Leadership & More
Elevate Your Business/Leadership
Dr. Nicole Pfeffermann is a strategic leadership business partner to design and deliver customized development experiences for business leaders and change makers. Nicole's research and business interests are strategy, growth and innovation. From making a difference to prioritizing wellbeing in human-centric organizations, business leaders and change makers work with her to see with new eyes and (co)create a valuable future.
New Leadership Paradigm
This White Paper focuses on new concepts and ideas and aims at empowering leaders and change makers to go beyond our current reality and main challenges in business model innovation and value chain transformation in the AI/digital age related to Growth 2.0. This also means to better understand the new role of strategy and leadership—helping leaders to reflect on their capability to lead and cultural transformation in human-centric organizations. For instance, to better understand and respond to the idea of self-directed teams and a new role of leaders who better connect, co-create and thrive with a collaborative mindset.
Beyond creating a new leadership path it is about the openness and curiosity of leaders to shift to a new leadership paradigm for making the world a better place and for being a human (self)leader.
Interested? Find out more.
High-value Services
Start today and invest in yourself! You can choose between consulting/coaching and skill development.
Consulting/Coaching
Find out more about my consulting/coaching approach and how you can create space to thrive & trust (selfcare practices) or build a culture of empathy / authenticity to grow as a business.
Skill Development
Learn more about a summer challenge, personal leadership trainer and/or new meeting formats. You can focus on specific themes and improve your skills, for instance, co-imagination.
Latest Thinking & News
Celebrate Your Strength
To identify your unique strength can help you to better collaborate with others and put you in a position to thrive and be appreciated. You can focus on being complementary and making new experiences. Learn more about leadership (development) on my LinkedIn.
Enjoy an Open-Flow Session
A good conversation can bring you new perspectives, ideas and understanding. It's an adventure for your soul and mind; it's wonder, inspiration and co-imagination. You can book this enjoyable session to exchange ideas and learn about the reflective innovation dialogue.
About Me
I am specialized in strategy/innovation, leadership and innovation communication, more precisely in linking innovation communication to new / self / thought leadership. Based on my scientific, qualitative and interdisciplinary background I define innovation communication as a dynamic capability from a strategic management perspective and understand innovation-communication as a new view for leadership development. I was a lecturer (BA/MBA/PhD students) in digital business, information and knowledge management and methodologies, co-edited books with inspiring co-authors (new book, Routledge; Springer publication) and presented my work (Daimler Innovation Day).
I started my professional path in marketing/market research (Vorwerk & Co., Wuppertal) and corporate communication (Beiersdorf, Hamburg) and worked for clients in strategic management and IT-driven innovation management, for instance, a BMWi-project 'Innovation Communication for Scientific Institutions' and Deutsche Post/DHL-project 'Business Plan for a Robotic Solution'. My entrepreneurial engagement: I developed my first business idea when I was at school, presented my marketplace platform idea at the first Internet World 1999, Berlin, and was a member of the Microsoft Bizspark Program and further presented my solution at CeBIT.
Those experiences and my intercultural work experiences led to the new business idea Dr. Nicole Pfeffermann. The mission is: Let's elevate businesses and leadership together and become great human (self)leaders. Human (self)leadership is the next step in leadership development and includes mindful communication, reflective innovation dialogues and an enriching and enjoyable journey to fulfillment and inner peace/calmness including being centered, maintaining dignity and responding thoughtfully.
I received a PhD in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) from the University of Bremen, Deutsche Post/DHL scholarship in an international PhD program, and I also received a diploma in Business Economics from the University of Wuppertal. I was visiting scholar at UCLA Anderson School of Management, US and GREDEG CNRS, France. I also worked with scholars from the University of Cambridge, INSEAD, ESCP Europe and SUNY Empire University.
I attended 3 workshops and was impressed by all of them. The way Dr. Nicole Pfeffermann approaches the topics and guide through the workshop is professional, competent and the same time really enthusiastic.
She always behaves professionally, communicates her ideas clearly, also effectively in writing, and her comments are well thought out and clearly articulated. The output was professional as well as valuable for our decision-making.