Strategy & positioning
Where to play and how to win — sharpened into a plan the whole company can repeat back to you.
Steady strategy for businesses in motion.
SchillerKraft helps founders and leadership teams find clarity, build momentum, and land on their feet — through growth, change, and everything unplanned.
Kraft is German for force. We put it behind decisions that were stuck.
Big firms sell you a deck and disappear. Schillerkraft is a specialized team of senior operators who sit inside the problem with you — reading the market, the numbers, and the room — until the path forward is obvious and the team is ready to walk it.
Four ways in.
Operations & scale
The systems, rhythms, and hires that let a business grow without breaking what made it good.
Leadership & culture
Org design and coaching for founders and teams stepping into a bigger version of the job.
Advisory & turnaround
A steady hand on the wheel when the stakes are high, the runway is short, or the plan just changed.
Four steps, no theatre.
i
Listen
A working session to understand the business, the pressure, and what "better" actually looks like to you. No slides, just questions.
ii
Diagnose
A short, honest read of where the leverage is — and where the leaks are. You get the real picture, not a flattering one.
iii
Plan
A focused set of moves with owners, sequence, and the numbers to judge them by. Ambitious, but built to survive contact with a Monday.
iv
Stay
We stick around while it takes hold — adjusting as reality does — so the change outlives the engagement.
A small practice with a long track record.
120+
Engagements delivered across two continents
20+yrs
Operating and advising in the trenches
1
Senior partner on every account — no hand-offs
9/10
Clients who bring us back for the next chapter
“A cat doesn't panic mid-air. It reads the fall, turns, and picks its landing. That's the whole job.”Erik Schiller, Co-Founder
Let's find your footing.
A first conversation is free, direct, and useful whether or not we work together.
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