About us

Prof. Dr. Claudia Nagel

  • As an expert in strategy and change processes, Dr Claudia Nagel advises both companies and managerial staff.
  • After a bank apprenticeship and Business Administration studies in Cologne and Paris (HEC), she obtained a Dr. phil. in Organisational Psychology with a dissertation on Volkswagen’s corporate culture.
  • This was followed by various university teaching positions and a management role at a research institute (Institute for Business Ethics).
  • Her next step initially involved taking on project management roles in the field of banking before moving to corporate consultancy (Gemini Consulting), where she primarily designed and assisted with company-wide change processes.
  • After this came managerial positions within the field of banking (Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse). She was a partner of an executive search company, where she was responsible for selecting and coaching executives.
  • While working, she also completed postgraduate studies at the ISAP in Zurich, and is a psychoanalyst according to C. G. Jung.
  • She now runs her own consultancy company, NAGEL & COMPANY Management Consulting, which was formed from the company Mercurius Management Consulting, founded in 2005, and takes the internal development of the psychoanalytical business administration strategic consultancy approach into account.
  • Since March 2016 she is appointed as Visiting Proefssor within Hull University Business School, UK. She is also Research Fellow at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen.
  • In Nov 2020 Claudia Nagel was appointed as full professor at the VU with a chair on change and identity in public-private-partnerships. This chair is part of a larger research program regarding ppp and fighting financial crime.
  • Prof. Dr Claudia Nagel has lived and worked in Paris, New York and London and speaks fluent English, French and Spanish.

Partner

The Nagel & Company team is made up of experienced colleagues. With their different fields of specialisation, they enable us to provide our customers with extensive coaching and consultancy services.

Cooperations

Within the various business fields, we have a tried-and-tested network of competent service providers in order to reliably fulfil the many different customer requirements.

Commitment

We are actively involved in art and culture because these enrich our lives and inspire us in our work.

Former president
Former president 
Commercial judge
Commercial judge 
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President elect 
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President of the book advisory board 
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Member of the board of trustees for music 
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Patron at the board of trustees for play 
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Supporting member 
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Statements

Dr. Nagel and I got to know and appreciate each other on a podium discussion. Her straightforwardness, her openness, and the willingness to take unusual ways and stay true to herself are traits that created a desire for collaboration. It is not surprising that our first joint "project" did not really fit into the usual coaching offer of Dr. Nagel, but it demonstrates that she is also concerned with the development of young female high potentials.Based on her experience and analytical abilities, Dr. Nagel gives strong support for personal development as well as for managing expectations. What I personally also very much like about working with Dr. Nagel is her constant search for new challenges and creative business ideas as well as her absolute team spirit.

Gertraud Dirscherl
Partner, Member of the Leadership Team Transaction & Restructuring at KPMG AG

n my opinion, Dr. Nagel can offer an extremely unique combination of consulting services since she can support both the strategic- and business-related area as well as the interpersonal, team-oriented area. In this fashion, both the content-related requirements as well as the effective collaboration of a group can be addressed simultaneously in order to achieve better long-term business results. On a personal level, I thoroughly enjoy engaging in discussions with Dr. Nagel and I am always able to take away new ideas from our conversations. Based on her background, Dr. Nagel is in a position to highlight correlations more in depth and her insights normally go above and beyond what is considered standard.

Elke Strathmann,

Mitglied des Vorstands

I have got to know Dr Nagel as a professional and goal-oriented presenter and consultant, who worked out differences in groups in a remarkable way and developed "liberating" solutions with the group. She has an unerring understanding of how disagreements and divergent perspectives are to be transformed into joint initiatives and activities for the benefit of stakeholders and the company.

Gerhard Berssenbrügge,
CEO, Nestlé Deutschland AG

On a conceptual level, Dr. Nagel provided our company with valuable ideas during our important integration process. I would like to especially emphasize her dual approach of supporting psychodynamic processes through economic success factors. I really value Dr. Nagel’s empathy with which she approaches the people involved in the project. I got to know Dr. Nagel in another regard as someone who always identifies and consistently follows new business ideas – and in doing so does not shy away from any challenges. That never ceases to impress me.

Gabriele Willems,
Leiterin Strategie, HOCHTIEF Solution AG

From the onset, the collaboration with Dr. Nagel during the strategy and management team building process was professional and enjoyable. Even the briefing and analysis phases were very target-oriented, which played a substantial role during the project’s further progression and its ultimate success. Aside from her training as a psychoanalyst, you just get the impression that Claudia Nagel draws on a broad base of diverse consulting experience. Beyond this, Dr. Nagel can rely on her profound knowledge and experience from diverse managerial functions. These distinguish her in a positive sense from many other consultants. Empathy, professionalism and the ability to never lose sight of the final goal define Dr. Nagel as a consulting partner, and I can highly recommend her!

Bernd-Thomas Hohman,
CEO Henry Schein Deutschland

The Royal Bank of Scotland has been working very successfully with Dr. Nagel in Frankfurt for many years. We especially value her competence, her experience, her empathy and understanding as well as her ability to place human values, personal development and, in turn, progress into the context of corporate performance.

Dr. Ingrid Hengster,
Country Executive Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Royal Bank of Scotland

Publications

Since 2008 Claudia Nagel has focused on the nascent subject Behavioral Strategy and enhanced her approach of psychodynamic strategy consulting and coaching. In 2013 she published the world's first book on this topic.

Behavioral Strategy. Thoughts and Feelings in the decision-making process. The unconscious and the company's sucess.

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Contact

Nagel & Company GmbH Leadership Consulting
Dr. Claudia Nagel

Lili Tempel
Herrnstrasse 100
63065 Offenbach am Main
Germany 

Phone +49 69 742299-10
Mobile +40 1736732772

info@nagel-company.com

Nagel & Company GmbH Leadership Consulting
Dr. Claudia Nagel

Lili Tempel
Herrnstrasse 100
63065 Offenbach am Main
Germany 

Phone +49 69 742299-10
Mobile +40 1736732772

info@nagel-company.com