Lutz Rachner
Hamburg

Lutz Rachner

Managing Director
focal areas
  • Top-level executive search/ Head of Leadership Development
  • Special expertise for universities, colleges, scientific institutions and the health care, life science and industrial sectors
  • Management diagnostics
  • Executive coaching

Lutz Rachner has been successfully supporting companies and organizations in filling top-level management positions for 25 years. In addition, he has outstanding expertise in the field of management diagnostics and has conducted more than 3,000 individual assessments. He also specializes in supporting appointment procedures for professorships at universities.

Our Managing Director attaches great importance to authenticity, transparency, respect and clarity in his work. In his opinion, the best managers are characterized by the ability to change perspectives, creative motivation, a willingness to innovate and persuasiveness.

Lutz Rachner recommends that companies create attractive framework conditions for employees as individually as possible in order to ensure that they remain motivated, satisfied and loyal.

He gains inspiration and satisfaction particularly in the context of executive coaching, when he supports leaders in developing their potential as fully as possible.

Lutz Rachner was a partner at Kienbaum for more than 20 years, where he built up management diagnostics for universities and led the largest practice group, Industries. He moved to Transearch International in mid-2021, where he built up the Leadership Development department. From January 2025, as Managing Director of Deininger, he will further develop the area of leadership development in addition to the executive search focus. His approach is: “We make people, teams and organizations happier and more successful!”

Qualifications

  • Degree in economics and social sciences / focus on social psychology
  • Executive coaching
  • Management diagnostics
  • Change management
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