AI-powered boutique strategy consultancy from Munich
LEADBeyond combines the experience of McKinsey and Roland Berger with the possibilities of artificial intelligence. We take strategy, leadership and talent further, together – for a future that starts now.
Formerly
Impact partner for strategy, leadership and talent. We stay until it works.
15+years of top-tier consulting at McKinsey & Company and Roland Berger
AI-powered
AI changes not only the pace but consulting itself: facts instead of assumptions, calculated scenarios instead of gut feeling, tools that stay after the project. The judgement calls are made by experienced consultants.
The founders
Frederic Rupprecht and Jonathan M. Günak work on every engagement themselves and are your contacts from the first conversation to the result.
Formerly
Co-founder & Managing Director
Profile
Co-Founder of LEADBeyond and former Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, Frederic has credentials from Harvard and the European Business School. He excels in delivering results through meticulous assessments and insights, blending analytical thinking with forward-looking strategies to inspire and motivate teams.
Co-founder & Managing Director
Profile
Co-Founder of LEADBeyond and former Principal at Roland Berger, Jonathan advises globally in advanced industries and the public sector. With expertise in strategy, digital innovation, and agile transformation, he drives digital-savvy culture and change initiatives from executive-level strategy to shopfloor operations.
Our services
Three building blocks that interlock. Together they deliver what classic consultancies rarely do: strategy that gets implemented. People who carry it. And the leaders who are still missing.
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Strategy & implementation consulting
Classic top-tier strategy consulting without the pyramid. From diagnosis through strategy to implementation, senior-led and accelerated by AI. We stay until the result is in place.
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Trainings & enablement programmes
We train the consultants of leading firms, from analyst to partner level. End-to-end programmes, our own diagnostics and trainers who know the pressure from their own practice.
Two products of our own, try them interactively further down.
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Executive Search
Selective, personal and backed by a network built over more than 15 years of top-tier consulting. We fill the positions that make the difference, across industries and with the diagnostics from Empower behind us.
How we searchAccelerate · Deep Dive
A strategy holds when it rests on facts that anyone can recalculate. That is why we deliver the tool along with it: a new kind of analysis and AI applications that make your company noticeably faster.
A new kind of analysis
Instead of a slide deck that goes out of date after the project, we build a calculation model with a cockpit. Every number is derived and backed up, every scenario calculated at the push of a button, every assumption visible. Management decides on facts, and the tool stays in-house.
Impressions, not a project example. Real views from an ongoing engagement, so you can see how we work. Client, industry and all values are altered.
AI applications
No off-the-shelf platform, but exactly the application your process needs. We build it in weeks instead of years, compatible with Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce and your data. Your core systems stay in the lead, AI takes over the routine.
Compatible with
What you gain
Solve problems where they arise. With the latest AI models, sustainably in-house.
10x
Proven patterns instead of starting from scratch: productive in weeks, not years.
100%
Code, data and know-how can be fully handed over to your team. You choose the operating model.
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Microsoft, SAP and Salesforce stay in the lead. No new platform, no new dependency.
Example 01 · Order intake
Orders arrive by email, PDF or Excel. The AI reads them, matches customer, items and prices against the system and presents the finished order for approval. People only check what stands out.
What it delivers
Example 02 · Resource planning
A project request comes in, and the engine knows the skills, experience and availability of every employee. Within minutes a suitable team is ready, with the reasons and confirmed in one click.
What it delivers
And wherever routine eats up time:
Selected references
A global corporation, the umbrella body of German sport and a ministry: strategy and implementation that hold in very different organisations.
Diagnosed the IT–business gap from both sides, then ran the reset that turned it into named commitments.
From delivery reflex to business-first partner.
Led the workshop at the DOSB in Frankfurt with ESBD, game, the esports player foundation and Deutsche Sport Marketing: who brings which expertise? ESBD thanked us for the “rigorous workshop facilitation”.
Five players, one goal: Germany at the Olympic Esports Games.
Redesigned 35 G2B/G2C services into 18 coherent, user-centric journeys; ran the full IT vendor PMO and BRD development.
A national portfolio, RFP-ready.
Empower · Deep Dive
Our trainings develop leadership along three pillars. LEADBeyond 360° shows why leadership works or tips over under pressure. ValueScore makes performance fairly comparable. Everything is built in-house and fits together.
Trainings & leadership programmes
Our trainings for leaders and consultants follow one model. The three pillars do not stand side by side, they interlock: if you cannot steer yourself, you cannot lead a team. If you do not lead a team, you will not move change. And if you move change, you are thrown back on your own stance.
Three pillars, one cycle
The pillars are not a pick-and-mix kit. Leading yourself enables leading a team, leading a team enables change, and change throws you back on your own stance. That is why all three appear at every career stage, just weighted differently.
Hover over a pillar or tap it.
Pillar 1 · Leading yourself
Steer your mind, emotions and priorities, especially when the pressure is highest. Without this foundation neither of the other pillars holds.
