THE FUTURE IS CREATED
THROUGH IMAGINATION,
TRUST, AND THE
COURAGE TO ACT
We support corporate leaders and their organizations through demanding phases of change – as strategic advisors operating at eye level. With premium‑quality counsel and tailored solutions, we empower our clients and shape the future together.
Decision‑making in times of uncertainty is a permanent leadership task
In an environment defined by complexity and persistent uncertainty, companies and entrepreneurs face constant pressure to make the right calls. The ability to set a clear direction, secure stakeholder support, and build a high-performing team often determines whether change becomes a crisis or an opportunity.
Decision‑making under uncertainty is most difficult when your own business is at stake.
We provide advice during periods of crisis, restructuring, and transformation
As strategic advisors, we help leaders make bold, well‑reasoned decisions – and communicate them effectively. This includes both the tactical responses required in acute crises and the development of medium‑ and long‑term strategic concepts and processes for restructuring, transformation, and growth.
Sincerely,
Sven H. Korndörffer,
representing the team at Korndörffer Kommunikationsberatung
SERVICES
Corporate Strategy
“Strategy is about making choices” – a simple yet powerful definition. At its core, strategy is about setting the fundamental direction of a company’s future. We facilitate and guide strategic processes to ensure they lead to clear, well-founded, and actionable decisions. Our approach ensures that strategy emerges from within the organization, engaging key stakeholders from the outset to foster alignment, ownership, and long-term commitment.
As a CEO or managing director, we provide you with access to external expertise and independent perspectives to support you in making critical decisions. Together with highly experienced senior executives from our partner network – including former CEOs, supervisory board members of DAX and MDAX listed corporates, as well as investors, and strategy consultants – we serve as your sparring partners and trusted sounding board. We ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and support you in shaping and executing your strategic agenda.
We help you distill strategic decisions into a compelling narrative that clearly articulates your path forward.
A powerful strategy needs more than charts and data – it needs a story that inspires and mobilizes. By combining strategic clarity with editorial excellence, we craft narratives that resonate with all relevant stakeholders and transform analysis into a shared vision.
Implementing strategy today requires a new approach. Traditional top-down models often fall short in today’s dynamic leadership and communication environments. We design and support agile, network-based implementation programs that activate strategic momentum from day one – ensuring that execution is not only effective but continuously reinforced throughout the process.
“How far along are we in implementing our strategy?” Too often, this question is answered with activity metrics: “X out of Y projects completed” or “Synergies identified and quantified.” Yet the more important question is: “What has fundamentally changed in how we work?” We design and implement OKR-based strategic monitoring systems that go beyond KPIs – measuring the actual impact of strategic change and identifying where course corrections are required.
Strategic Communications Advisory
We create communication strategies that authentically reflect your leadership and your company’s identity. Whether you are a listed CEO, a mid-sized business leader, or a family entrepreneur – credibility and trust are your most valuable assets, both internally and externally. Financial performance matters – but so does your societal license to operate. We help you engage stakeholders in meaningful dialogue, drawing on our deep experience across business, politics, media, and civil society.
Crises – whether externally triggered or internally driven – can severely damage your credibility and stakeholder trust. We help you prepare in advance by building reputational resilience and, when needed, act swiftly to protect your brand.
With decades of experience across corporate, advisory, and media roles, we identify emerging risks, craft strategic responses, and support you through every phase of crisis management – including messaging, Q&A development, and media handling. We also help strengthen your internal crisis protocols and tools.
Legal disputes often escalate into public battles where reputational stakes are high. We support you in developing communication strategies for litigation scenarios – ensuring your position is clearly articulated and resonates with key stakeholders.
From early narrative development to full-scale communication planning and spokesperson support, we help you navigate complex legal communications with clarity and control.
Transformation is our core discipline. We guide organizations through change by leveraging deep experience at the executive level. Our transformation communication approach builds trust and engagement through clear messaging, shared visioning, tailored strategies, and transparent progress updates. We integrate impact measurement to ensure continuous optimization and successful outcomes.
Personal positioning strategies
Effective leadership communication moves people. We help executives develop focused topic-related profiles and develop the personal presence, empathy, clarity, and decisiveness needed to lead credibly – both internally and externally. Our 360-degree approach combines offline and online positioning to establish your personal brand across all channels.
Media training, presentation, and rhetoric
Communication success is measured by its impact on the audience. Through tailored media training, we ensure your messages – and your presence – resonate. We focus on clarity, confidence, and authenticity across all formats: interviews, panels, presentations, and digital engagements.
Voice and speech coaching
Your voice is a powerful leadership asset. Our practical training helps you speak with clarity, conviction, and authenticity – whether in board meetings or on global stages. We help you develop a voice that commands attention and builds trust.
We bring deep political expertise and operational experience from the highest levels of government, parliament, and public administration.
We help you navigate the evolving political landscape, assess geopolitical and geo-economic risks, and develop strategies that align business objectives with regulatory and societal expectations.
Whether in Berlin, Brussels, or beyond – we provide the insights and networks to position your interests effectively.
