Gerald Huesch is an internationally recognised authority on leadership. He is the developer and founder of LEAD21, the leadership operating system: 21 evidence-based methods that make leadership as systematic, measurable and scalable as Salesforce makes sales or SAP makes finance. LEAD21 defines its own category – operational leadership as a system rather than a collection of isolated initiatives.
His focus is on situations where leadership has to work under maximum pressure: large-scale transformation, post-merger integration and extreme growth. In exactly these phases, strategies rarely fail on the plan – they fail on missing alignment, unclear execution and leadership teams that do not operate as one system. LEAD21 is the missing link between strategy and performance.
Over more than 25 years, Gerald Huesch has trained and accompanied more than 30,000 executives and managers in over 30 countries – board members, CEOs, division heads and high potentials from more than 230 companies, including NASA, Rolls-Royce, Airbus and Omnicom, as well as ambitious start-ups and scale-ups. The leaders he has worked with carry a combined responsibility of more than EUR 550 billion.
He is the founder of the Global Leadership School in Berlin, Global Leadership Consultancy L.L.C. in Dubai and the Global Leadership Society, director of the Center of Behavioural Leadership at St. Gallen Business School, TEDx speaker (“The Future of Leadership”), speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos (House of Trust), member of the Senate of the Economy and investor.
His offering comprises executive leadership training, leadership development for leadership teams, transformation and change programmes for organisations, and 1:1 executive mentoring – for executives in Germany, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the UAE, in German and English, online and in person. The foundation is always LEAD21, complemented by a proprietary evidence survey that measures the impact of every programme on clarity, alignment, efficiency, collaboration, performance and stress.