Advisory encompasses the provision of professional guidance and tips designed to facilitate knowledgeable decision-making, enhance performance and drive strategic initiatives for individuals and agencies. This role spans diverse fields, along with commercial enterprise, finance, technology, and personal improvement, supplying tailored insights that correctly address precise, demanding situations and opportunities.

Advisory leaders are prominent with the aid of their huge and nuanced understanding of their respective domain names, permitting them to provide various viewpoints. They understand the complexity of current demanding situations and recommend a multidimensional technique that considers different factors, including marketplace tendencies, organizational culture and stakeholder hobbies. This perspective emphasizes collaboration and aligns advisory guidelines with the unique dreams and values of their customers.

By utilizing these strategies, Marco Schlimpert, an Advisory applying integral-systemic principles, engages in collaborative checks that actively contain stakeholders in discussions to identify key problems and opportunities by identifying and visualizing the real source of the problems. He offers tailored solutions that align rational approaches with intuitive  insights within the unique contexts and targets of his customers, making sure that his suggestions are relevant and actionable.

He establishes mechanisms for expressing those intuitive insights and continuous comments, allowing the teams’ suggestions to conform as circumstances evolve. This technique enhances the effectiveness of his guidance and fosters a dynamic and responsive advisory manner. By utilizing emerging facts-driven decision-making in combination with available data, facts and figures, implementing risk management strategies and fostering capacity building, he enhances the credibility and effectiveness of his guidance.

Marco embodies visionary thinking, looking ahead to destiny tendencies and inspiring clients to undertake proactive strategies. Rather to only look at past facts and figures, he is integrating intuitive insights from the team members in a way which equips companies to thrive in an advancing global. Through his understanding, he plays a vital function in assisting corporations to navigate complexity and gain lengthy-term achievement.

Developing Analytical Skills for Global Opportunities

Marco’s career has been profoundly shaped by global job opportunities that allowed him to blend analytical skills with an empathetic approach toward people. His challenging childhood in Vienna, where his mother raised him and his two sisters alone, instilled in him a robust sense of empathy. Throughout his professional journey, he traveled across Europe, India, China, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, South America, Africa, and the USA, engaging with hundreds of top managers, CEOs and procurement leaders.

Through these interactions, he meticulously observed the behaviors of successful managers and identified a key insight: those who adeptly balanced “gut feeling” with “rational facts and figures” tended to achieve greater success than those relying solely on analysis. He noted the phenomenon of “paralysis by analysis,” where excessive deliberation obstructed decision-making and stalled business progress.

In contrast, managers who struck a healthy balance could make wholehearted decisions, thriving in implementation and driving their businesses forward. This inspired his interest in understanding the dynamics of “gut feeling” and “embodiment” in decision-making, particularly in complex environments.

As a father of three—two twin daughters and a son—Marco faced a significant crisis when his nine-year-old son began to disregard parental guidance, creating turmoil at home. At that time, he was successfully leading an organization with 2,400 employees and a sales volume of EUR 1 billion, while his wife managed the household.

Seeking to reconnect with his son, he consulted a psychologist, who revealed that he lacked the “male energy” his son was subconsciously seeking. Encouraged to attend a seminar at the monastery Schlägl, focused on systemic constellation work, he met eleven other men facing similar challenges. This profound experience led him to realize the importance of intergenerational support and connection.

Upon returning home, he was amazed to find that his son began to listen to him again. This transformative experience ignited his commitment to train as a constellation guide and explore the concept of non-local intuition, recognizing its potential for uncovering organizational challenges and generating exceptional results while involving team members in the process.

Balancing Analysis and Intuition in Decisions

When faced with difficult decisions, particularly in the context of maintaining a business’s operations, Marco employs the STOP method. This approach involves four key components: Stop to analyze the Situation and Time, the Organization, and the impact on People.

He emphasizes the importance of gathering facts and figures, understanding the events that transpired and deriving hypotheses from this analysis.

To validate these hypotheses, he utilizes a 4D exercise. This method seamlessly integrates analytical rigor with intuitive insights, ensuring a comprehensive and well-rounded decision-making process. By balancing these elements, he enhances the effectiveness of his decisions, ultimately contributing to the sustained success of the business.

The Art of Decision-making

Marco believes that connectedness, individual effectiveness and successful outcomes are the primary motivators that enable people to thrive. He recognizes the critical need for a sense of safety within teams, which is why he collaborates with his team to develop a common purpose that serves as a guiding “north star” during uncertain times.

To further empower his team, he regularly conducts 4D mapping for specific questions, allowing individuals to gain confidence in their actions. He places a strong emphasis on learning from failures, adapting quickly to change and celebrating successes.

He understands that developing collaboration is essential for ensuring that everyone feels supported and engaged, ultimately enhancing the overall effectiveness and morale of the team.

