Operating system
How we make enkelfähig happen
Haniel portfolio companies generally operate independently. However, to drive the enkelfähig transformation in the Group in a targeted manner, we have developed a shared operating system – the Haniel Operating Way (HOW).
HOW provides common guidelines, focusing on customer orientation, employee experience and growth through enkelfähig solutions to achieve operational excellence in each of our investments.
Strategy
Haniel Operating Way (HOW)
HOW is our shared operating system. Focussing on customer and employee experience as well as growth through enkelfähig solutions, it helps standardize processes and tools across the Haniel Group while giving each company the freedom to shape their own business activities.
Execution
HOW stabilizes performance across the Haniel Group and makes achievements transferable from one organization to another. Haniel experts support all business units not only in implementing the mandatory foundational elements of HOW but also in developing a specific roadmap for each portfolio company. As a strategic architect, we actively provide guidance, challenge business strategies, set ambitious targets, ensure strong talent development and structure best practice sharing.
Talent development
We take an integrated approach to talent management. This means we focus on the employee experience as well as on leadership and developing executives. To this end, we ensure attractive development opportunities throughout the Group via an internal talent pool, provide targeted support for women – e.g., via a mentoring program – and use our Group's own academy to train managers from our own ranks. The academy also plays a central role in standardizing the understanding of leadership across the entire Group: We want managers with outstanding leadership qualities who exemplify our shared culture and act as talent managers and coaches to successfully develop other talents.
HOW Team
Your contacts
Dr. Katharina Peterwerth
Chief People & Strategy Officer
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Joined in 2022
Previously: Volkswagen Group, McKinsey & Company
Technical University of Munich
Svenja Otten
Head of Strategy
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Joined in 2023
Previously: Axel Springer SE, Roland Berger, Carl Zeiss AG
HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management, University of Victoria, University of Santa Barbara, Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University
Dr. Katharina Peterwerth
Chief People & Strategy Officer
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Joined in 2022
Previously: Volkswagen Group, McKinsey & Company
Technical University of Munich
Axel Berger
Head of Sustainability & Digital
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Joined in 2020
Previously: Saint Gobain, ThyssenKrupp
Technical University of Munich (graduate engineer), Sydney Graduate School of Management (MBA)
Pieter Beelen
Senior Business Partner HOW
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Joined in 2020
Previously: Belden Inc, TE Connectivity, CWS Group
Eindhoven University of Technology
Julia Dudenko
Senior Manager IT Program Governance & Security / CISO
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Joined in 2023
Previously: Deutsche Post AG / DHL Group, Accenture, Deutsche Telekom AG
University of Applied Sciences (FHDW)
Dörthe Heinrigs
Senior Business Partner HOW
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Joined in 2021
Previously: General Electric, Danaher Corporation, Belden, Philips
Henley Business School (MBA)
Ulrike Schlag
Senior Manager Operational Excellence
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Joined in 2022
Previously: E.ON, RWE
University of Münster, University of Brisbane
Christian Rube
Manager Sustainability
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Joined in 2008
Previously: Deutsche Bank
Ruhr University Bochum
Florence Bädeker-Georges
Expert Project Management
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Joined in 2010
Previously: MBN
University of Angers
Dr. Katharina Peterwerth
Chief People & Strategy Officer
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Joined in 2022
Previously: Volkswagen Group, McKinsey & Company
Technical University of Munich
Meike Groters
Head of Talent (Co-Leadership)
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Joined in 2013
Previously: Penning Consulting
Ruhr University Bochum
Stefanie Junghans
Head of Talent (Co-Leadership)
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Joined in 2023
Previously: SAP SE, Erste Group, FDM Group, PwC
University of Kent, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Dr. René Peters
Senior Business Partner Talent
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Joined in 2007
Previously: Research Graduate
University of Trier, Trinity College Dublin
Tim Ulrich
Business Partner Talent
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Joined in 2018
Previously: thyssenkrupp, Gigaset, Lufthansa
Mercator School of Management, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
Matt Smith
Business Partner Training & Development
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Joined in 2021
Previously: FranklinCovey
Daniel Munsch
Business Partner Training & Development
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Joined in 2013
Previously: FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management
Sabine Derksen
Expert Project Management
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Joined in 1997
Previously: Phonet Telecom AG, ESO Group, MORA Metrology GmbH