kalum is an international team of top-class consultants based in Europe, North America and Asia.

“Impactful leadership requires knowledge of your roots and confidence in your strengths. It allows you to truly understand that it is less risky to embrace change than doing the same thing again and again.”

Through his own career, Malte is personally familiar with the complex demands made of international executives. For more than 25 years, he has gained experience throughout Europe, North America and Asia. In his work, he combines his experience in international business and consulting with his passion to empower executives, teams and organisations.

Malte studied in Vancouver, Freiburg and Paris and worked as Relationship Manager at BNP Paribas and HSBC for multinational corporate clients and issuers, with teams from all over the world. Malte is the founder of kalum consulting GmbH.

Background
MA International Business (Freiburg im Breisgau, Paris)
BA Communication (Vancouver)

Languages
German, English, French

“Transformation doesn’t happen because people are told what to do. It happens when leaders create the conditions for people to adapt, contribute and perform at their best.”

Jessica specialises in organisational transformation and change leadership. She works with organisations around the globe to design and deliver strategic change initiatives, strengthen leadership capabilities, and build high-performing cultures. Jessica supports executive teams and leaders through complex transformations, including restructurings, cultural shifts, strategic planning processes, and large-scale organisational changes. Her approach integrates structured change management methods with a deep understanding of human dynamics and the realities of modern workplaces. Jessica holds a PhD in Industrial–Organisational Psychology and is a principal with kalum consulting GmbH.

Background
PhD in Industrial-Organisational Psychology (Université de Montréal, Canada)

Languages
English, French

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you will succeed.”

Alexandre has spent fifteen years in finance at Société Générale and strategy consulting at BCG. Today, he specialises in executive and team coaching and leadership training. He designs and runs collaborative workshops. Alexandre’s favourite subjects are leadership, management, governance and collective intelligence. As a coach, he describes himself as curious, analytical, with a strong focus on developing the autonomy of his clients. Alexandre also teaches management at Sciences Po Paris.

Background
Master Degree in Political Sciences (Sciences Po Paris)
MBA (INSEAD)

Languages
French, English

“Be sure to make people great and that by having known you, you have helped them grow.”

Daniel has worked for more than 35 years with executive committees and management teams to assist them on complex challenges of growth, organisational transformation and leadership development. He is particularly interested in deep cultural transformations that require creating business environments that drive performance and innovation. Based on a deep understanding of work-based learning, he imagines and puts into motion some audacious pedagogical approaches that take advantage of interactivity and collective intelligence.

Background
MBA (Sherbrooke University, Canada)
MA and BA in Psychometric Learning (Université de Montréal, Canada)

Languages
French, English

“Who you truly are is so much more than your title and your salary. Who you truly are is infinite possibility, waiting to be directed so that you become the leader you always knew you could become.”

Songya is a three-time entrepreneur with 15+ years of business and management experience spanning the US, Europe, and China. She most enjoys working with mission-driven organisations that operate in fast-paced, complex, and ambiguous environments. Her clients’ employees are often hyper-intelligent and not easily fooled by commoditised trainings on the market today. Songya brings a dash of calm and a spark of the unexpected. She supports people and organisations to find alignment in their leadership and be authentically happy so they might positively impact their organisations and the people around them.

Background
MBA Business Administration (Cambridge)
BA and MA Structural Engineering (Stanford)

Languages
English

“Leadership becomes most important when there are no easy answers. Creating clarity, trust and confidence for people to move forward is what makes the difference.”

Stefan combines 25 years of corporate experience with 25 years as a consultant and coach. With a strong background in Business Information Systems, he led complex international projects and multicultural teams for Credit Suisse and Winterthur Insurance. He has coached leaders and helped leadership teams across different industries. Stefan brings a pragmatic perspective, a calm presence and the ability to hold the space in complex situations – helping people address what really matters, gain clarity and move forward to the solution.

