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Ep 42 - Stefan Aichbauer - From 100 to 600 Employees in 9 Years – The 3 Main Factors that Helped H&Z Management Consulting Grow

Ep 42 - Stefan Aichbauer - From 100 to 600 Employees in 9 Years – The 3 Main Factors that Helped H&Z Management Consulting Grow

H&Z Management Consulting grew from 100 to 600 employees since 2013.

How did they pull it off?

Today, Stefan Aichbauer, Managing Partner at the H&Z Management Consulting Group, shares with Sammy, which 3 key factors accelerated H&Z's growth.

What's in it for you:

1. How creating the RPC group – a joint venture with BMW – helped H&Z Management Consulting Group grow from 100 to 600 employees
2. How H&Z grew 15% by acquiring a whole consulting team in 2022
3. Driving growth through creating a community for your target group


About Stefan:
Stefan Aichbauer is a #headhearthand evangelist, Managing Partner at the H&Z Group and Advisory Board Member of RPC – The Retail Performance Company. His philosophy: Concepts are fine, but people make the distinction from good to great. That's why a combination of Head, Heart and Hand are at the core of great professional services - and the basis of an awesome consulting job. After studies in International Business, Political Science and Leadership in Austria, the US and the UK his passion drove him into Consulting. H&Z has ever since been Stefan’s professional home - and he is proud to be part of a crew of more than 600 consultants in the H&Z Group - and over 1,500 with H&Z’s international consulting partners in The Transformation Alliance.
He lives with his family on Lake Constance and is a proud dad, lousy athlete and acceptable cook.

Find Stefan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanaichbauer/
Stefan's sustainability community: https://sustainx.earth/

Stefan's favorite business books:
The Trusted Advisor - David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, Robert M. Galford https://amzn.to/3We2NWE
Managing The Professional Service Firm - David H. Maister https://amzn.to/3X40SVv
Strategy and the Fat Smoker: Doing What's Obvious But Not Easy - David H. Maister https://amzn.to/3vW9fGT
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey https://amzn.to/3CHHJ3U
Stefan's favorite podcast:
The Economist - Drum Tower https://www.economist.com/search?q=drum+tower
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About H&Z Management Consulting:
About H&Z Management Consulting: H&Z Management Consulting stands for consulting with head, heart and hand. They offer more than successful strategy development. Their experts design, manage and accompany transformation processes with measurable results. Through this unique consulting approach, H&Z ensures sustainable results for international corporations and leading medium-sized companies. Their focus is on Strategy & Performance, Sustainability, Transformation & Procurement - where H&Z is one of the leading consultancies.
The H&Z Group is part of the Transformation Alliance - an association of independent European strategy and management consultancies with more than 1500 consultants and 20 offices worldwide. In 2022, H&Z was awarded as a double Hidden Champion among management consultancies.

Website: https://www.hz.group/
Industry: Business consulting and business services
Company size: 650
Headquarters: Munich, Germany
Founded: 1997
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About the host Sammy:
Sammy and SAWOO enable you to become a thought leader and win leads directly through your own podcast & great content on LinkedIn.

Get in touch with Sammy on LinkedIn.
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Past guests on the LEADERS IN CONSULTING Community include: Dr. Stefan Sambol, Dr. Andreas Baader and Rainer Majcen, Friederich von Hurter, Peter Feldmeier, Alexander Kainer, and ma


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The "LEADERS IN CONSULTING" Podcast is dedicated to helping Partners and Managing Directors of Consultancies grow their business faster. If you want to learn best practices from other Leaders in Consulting, this show is for you.

Each episode features an interview with a consultancy Partner, Managing Director or Thought Leader, discussing topics like:

  1. How to set up a winning strategy for your consultancy
  2. How to upsell and cross-sell more
  3. How to win big whale leads and convert those to clients
  4. Hiring and keeping valuable team members
  5. How to become a thought leader by building your personal brand

Hosted by

Sammy Gebele, CEO of SAWOO