Leadership as a Success Factor

Success takes more than numbers and processes:
How to provide orientation, build trust and lead
your team safely through turbulent times.

Beate Junginger – Founder and Managing Director of aergon

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For board members, managing directors
and their teams

As a top executive, you are expected to provide orientation especially in dynamic times –
even when operational issues already consume all available resources.

You experience constant change, rising expectations, and the pressure to be economically successful
while maintaining a balanced culture that enables innovation, courage and high performance.

We understand this tension between numbers, people and purpose –
and we know how clarity, energy and effectiveness can emerge from it.

The challenges of our time

Digitalization, pressure to innovate, skills shortages, demographic change, rising costs, bureaucracy, geopolitical tensions – all of this is transforming organizations at an unprecedented pace. Never before has the environment been so complex, change so constant, and the pressure on leadership so high.

Many leaders respond with what they have learned: adjusting structures, streamlining processes, increasing KPIs. This creates short-term stability. But it falls short.

Because the challenges are not only organizational – they are fundamentally human.

In times of crisis, disorientation, existential fears and overload arise. The consequences: passivity or resistance, deteriorating morale, the departure of top performers, and overload among those who keep the organization running.

At the same time, there is often no space to pause, clarify priorities and embody the leadership personality that prevents or resolves human blockages. Simply working through routines may appear efficient – but it is rarely truly effective.

What is missing today is real leadership:
leadership that creates clarity, builds courage and releases energy – for people who want to shape the future instead of merely functioning.

This is exactly where we come in.

Why leadership must be rethought today

Change is now part of every leader’s daily reality.
But those who merely react lose clarity, energy and trust.

In times of permanent transformation, more than management is required. It takes leadership that provides orientation, connects people and holds direction – even in the storm.

We accompany you on this path.

Even though managers tend to focus primarily on the factual level (the “IT”), today’s challenges can only be solved holistically, simultaneously on all levels:

With a strong WE – sustainable relationships, communication and culture, which emerge from the sum of effective personalities, in each individual,

with the I – inner attitude, values and convictions.

And this is precisely where leadership transformation begins.

When these levels are in balance and supported by a clear vision and mission, leadership emerges that inspires and creates impact.

The two pillars of aergon

CULTURE TRANSFORMATION

Development from within

We support leaders, teams and organizations in developing awareness, attitude and effectiveness.

The focus is on clarity, communication and collaboration – so that leadership at all levels builds trust and releases energy.

CULTURE ASSESSMENT

Making visible what works

With scientifically validated tools and feedback processes, we create transparency around values, culture and leadership behavior.

This enables you to see where you stand, which strengths you are already using – and which potentials you can systematically develop further.

The result for you:

Culture,
that connects

Leadership,
that provides orientation

Organizations,
that shape the future

Culture Transformation

Leadership Transformation

Develop clarity, attitude and personal impact intentionally.

Executive Coaching

Lead yourself and others consciously and effectively.

Team Coaching

Build trust, resolve conflicts, unlock
performance.

Vision, Mission, Values

Create shared direction, guiding principles and drive.

Culture Assessment

Leadership Assessment

Identify potential and risks.

360° Feedback

Reflect impact.

Executive Recruiting

Cultural fit from the very beginning.

Team Assessment

Make team dynamics visible.

What defines us

Five good reasons to work with us

Passion

We want to make things as good as possible for everyone involved – improving a little every day. Our work fulfills us so deeply that we would do it even without professional obligation.

Curiosity

We love learning new and different things: through further education, travel, tech, marketing and innovation conferences, on the production floor with our clients, or directly in collaboration with leadership teams across a wide range of industries.

Adaptability

Whether in a board meeting or on the shop floor, Gen X or Gen Z, fact-driven or emotionally driven: we adapt to the people we work with without losing our own stance. Our goal is always to understand.

Simplification

We reduce economic, psychological and philosophical topics to their essence using scientifically grounded mental models. This makes complexity understandable and immediately applicable.

Connection

We have been working with leaders and teams since the late 1980s. This experience, combined with new technology and current research, creates the mix of calmness, depth and effectiveness that defines our work.

What our clients say about working with us

“aergon helps our team truly get to grips with leadership and cultural issues – with professionalism, humor and experience.”

Dr. Dirk Abendroth
Former CEO CUSTOMCELLS GROUP

“Beate paved the way for our culture transformation with great clarity, humor and expertise.”

Thomas Simon
Former CEO PARAGON DACH & CEE

“Working with Beate Junginger has sustainably and positively changed our leadership culture – caring, clear and highly effective.”

Ulrike Zeiler
CHRO Allianz Versicherungs AG

“aergon has taken us to the next level of trust and success.”

Dr. Marco Ferber
CFO init innovation in traffic systems SE

What drives us

We help leaders update their “mental operating systems”: critically review behavioral patterns, use emotions productively, and shape relationships in such a way that they themselves would want to be part of the team they are leading.

„Cocreate the team you would love to work with“

Learn more about aergon

The founder of aergon

My name is Beate Junginger. I support leaders, teams and organizations in consciously shaping change – with clarity, attitude and heart.

I am passionate about connecting people with their true nature, their talents and their collective strengths – so that sustainable success can grow from meaning and trust.

For over 30 years, I have been developing and leading transformation programs in Germany and internationally – from executive coaching and leadership development to cultural change in organizations.

My approach combines mental inspiration, emotional depth and simple, effective models for everyday leadership.

As an experienced executive, certified systemic coach, therapist and consultant for values and culture transformation, I combine psychological expertise with entrepreneurial thinking.

My fascination with technology, change and human development runs like a common thread through my life – professionally and privately.

I live in Munich, love movement – in my mind, on foot and on the autobahn – and find inspiration in sport, art, literature, music and real encounters.

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