Prof. Dr. Gunther Olesch

Corporate success through corporate culture

Prof. Dr. Gunther Olesch has 20 years of experience in business management at Phoenix Contact GmbH Co. KG, a globally leading company in electrical connection technology. As an expert in excellent leadership culture and human resources, he demonstrates practically how companies can achieve above-average success through motivated employees. Recognized as one of the leading HR managers in Germany and HR Manager of the Year, he shares his knowledge on employee engagement and talent retention.

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Vita

Until August 2021, I worked for 20 years on the management team at Phoenix Contact GmbH Co. KG. My areas of responsibility were Human Relations, Information Technology, and Facility Management Engineering. Today, with approximately 22,000 employees and a turnover of €3.5 billion, the company is the global market leader in electrical and electronic connection technology. Phoenix Contact has received numerous awards for excellent human resources and corporate culture. Therefore, as a practitioner and not as a consultant, I present how an excellent leadership culture can inspire employees and thus achieve above-average company success and attract and retain good specialists and workers despite demographic challenges. I was honored to be named one of Germany's leading human resources managers by the magazine Personalmagazin in its biennial survey in 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2011, and 2009. In 2020 and 2021, I was named HR Manager of the Year by Markt & Technik.

Topics

I have also implemented all topics operationally as a managing director in an international company and am not a theoretical consultant. The listener will therefore learn tangible know-how from practical experience.

Attracting and retaining specialists

How do I attract more employees than my competitors?
How do I retain employees?
How can I make my company more successful through enthusiastic employees?

Corporate success through employee enthusiasm

How can employee performance and identification be increased?
What role do employee needs play in this?
How do I measure the success of employer attractiveness for the company?

Getting employees excited about digitalization

How can a company strengthen its employees' ability to innovate?
How can digital transformation be successfully implemented in a company?
What roles do corporate and leadership culture play?

Courage for the future

Germany is better than the public would have us believe!
What are the most important factors that will make us more successful in the future?
What visions do we need for this?

References & Press

In 2020 and 2021, I was named HR Manager of the Year by Markt & Technik. I also had the honor of being named one of Germany's leading HR managers in 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2011 and 2009 by the magazine Personalmagazin in its biennial survey. This makes me the only manager to have received this recognition six times and I have been inducted into the HR Hall of Fame.

Dear Prof. Dr. Olesch,
First of all, I would like to thank you very much, also on behalf of the participants, for the exciting and rousing presentation on Friday at Schubert in Crailsheim. In the final discussion of the event, all (!!!) participants gave me very positive feedback and promised to motivate the respective managing directors.
Many thanks and lots of energy for your future.
Yours sincerely
Matthias Schäfer

Dear Mr. Olesch,
I was able to attend your presentation today at the Austrian Logistics Day in Linz and would like to congratulate you! Great, inspiring, authentic! I was CEO of the TGW Logistics Group for 17 years and am now Chief Logistics Officer at the XXXLutz Group. Human Resources Development has always been “my” topic - thank you for allowing me to find myself in your performance today! I would be delighted if our paths crossed and we could have an informal exchange about people's development and other related topics.
Yours sincerely,
Georg Kirchmayr

Phoenix Contact has received various awards for excellent corporate culture: