Dr. Christoph Rohloff

Managing Partner

 

Dr. Christoph Rohloff

✔ Systemic Consultant with 20 yrs+ intl. experience – Japan, China, US, Europe
✔ Post Merger Integration, Transformation & Change Management
✔ Complex cross-border and cross-culture settings

Christoph is Managing Partner at ‘frankfurter gruppe | corporate devopment’ with 20yrs+ experience in complex, cross-border and cross-culture change projects, i.e., Post-Merger Integration and Transformation projects.

Before consulting, he was working in the press manufacturing industry with positions in Business Development and as Managing Director in Germany and in the UK with a focus on M&A, large-scale reorganizations and process optimizations.

 

He worked and studied 4 yrs. in Tokyo, Japan (B.A. Sophia Univ.) and received a M.A. from Heidelberg Univ., a Ph.D. from Duisburg Univ. and a M.B.A. from Steinbeis University.

He has additional qualifications as certified systemic consultant for change management, mediator for teams and organizations, design thinking and lean change management expert.

Since 2009 Christoph is also teaching management courses at the European Business School and HHL – Graduate School Leipzig

Working languages: German (native), English (fluent), French (basic) Japanese (basic)

Qualifications

  • B.A. Comparative Culture Studies, Sophia University Tokyo
  • M.A. Political Science, History,
    Japanese Studies, Univ. Heidelberg
  • Executive M.B.A. Entrepreneurial Management at Steinbeis Univ. Berlin
  • Dr. phil. at Univ. Duisburg-Essen (“Conflict and systemic change”)
  • Cert. business mediator (BMC Oboth)
  • Cert. Systemic consultant in change processes (ISB Wiesloch)
  • Cert. Risk manager (TÜV Süd)

Professional CV

1991–2006:

  • Senior research fellow for conflict and crisis studies at Univ. Heidelberg and Duisburg-Essen
  • Chairman Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research
  • Business Development at Metronic AG, Printing & Coding Systems
  • Board Director at Metronic Printing & Coding Ltd., UK
  • Senior Consultant at IFOK GmbH – Institute for Organizational Communication
  • Since 2009: Senior Lecturer at the European Business School
  • Since 2007: Partner frankfurter gruppe Unternehmenentwicklung

Expertise & focus

  • Systemic consulting in change processes
  • Project coaching and project management training
  • Change consulting in restructuring and post merger integration processes
  • Quality, risk and innovation management
  • Facilitation, mediation and conflict management
  • Training and coaching for teams and leaders