Background
Business economist (KV Winterthur)
Engineer for IT architecture (KV Zürich)

Languages
German, English

“To get something that you never had, you have to try something that you never did.”

With more than 12 years of experience in strategy and management at BNP Paribas, Aliénor has real knowledge of managerial and organisational issues. She is passionate about mobilising individual and collective potential to help managers and companies achieve exceptional results by capitalising on their own resources and experimenting with new managerial practices. Co-designer and facilitator, Aliénor practices individual and collective coaching, co-development, design and facilitation of collective effectiveness sessions. She particularly enjoys working on complex problem solving, project acceleration and collaborative innovation.

Background
Master Degree Strategic Management (HEC Paris)

Languages
English, French

“The most important team a leader will ever lead is themselves. The highest calling of a leader is to empower and develop others.”

Christine is deeply committed to developing values- and purpose-driven leaders who lead with integrity, inspire action through example, and create meaningful impact within their organisations. With more than 20 years of international experience Christine has supported leaders across Europe and Canada in building cultures of trust, responsibility and multiplication of leadership excellence. Her work focuses on strength-based leadership, clarity of values, and a shared sense of purpose. Christine studied in Vancouver and Hamburg and has worked with leaders from diverse industries and organisational levels.

Background
BA Communication Psychology (Vancouver, Canada)
MPH (Hamburg)

Languages
German, English, Hungarian

“Organisations change when their leaders agree on what matters most and on what to stop doing, and then build the structures that make the new way of working the default.”

Daniel has gained extensive experience in supporting organisations in strategy & change management, notably with BCG. He works with executives and their teams on the two hardest parts of any transformation: deciding what actually matters, and getting the organisation to execute on it consistently. Over the past 15 years he has designed and delivered leadership development and transformation programmes for more than 5,000 professionals across Europe in consulting firms, international organisations and political institutions. Daniel headed an NGO with 3,000 members, helped build up a political start-up and successfully managed their European election campaign. He is Italian, British, and German by nationality, and European at heart.

Background
PhD in International Relations (University of Westminster)
MSc in International Relations (LSE)

Languages
German, English, Italian

“It’s next to impossible to ‘change’ other people. But real leaders change themselves first, then create work-life environments where people can experiment, grow, be inspired and, hopefully, change positively.”

With over 20 years of international business management, operations and training experience, Isman’s profile and career experience bring a special edge to his practice. His stories cut across many domains and industries: from circuses to theatres, start-ups to multinational corporations, technical arts to high technology industries. Isman helps leaders and teams get better at working together by co-creating workplace effectiveness and increasing productivity. A Strathclyde MBA, Isman began his corporate career at Oracle and held senior roles at two of New York City’s most innovative advertising technology companies.

Background
MBA Business Administration (Strathclyde, Glasgow)
BA Marketing Management (First Class Hons, Northumbria)

Languages
English, Malay, Indonesian

“Self-awareness is the first step towards change.”

Leonie has over 10 years of professional experience in various roles in the HR field, consulting (BCG), and in industry. Through insights gained both internally and externally, she has not only become familiar with a wide range of topics and industries but can also empathise well with various scenarios and perspectives. In addition to a solid and proven toolbox and a structured approach with a view of the entire system, Leonie’s empathy and intuition help her in her coachings to bring the essential things to the surface. She sharpens her clients’ self-awareness by focusing on their personal strengths and ultimately using them effectively.

Background
MLitt International Business (St Andrews, Scotland)
BA Business Psychology (Cologne, Germany)

Languages
German, English

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”

Meenu has a diverse background in multiple sectors playing different roles before dedicating her professional life in the learning and development field. She has worked primarily in Bhutan, India and the UAE and has also spent a year being a digital nomad, working with clients globally. Meenu has earned the title of Assoc. CIPD after completing level 5 CIPD (learning and development) from The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, which she is a member of. She also has a Masters in Business Administration and a Bachelors in Computer Science. She is an avid learner and is passionate about the science behind learning.

