Markus Spiegel is passionate about Schaffer Consulting's 'Results Orientation' and helping his clients to transform their businesses with tangible and sustainable results. His professional main focus is to work with organizations to drive change by strengthening their innovation capacity and to help leaders create conditions where innovation teams can thrive. This includes accelerating time to market, validating innovation opportunities for their viability and potential, as well as strengthening innovation tools and capabilities. His PhD research was focused on “Organizational Innovation and Change in a Dynamic and Complex World” where he investigated highly successful and struggling Innovation Teams in Europe and the US. In addition, he has worked with Schaffer clients across industries to drive strategy execution, performance improvement, design and deliver result oriented leadership and talent development programs as well and major change initiatives. Prior to joining Schaffer Consulting, Markus performed two different roles within the BMW Group. Markus has published his research and work on the Harvard Business Review Blog Network, in the MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes, Leader to Leader as well as a number of book chapters and journal papers in various academic publications.