250+ transformations. Here's what our clients say.

250+

Transformations completed

33%

Faster goal achievement

15%

Higher stakeholder engagement

95%

Client referral rate

Innovation award winner

Concentrating on what matters most, with a deep understanding of our culture, for the greatest impact.

Khadija Ben Hammada

Member of the Executive Board and Chief People Officer, Merck

Great insights into our global organization. Thank you for the thorough analysis of our current status and the suggestions for moving toward a future-ready organization.

Maximilian Becker

SVP Vegetable Seeds, BASF

FocusFirst is very skilled at translating a board-level vision into a clear, motivating, and easily memorable story for the entire workforce that has a lasting impact.

Patrick Kather

Head Inhouse Consulting, E.ON

Fantastic partnership! Love the focus

Helmut Syslo

Global Head Salesforce & Veeva Rollout, Novartis

Excellent work and momentum for our organization.

Sandrine Piret-Gerard

CEO Hexal AG & Country Head Sandoz Germany

You are doing this strategically smart and well thought out. Really thought of everything.

Constantin Fest

Head Investor Relations, GSK

Thanks again for your great support! Very professional, calm, and always keeping the big picture in mind.

Friederike Rotsch

Supervisory Board Member, SAP; Group General Counsel, Head of Legal, Ethics & Governance, Merck Group

PEAK and the expert at FocusFirst have been instrumental in ensuring the success of the transformation — and that very quickly.

Axel Löber

Chief Marketing Officer, E.ON

FocusFirst enabled our smooth ERP launch in 12 countries — their communication and stakeholder management made the difference, ensuring the business accepted the new system and processes.

Liubov Saavedra

ERP Roll-out Project Lead, Merck

New Brenntag Culture: 94 workshops in 7 weeks across 12 time zones. That was a project! Thank you all for your support! Result: 95% identification rate with our new Brenntag culture.

Tanja Rennekamp

Vice President Change Management, Brenntag

Thanks for the always great cooperation and quality.

Nina Stoeckel

Chief Compliance Officer, Member of the Supervisory Board, Boehringer Ingelheim

FocusFirst delivers what its name promises. The combination of team engagement and leadership coaching greatly helped us set the right focus during the integration. The subsequent positive change in the EES by +35 points speaks for itself.

Daniel Frece

Head of Business Operations, E.ON

Thank you for your great commitment and perseverance. Without you, we certainly wouldn't have been able to establish such clear, decisive, and appealing stakeholder communication.

Katrin Menne

Head of Brand & Marketing, Commerzbank

Clear, simple, and to the point. Really helped our team stay focused and deliver impact despite the complex corporate environment.

Martin Stork

Head of Workforce Enablement, BASF

Mastering the triad from vision to strategy to OKRs requires experts and a reliable transformation method. FocusFirst combines both.

Hans-Martin Hellebrand

CEO, badenova

Very happy with the positioning concept for developing our Global Business Services function.

Gerhard Schmitz

Head of Global Business Services, Lanxess

In 28 years of working with major consultancies, I can't recall seeing a better-structured approach to interviewing, analyzing, and organizing complex stakeholder feedback. You manage to balance strategically fact-based data while keeping it simple and practical.

Dr. Dietmar Oeter

Advisory Board Member & VP Corporate Quality Assurance, Merck

FocusFirst helped us set the right impulses based on the stakeholder interviews, sensitise the management team to the change, and orchestrate all activities.

Mario Kubanek

Vice President Business Enablement, E.ON

Recognised for innovation and excellence.

Top 100 Innovators Germany

2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Entrepreneur of the Year

2024, 2025 · DUP Unternehmer Magazin

Most Inspiring Consulting Firm Europe

2020

Excellence in Management Consulting Services

2026

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How we work: Selected transformation patterns

Fortune 500 · Chemicals

Group Function Re-Organisation

Challenge

Realignment of a global legal function across 65+ countries after board mandate.

Approach

OHC diagnostic, OneGoal alignment with leadership team, Stakeholder Orchestration across works councils and regional heads.

Result

Completed 33% ahead of original timeline. Engagement scores increased.

Fortune 500 · Energy

Post-Merger Integration

Challenge

Bringing together two overlapping business operations teams after acquisition.

Approach

Cultural diagnostic, leadership team workshops, integrated transformation plan with PEAK®.

Result

EES improved by +35 points. Full integration within 9 months.

Fortune 500 · Life Sciences

Global Technology Rollout

Challenge

ERP rollout across 12 countries with significant resistance from local business units.

Approach

Organizational Health Check diagnostic, Strategic communications, stakeholder management across regional leaders, user activation program.

Result

Smooth go-live in all 12 countries. System adoption exceeded targets.

Fortune 500 · Financial Services

Strategic Communication

Challenge

Sensitive restructuring of brand and marketing function requiring works council alignment.

Approach

Stakeholder Orchestration, communication strategy balancing transparency with legal constraints.

Result

Stakeholder alignment achieved. Communication praised as “clear, decisive, and appealing.”

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