Background
MBA (Amity University, India)
B.Sc Computer Science (Bangalore University, India)

Languages
English, Dzongkha, Hindi, Nepali

“Change is inevitable, but growth is a choice.”

Melanie is a specialist for communications and personal development and gained experience in various management positions, both domestically and abroad. She has worked for several years in international corporations and on the agency side, as well as at a European governmental organisation. In her collaboration, sustainable development processes are initiated, solutions are jointly developed and worked out in such a way that they can be implemented in the daily workflow. Her tools are intuition and clear methods with the systemic attitude. Melanie has lived and worked in Germany, Spain and Portugal.

Background
MA Communication, Occupational and Organisational Psychology (LMU Munich)
Communications and Journalism (Salamanca, Spain)

Languages
German, English, Spanish

“Supporting people through change is what continuously fascinates me about my work. Everything becomes possible when people’s needs and resources are seen—by themselves and by those around them.”

Monika combines a unique blend of legal expertise with decades of experience in advising and developing leaders. As a fully qualified lawyer, she knows what it means to face seemingly unsolvable challenges. Monika brings a broad range of expertise, over 25 years of hands-on experience—for example, as a managing director and project leader—as well as deep know-how in solution-finding processes. High motivation, satisfaction, and strong identification with the solution—because it is co-created by the people involved—are the hallmarks of her successful consulting work.

Background
Qualified Lawyer (Frankfurt)
Master in Education/Psychology (Frankfurt)

Languages
German, English, French

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Sven has spent a decade working in international management consulting firms (EY & Sopra Steria), where he led his own teams. He has supported clients in large-scale international IT transformations as well as in cultural change initiatives and process optimisation. His industry expertise spans from telecommunications and automotive to retail, among others. Sven now advises clients on change management for major transformations and is a passionate coach. His leadership training programmes focus on mutual learning: participants learn from him, from each other, and he learns from them. Sven is also a blockchain enthusiast and actively involved in several start-ups.

Background
B.Sc. in Business Administration (University of Mannheim, University of Umeå (Sweden))

Languages
German, English

“I find the versatility of tasks invigorating. To further develop challenges in an unconventional way, to explore new directions. I am guided by individuality and uniqueness, while driven by my heart and soul.”

As a photographer, designer and creative director, Beate is more than just a visual person. She loves challenges, breaking conventions and finding new solutions. Individuality, along with honest and courageous collaboration, are especially important to her. kalum benefits immensely from her creative ideas, artistic eye and extensive design expertise.

For Team Offsites, she succeeds in creating unusual, unforgettable environments far removed from the general workshop setting, where participants can thrive, grow together as a team and begin to boldly shape the future.

Background
Diploma in Communication Design, MA equivalent (Darmstadt)
Degree in Photography, BA equivalent (Cologne)

Languages
German, English, French

“Change happens when structures and teams support day-to-day operations.”

Kathrin is responsible for office and project management at kalum. She specialises in structured collaboration and operational implementation in day-to-day work. After completing her training as a foreign language assistant and earning a degree in business administration, she worked for over ten years at Wintershall Dea in an international environment. Her work was particularly shaped by several restructuring initiatives and her involvement in merger processes. During these periods, she experienced first-hand how crucial clear communication, structured processes, and reliable execution are in day-to-day operations.

Background
BA in Business Administration (Kassel)

Languages
German, English, French

“In the end, it is not the title that matters, but passion and commitment you bring to your work.”

At kalum, Silja is responsible for Finance Management. With strong focus on numbers, organisation, and efficient structures, she ensures that financial processes run smoothly and reliably.

With over 12 years of management experience, she brings extensive expertise in finance and business operations. Growing up within a family-run business shaped her entrepreneurial mindset from an early age.

Background
Commercial training and 12+ years of experience as Managing Director

Languages
German, English, French