250+ transformations. Here's what our clients say.
250+
Transformations completed
33%
Faster goal achievement
15%
Higher stakeholder engagement
95%
Client referral rate
5×
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
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.
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.
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.
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.”
