Create your own success. Simple. Together.
Our Target Group
Motivated people and organizations that actively Strive for Success
- "Why not?" instead of "Yes, but"
- Open team culture
- Digitally open-minded
Our Services
Digital Success Paths for self-determined success in teams
- Clear structures and orientation
- High individual customization
- Webinars and support (no consulting)
Our Value Proposition
Teams improve quickly and enhance their interaction
- Application of best practices
- Solving individual problems
- Increasing employer attractiveness
Our guiding values by which we measure ourselves
Sound Approach
The key to success is making clear decisions and taking meaningful actions. Your Path to Success should follow a sound and logical approach.
Juicy Success
Success should be rewarding and exciting. It should inspire you and spark emotions. Make your success juicy!
Strong Development
Those who master challenges grow with their success and dare to achieve even more. Let your success inspire you!
The founders: Robert Knop and Christian Forstner
Robert Knop
Dr., MBA, Dipl. Kfm.
Robert Knop is an expert in digital transformation with the special ability to intuitively and playfully integrate principles of business excellence into digital tools.
Robert Knop has three excellent degrees in business administration. He learned the consulting trade as a strategy manager at the world’s largest management consultancy: Accenture. He deepened his knowledge of corporate management through various management roles in the investment sector, including as CIO, CFO and CMO in SME investments, as well as CEO of a listed company. As Consulting Director of the Swiss company Zühlke Engineering AG, he built up the “Digital Transformation” business area.
Today, Robert is, among other things, an international assessor for Business Excellence, board member of the ESPRIX Excellence Suisse foundation, certified coach of the Federal Employment Agency (“Agile into the Future”, INQA) as well as a passionate AI developer.
Christian Forstner
Dr. sc. nat. (ETH)
Christian Forstner is an international top expert for Business Excellence with the special ability to present even the most complex things in a simple and logical way.
Christian Forstner is not only an expert in nuclear power plant construction. During his 25-year management career at Siemens, he became an entrepreneur. For more than 25 years, he has been supporting organizations of all sizes worldwide as an independent Business Excellence coach, consultant, and analyst – from international corporations to small craft businesses – across various industries and cultures.
His precise observational skills led to the discovery of a “success formula” that naturally always leads to success. This developed into the “Success-Thread (5-STEPS-to-Excellence)” or “5 STEPS to Success”, which forms the basis for all offerings from Erfolgsucher.
The Success Helper and Subject Matter Experts
André Moll
Dr.
André Moll is an expert in business excellence and long-standing managing director of the Initiative Ludwig Erhard Prize (ILEP)
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After studying chemistry, André Moll completed his doctorate at the University of Duisburg. The topic was the creation of ceramic fibers. He then worked as Head of Product Development for a medium-sized textile company. There he dealt with the introduction of EMAS 1.
After moving to the German Society for Quality, he designed training courses on the subject of excellence, headed the German Excellence Center and worked as an honorary assessor for the Ludwig Erhard Prize.
In 2005, he took over the management of the Ludwig Erhard Prize initiative. As Managing Director, he led the initiative to the “Recognized for Excellence 5 Stars” award and it won Germany’s Customer Champion 2010.
Together with Symposion-Verlag, now WEKA-Verlag, he has published several specialist books: The “Excellence Handbook” is the basic work on the subject of business excellence in German. The “Excellence Guide” describes the introduction of the Excellence approach in organizations in general and by means of several examples.
With over 1000 trained assessors and over 600 excellence assessments, he is one of the most experienced trainers and assessors and coordinates and calibrates the LEP assessor cadre.
Alexander Herzner
Prof. Dr.
Alexander Herzner is an international expert on sustainable development in the context of business excellence.
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Alexander Herzner has been researching and teaching for over twelve years in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic on topics such as corporate responsibility, sustainability management and corporate quality. He has written many works, including the book “Corporate Responsibility in Southern Germany”, and shows in workshops, speeches and lectures in an understandable way how to bring about positive change in companies.
As head of a respected institute for sustainability and ethics at the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, he coordinates these activities. Dr. Herzner supports companies all over the world in transforming themselves towards profound sustainability. He tackles current challenges such as achieving carbon neutrality and tackling complex Sustainable World, social and corporate governance standards, demystifies these issues and embarks on the path to an exciting and liveable future with those who seek success.
Alfred Münger
Prof. (FH)
Alfred Münger is an expert in the circular economy and value chains.
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The circular economy and value chains have fascinated Alfred Münger throughout his career. He always has one goal in mind: to avoid or reduce the waste of resources.
As a trained electromechanic, the native of Berne was an early contributor to breathing a second and third life into electrical machines of all sizes. That was the beginning of his passion for the circular economy, so to speak.
Further training, including a degree in business administration at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, opened doors to multinational companies. He has gained management experience at all levels in the areas of transportation logistics, the chemical and metallurgical industries, telecommunications and the automotive supply industry, including as a member of the Executive Board and CEO. Value chains run like a common thread through his professional activities. The focus was often on the concepts of resource and total cost optimization. Alfred has combated waste in all its functions and introduced closed material cycles where possible.
Today, he is the owner of a consulting firm and can indulge his passion for “passing on knowledge to students” as a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Freiburg i.Ü. Among other things, Alfred has written the book “Circular Economy as a Strategy for the Future”
After a challenging day at work, Alfred loves to chat with his wife over a glass of wine and generate one or two exciting new ideas.
