Prof. Dr. Thomas Schumacher

• Senior Partner at osb international
• Professor of Organization and Leadership at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg
• Management and Organization Consultant, Senior Partner osb Vienna
• Co-Editor of the journal Organisations-Entwicklung (Journal of Organizational Development)
• Lecturer at the Executive School of the University of St. Gallen
• Board Member at Max Zeller Söhne AG

Recent consulting activities

• Strategy and organizational design development (conception & implementation)
• Transformation support, particularly strategy, organizational design and leadership in the context of AI
• Top executive coaching (supporting individual managers and management teams)
• National & international executive management training programs (development & delivery)
• Qualification of internal and external consultants

Professional background

• PhD in Management (IfB, University of St. Gallen)
• Studies in Business Administration (Dipl. Kfm.), Cologne, Dublin & Studies in Psychology (Dipl. Psych.), Bonn
• Research Project Leader “Learning Dynamics" at the University of St. Gallen in collaboration with Siemens
• Institute for Municipal Administration, Cologne, Head of Department
• Co-Director HBM Management Lab and Program Director at the HBM Entrepreneurship School (ES-HSG), University of St. Gallen
• Certified systemic consultant, SySt, Munich (5 years)
• Organization and management consulting training, Management Center Witten (3 years)
• Certified in OPQ, Hogan, IDI, EI, Harrison, Scrum Master, Polarity Partners

»Organizations rarely fail because of the market. They fail because of the way they look at their own, necessary contradictions. And because they try to resolve them, rather than working with them productively.«