Caroline Müllner

Leadership & Culture Development

Who I am

I am a leadership and culture developer. My clients work with me as leaders, senior management teams and teams in mid-sized and internationally active companies and organisations.

What I do

I develop modern leadership approaches for my clients, along with a culture in which strategies can take effect – so that management decisions are actually implemented successfully on the ground.

How I work

With business-minded pragmatism and psychological depth. I combine straight talk with a genuine understanding of people and teams. And I stay with it – until leadership and culture truly carry strategic initiatives.

Leadership & Culture Development

Focus

Caroline Müllner advises, coaches and trains in four areas:

  • Leadership & culture development
  • Modern leadership & team dynamics
  • Self-leadership & personal impact
  • Resilience, change & mental strength

Her workshops, coaching sessions and training programmes combine business-minded pragmatism with psychological depth. She developed the conceptual foundation of her approach in her book «Emotional intelligent führen: authentisch, motivierend, wirksam» (Leading with Emotional Intelligence: Authentic, Motivating, Effective) (Springer Gabler, 2nd edition 2021). In it, she shows how leadership shapes culture and drives effective strategy implementation.

Experience

Caroline's many years of leadership experience – including as a director at SIX Swiss Exchange – and more than 500 leadership seminars form the foundation of what she does today. She knows what leadership training can achieve. But she also knows its limits. This is why she works to embed a corporate culture on which strategic initiatives can succeed.

She heads the Centre for Team Leadership and Self-Management at the St. Gallen Business School and lectures at the WEKA practical seminars and various corporate universities. She also runs her own practice for executive coaching, mental strength and resilience.

References

Caroline Müllner has worked since 2014 with leaders and teams from major brands, mid-sized companies and public institutions.

These include Hugo Boss, Sonova, Vontobel, Helsana Versicherungen, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, BDO (audit & advisory), Hengeler Mueller (lawyers), Homburger (lawyers), the Principality of Liechtenstein, Zühlke Engineering, Safran Vectronix, IVF Hartmann, Hoffmann Neopac, Datwyler Sealing Technologies and many others.

Caroline Müllner at a glance

  • Expert in leadership and leadership culture
  • 20 years of professional and leadership experience in international companies (including Sonova and SIX Swiss Exchange)
  • Author of the widely cited leadership book «Emotional intelligent führen: authentisch, motivierend, wirksam» (Leading with Emotional Intelligence: Authentic, Motivating, Effective) (Müllner/Müllner, 2nd edition)
  • Head of the Centre for Team Leadership and Self-Management at the St. Gallen Business School
  • Leadership lecturer at the WEKA practical seminars
  • Certified Systemic Coach (CAS)
  • Advanced training in individual psychology, holistic health counselling, and mental self-leadership and resource-oriented readiness for change
  • Master's-level degree in business administration (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
  • Advises and teaches in German, English and French