Stefan

Boetzel, Ph.D.

Senior Client Partner, Board Advisory

Mr. Boetzel is a Senior Client Partner based in Korn Ferry’s Hamburg office, focusing on Leadership and Board Advisory.

Before joining Korn Ferry, he worked for an international executive search firm, where he specialized in Leadership Consulting, covering Assessment and Development, Talent Management, Corporate Governance and Organizational Design, Board Audits and Top Team Effectiveness, as well as Cultural and Change Management.

Prior to that, he was member of the Executive Board of BayWa, a listed trading services company. In this position, Mr. Boetzel was responsible for the Agribusiness, with a turnover of approx. Euro 1.6 bn. with 2,100 employees.

Mr. Boetzel started his career with Roland Berger, where he spent more than 13 years and progressed to partner, working with many stock-listed companies, family-owned and SME‘s in varied industries.

Mr. Boetzel has gained extensive experience in supporting C-Suites and Boards, especially in Board and Governance issues, Talent and Leadership Management and operational HR issues.

His support for clients cover the following areas:

  • Executive Diagnostics and Coaching
  • Organizational and Transformation Projects
  • Top Team Performance Programs
  • Large Scale Assessments, esp. Post Merger Integrations

Mr. Boetzel holds a degree in Business Administration from the University in Kiel, Germany. His Ph.D. thesis was about crisis diagnosis in international corporation.

He speaks German and English.