Do you need someone who can save you millions of dollars while increasing productivity? Do you want your executive team coached by someone with proven leadership experience - not just coaching experience? Andreas Hagedorn has:

• turned around a struggling business unit
• saved a multi-national company 37 million Euro in 2 years while boosting throughput
• coached and developed staff and managers in executive positions
• increased output of synchronizer part production from 5 million to 8 million in under year
• realized a 35 percent increase in daily output through value stream improvement and work system redesign
• designed and set up new factories in several countries around the globe

Andreas Hagedorn became an international expert at managing highly complex production facilities by teaching people to understand, reduce and manage complexity. He has won multiple excellence awards for his work in various roles. With his recent move to the United States, Hagedorn’s expertise is now available on this side of the pond. A true performance driver, Hagedorn Enterprise Advancement can coach your top managers and their subordinates to attain leadership excellence, resulting in increased profitability.

See below for background on Andreas Hagedorn

With more than 20 years of award-winning experience at major multinational corporations — including positions as Chairman, Executive Vice President, Managing Director and Head of Production at companies like HOERBIGER, Daimler, Mercedes Benz and Northrop Grumman — Hagedorn stands ready to assist you.

WORK & EXPERTISE

Andreas offers 20+ years of experience in management and executive positions for top-tier companies. He provides the insight, know-how and confidence one establishes through experience only.

His main areas of expertise are Leadership Excellence, Operational Excellence, Strategy, Complexity Management, Performance Improvement, Leadership Development, Corporate Culture and Corporate Change.

He is passionate about identifying opportunities and leveraging potential inside the Corporation.

Andreas has guided large workforces and worked out a broad range of challenges in many years of day-to-day Operations Management. Having started at the workbench 30 years ago, he understands the impact of change in all areas of an enterprise. His appreciation of a diverse workforce fosters trust and recognition by employees on all levels.

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

Prior to founding Hagedorn Enterprise Advancement Andreas built his portfolio in decades with industry giants like Allied Signal, Litton Industries, Mercedes Benz, The German Engineering Federation and the Swiss based Hoerbiger Holding AG. Andreas worked his way up, starting out at 16 as a metal worker apprentice and going through the ranks as to becoming Executive Vice President and Chairman of the Board. He spent years for Mercedes Benz in Turkey and was serving as the Chairman of the Board for Hoerbiger Drive Tech in China.

Andreas holds two Master’s Degrees: Economics, University of Freiburg, Germany, and Industrial Engineering, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany.

 In his spare time, Andreas enjoys playing the trumpet and hiking the California Coast Line. He lives with his wife on a hill in San Francisco.

With Andreas Hagedorn you get:
A seasoned professional, dependable, on eye level, inspirational and independent. He provides collaborative thinking, multi-faceted experience, an outsider's view with fresh perspective. Hagedorn is flexible in time and roles.

Available as:
Consultant, Coach, Project Leader, Sparring Partner, Trainer, 

PERSONAL BELIEFS

1. The true measure of value for any business leader and manager are performance results; performance and performance enabling begin with top management.
2. The three main drivers of performance are Leadership Excellence, Training and Complexity Management
3. In Manufacturing, "hard” factors such as organization, machinery, processes are the foundation for performance, however Performance Excellence is absolutely driven by "soft" factors such leadership, culture, communication, engagement and training.
4. Moving one thousand people forward one foot at a time advances performance results more effectively than moving a few people forward one thousand feet.
5. The paramount task of leaders is to lead people to exceptional performance and extraordinary results.

Engage Hagedorn on a per-project or retainer basis, wherever and whenever the work is needed.
Once your project is completed, he is off your payroll!