Franz-Ferdinand Kress

Holistic Corporate Development

"You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

This is what I truely believe in:

Outperforming companies - respectively their managers - are able to orchestrate the fragile triangle of strategic positioning, value creation and culture.

Managers on all levels understand strategic and business-model related as well as marketing and financial related topics. Motto: “Doing the right things”

The manager of the future understands the inner mechanics of the value creation and how to design and manage it.
Motto: “Doing the things right”

The foundation of every company is the set of mental models and believes that steer all actions. Leaders are role models and by that represent and stimulate the culture in particular.

Only exceptional leaders have the ability to balance the fragile holistic business management triangle. They think, feel and act holistically and by that take their team, their region, their company to the highest level of performance.

Some basic facts about me:
Born October-19,1964
German and US citizenship
5 children

Assistant manager in publishing
Graduate in business administration (University of Applied Science)
Rating-Analyst (BdRA)

I have been working as a consultant, CEO and interim-manager continually in an interna­tional context. With 25 years of experience, I have been part of many reorganization and turn-around projects. I have steered new market entries and projects, restructured and sold a company, managed a medium-sized publisher and a US-based wholesale operation as well as an entire production, developed international teams, coached and trained many hundreds of people in managerial and leadership positions.