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Practice

Advisory board member at Simply Rational GmbH, a boutique strategic consulting firm specializing in decision-making.

• Nobel Prize-winning insights into decision-making, heuristics, risk, and intuition from behavioral science combined with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence methods.
• Evidence-based organizational development and transparent decision-making in the finance and energy sectors.

Head of the Community of Practice Consulting | gfo - gesellschaft für organisation e.v. 

• An open platform for independent consultants as well as external or internal consultants from consulting firms to learn from one another and exchange ideas on consulting topics.
• Bridging the theory and practice of consulting by incorporating academic insights and practical experience.
• The focus is on improving the competence of consultants to advise organizations, teams, and managers, regardless of their area of expertise (functional consulting, OD consulting, or systemic consulting).
• Formats include input and exchange between younger and more experienced members, as well as critical reflection on common practices, frameworks, and real-world cases in consulting.

More than 15 years of international experience, e.g. as

• Associated Principal Expert for Transformation at Siemens Advanta Consulting 
• Senior Consultant at Siemens Management Consulting
• Executive assistant and Chief of Staff to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CosmosDirekt AG

Professional qualifications in

• Systemic consulting
  (at Simon, Weber & Friends, Heidelberg)
• Change Management & Organization Development 
  (at alwart+team, Hamburg)
• Group dynamics and leadership 
  (at osb-i, Vienna and at the Ruth Cohn Institut for TCI, Bonn)
• Coaching
  (DGSF certified, at the M.E.G. Institut, Bonn)
• Agile Methods
  (Scrum; SAFe )
• Project management
  (PMI)

Science | Scholarship

Professor for organization, management and business psychology at the HS Fresenius München

• Lectures in consulting, organizational management and behavior, decision making, storytelling in transformations, and strategic management.
• Guest lectures at the C.F. Private University of Vienna on Consulting and on Motivation psychology.
• Guest lecture at the EBS Executive School on Leadership in Digital Transformations.
• Guest lecture at the AMD Academy for Design on communication psychology.
• Multiple awards as among the best lectures.

Speaker at conferences, e.g.

• No Glossy Stories Summit 2024
• Change Camp 2023
• Changetagung 2022
• #ChangeCamp 2021
• Strategic competence management (SKM Symposium) 2019

Publications

• Sailer, P., & Kaiser, S. (2025). Die zukunftsfähige Organisation von Beratung. Aktuelle Trends und ihr Einfluss auf die Organisationslogik von Consulting. Zeitschrift Führung und Organisation, 6, 337–342.

• Kaiser, S., & Sailer, P. (2025). Generative KI und ihre Potenziale für die Arbeitswelt. Eine Diskussion zum Umgang mit KI-Akteuren in Organisationen. WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 54(9–10), 4–9.

• Sailer, P., Kaiser, S., & Loscher, G. (2024). Routinen in der agilen Projektarbeit. In W. H. Güttel (Hrsg.), Austrian Management Review (Bd. 14, S. 38–45). Nomos Verlag. 

• Sailer, P., Loscher, G. J., & Kaiser, S. (2024). Coordinated Interdependence: How Patterning Governs Flexibility in a Routine Cluster. Journal of Management Studies, 61(5), 1884–1915.

• Sailer, P. (2024). Widerspruch und/oder Paradoxie? Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO), 55(3), 269–279. 

• Asbeck, A., Sailer, P., & Thiemann, D. (2023). Teamentwicklungsmaßnahmen im virtuellen Raum. Zeitschrift für Führung und Organisation (zfo), 1, 16–21.

• Stracke, N., & Sailer, P. (2023). Positives Coaching. Wirkmechanismen auf Mitarbeiterbindung. Coaching-Magazin, 2, 49–53.

• Sailer, P. (2023). Der Vorteil der Vagheit. Visionen im Change Management. OrganisationsEntwicklung, 3, 63–65.

• Sailer, P. (2023). Neue Perspektiven auf Teamdynamik: Kleingruppenforschung, Systemtheorie und die vergessene Ordnung der Situation. Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO), 54(4), 499–507. 

• Sailer, P. (2023). Systemtheorie in der Management- und Organisationsforschung. WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 52(5), 14–19. 

• Sailer, P., & Kaiser, S. (2022). Agile versus konventionelle Ansätze des Projektmanagements. Eine Analyse aus Sicht der Organisationsforschung. WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 51(1), 4–9. 

• Sailer, P. (2021). Kooperationen unter Konsensfiktion durch Mehrdeutigkeit. In O. Geramanis, S. Hutmacher, & L. Walser (Hrsg.), Kooperation in der digitalen Arbeitswelt (S. 191–206). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. 

• Sailer, P., & Schleich, K. (2021). Demokratisch entschieden oder entschieden demokratisch? OrganisationsEntwicklung, 3, 99–102.

• Sailer, P. (2020). Dynamische Ambidextrie durch interdependente Routinen: Einfluss und Auswirkung von Scrum auf Projektebene. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

• Sailer, P. (2019). Project management methods as a way to ambidexterity. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 12(4), 1061–1078.

• Sailer, P., Stutzmann, B., & Kobold, L. (2019). Successful Digital Transformation. How Change Management helps you to hold course. [Whitepaper] Siemens AG