Geraldine-Juliane Stenzel, LL.M.
Founder and CEO
Focus on dispute resolution, leadership development and change processes.
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BOUTIQUE CONSULTING FOR OWNER-LED COMPANIES, INSTITUTIONS AND EXECUTIVES
Resolving conflict.Strengthening leadership.
We advise leadership when it is under pressure: conflict at the top, the first months in a new role, and periods of change.
WHEN MINERVA IS CALLED IN
These are the moments that decide whether leadership holds. Minerva advises and sees it through: in negotiations, transitions and consequential decisions.
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Conflict at the top
We resolve it out of court, or support you through proceedings.
- ›When shareholders have been deadlocked for months.
- ›When a question of substance has turned into a personal dispute.
- ›When a business partner threatens to sue.
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In a new role
We make sure leadership is accepted from day one.
- ›When a company or practice changes hands and the previous generation is still in the building.
- ›When the first 100 days in a new position decide the years that follow.
- ›When the handover has been announced for years and never begun.
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When a great deal is at stake
We prepare the meeting that counts.
- ›When a resolution is pending that divides the shareholders.
- ›When a change is coming that affects the entire organisation.
- ›When being right is not enough and proceedings call for litigation PR.
Seeing the whole picture.
Strategy consultants see the numbers, lawyers see the statutes, coaches see the people. Each of them is right, and none of them sees the whole. Minerva brings all three perspectives together: what a decision costs, what is legally possible, and what the people around the table will support.
Where the name comes from
Goddess of wisdom and shrewd tactics.
Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom and tactical warfare. Anyone who negotiates knows the same rules: timing, position, and the moment a window opens.
Her intelligence made her the great strategist of her age and a pioneer as a woman in a position of authority, as an equal. Today she keeps watch in the heart of Berlin, between the columns of the Brandenburg Gate.
SERVICES
Every engagement begins with an independent assessment and ends with a solution that holds.
Resolving conflict
Management, shareholders, clientsWhere interests, responsibility and personal relationships collide, conflict follows. Our aim is not to avoid it at any cost. Our aim is to recover room for manoeuvre and make workable solutions possible.
Learn more →Strengthening leadership
One-to-one support, new roles, workshopsLeadership is rewarding when roles are clear, decisions take effect and the team comes along. Working from real situations, we examine roles, dynamics and decision-making. We ask the right questions and open up new perspectives.
Learn more →Shaping change
Change management, succession, strategyWhen a handover is due or the organisation is being rebuilt. We support change processes and the further development of the company: planning the handover with you, clarifying roles and guiding the generational transition.
Learn more →A short conversation shows quickly whether we are the right fit.
The first 30-minute personal conversation is free of charge and confidential.We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
HOW WE WORK
“Our clients lead their organisations, and no one can make the decision for them. We help them make the right one.”
Almost everyone involved is a party to the matter: the family, the shareholder circle, the management team, advisers with their own mandate. Minerva stands outside that circle: ordering the options and naming the blind spots, judging whether and when legal support is needed, shaping messages and timing, handling separations at board level. And weighing what escalation costs personally: success and reputation.
TEAM
PORTRAIT
Verena Hülshoff
Organisational consultant and mediator
Focus on conflict resolution, organisational and team development.
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Andreas Hoffbauer
Business journalist and interview coach
Focus on litigation PR, media training and public appearances.
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Maximilian Hofer
Consulting Analyst
Focus on analysis, documentation and decision-making material.
ACADEMY
Leadership shows itself under pressure. Our workshops and programmes prepare executives and teams for exactly those moments.
Dates and content on request.Enquire →
“Leadership Excellence” programme: focus, structure, impactFour modules over two days, 8 to 12 participants: sharpening decisions, setting priorities, bringing the team behind them.
KeynotesOn modern leadership and change management, for conferences, advisory board meetings and networks.
In-house trainingFor the situations that decide outcomes: negotiating with authority, holding your ground in court, embedding change and motivation in the team.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Know only one side and you will only ever see part of the solution.
Know only the business and you miss the risk.
Know only the law and you miss the business.
Look only inward and you miss the effect outside.
Most of our engagements reach us late.
That is in the nature of the matter: those who carry responsibility first try to resolve it themselves. That is right, up to the point where the cost of going it alone exceeds the cost of bringing someone in.
Recognising that point is an entrepreneurial decision. We are available for that conversation.
The first 30-minute personal conversation is free of charge and confidential.
TELEPHONE+49 30 923 70 200EMAILinfo@minerva-consulting.eu24/7 DIRECT LINE+49 30 923 70 233OFFICEMinerva Strategic Consulting GmbHBiesheimring 3
14167 Berlin, Germany