We build high-performance cultures with boards, leadership teams and world-class athletes – grounded in science, as equals, for 25 years.
- OVER 50% OF DAX & SMI COMPANIES
- AT BOARD LEVEL
- TRANSFER FROM ELITE SPORT
WE TRANSFORM PLACES OF WORK INTO
PLACES OF JOY AND PERFORMANCE
Successful organisations know it: the foundation of high performance is a genuine focus on people. We help unlock people’s full potential and develop leadership and collaboration to the highest level. Together, we create a lasting competitive advantage and measurable results.
Our methodology
We start with the greatest performance lever in any company: human potential.
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SEE
With our own diagnostic tools, we measure culture and leadership – and reveal the true potential within organisations
FEEL
Working hand in hand with science and sport, we activate people emotionally and awaken intrinsic motivation for change
CHANGE
Finally, we anchor the change for the long term – in mindset, behaviour and lived structures across the entire company
Science, business and elite sport.
Those with high performance in their DNA work with us.
From administering to shaping
CEO Torsten Leue wanted attitude over inertia – and that before the market would force it. Deliberately strengthening the corporate culture paid off immediately: in the years that followed, group earnings doubled.
From a document to compass in action
Together with 1,300 leaders, we brought the Porsche Code to life. It is a compass of values that holds even in difficult times. To this day, employees look at the Code and say: this is Porsche. This is us.
From doubt to motivated new beginnings
When a survey sounded the alarm, CEO Sonderegger chose connection. Within a few hours, over 1,000 employees applied to help shape strategy and culture. The follow-up survey? Double-digit improvement rates.
From uncertainty to confidence
From shop-floor supervisor to the board: Kai Grünitz placed culture at the centre as a force of confidence – against silos and against doubt. The result: +10% in connectedness, resilience and confidence.
From me to we
Numbers dominated; the sense of community suffered. The leadership team made an emotional appeal. JENEWEIN built on it and coached over 1,000 leaders into one successful team.
What is your journey?
- | From control to trust
- | From persuasion to activation
- | From doing the minimum to going the extra mile
- | From fear of mistakes to entrepreneurial spirit
- | From "have to", to "want to"
- | From wait-and-see to authorship
- | From being driven to being the driving force
- | From conflict to collaboration
- | From pressure to perform to the will to perform
- | From know-it-all to learn-it-all
Who we work for
For Companies
Develop and establish a true high-performance culture in your organisation. It is the culture within a company that decides whether strategy comes to life, transformation programmes take effect, values are truly lived, and people are activated around a shared vision. Together with the board and top management, we develop a leadership culture that carries organisations into the future.
For Leaders
Become the leader who unlocks the full potential of teams. We all know this scenario: one single person in a team is replaced – the leader – and performance suddenly goes through the roof. Real leadership means taking responsibility for others and developing them to the next level with tough love. We help leaders discover that power, and make high performance possible.
For Sports
Develop the mental strength to release your extra potential. In elite sport, it is often a single run, a single game, a single race that decides whether all the training and preparation pays off. The difference between the top and the very top is decided in the mind. We work with athletes and coaching teams to build lasting mental strength – for peak performances in the decisive moment.
“From research, we know that real behavioural change is only activated when you reach people emotionally. […] Most transformations still fail today because they are trapped in the wrong mindset. They try to convince rationally and analytically – and then wonder why no one breathes life into the new structures.”
– Prof. Dr Wolfgang Jenewein
The JENEWEIN team around Prof. Dr Wolfgang Jenewein is among the leading experts
in leadership, motivation and organisational culture. What science teaches and
sport lives, JENEWEIN brings into business.
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EMBRACE THIS SHIT!
200 nautical miles off Cape Horn, extreme solo sailor Oliver Heer faced his worst-case scenario: a storm surge tears his boat apart. At the end of his strength and nerves, all he has is a five-minute phone call to find a solution.
“Oliver, I hear you, it’s bloody hard, I know. But now you have to stop complaining. It is what it is. We knew something like this could happen. This is what you trained for. This is what you’re made for.”
JENEWEIN on the phone with Oliver Heer. What followed was one of the greatest examples of radical acceptance.
The same attitude is what separates top leadership teams in a crisis from the mediocre. Not talking pressure away. Not glossing over. Accepting what is – and moving forward with new clarity.
more examples and insights into our work
Sven Wassmer
Where to go once the goal is reached? The star chef’s answer: towards a new understanding of self and leadership.
Tudor Pro Cycling
When every percent counts, how much is there in culture? And what potential does no bike computer ever show?
Sebastian Steudtner
Fear can hold you back – or act as a sparring partner on the way to new records, as it did in this case.
SV Elversberg
Into the top flight of football on a mini budget? Persistence and lightness delivered a masterclass for businesses.
German national football team
How did the change process succeed in the World Cup-winning era? And what companies can learn from it.
Hansi Flick
Pressure and resistance. Bu the Barça coach turned positivity and a focus on strengths into success factors.
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde
Regaining belief, even as it grows ever harder. Joy in the process was the key to the comeback.
Jonas Deichmann
How does one of the best ultra athletes burn bright instead of burning out? His mental tricks for leaders.
Founded by Prof. Dr Wolfgang Jenewein, the consultancy JENEWEIN grew out of leadership research at the University of St Gallen and out of 25 years working with the top leadership teams across the DACH region.
Today, a team of doctorate-level experts and international partners carry this mindset forward. As a globally active organisation, JENEWEIN works on what makes lasting success possible: mindset, leadership, culture. That is how “Places of Work” become “Places of Joy and Performance”.
+25
Years of experience advising international corporations and executives
>50 %
of DAX & SMI companies have already worked with JENEWEIN
30+
experts work at JENEWEIN
57
countries make up our sphere of impact
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jenewein
Founder JENEWEIN AG
The people behind JENEWEIN
A doctorate-level team drawn from leadership research, management practice and elite sport.
Jemima Sölch
Jonas Halder
Dr Jonas Hennig
Dr Oliver Böhm
Impulses to listen,
browse and explore in depth
Moving Mindsets Podcast
Wolfgang Jenewein in conversation with people who rethink high performance.
Moving Mindsets Monday
The leadership newsletter – an impulse for a high-performance mindset every Monday
Articles by our speakers
Articles on leadership, team dynamics and change: short, concrete, applicable.
THE TIME FOR
WE IS NOW
May we stand by your side as a partner too?
We look forward to hearing from you.
Your contactDr Zaniyar Sharifi