Our Team

Marina Stottele

marina.stottele@p5-empowering.de //+49 175 282 08 98

Industry experience For over 20 years, Marina Stottele has put her heart and soul into the retail industry, always keeping an eye on the development of people.

Credentials Positions in retail and the textile industry in various management roles in Germany and abroad at HUGO BOSS and as Retail Director and Coach at the Porsche Design Group. Consultant & Coach at Wolf Lingerie, Südzucker.

Consulting style Apart from the systemic consultation, Marina Stottele also uses her specialized expertise from the premium retail environment. Thus a very broad consulting spectrum develops, which addresses technical questions apart from the questions for personal and organizational development.

• People want to take responsibility and perform.
• Trust is the basis for our actions.
• People in the right roles are more motivated & efficient.
• Clear roles, competence and responsibility are the basis for success.
• High performance is achieved through effective communication.

What is your personal leitmotif?
Every person can do something very special, we just have to identify it.

What fascinates you about your job?
To accompany people in their personal and professional development and to see how many of them grow beyond themselves.

What ingredients are needed for a consultation to turn out really good?
Openness, honesty and courage.

What is your favorite pastime?
I love spending time outside in nature to admire the immense landscapes in the mountains.

What’s something you really enjoy?
To break new ground and take people on these trips.

daniel.schmaelzle@p5-empowering.de //+49 172 311 95 15

Industry experience A man of conviction: Passionately committed to retail and IT for over 30 years.

Credentials Companies in the retail and textile industry, among others as divisional manager at dm drogerie markt, interim manager at INTERSPORT, ESPRIT and in consulting roles at HUGO BOSS, WOLF Lingerie, engelhorn, dm, Breuninger, Tally Weijl, Adler, KNV, Wolf Lingerie and others

Consulting style His radically efficient consulting style with heart and soul has evolved from numerous interim management, project, program manager roles and many years of management experience, especially in the areas of OC, ERP, PLM and I-Supply-Chain. He developed his passion for coaching and people while developing dm’s corporate culture, accompanying department mergers, major changes and coaching at various management levels.

• My positive view of people: People want to perform well.
• Efficiency, value and pleasure can be combined.
• Clear roles and responsibilities are the basis for success.
• High performance is created by connecting people with each other.

What is your personal leitmotif?
I want every hour of my life to be fun.

What fascinates you about your job?
The connection to people and to experience how they become stronger.

What ingredients are needed for a consultation to turn out really good?
Structure, commitment and fun.

What is your favorite pastime?
To enjoy life, the sun, nice food, good wine with my family..

What’s something you really enjoy?
I love to master really tough and difficult tasks.

Andree Cohrssen

Andree.Cohrssen@p5-empowering.de// +49 151 464 674 46

Industry experience Clear and committed: For more than 30 years, Andree Cohrssen has brought his experience to the floor with dedication in project management and consulting projects in retail, consumer goods and IT.

Credentials Stations in retail and in the textile industry, among other as project manager and IT consultant at Breuninger, Tchibo, Jawoll, Eduscho, and others.

Consulting style Numerous projects in the areas of mobile store solutions, customer frequency analysis, Omni Channel and E-Commerce, inventory management, ERP and intra-logistics have influenced his style: “As much project management as necessary, as little as possible.”

To him, the promotion and development of team members is an essential component of project management.

• Project success is inevitable when the team shares enthusiasm, high identification and fun.
• Do not cling stubbornly to a project management method or tool, but select the most appropriate for the task.
• Project management culture is a key factor in the company.
• Sharing knowledge and responsibility lays the foundation for successful teamwork.

What is your personal leitmotif?
Truthfulness and reliability.

What fascinates you about your job?
The ever changing tasks and steady learning.

What ingredients are needed for a consultation to turn out really good?
Structure, responsibility and commitment.

What is your favorite pastime?
Trips and tours with my convertible.

What’s something you really enjoy?
To bring order to chaos.

Joerg.Hilbert@p5-empowering.de // +49 151 744 426 75

Industry experience Food retail, IT services, postal & telecommunications

Credentials More than 25 years of professional experience, thereof more than 15 years in leading positions e.g. as team leader consulting & projects at Deutsche Post Com GmbH and team leader and IT product manager at dmTECH GmbH, as well as further positions as consultant and project manager in food retail and with IT service providers.

