The TEAMLEAD project emerged from an initiative of the Competence Centre for Innovations & Quality in Leadership & Learning (CILL) at the University of Applied Management. Today, the core team around Prof. Dr. Nele Graf and Prof. Dr. Andre M. Schmutte advises and coaches executives from a wide range of industries in the implementation of the synergetic leadership concept.
PROF. DR.
NELE GRAF
Managing Director of Mentus GmbH, advises the business community in leadership development and accompanies change and transformation processes. In 2013, she founded the Competence Centre for Innovations & Quality in Leadership & Learning (CILL) at the University of Applied Management. Prof. Graf is initiator and head of the research project "TEAMLEAD".
PROF. DR.
ANDRE M. SCHMUTTE
is a proven expert in business transformation and team leadership, teaches as a professor of market-oriented management at the University of Applied Management, and is involved as an advisory board member for medium-sized companies. As a consultant, coach and keynote speaker, he supports companies in digital transformation, agile business development and the leadership of high-performing teams. Prof. Schmutte is a member of the CILL team and associate project manager of the research project "TEAMLEAD".
PROF. DR.
BERT LEYENDECKER
HEIKE BRAUN
Heike Braun knows the challenges for international leaders and team development firsthand. For more than 20 years, as a manager of global teams, she herself has dealt intensively with the practical side of team leadership. Today, as a trainer and coach, she accompanies managers on their individual path to personal and team success.
PROF. DR.
STEPHANIE RASCHER
How do people move from being a safety risk to a success factor? The Institute for Human Factors is a specialist for the "human factor" in High Responsibility Organizations (HRO). As a trainer, coach and facilitator, Prof. Rascher accompanies people and organizations in change processes and transfers the findings from sectors such as aviation or emergency services to business, industry and medicine.
UNIV.-PROF. DR. (em.)
ERICH WITTE
Our scientific mentor. 1993-2012 Head of the Department of Social, Media and Business Psychology at the University of Hamburg. As a university professor of social psychology with almost 40 years of in-depth knowledge of systems theory and research methods, together with Prof. Nele Graf, laid the foundations for the research project "TEAMLEAD".