Powering purposeful growth and transformation
As a global leader and pioneering strategist, I drive purpose-driven growth and transformation for companies, brands, and leaders.
Powering purposeful growth and transformation
As a global leader and pioneering strategist, I drive purpose-driven growth and transformation for companies, brands, and leaders.
Why this matters
Purpose and positive societal impact are among the most powerful forces in business today.
Purpose-driven brands perform better:
9 of 10 millennials say they will buy from a company that leads with purpose (Cone/Porter Novelli)
Purpose-driven employees are more engaged:
Purpose quadruples the likelihood of being engaged at work (Gallup/Healthways)
Purpose-driven companies are more successful:
Purpose-driven companies posted a 9.8% annual average growth rate, versus 2.4% for the average S&P Consumer Sector (Korn Ferry)
Read more about the power of purpose here.
Why this matters
Purpose and positive societal impact are among the most powerful forces in business today.
Purpose-driven brands perform better:
9 of 10 millennials say they will buy from a company that leads with purpose (Cone/Porter Novelli)
Purpose-driven employees are more engaged:
Purpose quadruples the likelihood of being engaged at work (Gallup/Healthways)
Purpose-driven companies are more successful:
Purpose-driven companies posted a 9.8% annual average growth rate, versus 2.4% for the average S&P Consumer Sector (Korn Ferry)
Read more about the power of purpose here.
OFFERINGS
Consulting + workshops
Customized engagements with corporate functions, brand teams and leaders to help them unlock growth through purpose and impact. From understanding and defining purpose to creating impactful strategies that drive employee engagement, brand equity, consumer love, innovation and overall organizational transformation.
Advisory
Ad-hoc or ongoing strategic and tactical advice to support key decision making moments in purpose driven growth strategies and transformation processes for organizations, brands and people.
Speaking
Insightful, inspiring and actionable talks and conversations around purpose driven leadership, business growth and transformation, either virtual or in-person.
WORK & REVIEWS
"Philipp led a pivotal process for Gap Inc., helping us identify and rally around a powerful, authentic purpose, that we are now leveraging to energize our culture and inspire even greater impact through our house of iconic American brands."
Richard Dickson, CEO, Gap Inc.
“Philipp has been instrumental not just in developing Mattel’s purpose, but in helping the organization and its brands transform and grow through the power of purpose.”
Amy Thompson, Chief People Officer, Mattel
"Philipp has been a fantastic speaker - inspiring my team with helpful anecdotes, really actionable frameworks, and memorable insights. He's a great storyteller and knows how to keep an audience engaged."
Dominik Prinz-Barley, Head of Brand Strategy, Google
“Philipp's understanding of our culture and ability to navigate a complex organization was pivotal in shaping our purpose and strategy. His insights were the secret sauce that made our purpose a living, breathing part of the soul of our company.”
Crystal Files, Vice President Talent and Inclusion, American Family Insurance
“There are people who can take an idea and make the idea better, and then there are the rare few people who take an idea and make the idea and everything around the idea better. Philipp is the latter. Philipp is tremendously skilled at so many critical business disciplines, and his balance of mastery and humility allows him to bring expertise to every collaboration in a way that is approachable, fun, and successful.”
Khalil Smith MBA, VP, Inclusion, Diversity, and Engagement, Akamai Technologies
"Our work with Philipp and the COL team helped us refine every aspect of Athleta’s purpose and set the foundation for the brand’s positioning in the marketplace, and its cultural impact. It was an invaluable process."
Chris Blakeslee, CEO, Athleta
“It was a brilliant session and we are still buzzing from it - so many great insights. It exceeded our expectations on what we could learn and how inspired we would be. The content was perfect in terms of depth and we particularly liked having the time for Q&A. You can tell I have a very engaged and curious team of talented markers. They loved it.”
Heather Malenshek, CMO, Land O’Lakes
“Philipp is a creative mastermind with a rare balance of vision and execution. His ability to paint the picture of a compelling future and then deliver on it makes him one of the best in the business”
Michael Nehoray, Ph.D., Head of Talent at Edward Jones
“Philipp’s unique blend of visionary leadership, creative energy, and analytical ability coupled with his natural enthusiasm and collaborative spirit underpinned the success of our transformation efforts.”
Deborah Smith, SVP Talent Management, East West Bank
“This is the best work I've seen in 35 years of interviewing marketing and communications talent!”
Paula Weiner, Weiner & Associates
About Me
Based in Los Angeles, but born and raised in Germany by an engineer and an artist, I have always been fascinated by the dualities of left and right brain, art and science, the big vision and the quality in the detail.
As Global Vice President of Culture and Transformation at Mattel, I led the company’s Purpose transformation journey, laying the foundation for Barbie’s comeback as a cultural icon. In addition, my global career has spanned leadership roles client side at Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler and Jeep, and agency side at DDB Worldwide, Siegel + Gale, and currently as Managing Partner at global purpose Consultancy Conspiracy of Love.
I work with companies like Coca-Cola, Sephora, LG, Nespresso and Gap, to leverage purpose as a force for business growth and transformation. With a unique mix of strategic clarity and bold imagination, I partner with corporate functions, brand teams and leaders across marketing, communication, HR, innovation, ESG and DEI, to create big ideas and actionable programs that unlock new value for people, businesses and our planet.