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Lukas Fastabend

Senior Consultant Strategy & Transformation

Lukas Fastabend
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Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Experience

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Industries
Professional Services
Business Areas
Strategy
  • Professional reorientation and exit from management consulting
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Professional Services
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Operations
  • Setting up a self-employed business after terminating an employment contract
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Human Resources
  • Professional reorientation after termination by the employer
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Education
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Human Resources
  • Career orientation after completing a Master’s degree
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Human Resources
  • First-time leadership role in a previously unknown functional area with disciplinary responsibility for 18 employees on two continents
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Human Resources
Strategy
  • Development towards more strategic management tasks, including empowerment of the team
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Human Resources
  • Handover of management responsibility and splitting of own area of responsibility in preparation for own partial retirement
  • Decision-making between two possible job offers (Senior Management roles)
  • Dealing with one’s own emotions to make it easier to cope with unpleasant tasks
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Professional Services
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Human Resources
  • Workshop and individual coaching for founders and self-employed business owners on self-management and time management
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Professional Services
Business Areas
Human Resources
  • Improving the self-management and time management of a self-employed entrepreneur

Automotive supplier/mechanical engineering company

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Automotive
Manufacturing
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Operations
Strategy
  • Detailing of the target operating model (including organizational and process structure) for closer cooperation between two parts of an automotive supplier/mechanical engineering company

Automotive supplier/mechanical engineering company

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Industries
Automotive
Manufacturing
Business Areas
Human Resources
  • Preparation of employee communication and setup of a change agent network for an automotive supplier/mechanical engineering company

Big4 accounting firm

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Industries
Professional Services
Business Areas
Human Resources
Strategy
  • Establishment of a new department for agile organizational development for a Big4 accounting firm to increase organizational resilience and adapt to the growing complexity of the market

Energy producer

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Industries
Energy
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Operations
Strategy
  • Strategic realignment of an energy producer and development of the new organizational structure, including improving cost efficiency in the core business

European group of companies in the textile industry

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Manufacturing
Business Areas
Human Resources
Strategy
  • Development of the organizational structure and governance model following the reduction from four to three Management Board divisions for a European group of companies in the textile industry

Franco-German bank

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Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Human Resources
Strategy
  • Change management consulting, training and coaching for improving cross-functional collaboration for a Franco-German bank

Global automotive supplier

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Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Procurement
  • Development of the change management concept for the transformation of the procurement department (~3,000 employees) of a global automotive supplier

Investment management company

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Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • Improving agile collaboration between the business and IT departments (e.g., business analysis, requirements engineering) for an investment management company

Large German Landesbank

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Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Project Management
  • Supporting cross-functional collaboration in a regulatory project for a large German Landesbank

Pharmaceutical & chemicals industry

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Industries
Chemical
Pharmaceutical
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Program Management Office (PMO) for a global IT outsourcing & transformation program in the pharmaceutical & chemicals industry

Pharmaceutical & chemicals industry

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Chemical
Pharmaceutical
Business Areas
Project Management
  • Global change management workshops with leaders for initiating the change journey as part of a reorganization project following a carve-out in the pharmaceutical & chemicals industry

Team of IT consultants

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Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Product Development
  • Design thinking process to validate and develop an innovative product idea with a team of IT consultants

Team of data protection experts and lawyers

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Industries
Professional Services
Business Areas
Human Resources
  • Regular retrospectives and individual conflict moderation between a manager and employees of a team of data protection experts and lawyers

Team of tax consultants and lawyers

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Industries
Professional Services
Business Areas
Human Resources
Strategy
  • Development of a shared vision and mission as well as introduction, training, and coaching in the application of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with a team of tax consultants and lawyers

Summary

I believe that lasting success happens when strategy, structure, and people align. That’s why I support organizations and founders in creating strategic clarity, designing future-ready structures, and integrating the human side of change with intention.

With more than 8 years of experience in strategy and transformation consulting, I work with organizations across Financial and Professional Services, Automotive, and Life Science on strategic realignments, reorganizations, and complex transformation initiatives.

My focus areas include:

  • Strategy & Leadership Alignment
  • Operating Model & Organizational Design
  • Transformation & Change Management
  • Leadership Coaching & Team Development

My approach combines business expertise, strategic thinking, and empathy. I draw on modern organizational principles and insights from systemic organizational development and neuroscience — ensuring that change is not only designed well, but truly lived.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary

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Lukas is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

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Lukas speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Elementary).

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