Consulting style Building on the client’s existing knowledge and skills, Jörg Hilbert sets impulses that help to jointly develop and implement the solution. This is based on his profound expertise and his extensive experience in project management and leadership.

• Clarity and reliability are essential success factors.
• Avoidance of parallelism and limitation to the essentials enable fast results.
• The individual encounter is a prerequisite for a good cooperation.
• Positive experiences and confirmations sustainably promote the development and performance of people.
• Work must be fun, because it takes up most of our life time.

What is your personal leitmotif?
Never be without a plan, but let the plan go.

What fascinates you about your job?
Constant change and development.

What are the ingredients a consultation needs to become really good?
Competence, empathy and trust.

What is your favorite pastime?
I love craftsmanship and to see the result in the end.

What’s something you really enjoy?
Engaging in constructive dialogs with open-minded people.

Tobias Richter

Industry experience Tobias Richter has many years of experience in Retail. In addition to store-oriented grocery retailing, he complements his profile with management positions at omnichannel retailers in sporting goods retailing, in the fashion industry, and in machine building industry.

Credentials Over 10 years of experience in the management of global strategic projects and programs, in omnichannel business model design and its further development in international organizations such as Hugo Boss and STIHL.

Technical management functions in the store organization at Sport Scheck and Aldi Süd, as well as department management/ division management for project and operations teams at Cybex, STIHL.

Consulting style Tobias Richter works in a holistic and people-oriented manner and enriches his consulting with a high level of contextual expertise in the business architecture of complex global organizations.

In doing so, he focuses on cultural aspects and customer requirements to ensure efficient implementation and to bring the stakeholders along at every stage of the project.

• An attractive objective and clear assignment of roles are keys to success.
• Humanity and appreciation will motivate high performance – this also includes trust in the strengths of the team members.
• Early and close involvement of all stakeholders leads to maximum acceptance.

What is your personal leitmotif?
In the beginning was the action.

What fascinates you about your job?
The mix of exciting and new, complex challenges, coupled with human empowerment. The creation of an independent culture within a project.

What ingredients are needed for a consultation to turn out really good?
Trust, communication at eye level, a backbone and expertise.

What is your favorite pastime?
I’m a sports all-rounder and enjoy playing the piano.

What’s something you really enjoy?
When you don’t take yourself too seriously even in difficult situations and you can talk and laugh about everything. Occasional comments and life wisdom from my children and nature experiences of any kind.

Laura.Sobez@p5-empowering.de // +49 151 289 219 60

Industry experience Consulting, organisational development and people development are her passion. Laura Sobez has over 12 years of profound experience in teaching, development, strategic communication, project management and organisational development. Her strengths lie in the communication of complex content in projects, facilitation, and concept development for workshops.

Credentials Many years of experience in continuing education at the institute “isb further education Systemic Professionalism in Wiesloch” and in the management of the publishing division of a publishing house in the field of coaching / psychology. Project management of development projects in the IT sector accompany her in her long career. By founding and managing her own company (art gallery) with two colleagues, she also got to know the inner side of entrepreneurship in her everyday work. Several teaching assignments at the University of Heidelberg have further deepened her didactic skills.

Consulting style As a consultant, Laura Sobez strengthens her clients in their concerns and roles by supporting them in sharpening their own topics and creating a different altitude. This creates new options for action and perspectives for her clients, always with a view to the available resources and responsibility. Her attitude is always that people usually have good reasons for their actions. Through her professional background as well as her studies in philosophy and art science, she guides the precision of language in her counselling in order to give the topics a form and to make complexity graspable in a different way.

• Successful communication establishes a reality comparison and thus makes differences discussable
• There is no universal truth – everyone has the solution within themselves
• The parts and the whole belong together: this is how small adjusting screws can often achieve big effects in the whole
• A high fit of people, role and organisation leads to high effectiveness and satisfaction
• Intention and effect are two different things

What is your personal leitmotif?
To support others to become effective in their roles and passions and thus experience self-efficacy.

