Your business coaches
Our approach, Our team
Our primary goal is to support small and medium-sized companies in commercial and strategic issues and projects. We are committed to steering the course towards profitable growth and supporting our clients on their path to sustainable corporate success.
Our mission: We accompany you
Our mission is to use coaching – as opposed to temporary consulting – to help companies get back on the road to success under their own steam. We guide employees to act more economically and focus on greater efficiency in their own and related processes. This approach not only strengthens the individual competence of each person, but also transforms entire teams in order to achieve your corporate goals more effectively.
Our values
- High level of expertise & integrity: Our experts can quickly familiarize themselves with your business processes and effectively optimize them thanks to their cross-industry expertise.
- Operational excellence: We always strive for the highest quality and efficiency in everything we do.
- Entrepreneurial spirit: We promote creativity and innovation to maximize economic opportunities.
- Economic added value: Our actions are aimed at creating significant added value for our clients.
- Holistic and sustainable action: We consider the long-term impact of our decisions on the environment and society.
Our team: Your experts
Our team consists of experts with a wide range of skills and in-depth industry experience. We are committed to understanding our clients’ structures and offering customized solutions that bring about real change.
Claudia Hoffmann-Hiestermann
Managing Partner & Founder ECO Profit Coaching GmbH
Branch experience
Claudia Hoffmann-Hiestermann is the founder and managing partner of ECO Profit Coaching GmbH. With her extensive experience spanning the plumbing, rail supply, plastics, electronics, automotive, insurance, engineering and tourism industries, Claudia brings a rare diversity of perspectives and expertise to her work.
Professional background
As an experienced manager and strategist, she has held important positions in various companies and industries, including Head of Project Management Offices, Unit Manager in Strategic Consulting, Controller, Corporate Planner and Commercial Director. Their roles led them to report directly to CEOs and included managing complex projects such as due diligence reviews, successful mergers, reorganizations, the introduction of digitalization strategies and the establishment of international plants in countries such as China, Russia and Mexico.
Expertise
Project management and controlling are Claudia Hoffmann-Hiestermann’s specialties. Their work led to the introduction of strategic and transformation concepts that resulted in significant improvements and savings in production costs and the establishment of state-of-the-art digital production processes.
Its outstanding achievements include the establishment of one of the most modern and fully automated production plants in Germany in the rail supply industry, which has achieved savings of up to 30% in production costs through optimization projects.
It also successfully implemented M&A projects worth up to EUR 550 million. Strategic thinking combined with practical problem solving and a dynamic, creative way of thinking characterize her. A high level of personal responsibility and a diplomatic and communicative manner make her the ideal partner for managing directors, board members and decision-makers who want to make lasting changes in their companies.
Her intercultural management knowledge, gained through projects in countries such as China, Russia, Mexico and the UAE, strengthens her ability to think globally and act locally.
Hartwig Hiestermann
Senior Consultant ECO Profit Coaching GmbH
Branch experience
Hartwig Hiestermann can draw on 37 years of professional experience in special machine manufacturing, thereof 24 years as Managing Director. During this time, he was responsible for engineering, production and international sales in medium-sized companies. With his 41 years of experience as a graduate engineer, he brings keen technical knowledge and comprehensive branch experience into his work.
Professional background
As an experienced executive and graduate engineer, Hartwig Hiestermann has worked in significant positions in various companies and industries. Most recently, he was Senior Consultant Sales at Gräbener Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co. KG. Prior to that, he was Managing Director of Sales of the same company. Further stations in his career include the role of Managing Director at well-known companies such as Danieli W+K in Dortmund, RSA GmbH in Lüdenscheid, VAI Seuthe GmbH in Hemer and as Managing Director of Technology at Reika GmbH in Hagen. He started his professional career as an Authorized Officer at Bültmann GmbH in Neuenrade and as Head of Engineering at Seuthe GmbH in Hemer. His early years he spent as Group Leader Engineering at Keiper Recaro in Schwäbisch Hall.
Expertise
Strategic and targeted strategies for challenging tasks form the base of Hartwig Hiestermann’s successful business coaching in various areas of technically focused SMEs. Based on his vast experience in executive positions, he can provide support in all areas of engineering. He provides valuable experience in the international project business in particular – from acquisition, via engineering design and project organization, through to customer acceptance and After Sales.
Especially in the field of special machine building, where tailor-made solutions are often the decisive factor in contract awards, his professional knowledge is a great advantage. Many medium-sized companies often lack the time and qualified personnel to draw up technical specifications and establish independent comparative criteria when making technical investments. Hartwig Hiestermann can provide interim and project-related support, ensuring that internal resources are not strained further.
His sector-specific knowledge is based on 38 years of experience in the production and processing of pipes, from precision tubes with a diameter of 5 mm to large pipes with a diameter of 16 m in the offshore wind industry. This extensive knowledge enables him to develop tailored solutions that meet the specific requirements of companies and ensure sustainable success.
Our network
Our vast network of experts enables us to swiftly bring in the right specialists according to the requirements of the project. This allows us to flexibly expand our range of services and provide you with highly specialized services in fields such as research & development, supply chain management, production optimization, plant set-ups as well as tax and auditing. This ensures us to always achieve the best results for our customers.
Selection of our network partners
With these experts we regularly work together.
Labor law & foundation law topics
Lawyer Christina Vogt
Interim network partner
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