Michael Thomann

Michael Thomann

Managing Partner

For two decades, Michael Thomann has stood for excellent personnel consulting at the top level – specialising in executives and succession projects in the technology sector. Entrepreneurial, strategic and with a keen instinct for the perfect fit – from SMEs to corporations, nationally and internationally. His claim: customised recruitment, partnership-based consulting, sustainable success.

michael.thomann@pape.de
089 954 599 7 0
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Michael Thomann has been an independent personnel consultant for 20 years. He founded Thomann Personalberatung in 2006. Since then – as well as as a Senior Partner at PAPE Consulting Group AG – his focus has been on advising clients at the top level and sourcing executives and high-calibre specialists, primarily in the technology sector. From IT and digitalisation to the construction industry, mechanical and plant engineering, industry, research and development. Other focal points are the cross-divisional functions in finance and controlling as well as marketing and sales. In addition to the CEO and Executive Board, the positions regularly filled include roles such as CFO, CTO, COO, CIO, CDO, CMO and others. Michael Thomann advises private equity companies and family offices and is also particularly active in advising on and appointing company successors and in the sale of companies.

As a consultant, Michael Thomann deals with all questions of strategic personnel management and corporate governance in addition to recruitment – from recruiting and employer branding, change management and corporate succession to market analysis, strategy consulting and personnel development. He acts as a holistic sparring partner, coach and consultant to his clients.

The entrepreneur has been self-employed since 1995, completed a winemaking apprenticeship and studied business administration. He is also a certified business coach from the European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel. A graduate in public relations and communication science (University of Münster), he is also a lecturer for students in brand management and a trainer for communication and rhetoric.

Before setting up his own business, he worked for DaimlerChrysler AG (now Daimler AG), ECC Kohtes Klewes GmbH (now KetchumPleon), BBDO Consulting GmbH (now Batten & Company) and the Bertelsmann Foundation, where he was most recently involved in the board project ¡communicate! in cooperation with the Daimler Fund, the Nixdorf Foundation and the Technical University of Munich on the development of an MBA programme for communication and leadership.

Prior to his time as a personnel consultant, Michael Thomann worked as a senior consultant on strategy and communication issues for well-known clients, primarily from the chemical, pharmaceutical and energy sectors (including Bayer, Celesio, RWE, Tchibo) in communication, HR, change and IT projects.

Michael Thomann is married and has two children. In addition to his self-employment, he is involved in the Wirtschaftsjunioren Nord Westfalen, in his church community, with his trumpet as a brass player, organises and holds wine tastings and is a member of the University Society of the WWU Münster.