01 · 12 months · 2023–2024
Talent Strategy · Automotive Family Business
Rebuilding the talent architecture for a supplier in transition. Competency model, succession plans for 15 key roles, leadership programme for second-level management.
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✦ HR Advisory · Leadership Development · Munich
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Köhler · Reinhardt · Bauer is a Munich-based boutique advisory for leadership development and talent strategy. Since 2015 we have helped Mittelstand and family businesses understand leadership as a strategic competitive advantage.
seit 2015 ✦
Dr. Marlene Köhler
Founding Partner
Sebastian Reinhardt
Partner
Advising at KRB since 2015, following eight years at McKinsey People & Organisation. INSEAD MBA. Focus: talent strategy, competency models, …
Dr. Lena Bauer
Partner
Organisational psychologist, formerly Boston Consulting Group. Specialises in diagnostic instruments, 360° feedback and scientifically groun…
✦ Praxis seit
10 Jahre
85+ Mandate. 12 Coaches im Pool. 73 % Folgegeschäft.
About the Firm
Three partners. One shared stance.
Founded in Munich in 2015, we now advise Mittelstand and family businesses across DACH and the Netherlands. What binds us together is not method — but the conviction that leadership can be developed.
„After years in corporations, consulting and academia, we knew: the advisory we ourselves would have wanted as clients did not exist. So we built it — small, personal, free from method fetishism and sales pressure."
— Die drei Partner✦
Our Approach
Three pillars. One conviction.
We do not work with pre-fabricated programmes. Our interventions emerge from a thorough diagnosis of your organisation.
01 ✦
Talent Strategy
We help you place the right people in the right roles — and keep them there. From competency modelling to succession planning: strategic, measurable, tailored to your business.
02 ✦
Leadership Development
Our leadership programmes combine scientifically grounded diagnostics with applied learning in everyday practice. No seminar rooms, no slides — development that lasts.
03 ✦
Executive Coaching Pool
For larger clients we offer a structured pool of certified coaches who accompany your leadership team over a full year. Coordinated, quality-assured, scalable.
✦ By the Numbers
10
Years in Practice
Founded 2015
85+
Mandates
Mittelstand · Family Business
12
Coaches in Pool
All DBVC / ICF certified
73%
Repeat Engagements
From past programmes
Services
What we actually do.
Leadership Programmes
Modular development programmes for first and second-level leadership. Typically 6–12 months, with diagnostics at start and end. For organisations of 200+ employees.
from €25,000→
360° Diagnostics
Online 360° feedback process with individual debriefs by certified consultants. Validated instrument, DIN-compliant, available in German and English.
from €1,200 / person→
Talent Strategy Workshops
Full-day intensive workshops for HR teams and managing boards. We analyse your current people strategy and co-create a concrete action plan.
on request→
Executive Coaching Pool
Structured coaching pool for corporations and larger mid-caps. We coordinate allocation, ensure quality and create anonymised impact reports for the board.
on request→
✦ The Partners
Three perspectives. One stance.
Each of us brings a different background — corporate, consulting, academia. That is what makes the difference.
Dr. Marlene Köhler
Founding Partner
Former HR Director of a DAX corporation. Founded KRB in 2015 after twelve years in line responsibility. Focus: leadership development, onboarding programmes, transformation coaching. Doctorate in organisational sociology.
Sebastian Reinhardt
Partner
Advising at KRB since 2015, following eight years at McKinsey People & Organisation. INSEAD MBA. Focus: talent strategy, competency models, performance management for Mittelstand and private equity.
Dr. Lena Bauer
Partner
Organisational psychologist, formerly Boston Consulting Group. Specialises in diagnostic instruments, 360° feedback and scientifically grounded learning architectures. Adjunct lecturer at LMU Munich.
Selected Mandates
Confidential. Anonymised. Effective.
02 · 9 months · 2024
Leadership Programme · Insurance Group
Designed and delivered a leadership programme for 38 second-level executives. Diagnostics, modular learning, transfer projects, accompanying coaching.
03 · ongoing since 2023
Onboarding Pool · Pharma Mittelstand
Built and coordinated a company-wide coaching pool for structured onboarding of newly hired executives. Currently 14 active clients in the pool.
✦ Voices
„KRB helped us turn leadership development from an HR task into a strategic instrument. The quality of diagnostics and the programme accompaniment were extraordinary."
— Chief HR Officer, Insurance group, 12,000 employees
„What convinced me: KRB thinks like an entrepreneur, not like a consultant. The talent strategy project gave us concrete decisions, not presentations."
— CHRO, Automotive, family business
„The coaching pool for our new executives is one of the best investments we have made in the past five years. Turnover among new senior hires has halved."
— Managing Director, Pharma Mittelstand, Munich
Perspectives
Notes from practice.
Talent StrategyApril 2025
Talent Strategy Is No Longer an HR Topic
Why family businesses should move strategic workforce planning to the board level — and three questions every owner must ask themselves.
— Sebastian ReinhardtWeiterlesen →
DiagnosticsMarch 2025
What 360° Feedback Cannot Measure
Diagnostics is powerful but has limits. What we learned from 200 debriefs — and how to close the gaps.
— Dr. Lena BauerWeiterlesen →
Frequently Asked
Questions we are most often asked.
✦ Erstgespräch
Ready to invest in your leaders?
A first 45-minute conversation — free, no agenda, no sales. We listen and tell you honestly whether we can help.
Location
Where to find us.
Adresse
Maximilianstraße 28
80539 München
Telefon
+49 89 24 88 21 50E-Mail
kontakt@krb-beratung.deU-Bahn Maximiliansplatz · 2 Min. Fußweg