POLICITAL COMMUNICATION
in alignment with action
Over the past few decades, effective communication has become increasingly important for all actors from the realms of business, politics and society. In particular, the expectations surrounding communication (in terms of speed, reach, depth and confident use of tools and techniques) have risen – not least as a result of the new opportunities arising from artificial intelligence (AI). You can count on our support to ensure that your topics, visions, messages and missions reach all major stakeholders.
REPRESENTING YOUR INTERESTS
at the EU, national and regional level
Structural transformations and changing values have revolutionised the way that interests are represented and intermediated in the spheres of politics, business, media and society. This shift is affecting all companies. We know the mechanisms, procedures, processes and relevant players in the German and European institutions. With our experience and expertise at the German and European level, we are best placed to help position your company and represent its interests.
ANALYSE
geoeconomic and geopolitical trends and risks
Accurately assessing geoeconomic and geopolitical trends and risks is – and will remain – essential for companies with an international outlook extending beyond Germany and Europe. Now more than ever, such an environment influences and drives market developments and companies’ business models. We have the skills to help you accurately interpret these parameters and develop tailor-made strategies and decisions.
DEVELOPING CORPORATE STRATEGIES
for the G-Zero world
Never before have companies been so dependent on political developments, decisions and social influences. These processes are unfolding in what has been coined a “G-Zero” world – a world lacking a dominating country to set the international agenda. Communication strategies for capital markets, the media, politics, employees, public relations and clients need to be constantly adjusted and revamped. A company’s success hinges on the expectations of all market participants. We will support you in developing strategies with a focus on your company’s long-term reputation.
ADVISING
on all relevant topics and challenges
Geopolitical turmoil and transformations in all areas of the global economy are prompting the majority of export-oriented companies to adjust their strategies or reposition on the market. We are here to support you, provide advice and help you confidently navigate a world in constant motion, a world in which the ever-changing relationship between politics, business, media and society keeps generating new challenges.
Strategic financial communication is essential for listed companies – not only to meet regulatory requirements but to build long-term trust with investors and stakeholders. We support you in developing your equity story, crafting compelling CEO and CFO messaging, and preparing for key financial events such as earnings calls, AGMs, and investor roadshows. Our services include narrative development, Q&A preparation, media training, and full speechwriting and coaching.
We support you in shaping, planning and delivering your financial communications – closely aligned with your Investor Relations and Corporate Communications teams. In times of transformation, capital‑market messaging alone is not enough. Companies need clear, targeted communication for media, policymakers, customers and employees to build understanding and trust. We help translate your equity story and transformation agenda into a coherent, cross‑stakeholder narrative.
CEOs and CFOs play a central role in financial communication. Whether at the annual results presentation, the AGM or other financial events, a strong and authentic CEO address is essential – as is a convincing interplay between CEO and CFO during joint presentations and Q&A sessions.
We prepare your CEO speech and all related materials end‑to‑end: from narrative, key messages and Q&A. Beyond content, we coach you for an effective and authentic delivery – from stage presence and interaction to teleprompter use and multimedia integration. As your trusted sparring partner, we accompany you throughout the entire process.
Our strategic advisory services cover all key formats of financial communication:
- Equity Story & Positioning:
We develop a credible, long‑term equity story that builds trust, enhances value and provides a consistent foundation for ongoing financial communication.
- Reporting:
We develop narratives and key messages that communicate your performance clearly and convincingly across annual reports, quarterly reports and interim statements.
- Capital Market Events:
We design and orchestrate the content and staging of annual general meetings, results press conferences, analyst conferences and roadshows.
- Dialogue:
We support your continuous engagement with shareholders, proxy advisors, institutional investors, financial analysts and financial journalists.
- Publications & Content:
We create presentations, fact sheets, press releases, ad‑hoc announcements and IR website content that communicate with clarity and impact.
- Digital Communication:
We leverage digital channels – including LinkedIn, investor newsletters, webcasts and video formats – to broaden reach and strengthen your capital‑market presence.
We help you build and manage your media presence – from identifying key journalists to serving as your external press office. We develop and deliver compelling narratives and core messages, manage interviews and background briefings, and ensure your voice is heard in the right forums. Our long-standing media relationships and editorial expertise ensure your story is told with maximum impact.
In a world of 24/7 news cycles, viral content, and AI-generated misinformation, reputation is more vulnerable than ever. We help you design and implement modern communication organizations that are agile, stakeholder-centric, and integrated with marketing. From newsroom models to governance frameworks, we ensure your communications function is future-ready – delivering impact, efficiency, and employee engagement.
Our network of inspiring leaders, authors, and proven experts is an asset to any event. These personalities provide unique insights and share what makes the difference to successfully navigate challenging situations. As speakers, they open up new perspectives and capture the audience’s attention.
Topics
(selection)
- Leadership & Values
- Transformation
- Crisis communication
- Geopolitics
- Economic framework
- Female Leadership
- Resilience
As communications officers and journalists, our core competencies include moderating events and panel discussions as well as workshops and presentations. We take over the professional moderation of your events and media formats, steer your event or workshop in the right direction and ensure the right atmosphere. Editorial preparation is of course part of this.
Moderation formats
(selection)
- Leadership and employee events
- Workshops and Offsites
- TV/streaming formats (e.g. talks, panels)
- Customer events
- Panel Discussions
- Gala events
- Award ceremonies
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