Masha Ibeschitz
Leadership advisor to boards and global institutions
Where the work happens
Most of the decisions that shape an organisation are made with incomplete information, competing interests and less time than anyone would like. I am in those rooms as someone with no agenda of my own. The work is not answering. It is making sure the question has been properly examined before anyone does.
That is a different role from consulting, and a different one from training. It rests on more than twenty years with executive teams, supervisory boards and international institutions, an outside perspective that is not for sale, and the willingness to stay in a situation once it becomes uncomfortable.
The rooms this work has led to
The organisations below trusted me with situations that mattered to them. Some of that work goes back fifteen years.
Corporations
A1 Boehringer Ingelheim Borealis Capgemini Green Therma Greiner Kapsch Mondi OMV PwC Semperit SSI Schäfer Wienerberger
Institutions
Council of Europe OSCE Public holdings Universities
Think Beyond Consulting
I founded Think Beyond Group in 2020. It now delivers leadership and culture work in 27 languages across more than 30 countries. Its Kirkpatrick® partnership was the first held by a woman in the German-speaking region. Investments in a few companies, and the books, sit alongside that.
You truly succeeded in getting participants to think outside the box, reflect on their own behaviour, and recognise the potential in the different personality structures of the company's 16,000 employees, as well as how to leverage them to create more value.
Books
Impact
Develop Your People, Enhance Your Company's Success.
Wiley, 2018
On what actually transfers from development work into the business
Success Reloaded
Use the Power of Authenticity to Drive Success.
On success as something that happens across a whole life rather than in one part of it.
Success Reloaded
12 Levers of Transfer Effectiveness, by Dr. Ina Weinbauer-Heidel, with contributions from Masha Ibeschitz-Manderbach. On designing leadership training that actually changes behavior.
Speaking
Speaking works best where the audience is expected to think rather than to applaud. Management conferences, board offsites, university lecture halls and industry forums across Europe, the US and Asia Pacific.
The subjects that keep coming back: how decision rights and accountability are actually distributed inside a system, what makes people contribute their best, and the altitude a leader has to hold to stay useful in both directions. Dialogue works better than monologue. If that fits your format, write.
Contact
If you are facing decisions that deserve someone in the room without a stake in the outcome, let's talk.
I take on a small number of board and advisory mandates. The question I ask first is whether I can be useful in that particular room.
