Dr Dominik Faust - Interim Change Leadership Professional

Key Results & Impact:

• Developed digital business models, designed a corporate newsroom, merged units (supported by PMI), and established a cooperative company culture.
• Kept personnel costs at a constant level, even achieving a slight decrease despite collective wage increases; delivered sustainable cost reductions while increasing revenue.
• Doubled online reach for this segment of Germany’s second-largest employer.

Leadership Qualities:

• Led a span of control of over 70 employees, with 8 direct reports and P&L responsibility of over €6 million.
• Rated as entrepreneurial, strategic, decisive, motivating, and highly effective in change processes.

Key Results & Impact:

• Delivered high effectiveness in workshops, dialogue formats, and change processes for quick solutions in challenging, sometimes seemingly hopeless situations, as well as stuck and complex projects like M&A (post-merger integration), restructurings, or reorganizations.
• Mastered internal & external communication and managed human dynamics as success factors in transformations and complex projects.
• Positioned the company in a demanding industrial niche with robust governance, achieved high customer satisfaction and strong execution quality.
• Acquired and expanded notable repeat clients in Aerospace & Defence such as Airbus, Bauhaus Luftfahrt, DGLR, IABG, KNDS, MTU Aero Engines, MTU Turbomeca Rolls-Royce ITPI, OHB, and RUAG.
• Established a TÜV-certified quality management system according to ISO 9001 and set up a five-member advisory board.

Leadership Qualities:

• Strategic thinker with a clear focus on the big picture, structured approach, methodologically sound and reliable execution.
• Empathetic in handling diverse interests, motivating, and clear in leading and coordinating a remote team of 12 experts.

Key Results & Impact:

• Served as advisor and speechwriter to then-chairman Dr. Edmund Stoiber on foreign, European, security, and defense policy, and acted as state director of the Committee on Foreign and Security Policy (ASP).
• Coordinated and was a member of the chairman’s foreign and security policy advisory board, working with senior representatives from NATO, the armed forces, and politics to develop a new security and defense policy concept for the CSU.
• Organized the Defence Technology Congresses in 2000 and 2001, including events with the then-chair of the NATO Military Committee, with media coverage up to the national news.
• Maintained contacts with the security and defense industry (SVI), the Bavarian State Chancellery, the Hanns-Seidel Foundation, and the Consular Corps.
• Worked closely with officeholders at the federal and European levels.