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Profile Klaus Mieslinger

Core competence: Conceptual designs, consulting and coaching in change projects, executive coaching, organisational design, process optimisation, employee mobilisation, team development and programme and project management

Klaus Mieslinger has been a consultant, coach and supporter for companies, executives, teams and employees in complex processes of change and optimisation since 1988. He specialises in designing concepts for change management processes, initiating these processes and supporting them throughout the implementation process. His portfolio of services includes structured analyses, customised conceptual designs, the successful implementation of essential measures and programme and project management for integrated change processes. Many years of experience as a competent consultant, coach and executive in combination with his analytical and methodical skills and profound professional and organisational knowledge along with his great sensitivity when dealing with people and his communicative, integrative competence make him a popular, professional partner with our clients.

After completing his studies in production engineering, he gained his first professional experience in the information technology sector, monitoring various projects for developing and introducing the latest process-oriented standard solutions for company-wide IT applications. Since 1988 he has been a successful consultant, coach and project manager and has supported and realised more than 50 different projects in industrial, commercial and services enterprises. In the IT, telecommunication, automobile and supply industries he realised process and organisational development projects aimed at optimising development, production, logistics, purchasing and support functions (e.g. the development of corporate and product strategies, product life cycle management, production systems, series production start-up management, just-in-time production and delivery, supply chain management, IT system development and introduction, quality management consulting, QS system installation, etc.). His personal focus is on drawing up concepts, planning and supporting integrated change processes, the introduction of a system of process management and the optimisation of operational and organisational structures in marketing, development, production, purchasing, logistics and indirect corporate functions such as finances, controlling and HR.

As the managing director of a consulting firm, he headed a team of approximately 20 employees for more than six years. Klaus Mieslinger is a Managing Partner with Change Partner AG. With his managing partner colleagues he heads a team of approximately 40 consultants and trainers.He has a passion for working with people. He likes spending his leisure time with his children and supports their activities in competitive sports. He enjoys doing sports himself, keeping himself fit with cycling and running. He is also an enthusiastic skier and motorcyclist and he recently took up golf too. He also loves cooking.

Personal information

Date of birth: 21 March 1962

Nationality: German

Educational background

  • Graduated from Aalen University of Applied Sciences: mechanical engineering majoring in production engineering with a focus on development processes and production systems
  • Basic consultant training (hspAG)
  • Trainer qualification (move Est.)
  • EFQM assessor (hspAG)
  • Facilitation (move Est.)
  • Communication (S. Gopalan)
  • Conflict management (hspAG)
  • Management and leadership (R. Obrecht)
  • Organisation (AfUE GmbH)
  • Process optimisation (hspAG)
  • Process management (Siemens AG)
  • Programme and project management (Siemens AG)
  • Various CMMI further education courses (Siemens AG)
  • ISO/IEC 15504 Automotive SPICE Assessor (SYNSPACE)

Professional experience

  • 1977 - 1980 Schenk, toolmaker apprenticeship
  • 1980 - 1986 Study in mechanical engineering/product engineering at Aalen University of Applied Sciences
  • 1986 - 1988 Nixdorf Computer AG, Software and Organisation Development Head
  • Since 1988 freelance management and organisational consultant for integrated corporate organisational development, development process optimisation, product life cycle management (PLM), production process development, logistics and supply chain management (SCM), production system development, marketing process optimisation, customer relationship management (CRM), business and product strategy development, finance and controlling process optimisation, HR process development, HR competency management consulting and process development, IT strategy development, IT process development, ITIL-V3 reference process model implementation, project management for software and hardware development, automotive process development, corporate reference process model development, business process outsourcing, CMMI consulting, coaching, process development and CMMI assessment preparation, SPICE consulting and coaching, project leadership, project management, programme and project management for change projects and PMO service
  • Since 2007 Change Partner AG partner
  • Since 2009 Change Partner AG Managing Partner

Consulting and training experience

  • Initiation of and support for change processes
  • Innovation management
  • Corporate strategy and organisational development
  • Process management consulting and introduction of company-wide process management systems
  • Development and introduction of an RPH Reference Process House based on a database
  • Automotive reference process model development and implementation
  • Management process development for strategies, finance and controlling, audits and governance
  • PLM product life cycle management and development process optimisation
  • CRM marketing process optimisation and introduction of customer relationship management (CRM)
  • SCM supply chain management process and logistics process development and optimisation
  • Support process development for human resources, IT, eBusiness, purchasing and quality management
  • Consulting service for the development of production systems, their introduction and optimisation
  • PMO project management office services, consulting and support
  • Project and programme management for organisational development projects
  • Project and programme management for international product development projects
  • Project and programme management for international IT projects
  • Customer satisfaction analyses to improve customer orientation and customer satisfaction
  • Employee opinion poll to improve employee orientation and motivation
  • IT strategy consulting, IT project consulting and CIO management consulting and coaching
  • CMMI project consulting and coaching, CMMI process development and CMMI assessment preparation
  • Automotive SPICE project consulting and automotive SPICE auditing
  • Quality management and quality process consulting
  • Change management and transition management consulting and coaching
  • Process outsourcing consulting and support
  • Interim management

Experience with clients and projects

Grünenthal, Fujitsu, Audi, Mercedes, Vodafone, ITENOS, Siemens VDO Automotive AG, Continental AG, Benteler Automotive, Daimler Chrysler, GKN Automotive, Leonhard Weiss, Magna Automotive, EnBW, Roto Frank AG, Scholpp, Siemens AG Communication, Siemens Finance, Siemens Real Estate, Siemens CIO, TRW, etc.

Languages

German, English