Our Services.
How we can help you.
Strategic Alignment & Making Change Happen
When complexity is high and the stakes are real, we help organisations move from many initiatives to one shared direction — across countries, business units and cultures, and into decisions that hold up on Monday morning.
Services
- Designing and aligning group and corporate strategies across countries, business units and cultures.
- Bringing sceptical leadership teams into one room and turning them into owners of a common story.
- Cascading strategy, values and culture so that 2,000+ people understand, own and live it.
„With Stepwise, we developed a new vision for our global company — and implemented it worldwide across all relevant sites in the form of World Cafés. Even 10 years on, staff still have fond memories of it.”,
Dr. Andreas Hauner, Vice President und Werkleiter Leverkusen, KRONOS TITAN GmbH, 2024
„His communication methodology, while deceptively simple, proved extremely powerful.“
Jaco Viljoen, Group CEO, FMBcapital Group · 2026
„I was brought in to drive innovation in a large corporation — and to take a whole team from an old way of thinking to a new one.” (…) „I’m convinced it wouldn’t have been possible without the intensive work and thoughtful collaboration with Stepwise Management and Frank.”
Barbara Staehelin, Barbara Staehelin — Serial Entrepreneur & Supervisory Board Member, Life Sciences & Healthcare, 2020
“A new HR strategy, a new team — and formats that have changed our way of working together for the long term.”
— Silke Niehaus, Head of Human Resources at Fraport AG, 2020
„It is rare for workshops in diverse teams to be so focused, whilst also being designed and facilitated as a positive team experience.”
Ludwig Kirchner, Programmleitung, Cluster-Koordinator GIZ ECOWAS · Abuja, 2024
“Complex health reforms across cultures — with a companion who reaches every level.”,
Dr. Klaus Hornetz — Physician & former Programme Director, GIZ, Kenya · Cambodia · Germany, 2022
Leadership & Team Development
We work with leadership teams on the issues they cannot delegate: difficult decisions, fragile trust and the courage to act together.
Services
- Design and facilitation of development journeys for leadership teams who need to speak honestly about power, trust and risk — and stay able to act together.
- Design and faciltiation of work on real strategy, culture and cooperation issues, not abstract models.
- Formats include retreats, in-house labs and long-term accompaniment for leadership teams.
Professional Learning Communities & Networks
From the field, for the field — peer learning that creates impact inside organisations and beyond.
We build Learning Communities for people who carry real responsibility and want to think, learn and act with peers over time. Shared learning strengthens judgment, collaboration and leadership practice — and shapes strategy from within.
Services
- Design and facilitation of long-term Learning Communities — in person, virtual and hybrid.
- Design and facilitation of chapters in The Maasai Masterclass — for senior leaders and consultants ready to learn from African indigenous leaders and communities
- Design and facilion of Leaders Circles
Our non-profit Learning Communities
- Deidesheimer Kreis (Germany, since 2004) — www.deidesheimerkreis.de
- Leaders Circle Nairobi (Kenya, since 2006) — www.leaderscircle.co.ke
“Frank and I first met at a Leaders Circle in 2006. In our discussion he talked about Stepwise Management and the Power of Alignment — and what started that day shaped our strategy for the next two decades.”
Ashok Shah, Group CEO, APA Insurance · Kenya · 2026
„He has the rare ability to create fear-free spaces in change processes — spaces in which people become willing to talk about themselves and their situation, and to change.”
Dr. Klaus Hornetz, former Programme Director, GIZ · Kenya · Cambodia · Germany, 2020
„Today, our organisation has rituals that help us exchange information extremely quickly, analyse complex situations and develop a course of action together — we learnt this from the Maasai elders, as conveyed by Frank Kretzschmar.”
Christa Wilhelm, Director Central Marketing Communications, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH · 2006
„As an entrepreneur, you make decisions alone — there is no one to align with. Then it is invaluable to have someone like Frank, who gives you the instruments and coaches you to find the right decision yourself.”
Rene Verdaasdonk, Lebosol® Dünger GmbH, 2022
„Frank has been a trusted sparring partner to me from that first conversation in 2006 to this day “,
Ashok Shah, Group CEO, APA Insurance · Kenya · 2026
Coaching & Sparring for Senior Leaders
For leaders who do not need more tools, but a trusted partner to think with. Especially when complexity, visibility and the loneliness of leadership weigh most heavily.
Services
- Sparring for CEOs, founders and senior leaders, project heads who carry complex, high-stakes responsibilities. A confidential space to sort your thinking, decisions and relationships in demanding environments. Reflecting on strategy, role, transitions and personal resilience. Combining practical decision support with deeper questioning of assumptions and patterns.
Integrative Supervision – reflective practice for leaders and professionals
A structured reflective space for senior leaders and professionals in demanding contexts.
- Supervision for leaders, project heads and professionals in demanding, multi-stakeholder contexts.
- Available for individual and group formats, in person and online, for long term partnerships or time bound mandates