Feeds into Lead Others: If you know your own patterns, you recognise them in your team and lead people differently instead of the same.
Pillar 2 · Leading others
Understand team dynamics, hand over responsibility and get people moving, even without formal authority.
Feeds into Lead Change: No one drives change alone. It needs a team that carries it and stakeholders you can reach.
Pillar 3 · Leading change
Push initiatives through, navigate resistance and steer organisations through change.
Feeds back into Lead Self: Withstanding resistance and navigating ambiguity takes you to your own limits. The circle closes.
Plus the consulting craft
The leadership journey
All three pillars accompany every career stage. The shares show where development pays off at each stage.
“Solid craft, clear head.”
“Lead before the title says so.”
“From your own output to steering others.”
“Win mandates, shape culture.”
LEADBeyond 360°
01 · Perspectives
Self, supervisors, peers and direct reports give anonymous feedback. A group is only shown separately once a minimum number of responses is reached; HR sees progress, never individual results.
02 · Six measurement layers
Classic 360° feedback captures behaviour and impact. Our model also connects beliefs, capabilities and stress triggers, with wellbeing as an energy buffer across all layers.
03 · Twelve dimensions
Behind the twelve dimensions stand three pillars: self-leadership, leading teams and leading change, with four dimensions each. The radar overlays self-image and others’ view and reveals blind spots.
04 · Leadership Score
The Leadership Orientation Ratio relates progressive strengths to limiting tendencies, benchmarked against boutique consulting. Plus Outcome Effectiveness, Followership and Wellbeing.
05 · Result
A dashboard with twelve views. Every report is reviewed by a LEADBeyond consultant before release. Hosted in Frankfurt am Main.
Visit the platformInspired by
Every measurement module draws on work that has shaped leadership research. From it we derive what we measure and how we read it.
BeliefConvictions
Robert Kegan
In Over Our Heads, 1994
Beliefs determine what a leader perceives as reality. That is why beliefs are a measurement layer of their own for us.
Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey
Immunity to Change, 2009
Only a new belief changes leadership for good. That is why we measure the progressive and the limiting side together.
CompetenceAbilities
Albert Bandura
Self-Efficacy, 1997
Knowing is not doing. The gap between capability and behaviour shows untapped potential and the lever for development.
BehaviorVisible conduct
Leanne Atwater & Francis Yammarino
Self-Other Agreement, 1992
Self-image and others’ view compared: we predict perception gaps and test them against the data.
Robert Anderson & William Adams
Mastering Leadership, 2016
The basis of the Leadership Orientation Ratio: progressive versus limiting leadership, with benchmark.
TriggerPressure points
Manfred Kets de Vries
The Leadership Mystique, 2006
Seven limiting tendencies, grouped into five defence patterns: diagnostically deep without becoming clinical.
Ronald Heifetz et al.
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, 2009
When does leadership tip over under pressure? Ten trigger items reveal the situations in which regression sets in.
5/5
Consistently 5 out of 5 stars in the feedback on our programmes.
Resonance
Annual training waves and 360° assessments for more than 100 leaders, from analyst to partner level.
ValueScore
Every appraisal, every project, every rater on one scale. ValueScore removes leniency and severity and turns fair scores directly into final rating, promotion and bonus.
Recruit · Deep Dive
Classic search starts with a list of names. Ours starts with a map of the entire market. Our own tools show who really fits and help win exactly those people: personal, precise and transparent for you at all times.
Talent Intelligence
Profile dashboard
Everything that decides on a profile is on one page. Ratings are given by click or keyboard along the same weighted criteria, and the fit score updates live. The shortlist comes from a shared yardstick, not from gut feeling.
Try it: click the dots, or select the window and use the keys.
Voices from projects and programmes
Their analytical diligence and proactive drive in developing our new distribution strategy for mower models were impressive. The recommendations for local retailers were spot on.
AccelerateNiclas HurtadoDirector Business Development Sales & Service EPAC, Husqvarna Deutschland GmbHFrederic and Jonathan’s leadership training was transformative, enhancing our team dynamics, communication and leadership skills. Their innovative approach directly improved our daily business effectiveness at Whiteshield.
EmpowerMerthe WeusthuisWhiteshield Academy LeadTheir entrepreneurial mindset and acumen were crucial in securing significant financing quickly. We couldn’t have done it without them.
AccelerateLennart BörnerCEO, CONDO GmbHThe sales training program was a game changer for me. It honed my skills, boosted my confidence, and equipped me with the tools to sell and cold-call more effectively.
EmpowerSteve BuddeSenior Sales Manager, ONOMOTION GmbHLead beyond the ordinary
30 minutes, no pitch. We listen, ask the right questions and tell you honestly whether and how we can help.
LEADBeyond GmbH · Tölzer Str. 1 · 82031 Grünwald near Munich