Jens Bergstein
Managing Director, Chancellor
About Jens
Jens is Managing Director of the DBU and brings extensive experience in leadership, transformation, and strategic management consulting. At Kienbaum Consultants International, he led the Leadership & Transformation business unit and was responsible for central topics such as executive education, transformation management and business acceleration. Previously, he worked at Oliver Wyman in the Leadership & Organisation practice as a management consultant on international change projects — including post-merger integrations, strategic transformations, and due diligence for corporate acquisitions. Jens studied Economics at the University of Hohenheim and completed an MSc in Culture & Society at the London School of Economics. As the author of numerous publications, he has worked on modern leadership, change management and self-reflection in leadership, developing practice-oriented concepts and methods.
Professional positions before joining the DBU
2011–2024 Kienbaum Consultants International GmbH, Berlin and Hamburg Project Manager, Department Head and Director for Leadership & Transformation
- Led the Leadership & Transformation business unit with €6.5M revenue and a team of >30 employees
- Managed business processes across sales/marketing, controlling, project delivery, innovation, HR and communications
- Delivered consulting services in executive education, business acceleration, and transformation management
2006–2011 Oliver Wyman Germany GmbH, Hamburg Associate / Senior Associate for Organization & Leadership
- Management consultant on international change projects including post-merger integration, strategic transformations, reorganisations, and due diligence for corporate acquisitions
Publications
„Wie Kopfmenschen ihre Intuition stärken können“ (mit Julius Lassalle und Felicitas Ritter), in Harvard Business Manager 10/2024 „Mit Kopf, Körper und Hand Führung und Change meistern“ (mit Julius Lassalle und Felicitas Ritter), in Changement 4/2023 „Führung mit Körpereinsatz“ (mit Julius Lassalle und Felicitas Ritter), in personalmagazin 5/2023 „Gute Führungskräfte zeichnen sich durch Selbstreflexion aus“, Interview in personalwirtschaft.de, 14.2.2023 „Self-Empowered Leadership – Führungslust statt Führungsfrust“(2022, mit Julius Lassalle und Felicitas Ritter), Verlag Franz Vahlen, München „Konzepte des Leadership-Developments in Krisenzeiten“, in Schmidt, G., Dollinger, A. und Müller-Kalthoff, B. (6. Auflage 2022, Hrsg.): Gut beraten in der Krise. Konzepte und Werkzeuge für ganz alltägliche Ausnahmesituationen. ManagerSeminare Verlag, Bonn „lead – Das Kienbaum Leadership Journal”, 2021 „Die rechte und linke Hand des Führens“ (mit Walter Jochmann und Frank Stein), in Personalmagazin 09/2019 „Vor welchen Herausforderungen moderne Führungskräfte stehen“, in Vertriebsmanager, 08/2018 „Fit für den Markt von morgen: Was Manager zukünftig können müssen“, in Beauty Report 11/2017 „Kienbaum Future Development Studie 2017“ „Warum Agility überlebensnotwendig ist für Unternehmen in unsicheren dynamischen Zeiten“ (mit Dr. Achim Mollbach), in Zeitschrift für Betrieb und Personal, 07/2015
