About - Value In Action

About Me

About mE

I work at the intersection of leadership, strategy, and organizational development.
My focus is not on optimizing leadership, but on making it truly effective.

I understand leadership as a logic of decision-making and impact
that connects behavior, impact, and people decisions.

In my work, I combine hands-on leadership experience
with reflection and dialogue.
I work calmly, in a structured and dialog-oriented way —
with the aim of creating clarity where complexity requires orientation.

What interests me is not what leadership promises,
but what it actually delivers in everyday practice.

How I work

My work centers on a core question:
why does leadership create impact and why does that impact so often remain invisible?

From this inquiry emerged the framework Behaviour, Impact & People Decisions (VWP®).

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Ich bringe viele Jahre internationaler Erfahrung in den Bereichen Führung, Transformation und Organisationsentwicklung mit.
In leitenden Positionen habe ich globale Teams geführt, die Verantwortung für komplexe Transformations- und Veränderungsinitiativen übernommen und eng mit Führungskräften sowie den Bereichen Personal und Kultur zusammengearbeitet.

Zu meinen Erfahrungen gehören unter anderem:

Leading and developing international teams

Steering strategic transformation and change initiatives

Working with executive leadership and HR at a strategic level

Designing decision-making processes around roles, responsibility, and development

I have seen how strong strategies fail because of leadership and what it takes for them to translate into real impact in everyday practice.

Testimonials

I worked with Dr. Thierry Tchoumi for several years as my direct manager and owe a substantial part of my development as a department head and leader to him. Although I already had several years of leadership experience, it was only under his leadership that I truly understood what effective and responsible leadership means. Dr. Thierry Tchoumi recognized my potential at an early stage and supported my development in a highly targeted manner through challenging responsibilities, clear expectations, and consistent development initiatives. At the same time, he provided honest feedback, coaching, and a high level of trust. As a result, I was able to develop significantly not only in terms of professional expertise, but especially in my mindset, leadership impact, and personal maturity as a leader.

I had the privilege of working with Dr. Thierry Tchoumi for several years as my direct line manager, and I owe a significant part of my professional and leadership development to him. I assumed my first leadership role under his guidance and, during this time, grew into my position both professionally and personally. Dr. Thierry Tchoumi recognized my potential at an early stage and supported me in a highly targeted manner through challenging responsibilities, clear expectations, and consistent development impulses. At the same time, he accompanied me with honest feedback, coaching, and a high level of trust. This enabled me to develop a solid understanding of accountability, decision-making, and effective leadership.

Dr. Thierry Tchoumi has extensive experience in leading complex organizations and in the successful execution of demanding transformation initiatives. During our collaboration at executive management level, I experienced him as a strategically strong, reliable, and impact-driven leadership partner who assumed responsibility for strategic initiatives, cross-functional programs, and international teams with a high degree of professional and cultural diversity. He combines strategic and analytical thinking with consistent execution and is particularly distinguished by his ability to structure complex issues through direct, peer-level dialogue, develop robust decision-making foundations, and represent them clearly, concisely, and convincingly at executive and board level.

Dr. Thierry Tchoumi is a highly effective executive leader distinguished by clarity, reliability, and a strong focus on sustainable organizational and leadership development. In senior leadership roles, he has successfully led and developed large, international organizations and complex teams, consistently strengthening collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across functions and cultures. His leadership style is characterized by trust, strong interpersonal competence, and clear strategic expectations. In particular, he demonstrates the ability to guide organizations confidently through complex transformation and change initiatives, aligning diverse stakeholder interests and translating strategic objectives into operationally effective structures and behaviors. Dr. Thierry Tchoumi builds stable, high-performing organizations and is widely recognized by both employees and executive peers as a credible, committed, and highly respected leadership personality. As a senior sparring partner, he combines strategic perspective with execution discipline and makes a measurable contribution to organizational performance, resilience, and cultural maturity. I recommend Dr. Thierry Tchoumi without reservation for senior executive roles with comprehensive responsibility for leadership, organizational development, and results.

Hello Thierry! I hope you are well. I learned of your departure from SKAN via internal communication and wanted to write you a small note in private. I wanted to sincerely thank you for the period during which I had the opportunity to work under your responsibility. Your management, your vision, and your way of instilling confidence in teams have meant a lot to me and remain among the best experiences of my career. I wish you all the best for the future, both professionally and personally, and I hope our paths cross again. 😊

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Wenn Sie einen Denkanstoß, einen Dialog oder ein Sparring für Führungskräfte suchen, würde ich mich über Ihre Nachricht freuen.