About aergon

aergon – our story

aergon was founded in 2015 by me – Beate Junginger – as a boutique consultancy in Munich. Trust is built through relationships. When you work with aergon, you always work directly with me.

As a former managing martner, I still have close ties to Manres AG in Zurich and Germany. For larger international projects, we support each other with additional manpower and continue to exchange ideas and information.

This clearly sets us apart from trainer networks: we do not only share resources, but also work on the same scientific foundation – and with the same high human standards.

aergon – our name is our mission

aergon is a coined term derived from Aristotle and ergon. Aristotle asked what ergon is – the human being’s inherent and specific capability through which their “goodness” can be defined and expressed. For us, this means that life – in private, social and professional relationships – must correspond to a person’s individual nature in order for them to find their purpose and fulfillment, and only then be sustainably successful and create true value.

Discovering one’s purpose, unfolding one’s potential and shaping a suitable environment for the individual, for teams, for customers and for society – and thereby sustainably generating the desired economic success: this is what we support business leaders and their teams in achieving, with all our passion and expertise.

How we work

New worlds cannot be shaped with old worldviews. If board members and managing directors do not reflect on and adapt their perceptions, values, inner drivers and thus their behavior – especially under pressure – it is of little use to write words such as agility, diversity, new work, sustainability and all the other fashionable terms on the façade and proclaim them as guiding principles.

Change initiatives only become successful if the new values and ways of working described on PowerPoint slides, brochures and websites are not merely understood intellectually and addressed on a fact level, but if the psychosocial dynamics within teams are also recognized and deliberately managed.

In today’s world, focusing solely on the fact level is no longer sufficient. High performers expect more from their leaders and teams. If these expectations are not met, such talents will either not join in the first place or will leave quickly.

In addition, relationship disruptions are the sand in the gears of any collaboration and can massively impair productivity.

Shaping both the fact and the emotion and relationship level at the same time – this is where enormous untapped potential still lies for managers to become even more successful and personally more satisfied. Focusing purely on facts is, for every human being, like walking on one leg: even for the trained, exhausting in the long run and simply not aligned with human nature.