References • Schween - Inhaber Strategie Beratung

Excellent project preparation, very clear conduct of discussions even in difficult situations, inclusion of all parties involved, that is what distinguishes Dr. Schween. In addition to strengthening common understanding and family cohesion, the result in particular was clarity about where the family acts as a community of solidarity and where it acts and should act in the future as a community of purpose."

Michael Hilti, HILTI Corporation

Dr. Karsten Schween has been an important advisor and sparring partner for me for many years. His strategic analyses and deep understanding of individual needs of family businesses are impressive and have often helped me to find better solutions for my company. This is especially true during the first difficult years as a successor and the following transformation process. I very much appreciate Dr. Karsten Schween's empathetic and pragmatic approach and am pleased that he will continue to support me in an advisory capacity."

Yvonne Bauer, Bauer Media Group

With Dr. Schween, we have been able to draw up our family constitution and continue to develop it on a regular basis. Our family constitution is a central building block for sustainable success for us as an entrepreneurial family as well as for our family business. With his profound expertise in this field, his human approach and very high level of professionalism, Dr. Schween has provided us with excellent advice along the way and has helped us time and again to master even challenging issues and situations. We look forward to further cooperation.

Jan Rinnert, Heraeus Holding GmbH

As a classic medium-sized family business, we were faced with a far-reaching reorientation and restructuring of the shareholder group and the family eight years ago, after the retirement of the company founder and the resulting transfer to the 2nd and 3rd generation. Through structured support and trust-building moderation of the process, Dr. Schween succeeded in uniting the shareholders and achieving a common, strong commitment to a future-oriented owner business model. Since then, Dr. Schween has repeatedly accompanied the company as a valuable sparring partner and competent advisor in trend-setting strategic and organizational decisions. His analytical approach, his enormous wealth of experience and his ability to respond individually to the special characteristics of family businesses in terms of people and culture make him a valuable advisor and companion.

Angelique Renkhoff-Mücke, Warema Renkhoff SE

Since we successfully worked with Dr. Schween on our first family code and family strategy, I have always enjoyed working with him. He is not only a smart and experienced advisor, but also a very pleasant person to talk to with integrity."

Matthäus Niewodniczanski, Bitburger Holding GmbH

We are very happy to have Karsten Schween at our side, a partner of absolute integrity and always critical and constructive, who has been supporting our family-owned company Kienbaum trustfully and successfully in various roles for more than seven years now. After we worked with him to shape the transition from the second to the third generation and transfer it to a family constitution, Karsten has since been our ideal advisory board chairman thanks to his consulting expertise and his sensitivity for the mechanisms of action in a family business."

Fabian Kienbaum, Kienbaum Consultants International GmbH

Karsten was great" - that was the feedback from the 5th generation on the presentation and discussion of our family constitution with the 16-32 year olds. We developed the family constitution in the fourth generation with siblings and cousins with Karsten Schween in several workshops and signed it in a circle between old and young members. The cooperation with Karsten Schween was a lot of fun for us while "doing". We worked together and it was allowed to laugh! What remains are the good impulses and the result - the first family constitution of our family after more than 140 years of company history. "

Wilhelm und Michael Böllhoff, Wilhelm Böllhoff GmbH & Co. KG

Dr. Schween has accompanied us for many years as an advisor and for the last two years as a member of the Supervisory Board. We value him as a sparring partner and advisor who understands our concerns and supports us with his wealth of experience in classifying a wide range of issues and problems. Dr. Schween has a quick and precise grasp of our structures and circumstances and develops analytically sound and pragmatic solutions. In this way, he helps us to make the right decisions for a sustainable future of our company. Our personal discussions are always a pleasure for me, inspiring and help me to sharpen my own view on things.

Karsten Höppner, Q_PERIOR AG

Dr. Schween's experience from a wide variety of cultures, companies and projects, coupled with his incredible emotional intelligence, make working with him very exciting. I really appreciate how Dr. Schween approaches topics in a structured way and with great calm and clarity together with us. He treats each topic individually, wants to understand things in detail and does not put some model over it, but works out different possibilities together. He is not interested in changing a situation in the short term, but in finding the best solution that is sustainable for the company and the family. Of course, this also applies to succession planning and the associated generation change. Since this is in the spirit of how we run our company, we very much appreciate the cooperation with Dr. Schween. For me, he has become an important companion and sparring partner."

Catharina Trierenberg, TRIVEST AG

Dr. Schween advised us extraordinarily competently on the subject of "family constitution". As a mediator, all the sympathies of the various family members fell to him from day one and we were very satisfied with the result achieved."

Bernd Karstedt, Diersch & Schröder GmbH & Co. KG

For 10 years now, I have been working very successfully with Dr. Schween on a wide variety of topics relating to our family businesses: from the drafting to the revision of our family code of conduct, from the search for advisory boards to his work on one of our company advisory boards, from the evaluation of the historically grown company structure to the redesign into a sustainable structure, from support with my personal investments to joint investments and a joint commitment on a supervisory board, from personal coaching to personal friendship. Besides his sharp mind, I appreciate his ability to get to the heart of the matter. Very impressive is his large network of entrepreneurs, successors and experts."

Martin Hain, ALPMA Alpenland Maschinenbau GmbH / Frischpack GmbH