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MLI is an owner-managed leadership institute with a network of experienced leaders, coaches and specialists curated over many years. For every initiative we assemble the right team, and as an institute we bear responsibility for quality, course and result.
Especially amid the upheaval brought about by artificial intelligence, leadership roles need a counterpart who understands the situation and addresses blind spots.
Our stance
It gives people a direction worth striving for and at the same time creates clarity about priorities, roles and results. Both can be developed — as in competitive sports, with a counterpart without an agenda of their own, with whom the context can be clarified and the right moves practiced.
Those who work with us do so out of professional curiosity about what makes leadership effective. Our mission is to make leaders and leadership teams more effective, and to withdraw as soon as they can carry on the work without us.
When we agree on a flat fee, that amount stands. There are no additional charges for design, coordination or travel time within the Munich metropolitan region.
We begin with an analysis phase that can be commissioned on its own. If it does not give you a comprehensible diagnosis and a concrete next step, we do not invoice it.
Leadership means encouraging people to set themselves in motion. In the information flood of our time, the task is to direct the fleeting resource of attention, despite all the noise, again and again to what matters: the shared mission.
This takes people with courage — the courage to break up old patterns of thought and to accept resistance. Supporting exactly these people is our mandate.
We help leaders increase their effectiveness while staying in good, high-performing shape themselves. We make social dynamics understandable and concentrate on the ways of thinking and behaving that have the greatest influence on business success.
The result is a working environment in which people unfold their potential and achieve the company’s goals with enjoyment.
How it began
How an observation inside a corporation became an institute.
until 2011
Sebastian Morgner spent fifteen years in the financial industry, most recently as Global Head of Marketing at UniCredit in Milan. Strategies and transformations were planned and communicated with great effort. Yet six months later, in conversations with those who were supposed to live and execute them, little of it had regularly arrived.
2011
He gives up his banking job. Two months at the Frauenchiemsee monastery, then years of conversations with forward thinkers and the study of more than a hundred books and studies. The question behind it: why does leadership so often fail to reach the people involved when it comes to executing strategically important goals?
from 2013
Out of this search emerges the approach of strategy activation, and with it MLI Leadership Institut. An approach to leadership that connects insights from neuroscience and psychology with goal-oriented management. Since then, it has been applied in initiatives, developed further and verified through before-and-after surveys.
Milestones
The network
Major initiatives rarely fail because of the method and often because of who is staffed. That is why we propose people instead of sending out profiles.
A selection from the network
Executive advisory and top executive coaching since 2011, close collaboration with more than 120 leadership teams. Author of the book Expedition Zukunft, host of the podcast Tiefgang (Spotify), founding member of the Zukunftsallianz Mensch & KI. A person who looks for meaning — at home by Lake Ammersee.
Leadership is like an expedition. You need a destination worth striving for and a joy in adventure.
Fourteen years of coaching in Singapore and Germany, before that thirteen years of consulting at Accenture in Germany, England and Singapore. MBA, degree in mathematics, certificates from Henley Business School.
Coaching with compassion and professional distance.
Former Berlin correspondent and presenter for Tagesschau and ARTE, studied psychology and philosophy. Works with executives on media appearances and credible communication.
What you wish to ignite in others must burn within yourself. (Augustine)
Studied medicine; research and doctorate in genetic neurosciences in Munich, at University College London and at Stanford. Alongside his work as a psychiatrist and expert witness, he translates research into leadership practice.
What happens between people can be described, and changed.
Twenty-five years of corporate responsibility for strategy, transformation and HR — as CSO at BSH Home Appliances and Global Head Executive HR at Giesecke+Devrient. Senior Advisor at McKinsey. Expertise: transformations from the client’s and the advisor’s perspective, sparring for board members.
Strategy is the prerequisite. People and their motivation make the difference.
Twenty-two years in plant, quality and production management at Mercedes-Benz, including plant manager in Düsseldorf with up to 8,000 employees. Today a senior executive advisor and task force lead. Expertise: leadership in industry and manufacturing, production environments, crisis and task force management.
The how is decisive for success.
Division head in sales and operations at Schindler elevators, post-merger management of several acquisitions, president of a business association in Poland. Expertise: organizational development and executive coaching after mergers, with new leadership models and in distributed teams.
Leadership by Commitment, Appreciation and Effectiveness.
