Private Banks & Family Offices
A client-trust culture where relationship bankers stay, grow and hand over portfolios with pride.
A leadership culture that performs - and lasts.
We help organisations build the culture their strategy deserves: measured from the first conversation, sustainable long after we leave.
Boutique Leadership Advisory for Boards, CEOs and HR Directors.
Lake Geneva ・Nice ・Munich.
French-, German- and English-speaking Europe.
The Opportunity
You already know how to hire excellence. The opportunity now is to make it compound.
Great organisations understand that leadership performance and leadership culture are the same investment. When senior leaders operate at their best - clear under pressure, connected to their teams, aligned with the direction of the organisation - performance stops depending on individual heroics and starts becoming a property of the system.
This is the work we do: turning strong individual leaders into a coherent, resilient leadership culture - the kind that retains talent, sustains growth and makes succession an advantage rather than a risk.
OUR ENTRY POINT
Every engagement begins with the Energy Leadership IndexⓇ (ELI).
An attitudinal assessment that establishes a quantified baseline for how a leader and a team operate under pressure - the foundation beneath every leadership behaviour.
Because development without measurement is indistinguishable from no development:
We Establish Baseline
We establish where you are starting from - precisely, not impressionistically
We Agree Factors
We agree the leadership factors that matter to your organisation
We Measure Movement
We measure the movement - and document it in a report your board can act on
When we know the numbers, we have clarity. When we have clarity, we can consciously choose what to move.
The Methodology Behind The Numbers
Measurement tells us where a leader stands. COR.E Leadership Dynamics™ is the methodology that turns that insight into reality - systematically building the inner conditions under which peak performance becomes repeatable, not accidental, even under sustained pressure.
Rather than imposing a standardized model, it guides each leader towards their own formula for success - integrating strategic insight with disciplined practice.
Together, the two form a complete arc: precise baseline, structured development, documented movement.
If the numbers do not move, there is nothing to renew. That is how confident we are that they will.
WHERE WE ADD VALUE
Luxury Hospitality Groups
Service excellence that lives in the team, not only in the GM - reflected in guest ratings and staff retention alike
Professional Partnerships
A partnership culture where leadership is shared, not concentrated - and the best young talent chooses to stay
Family Businesses & Successions
A transition that honors the founder's legacy while giving the next generation its own strength
Luxury Real Estate & Development
A brand culture where brokers build portfolios for the long term - and flagship projects are led with the same excellence they promise
HOW ENGAGEMENTS BEGIN
Most mandates begin small: a single leader, a defined period, a measurable question. We are frequently engaged alongside existing development arrangements - where an organisation wants measurement it can take to its board, or coverage of a pipeline its current provision does not yet reach.
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Typical starting points
Some of the opportunities that bring clients to us - yours may look different.
・a succession candidate ahead of appointment,
・a leadership team entering a growth phase or restructuring,
・a newly appointed general manager stepping into a flagship property,
・a brokerage or development team scaling into a flagship project, and
・a newly promoted leader whose scope has expanded faster than their visibility to the board.
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Documentation
Evidence your board can act on - not impressions.
Every mandate concludes with a documented report: baseline ELI indices, progress on the agreed leadership factors, and a plain-language assessment prepared for the sponsor.
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Depth of Attention
Chosen Carefully, Served Fully
We take a limited number of mandates at any given time, to preserve depth of attention for each one.
ABOUT MINERVA
Minerva Consulting is an independent boutique advisory practice based in Munich, Nice and the Lake Geneva region, founded by two principals whose careers span the worlds our clients inhabit: seventeen years in banking and financial advisory, and twenty years in luxury real estate and interior design. We work with senior leaders and the organisations they serve across Europe.
Languages: English, French, German, Bulgarian. On-site and online, worldwide.
Discretion is structural, not incidental. Nothing about our engagements appears in public case studies, marketing or references beyond what each client explicitly approves.
Contact
Please include your role, organisation and the leadership aspiration you are pursuing.
Initial conversations are held with the principal, without obligation, and in strict confidence.
Our work sits alongside - never in place of - clinical interventions, medical care and therapeutic support. When a situation falls outside our mandate, we say so, quickly and clearly, and refer appropriately.
contact@consultminerva.eu
+33 06 64 63 79 18 (in French)
+49 178 3466223 (In English and German)