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Matthias Gruendler

London, UK

Senior Fellow

Matthias Gruendler is a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Leadership Academy™. He is a consultant and business coach who specialises in culture transformation, leadership development, team building and executive coaching. Recent projects include large scale consulting and leadership assignments across Financial Services, Telecommunications and the IT industries including, BASF, Telefonica and Crowe Horwath International.

Matthias draws from 18 years strategy, brand, CRM and communications expertise in executive management roles and collaborations with companies such as Siemens, Mercedes-Benz and Philip Morris. He balances pragmatic, hand-on business requirements with an in-depth understanding of what motivates and inspires individuals, teams and organisations. Clients value in particular his ability to help align values and beliefs with commercial rigour and strategy.

Matthias has pursued extensive training in Systems Management both through the Centre for Right Relationship (ORSC) and Fern Uni Hagen in Germany. He has trained with the Coaches Training Institute, is a certified consultant for Cultural Transformation Tools (CTT), and a Team Diagnostics (TCI) facilitator.


Culture Change projects include:

- Siemens Medical: Communication strategy that aligned internal culture with desired external brand positioning   and helped the healthcare business to become the key earner for Siemens globally.

- HP / rtc.ch / Switzerland: Consulting with executive management plus design/facilitation of multiple 8-month Leadership Development Programmes with the Senior Talent pool.

- BNP Paribas: Development of a major culture transformation initiative that helped a back-office operation to finally become profitable for the first time since inception

- Telefónica University: design, development and facilitation of training programmes to help facilitate customer centricity and transformation within a complex organisational environment.