Hello

I’m Michel Bieler-Loop, founder and owner of BILOOP Consulting. My management career began around 25 years ago with the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Since then, the transformation of the media industry has been a constant companion in my professional journey.

In the early 2000s, a wave of disruption swept through the business models in the media, IT, and telecommunications sectors – a wave that has continued ever since. I was fortunate to have a front-row seat to experience and shape the ongoing nature of transformation over many years.

I had the privilege of leading a company with over 800 employees on a path that repeatedly enabled future success. The ever-changing demands of digitalization required the rapid integration of new skills and technologies.

In my roles as an executive (i.e. Handelsblatt Publishing Group), managing director (SÜDKURIER, Mediengruppe Pressedruck), and supervisory board member (Corint Media, pd digital), I always saw my most important task as ensuring alignment and profitability. To me, alignment means aligning all key parts of an organization to a shared, lived strategy that is built around fulfilling customer needs while protecting and enhancing the company’s value. In digital transformation, the efficient use of technology is essential – but even more critical is the alignment of employees and leadership across departmental boundaries.

The business model of a media company is a bundle of several business models. This gave me the privilege of successfully implementing transformation projects in both B2C and B2B segments, as well as guiding employees from industrial settings, knowledge workers, and creatives through numerous change processes. There was no shortage of projects involving radical changes: digitalization, CRM system implementation, brand projects, ERP system overhauls, restructuring, centralization, M&A, startups, and more.

Over the years, I have learned many lessons from these projects and processes – including from the mistakes I and others made. I’ve come to understand that every company writes its own unique transformation story. We witness phases of growth, periods of decline, and sometimes even both happening simultaneously.

I am deeply convinced that people within a company make the difference between success and failure. When we talk about alignment tools and methods, they must focus on people and consider their behaviors. This applies to all levels of action: from owners to employees, managers, and even customers. Everyone has habits and expectations about how things should be.

Change has become the only constant, and change requires alignment – which must be repeatedly established. Alignment has always helped me find common ground among stakeholders and achieve success with the organizations I was responsible for.

Building on these experiences, I now work in both consulting and interim executive roles. My clients include companies in the TIME sectors (media & IT), professional services, consumer goods, public service, associations, and healthcare. Despite the diversity of my clients’ organizations and challenges, there are many common threads. I help them develop new perspectives on what are often existential challenges.

I bring leadership experience, strategic foresight, and deep expertise in transformation, innovation, and result orientation. I combine generalist knowledge and market understanding with hands-on implementation.

Together with my clients, I develop result-driven future strategies based on a clear assessment of the situation. I listen, open up new possibilities, and then bridge the gap from strategic planning to the operational execution carried out by employees and leadership teams.

I value clarity and humanity. These principles help build trust, which in turn enables peak performance. I am accustomed to balancing the needs of customers, employees, managers, and owners, creating a sustainable equilibrium.

In addition to my consulting work, I mentor startups at UfG and serve as a guest lecturer at universities (i.e. HTWG). As a business angel and investor, I feel at home in the media and education sectors.

Warm regards,
Michel Bieler-Loop