cologne and work across the German-speaking region and internationally, in German and English.
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