Dr. Torsten Schmid

• Senior consultant at osb international
• Focus areas: strategy development, organizational design/development, change management
• Leadership trainer and coach
• Member of the supervisory board of an innovation and technology firm
• Lecturer and senior researcher at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
• Author of numerous professional articles and books in the fields of strategy, organizational design, and change

Recent consulting activities

• Organizational design, such as new organizational structures, role definition, and process organization/management
• Strategic renewal and repositioning, including strategy in the context of digital platforms and ecosystems
• Establishing new leadership systems and team development in the context of strategic change processes, with a particular focus on collaboration capabilities and synergies
• Designing and conducting leadership development programs (including potential analysis)
• Change management, transformation, agile change
• Strategy implementation, restructuring, and cost reduction

Professional Background

• European Business Administration at the Universities of Bamberg (Germany) and Alcalá de Henares (Spain)
• PhD from the University of St. Gallen (Dr. oec., summa cum laude)
• Extensive experience in organizational and strategy consulting and leadership development in large corporations and family-owned businesses
• Certified in potential analysis (Hogan, Harrison), ongoing training, including systemic methods and sustainability (London School of Economics)
• Executive education and research projects at the University of St. Gallen in the areas of strategy processes, organizational design, and change management
• Visiting Scholar at the Center for Organizational Research, University of California Irvine (USA)

»In my consulting and leadership development, I combine scientific precision with a consistent focus on the solutions and potentialities from within the system.«