Founder and director of an international consulting and development firm, previously in HR and leadership development at the BMW Group. Mandates at adidas, BMW, Allianz, Porsche, RWE and Airbus, among others. Trained mediator. Expertise: the interface of strategy, culture and leadership, resolving conflicts in leadership teams.
You will not have this day again — make it count.
The same standards, the same project leadership, the same contracting party. Who actually works on the initiative, we propose after the analysis phase — matched to the situation, not to availability.
Some twenty years of coaching. Clarity of goals, effective communication, an understanding of group dynamics and the leadership role. Conflict management. Strengthening women in leadership roles is a particular concern of hers.
Be yourself. Create your life. Achieve your goals.
Industrial and organizational psychologist, agile coach and organizational consultant, systemic group dynamics. Previously in strategic HR development at Vorwerk International.
Healthy New Work — shaping healthy, agile and self-determined work.
Ten years of professional and leadership experience in sales and marketing, before that eight years in international five-star hospitality. Self-employed since 2010 as a certified business trainer, coach and facilitator.
Change begins when you discover choices for your own actions.
Ten years of management consulting at Booz & Co. in Europe and the Middle East, head of talent development at a major strategy consultancy, then Head of EMEA Learning & Development at PwC. Expertise: impact in business-critical situations — supervisory board meeting, town hall, negotiation.
Leadership is credible storytelling.
Eighteen years in radio and television at Antenne Bayern, WDR and Sky, more than a thousand interviews with people from politics, sports and music, hosting before 50,000 listeners at Rock im Park. Her own training company since 2012. Expertise: presence and impact in leadership situations, performing under pressure.
It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock ’n’ roll. (AC/DC)
Former Regional Technology Head Asia-Pacific at a US corporation, today an executive coach for leaders in Switzerland, Malaysia, South Africa and Singapore. Coach in the Executive MBA program of Nanyang Technological University. Expertise: leadership across time zones and cultures, intercultural decision-making.
Short, sharp, and impactful!
Executive coach in more than ten countries, previously M&A manager and Senior Project Manager Corporate Development at Dr. Oetker, research at IESE Business School. Mental coach on the WTA Tour. Expertise: sustaining top performance over long periods, mental strength from competitive sports for management.
Try not to become a man of success but rather of value. (Albert Einstein)
Business psychologist, previously Global Senior HR Development Manager at Webasto with responsibility for culture transformation and talent management. Lecturer at FOM and at Witten/Herdecke University. Trained mediator. Expertise: decision-making culture, collaboration under pressure, conflict resolution.
People do not grow at the goal but on the way to it.
Head of sales, head of marketing and managing director in industry and retail, self-employed as a consultant, trainer and coach since 1998. Mandates at ratiopharm, Bayer Vital, Pfizer, KfW and BayWa. Graduate in business administration, NLP master coach, ski instructor and mountain coach. Expertise: sales organizations and negotiation.
People will forget what you said … but people will never forget how you made them feel. (Maya Angelou)
Head of Global Talent Management and Head of Global Academy at the Webasto Group, previously head of HR at Dürr and ABB. Today a systemic consultant, coach and certified mediator, in German and English. Expertise: leadership programs from the client’s and the provider’s perspective, resolving conflicts where positions have hardened.
Impact begins with connection.
Professional footballer and Tunisian international, then a journalist at the sports magazine kicker. Today a systemic business coach, author of Teams erfolgreich führen, host of the podcast LEADERTALK. Culture change at a Bundesliga football club, teams at the German Football Association (DFB), Lufthansa, Ergo and Swiss Life. Expertise: leading teams under public scrutiny.
Those who swim with the current never reach the source.
Good intuition, expert in animal relaxation, best follower. Personally inspects every guest at the institute first and lies under the table during strategy retreats.
Seek and you shall find.
Two to three proposals, a first meeting at no cost, a change at no extra cost if the chemistry is not right. German and English, several locations in parallel.
Everyone works within a shared impact architecture and to binding quality standards — owned by Sebastian Morgner, delivered by a named project lead. You do not manage ten suppliers, but one institute.
A network is only as good as the process behind it. Six steps decide who works with us, and who stays.
Contact
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45 minutes
No presentation and no sales routine. We sort out your situation and name the central lever, even if MLI is not the right partner for it.
Services, approach, evidence, expert profiles, fees and terms — for forwarding internally when an initiative still needs to be justified.
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