Profile Jörn Lommer

Core competencies: change management, process improvement and employee mobilisation

Jörn Lommer is an experienced and competent consultant and trainer, who has a successful history in assisting enterprises, its employees and executives in business process improvement and change. His most distinguished area of expertise is detailed analysis, reorganisation, improvement and successful implementation of business processes. Years of experience as consultant and project supervisor in combination with analytical and methodical proficiency, broad knowledge in business administration and organisation, and communicative, creative competence make him a sought after partner by our clients.

After completing his studies of business administration, he gained first professional experience at the Akademie für Unternehmensentwicklung (Academy of Business Development) where he was involved in business process improvement in various divisions of companies (e.g., order processing, manufacturing organisation, product development). Since 1996, he has been a successful consultant, trainer and project supervisor. He has accompanied and implemented various improvement and change projects in business from industry, trade and services. His personal focus is on the whole process of business improvement, ranging from analysis, through designing reorganisation and improvement, to implementation. In addition, he instructs and trains company own project supervisors and organisational staff in the methodology of business process improvement.

In his leisure time, he is a passionate jogger, skier and occasional tennis player. For some years, he has been living in Hamburg along with his wife Anja. Recently, a daughter joined the young family.

Personal information

date of birth:
10.07.1970

Family status:
married, 1 daughter

Educational background:

• Abitur (high school diploma), graduated from a humanistically-oriented high-school
• Diplom Kaufmann (equivalent to MBA), University of Tübingen
• Consultancy traineeship at the Akademie für Unternehmensentwicklung, Leinfelden-Echterdingen
• EFQM trainer (Open Market License, Brussels)
• Coaching training (Armin Priester, Leinfelden-Echterdingen)
• Trainer training in business process improvement (Johannes von Stosch, Leinfelden-Echterdingen)
• Systemic consulting (R. Balling, Professio, Ansbach)

Professional experience:

• 1996 – 1999, consultancy traineeship, Akademie für Unternehmensentwicklung GmbH, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, junior consultant to various consulting projects of partner businesses.
• Since 1996, also freelance consultant
• 1990 – 2001, consultant and project supervisor, hsp AG, Leinfelden-Echterdingen
• 2002 – 2002, partner and project supervisor, hsp AG, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, CEO of the branch office in Hamburg
• 1999 – 2005, also trainer for business process improvement, hso AG, Leinfelden-Echterdingen
• 2005, instructor of business process improvement courses, SIMT GmbH, Stuttgart
• Since 2006, founder and managing director of ChangePartner

Consulting and training experience:

• Since 1996, has worked as consultant and trainer in Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria
• Sectoral experience: automotive supplier, industry, mechanical engineering, trade, health care, service sector
• Main areas of consultation: location decisions, comprehensive organisation and culture analysis, change management, reorganisation, mobilising employees, analyses of working atmospheres, task analysis and workplace improvement, process models, business process improvement, process-oriented management systems, structure improvement, team organisation and group work, self-evaluations (e.g., according to the EFQM model), information and communication management, improvement of IT systems, project management and simultaneous engineering, improvement of planning processes and inventories.
• Main areas of training: instruction, training and assistance of company own process consultants, covering the whole business improvement process
• Clients and project experience: BorgWarner Transmission Systems GmbH, BorgWarner Turbo Systems GmbH, Spitalzentrum Biel AG (Switzerland), Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Formel D Gesellschaft für Kommunikation und Technik mbH, VBH AG, MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG, Fiducia IT AG, Fiducia Cash GmbH, Siemens AG Division ICN, Siemens AG Division TS, R. Stahl AG, Wüstenrot & Württembergische AG, Karl Wörwag Lack und Farbenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG, Gretsch-Unitas GmbH, Ferco S.A. (France), tegut AG, J. Stehle und Söhne GmbH, Telekom Division DTN, SEFAG AG (Switzerland), Beiersdorf AG, DZ Bank, Schott Glaswerke, Trumpf Medizin-Systeme, Saalfeld

Languages: German, English, French