We are
FIVE 4 SUCCESS
five4success is a management consultancy that advises, trains and publishes on organizational development, leadership and new forms of learning.
"Making business more human!"
This line continues to drive our activities as consultants. Profitability is just as important for an organization as purpose. We, Michael Fuchs and Jochen Messner, have experienced over 25 years of consulting time and time again what a huge difference it makes to establish suitable conditions for people in companies to learn and develop. If each individual learns, the entire organization learns and becomes adaptable to future challenges. At the same time, wonderfully lively relationships emerge from which initiatives and networks develop, with which an organization assumes social responsibility. Profitable - enriching - meaningful.
How to play the "please the customer" game
The responses to requests for cultural change that we experienced in our previous work in traditional organizational consulting did not make us happy: We played the "please the customer" game, which led to repeat orders for us, but to very little impetus for change for the customer. Basically, we only confirmed the projections and political wishes of our clients.
Realistic optimism
When we founded five4success in 2006, we courageously brought our deepest convictions into our consulting work. We began to break down rigid mental models through targeted irritation and provocation (basically, a little honesty is enough to trigger irritation). At the same time, we reminded ourselves to treat our customers as adults in order to enable them to take responsibility for self-development. Our strongly humanistic training, which is based psychologically and therapeutically on the "human potential movement" - as well as training in cybernetic management and the beginnings of agile self-organization from Silicon Valley - also brought the necessary tension that makes our work so successful to this day: the combination of active effectiveness with playful learning.
Playful Performance
We don't change companies or people. We support people in companies to identify blockages and get the development potential flowing again!
We base our consulting on these principles of flow and self-regulation. The name five4success arose from the development of our regulation model of the same name. Five different phases, introduced into the system at the right time, ensure enormous stability while allowing potential to be developed at the same time. With this model, we have already enabled more than 3,000 managers in over 150 companies of various sizes and industries to build healthy, profitable companies. Such a successful approach paired with lively, unorthodox travel companions gets around quickly, and so we can speak of a colorful bouquet of customers, from top-class sports to music producers, from start-ups to large international corporations, from education to health to NGOs - five4success is there as a source of inspiration for potential development with a freelance team of experts who share our beliefs.
Unser Steuerungsmodell »five4success«
Since we are not only concept nerds and love models, but also consider the "game" to be the real development boost, we relied on creative didactics from the very beginning:
You benefit from our experience with over 30 strategic communication processes with "insight maps", the organization and development of more than 40 company-wide creative "campus" major events, the development of our brand "GlobalCommunityGame®", an interactive game simulation for integral development, and our extensive expertise in the hero's journey as an adaptation for management & leadership. You can find the latter both in our live coaching board game "Transformica", and at www.michaelfuchs.com in workshop format - should you want to embark on a deep personal development journey beyond your corporate landscape.
We are
FIVE 4 SUCCESS
OUR FIVE4FOUNDERS
Michael Fuchs
Like no other, Michael has an unmistakable sense of groundbreaking future trends.
Thanks to his subtle nose, he collects and combines the crucial aspects of economics, psychology, Eastern and Western philosophy. This is how Michael develops his visionary solution approaches and uses them to develop agile organizations.
For over 20 years deals with topics around transformation and complexity. He teaches lean management, self-organization and agile thinking in teams and large groups. If Michael is convinced of a topic, then he dives deep into it, consistently, critically questioning and with full enthusiasm, as he has learned in professional sports.
But he does not just stay on the intellectual level. As a budoka, he has more than 40 years of meditation experience and deepens in topics such as Breathwork, Flowskills and Neurofeedback. Anyone who comes into contact with Michael in personal contact, will quickly realize that he is just able to perceive the unspoken immediately. He can feel the space and the vibrations and read in it like in an open book.
Unceasingly and tirelessly he follows his heart's desire. His mentoring is direct and off and provocative, but always full of appreciation.
Fun fact: Michael is known as a potential coach in Azerbaijan and has started a reform movement in Latvia.
Jochen Messner
Jochen is the creative head of the team, he is literally bursting with new ideas.He gains creativity from his varied interests from music to psychology to adventurous adventure sports.
He loves to spontaneously improvise and develop innovative gamification concepts. He shows how professionalism can go hand in hand with playful creation.
Before themes or ideas become too abstract, Jochen again brings in a sense of reality and appreciation with boldness. He keeps his calm and grounds the process, even when lightning has just hit.
This creative versatility combined with pragmatism makes Jochen a great management consultant, a successful game developer and a knowledgeable author.
With his contagious positive and informal nature, Jochen inspires people to change their perspective with ease. Our customers and we are each time surprised by how different things look when turned upside down.
Jochen is the creative spirit who accompanies us on our professional journeys, shares newly found treasures with us and transforms them into new ideas. He succeeds in bringing the newly discovered to life with ease.
Fun fact: One of his three company startups failed successfully: The coaching app »Tripkick« was, unfortunately, awesome.
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES
What we rely on when working with our customers
The coherence between the customer and the consultant system is essential for our work. Development means exposing yourself to impulses outside your own comfort zone and at the same time integrating these into your life and everyday life with trusting reassurance. Mutual trust and openness are therefore crucial for OD to be successful.
The five4success guidelines for working with our customers:
Appreciation and responsibility more than control and regulation
Transformation and integrity more than planning and image
System view and exploration more than rationalization and evaluation
Liveliness and humor more than problem orientation and seriousness
This means that although we find the values on the right side important,
we consider the values on the left side to be more important to us.
