Alexander Volz

Passion

Help individuals, teams, and organizations deliver their full potential by fostering a shared purpose, trust, constructive conflict, and clear alignment on concrete actions.

Career path

• Completed MSc in Engineering and Business from five prestigious universities across the globe, including RWTH Aachen University (Germany), Tsinghua University (China), IIT Madras (India), INSA Lyon (France), and Edmonton University (Canada).
• Founded a successful startup focused on enhancing human performance and mental abilities, which was later acquired.
• Worked as a McKinsey strategy consultant in various industries, gaining diverse experience and knowledge.
• Served as a Chief of Staff for a global scale-up that raised 330mEUR in funding and achieved 1000 FTE within just four years.
• Established a reputation as a trusted advisor to company owners as well as a leadership facilitator for organizations, helping them achieve their goals and potential.

Expertise

Strategy. AI. Getting things done. Human performance. Emotional intelligence. Facilitation. Top team. Radical Focus. Blitz scaling. Culture alignment.

Symbol

Being on an exponential curve means looking forward looks like a wall, and looking back looks flat.

Alexander detailed career path

I grew up in Germany and was always super curious to learn, no matter what it was: how the universe works, playing music, theater, or understanding people that were very different from me. Following my curiosity, and after completing high school in Germany and the UK, I studied engineering and business at RWTH Aachen (#1 university in Germany) with the exaggerated expectation to understand how the world (physics) and society (business) work - Yes of course there was a lot missing here. What really got my passion was the international experience, so I continued studying at Tsinghua University (#1 university in China), IIT Madras (#1 university in India), and further placements in Canada and France.

Motivated by my interest in technology and people, I conducted research on the application of Artificial Intelligence in modern business. I then followed up with further research on collective intelligence and its drivers of performance (financial and ESG) in large organizations.

After graduation, I lived in Rome for some time and supported four startups in getting off the ground. Later, I started my own venture. Once again, driven by my passion for human potential and technological possibility, I created a mindfulness app startup. We eventually sold it to large French corporations to help their employees become more mindful, satisfied, and impactful at work.

After my startup was sold, I joined McKinsey. There, I had the opportunity to work in a truly inspiring range of industries, from private equity and high tech to mining over pharmaceutical production to tourism and e-commerce. Working with such a diverse range of industries allowed me to gain insights into different values, cultures, and problem-solving approaches prominent in different organizations. Here I developed a will to create organizations that place the human in the center of everything they do.

Later at McKinsey, I had the opportunity to work closely with leadership teams of industry champions, creating high-performing C-level teams and facilitating their development towards more vulnerability, trust, and commitment. I loved this work and decided to pursue it full-time.

Ever since, I have engaged in coaching training in France, the US, and Switzerland.

Alexander today

My professional purpose: I help individuals, teams, and organizations to unleash their potential. This means in practice:

• Assist companies in defining and utilizing their culture to radiate from the inside out
• Facilitate workshops to leverage collective intelligence and create trust and commitment
• Coach senior leaders and teams to help them function on a higher level

I am particularly interested in fast-growing, ambitious businesses that place their employees at the core.

I facilitate transformation at three different levels:

• Individual level: I coach a handful of successful company founders backed by venture capitalists with global growth ambitions. Through my coaching, I help them truly transform their industry. We mainly work on vision and courage.
• Organizational level: I use my B-Harmonist work to create strong organizational cultures, resulting in high-performance outcomes and a great place for employees to work, aligned with their values of what matters most in an organization - its people.
• Global level: As the Chief of Staff in CoachHub, the world's second-largest digital coaching company, with 330mEUR venture funding and 3500 coaches worldwide, we are on a mission to democratize digital coaching worldwide at all career levels.

In all of this work, what drives my passion is unleashing the full potential of individuals, organizations, and the world. I genuinely believe that creating cultures where people can thrive leads to a better world. Facilitating this change and being a strong partner to nudge and then observe this change in others is a true passion and privilege that I am immensely grateful for.

Alexander know-how

Coaching, Top team alignment, Innovation, project management, blitz scaling

Facilitation, collective intelligence, entrepreneurship, change management

Harmonious enterprises, culture creation, ways of working

Languages :  Anglais, German, French (all native-like level)