Biographical Sketch – Prof. Dr. Guido Quelle, Managing Partner

Prof. Dr. Guido Quelle is one of the rare people worldwide who focuses on creating profitable and sustainable growth as an entrepreneur, consultant, author and speaker for more than 20 years. His clients are active business executives, entrepreneurs and directors who are committed to consistent growth. With his consulting firm, Mandat GmbH (Mandat Consulting Group) of Dortmund, Germany, he successfully conducted more than 300 projects with 120+ renowned private and listed companies. His client list includes multinationals as well as medium-sized companies such as British-American Tobacco, Deutsche Post, European Dental Partners, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, and Erasmus University at Rotterdam. More than 5,000 people were involved just in those projects that he himself managed. Quelle is always in demand when companies are seeking the support that will enable them to continue on a course of profitable growth.

Professor Quelle is the author and co-author of more than 100 professional articles, six partly European studies, two university course texts and eight books. His first English book “Plan Lead Grow – Systematic Approaches to Success” was internationally published in November 2009. Quelle brought the interview series “To the Point” into being: In the interviews he serves as moderator while two opponents discuss an economically relevant topic. Numerous interviews with Quelle and reports on Mandat projects and studies provide information about the results of the work performed by Quelle and his colleagues at Mandat.

Guido Quelle has a master’s degree in information science and received his doctor’s degree in engineering at the Technical University of Dortmund with a thesis on market segment strategies in commercial enterprises. The SRH University for Logistics and Business Administration at Hamm, Germany, has appointed Quelle as a professor for the subjects of Self Management and Leadership.

Professor Quelle serves as a member and member of the Board in several associations. Through his work on the board of management and as president, Quelle was instrumental in shaping the skills of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Dortmund for a period of five years, which earned him the Golden Juniors Pin of the German Junior Chamber in the year 2003. The educational initiative known as “JOBfit”, which still gives more than 3,000 prospective young trainees the basic training needed to prepare them for the future each year, was launched under his direction. In his honorary post as a commercial judge, Quelle uses the opportunity to support society over and above his professional career.

Guido Quelle was awarded the internationally acclaimed title of “Certified Management Consul­tant”, which is associated with high standards and which is granted to just a very small percentage of all international management consultants in the name of the International Council of Management Consultants Institute (ICMCI). As the first European member, Quelle was appointed to the “Million Dollar Consultant Hall of Fame” by internationally renowned consultant Dr. Alan Weiss in 2008. Quelle is also the first European member of the Million Dollar Club, an international network of successful consultants.

Professor Quelle’s consulting activities have contributed greatly to the fact that Andreae-Noris Zahn AG, one of the TOP 100 German and TOP 500 European companies was awarded both the German and the European Logistics Award in a single year, which was a significant milestone not only for that company, but also for Mandat.

His travels, consulting work, studies, speeches and lectures have so far taken Quelle to 21 other countries. He lives in Dortmund together with his wife and their two Leonberger dogs.

Contact information:

Prof. Dr. Guido Quelle Managing Partner Mandat Managementberatung GmbH Emil-Figge-Strasse 80 D-44227 Dortmund

Phone: +49 231 97 42 390 Fax: +49 231 97 42 389 e-Mail: guido.quelle@mandat.de Web: http://www.mandat.de

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