What fascinates you about your job?
Working with people is never boring, because it is always about encountering!

What are the ingredients a consultation needs to become really good?
An alert mind, structure and openness, the ability to listen like Michael Ende’s “Momo”, lightness, touchability, understanding and honesty.

What is your favorite pastime?
Hiking, preferably in Norway or in the forest on my doorstep.

What’s something you really enjoy?
Understanding complex correlations, putting them in order and making them discussable…. Or: Playing Brändi Dog with my son and losing.

Leon Zipfel

leon.zipfel@p5-empowering.de// +49 151 728 664 50

Industry experience For many years Leon Zipfel’s heart has been beating for the customer satisfaction of his clients in wholesale and foreign trade (stationary, online, B2B, B2C, B2B2C), industry, the service sector, and the medical industry. His strengths lie in direct and pragmatic problem solving. In challenging situations, he maintains an overview and provides clarity through targeted communication.

Credentials In his positions in the trading and service industry, as a project manager in the fields of ser-vice/sales, in the planning and implementation of new sales and marketing strategies and in the management of key accounts, Leon Zipfel found his strength early on in customer- centricity. Even at a young age, Leon Zipfel was given a lot of responsibility and took on the recruitment of new employees and provided them with targeted support during their onboarding period. As an opera-tional project manager in the ERP project, he keeps an eye on the planning and satisfaction of the key users and strengthens them in their roles with a high level of empathy for the people involved.

Beratungsstil Leon Zipfel’s work is solution-focused and customer-oriented, and his consultations always contain a high degree of empathy for people. Through a clear understanding of roles, he always challenges people to fulfil their role and the associated responsibility.

He focuses on the cultural and personal aspects of his clients to ensure efficient and meaningful implementation and a high level of satisfaction in the project.

• Each individual contributes to achieving heights together that would be unattainable alone.
• Mutual respect is the foundation for successful collaboration.
• Working together and overcoming difficulties jointly not only creates success, but also ensures a fulfilling and motivating path to a solution.

What is your personal leitmotif?
Treat everyone with the same respect and kindness that you would expect yourself.

What fascinates you about your job?
The diversity of people, new challenges all the time and an inspiring team.

What ingredients are needed for a consultation to turn out really good?
Empathy, mutual trust, and a focus on solutions.

What is your favorite pastime?
Bartending, sports, and backpacking.

What’s something you really enjoy?
I really enjoy overcoming difficult challenges together as a team.

andreas.buttler@p5-empowering.de // +49 151 230 360 23

Industry experience Andreas Buttler has many years of experience in IT, the textile industry and retail, as well as in consulting. His focus is on the end-to-end integration of core processes in the organization and their corresponding mapping in application systems. He has also played a key role in shaping the transformation from a B2B to an omnichannel-oriented company in a global environment.

Credentials Over 20 years of experience in corporate IT at HUGO BOSS, including the implementation of strategic projects, global programs and the development of an international IT organization. Head of the Competence Center Sales & Marketing Solutions at KPS AG as well as initiation and implementation of transformation initiatives at Red Bull and KaDeWe in the SAP S/4 environment.

Consulting style Andreas Buttler works question-oriented, inclusive and contributes his conceptual strengths to jointly finding solutions with the customer. A sustainable enterprise application architecture is just as important to him as user-friendliness for the client. His structured approach helps him to successfully organize and manage project work.

• Authenticity and openness are the basis for a long-term customer relationship
• Goals must be realistic, but can certainly be defined ambitiously so that they are achievable
• Methodology is important, but what is more important is good teamwork and a high level of joint motivation

What is your personal leitmotif?
You can achieve a lot if you really want to. A high degree of self-motivation is important.

What fascinates you about your job?
Working with people and the fact that good solutions, even for major challenges, are always created through collaboration.

What are the ingredients a consultation needs to become really good?
Understanding of the different needs of the people involved. A clear, coordinated vision and the corresponding, guiding moderation along the way.

What is your favorite pastime?
Cycling in the warmer seasons and skiing in winter.

What’s something you really enjoy?
Achieving things together as a team and celebrating success after hard work.