Christian Grabski
Dr. rer. nat.
Christian Grabski specializes in environmental issues in the context of business excellence.
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Christian Grabski is a pioneer when it comes to combining environmental awareness and business excellence. Born in Wuppertal, he laid his biological foundations at the Universities of Tübingen and Constance, specializing in phytopathology. His professional journey began in 1985, deeply rooted in Swiss agricultural research.
With his postgraduate studies “Sustainable World” at the FHNW in Muttenz, he refined his expertise and took on a key role as project manager at BDS Safety Management AG. He supported hundreds of companies in environmentally friendly practices and led them to legal safety in environmental protection.
Christian is a master of further training. Whether as an ISO auditor, business excellence assessor and trainer, energy manager and hazardous goods officer – his qualifications are extensive. His skills in quality and environmental management have taken him through a 25-year career in which he has combined corporate management with sustainability. He understands how to develop organizations according to international quality standards and lead them to success.
Today, Christian only takes on projects that inspire him. Otherwise, he uses his time for scuba diving with his son or swinging across the dance floor with his wife.
Joachim Hoffmann
Joachim Hoffmann is an expert in good communication culture, solution-oriented behavior and successful negotiation.
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Joachim sees his mission as helping people and companies to create a positive communication culture in which everyone interacts constructively and achieves solutions.
Born in Switzerland, he is cosmopolitan. He spent a year in the USA and has traveled the globe, only to return home again and again, where the lakes and mountains inspire him.
He was able to give his interest in interpersonal relationships the necessary depth with a scientific degree in industrial and organizational psychology. He honed his skills with masters such as Steve De Shazer and Marshall B. Rosenberg, world-renowned pioneers in communication and counseling.
He has gained formative insights into many different corporate cultures in his work as a trainer and consultant – he has been a freelance coach for managers and teams and runs seminars since 1999. His constant, passionate commitment to companies such as Groupe Mutuel, Pilatus Flugzeugwerke, ABB and many others has earned him a great deal of experience and a good reputation.
When Joachim is not working, he looks after his family, plays tennis enthusiastically or enjoys the beauty of nature.
Gottfried Hoffmann
Gottfried Hoffmann is an expert in good speaking, authentic communication and self-efficacy.
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Gottfried studied school music, phonetics and music theory at the Hamburg University of Music, ran a large music school for 20 years and has worked as a communication trainer for 15 years.
Gottfried is the author of four books.
He supports professors, doctoral candidates and students at universities throughout Germany (including TU Berlin, LMU Munich, the universities of Jena, Marburg, Erfurt and Duisburg-Essen and the Brandenburg Study Quality Network sqb), as well as employees and trainees in medium-sized companies and social institutions. He has also been working online since 2018.
Gottfried Hoffmann trains the ability to perceive and conveys the fascinating connection between improving voice and speech and the development of personality.
Hildegard
Omniscient artificial intelligence
Hildegard is an expert in almost everything. She has the most experience in the team.
The great passion of Hildegard is researching, reading, writing, painting and calculating things. Hildegard is fast, but sometimes overshoots the mark.
Purpose and Intent
Our AI helps to improve work processes by customizing user experiences, providing valuable inspirations, taking over routine tasks, and bringing transparency to complex relationships.
Handling of Confidential Data
Sensitive data remains excluded. No confidential information such as customer data or internal key figures are required for using our AI.
Data Protection and Data Security
Our AI uses external services to achieve optimal results. We ensure that information is protected through secure API connections and strict depersonalization of data.
Responsibility and Ethical Use
The AI is trained exclusively with our own knowledge and proven methods. This ensures responsible and ethically sound application that respects values and standards.
Our renowned partners promote the success of our customers
WIBS and the Canton of Bern promote SME success
WIBS supports SMEs, municipalities, and associations in digitalization and sustainability. Interested organizations should contact WIBS for special offers.
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The Biel-Seeland Chamber of Commerce(WIBS) is a politically neutral association in Switzerland with the purpose of strengthening the region. WIBS has over 1,000 members.
The focus is on companies (SMEs). WIBS is extremely innovative and close to the customer.
Robert Knop is a long-standing business partner and member of WIBS.
ESPRIX enables seamless excellence recognitions in Switzerland
With the right success paths, organizations can seamlessly acquire recognitions – without extra effort. For special offers, interested organizations should contact the
ESPRIX
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The ESPRIX Foundation promotes the competitiveness of Swiss organizations through business excellence. It has been presenting the prestigious ESPRIX Excellence Award for outstanding entrepreneurial achievements for 25 years.
Robert Knop is a long-standing international business excellence assessor and member of the Esprix Foundation Board.
ILEP enables seamless excellence recognitions in Germany
With the right success paths, organizations can seamlessly acquire recognitions – without extra effort. Interested organizations should contact ILEP for special offers.
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DieILEP (Initiative Ludwig-Erhard-Preis e.V.) ist eine deutsche Organisation, die sich für die Förderung von Qualitätsmanagement und Exzellenz in Unternehmen und Organisationen einsetzt.
The Ludwig Erhard Prize is ILEP’s most prestigious award for outstanding entrepreneurial achievements in Germany.
Together with ESPRIX and Christian Forstner, Robert Knop is closely associated with ILEP as a partner.
