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Menschenkenner – Systemische Organisations- und Personalentwicklung

About us

Specialised people and perspectives – brought together into tailored solutions

Menschenkenner is a firm for systemic organisational and people development, headquartered in Denmark. We have been working in German-speaking countries for over 20 years, and most of our team is based in Germany. Our consultants come to us by different professional paths – united by many years of experience in leadership, development and systemic organisational consulting.

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What we are – and above all what we are not

We are not run-of-the-mill coaches who prescribe behaviours or preach the five steps to successful leadership. We are not structure or strategy consultants who bring along their ready-made, extremely smart solutions. And we are not promisers of salvation who take over responsibility for your organisation as long as you do what we tell you.

We are facilitators with sound medical-therapeutic and, above all, systemic expertise and many years of experience – both in leadership and in accompanying people and organisations through change processes, crises, start-ups or the transition to something entirely new. We see our work as a kind of midwife for new realities in organisations. Our aim is to foster self-determination, autonomy and authenticity through our work.

You remain the expert on your own organisation. We draw on existing resources, create new experiences and develop solutions together with the system.

Systemic and integrative

We look at organisations and people in their interactions – not in isolation.

  • Complementary team

    Specialists are brought together to suit each task and work from a shared understanding.

  • Process architects

    We design a process tailored to the particular features of your organisation – not a standard solution.

    How we work

Our consulting team

Complementary experience rather than duplicated roles.

Different professional backgrounds, united by a shared systemic understanding: our consultants completed their training in systemic organisational consulting and development together at Simon Weber Friends.

Portrait of Regine Tenga, systemic organisational consultant at Menschenkenner
“Not knowing better from the outside – but seeing differently from the outside.”

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Regine Tenga

Systemic organisational consultant · Occupational therapist · Lecturer

One professional perspective, several ways in

Regine Tenga combines systemic organisational consulting with her own leadership experience, many years of work in development and education, and a therapeutic background.

What she brings

  • 28 years of experience in a range of roles and functions
  • 5 years as regional manager responsible for around 500 employees
  • Lecturer in further training and competence development for 7 years
  • Working in systemic organisational consulting since 2020

Career

  1. 18 years

    Occupational therapy

    Therapy, development and counselling

  2. 2.5 years

    East Africa

    Setting up a rehabilitation project

  3. 5 years

    Regional management

    Responsible for around 500 employees

  4. For 7 years

    Lecturer

    Further training and competence development

  5. Since 2020

    Systemic organisational consulting

Current focus areas

  • Organisational development
  • Leadership and leadership development
  • Collaboration, teams, communication
  • Roles and interfaces
  • Change, transformation, restructuring
  • Learning and development formats

Her particular combination: the view from outside, from a systems-theory perspective; the experience from inside, from leadership and organisational responsibility – and a passion for supporting people in their development and making potential visible. “I know organisations as a specialist, a manager, a teacher and a consultant.” Her current fields of work are internal systemic organisational consulting, leadership development, sparring, workshops, training courses and project-based process support.

Portrait of Michael Haensch, founder and managing director of Menschenkenner

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Michael Haensch

Physician, psychotherapist, systemic family therapist and organisational developer · Speaker & coach · Leadership expert

An unusually broad professional foundation

Michael Haensch combines leadership experience in sales and business with medicine, executive coaching, leadership development, organisational and cultural development, and many years of teaching. He founded Menschenkenner in 2008 and has been its managing director ever since.

Leadership, change and culture

  • Leadership & executive training and coaching
  • Corporate culture development
  • Leadership & culture development
  • Systemic organisational consulting and change management
  • Conflict management and inclusive leadership

Career

  1. 1990–1996

    ERGO

    Sales management and human resources management

  2. 1996–2000

    Moventia AG

    Executive board / business development

  3. 2000–2010

    H2R

    Founder and senior partner · Leadership & executive training/coaching

  4. Since 2008

    Menschenkenner

    Founder and managing director

Themes he links with leadership and organisation

  • Managing paradoxes
  • Responsibility
  • Commitment
  • Trust
  • Ownership

He sees himself as a bridge-builder between seemingly incompatible subjects: he connects different fields and perspectives and makes relationships visible – from medicine and business to family and enterprise, leadership and culture. As a visiting lecturer at institutions including Leuphana University Lüneburg, the University of St. Gallen and HTW Chur, he teaches Managing Diverse Teams, Conflict Management, Systemic Change Management and Inclusive Leadership. For many years he has also been active as a speaker and keynote speaker, on topics including leadership in a post-heroic age, managing paradoxes and healthy systems.

Our areas of expertise

Experience and professional perspectives that we bring to a wide range of organisational and leadership contexts.

  • Executive & business coaching

    Michael Haensch: many years of experience in executive coaching, leadership & executive training and leadership development.

  • Agile, new & post-heroic leadership

    Michael Haensch: leadership expertise, teaching and speaking – on topics including leadership in a post-heroic age, managing paradoxes and healthy systems.

  • Transformation & change

    Menschenkenner: experience in organisational development, change management, transformation and restructuring – with concrete examples from our practice.

    From practice

  • Systemic leadership & organisational development

    Regine Tenga & Michael Haensch: systemic organisational consulting focused on leadership, roles, responsibility, collaboration and decision logics.