Integrating Intuition with Data Analysis

Marco asserts that intuition plays a significantly more vital role in decision-making than is commonly recognized. He observes that intuitive insights are often challenging to articulate, as the language of intuition involves feelings, sensations, and emotions that can be difficult to translate into the structured language of business.

While facts and figures are straightforward and effective for analyzing past developments and achievements, they often fall short in guiding future decisions due to a prevalent bias towards numerical data.

Many decisions are influenced by a well-honed gut feeling, commonly referred to as heuristics, which are then supported by facts and figures to justify. He advocates for advancing this approach by employing the social technology of non-local intuition through 4D mapping.

This method enables teams to integrate both intuitive insights and analytical data, fostering a more comprehensive decision-making process that can enhance organizational effectiveness.

Unlocking Innovation through Team Diversity

Marco actively promotes diversity within teams and employs a model he developed specifically for innovation and transformation processes, known as “i5.” This model is grounded in his international experience, best practices, and proven team effectiveness.

The components of the i5 model are as follows:

• Irritate: He introduces uncommon interventions designed to create an “A-Ha” effect among team members.
• Inspiration: He encourages self-inspiration by utilizing techniques such as IKIGAI from Japan.
• Innovation: He employs collaborative tools, including 3D and 4D mapping, to generate and prioritize ideas.
• Implementation: He emphasizes the swift implementation of ideas to facilitate rapid learning from mistakes.
• Institutionalization: He ensures that innovations are anchored within the organization through established processes, systems, and OKRs, ultimately leading to measurable KPIs.

This methodology effectively leverages diversity, international best practices and a structured process to drive innovation and transformation, representing a powerful approach to achieving outstanding results.

The Art of Leading with Strengths and Capabilities

Marco emphasizes the importance of recognizing an organization’s strengths and unique capabilities, both tangible and intangible, with a particular focus on the potential of its people.

He believes that harvesting their ideas is one of the most valuable actions a leader can take. To facilitate this, he advocates for creating an environment where team members feel safe to learn from failures and can adapt swiftly.

He also notes the benefits of directly addressing the team and soliciting their assistance during extraordinary times. By engaging the team in this manner, he fosters a collaborative atmosphere that enhances collective problem-solving and drives the organization forward.

Understanding Employee Needs through AI Analysis

Marco considers a comprehensive and thoughtful approach to leading teams through significant changes to be essential. His key principles include:

• Clarity and Communication
• Empathy and Support
• Personal Connection
• Common Purpose
• Application of 4D Mapping
• Vulnerability and Transparency
• Regular Updates

To further support the process of organizational change, Marco finds it beneficial to implement regular open-question-style surveys aimed at identifying the sources of employees’ concerns and fears. This survey, which he developed in collaboration with a colleague, utilizes free-text responses and AI for contextual analysis, allowing for a robust understanding of what employees truly desire.

This method surpasses traditional surveys by rapidly identifying genuine needs and addressing them promptly, aligning with the build-measure-learn approach. By prioritizing these elements, he enhances team cohesion and drives effective change within the organization.

Enhancing Mental Clarity with Reflection

Marco strives to combine mental, physical, and organizational practices to maintain resilience, with a strong emphasis on spending quality time with his family and children. Some of the key practices he engages in include:

• Meditation and Sports: He regularly meditates and participates in sports to support both his mental and physical well-being.
• Reflection: He takes time to pause and reflect before moving forward, allowing for greater clarity in his thoughts and actions.
• Positive Focus: He recognizes that many thoughts may not be accurate and consciously chooses to focus on those that are constructive and helpful.
• Gaining new perspectives: He likes to fly. Seeing the world from above puts all problems into perspective.

Through these practices, he enhances his resilience, ensuring that he remains grounded and effective in both his personal and professional life.

Building a Sustainable Business Environment for All

With 25 years of experience in the industry, Marco has witnessed the cyclical nature of business firsthand. While it is impossible to completely avoid business cycles, he believes that organizations can influence these cycles to create a rising thread of life, ensuring that future lows remain higher than past highs. This proactive approach can help avoid redundant programs and foster continuous innovation.

Balancing Intuition and Rationality

In the realms of decision-making, strategy definition, and business execution, Marco emphasizes the importance of elevating intuition to the same level as rationality. He asserts that this balance is crucial for creating a better business life for everyone, where individuals are engaged, healthy, and thriving.

He recognizes that traditional management methods are reaching their limits in today’s complex and unpredictable world. The conventional approaches of “better, further, higher, and faster” no longer suffice, motivating him to explore new methodologies.

By employing intuition-based methods and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to make these insights visible and measurable, Marco translates intuitive insights into actionable procedures. This results in high-performance teams and organizations, ultimately leading to exceptional and sustainable corporate success.

Marco’s aspirations and plans in the field center around creating a business environment where people are valued, innovation is encouraged, and sustainability is prioritized. Through these efforts, he strives to contribute to a better business life for everyone, ensuring that organizations can navigate business cycles effectively and sustainably.