Prof. Dr. Peter May
Peter May is considered a trailblazing pioneer in owner strategy within family businesses. With his call for an independent approach to business administration for family businesses and his development of a comprehensive consulting methodology, along with his groundbreaking initiatives, countless publications, lectures and training activities at home and abroad and well over one hundred successful consulting projects with leading family businesses, he has acquired a reputation for being the “man who understands families” (Handelsblatt) and “Germany’s number one family business consultant” (Family Capital).
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Dr. Arno Lehmann-Tolkmitt
Arno Lehmann-Tolkmitt, an experienced owner strategy consultant and mediator, is the prototype of a family advisor. He uses his very personal blend of expertise, experience and intuition to establish a link with all stakeholders. By clearly explaining factual issues and facilitating discussion around conflict, he produces good outcomes from even complex setups. His preferred activities include engaging in stimulating owner strategy processes, preparing the next generation for their future responsibilities and providing long-term support to owner families. His actions are always guided by the motto: “Anticipate, don’t procrastinate, and clarify, don’t quarrel.”
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Dr. Matthias Händle
Matthias Händle is the business owner within the PETER MAY Family Business Consulting team. After many successful years at the helm of his in-laws’ family business, he decided after its sale that he would like to pass on the skills and experience he had acquired to other family business owners in the future. As a sparring partner, coach and advisory board member, Matthias Händle knows exactly what he’s talking about, from finding the right owner strategy to preparing for or adapting to a new role.
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Dr. Dominik von Au
Dominik von Au is considered one of the leading experts on family businesses and the “top advisor to the succession generation in our country” (Manager Magazin 10/20). For more than fifteen years, he has assisted entrepreneurial families in drafting family constitutions and succession paths, among other things, as well as in advising on strategic issues from the shareholder perspective. In addition, he often ensures implementation as an active member of the advisory board in family businesses and family offices and is a sought-after sparring partner for the “NextGen” of family entrepreneurs.
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Karin May
With her multiple professional qualifications – as a lawyer, mediator and systemic coach – Karin May is particularly successful in the area of conflict prevention and resolution, as a coach in difficult decision-making situations (especially for female successors) and as a project manager in owner strategy, governance and succession processes. It is often she who names the “elephant in the room” and actively contributes to positive treatment of it.
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Dieter Jeschke
Dieter Jeschke’s career to date boasts an unusual combination of complementary expertise and experience gained initially as the eponymous partner in a renowned boutique law and tax firm for family businesses, then as the CEO of a listed investment holding company in family ownership, and finally as an owner strategy consultant and mediator for difficult cases. With his unique blend of intellectual brilliance, human touch and personal restraint, he finds solutions even where others have long since stopped looking.
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Martina Reischmann
As a member of the sixth generation of a traditional family-run business from southern Germany, Martina Reischmann is familiar with the dynamics at play in owner families and the various aspects of succession from a personal perspective. Martina Reischmann translates her experience from her own family-run business, as a manager in the field of human resources and as a business coach, as well as her academic background as an Executive Master for Family Entrepreneurship, into providing guidance and support in succession processes.
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Amelie Eichblatt
Amelie Eichblatt’s work focuses on supporting family businesses in succession and conflict situations. To implement sustainable changes, she develops owner strategies and family constitutions with entrepreneurial families. The certified business mediator started working with entrepreneurial families at the private bank Berenberg in Hamburg, where she headed the Competence Centre for Entrepreneurs and the Next Generation until the end of 2018. Afterwards, she became a sparring partner for the Next Generation of numerous family businesses as a Family Governance Consultant at PwC. Amelie Eichblatt joined PETER MAY Family Business Consulting as a junior partner in January 2022.
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Dr. Katja Portz
In her work with entrepreneurial families, owner strategy consultant and business mediator Katja Portz combines a structured approach with a high degree of empathy and thus creates a basis of trust in a short time, which helps to tackle even difficult issues at the root. In addition to optimising management and control systems, she accompanies family businesses in succession and conflict situations and develops owner strategy processes and family constitutions together with them. Katja Portz challenges by posing key questions and thereby creating new perspectives and opportunities. Her intuition for the dynamics within shareholder groups helps her to promote an open and trusting cooperation amongst family members addressing difficult issues.
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