Dipl. Consultant SGBS · management consultant
Substance over noise
Strategic and business advisory for mid-sized companies – clear in analysis, collaborative in implementation, and bound by Hanseatic dependability.
Profile
Olaf Rützel is a Dipl. Consultant (SGBS) and management consultant with decades of responsibility in mid-market structures. The approach rests on a simple principle: integrity, reliability and substance come before showmanship.
Particular experience lies in strategic development, business positioning, support in transition and succession situations, and facilitation of working groups.
Services
Positioning review, sharpening market stance and structured decision foundations.
Support through change with a focus on practicality and implementation.
Leadership and facilitation of ERFA circles and workshops. Carefully prepared, conducted with neutrality and clearly structured.
Structured preparation for commercially relevant discussions and dependable support in negotiations.
Strong market understanding in timber and flooring wholesale and in partnership-based value chains.
Confidential reflection on entrepreneurial decisions for owners, managing directors and senior leaders.
Experience
1988
Part-time professional qualification at the Wirtschafts- und Sozialakademie Bremen.
1990 – 1998
Head of sales, later sales managing director during a demanding transformation phase.
1998 – 2026
Long-standing managing director with a focus on business model optimisation, network building and management consulting.
2009
Management diploma from St. Gallen Business School in holistic corporate leadership, with strong emphasis on strategy, leadership and finance.
since 2009
Managing director and chair of the board of RAL-Gütegemeinschaft Holz- und Baustoffhandel e. V.
Contact
Olaf Rützel · Bockhorner Weg 28a · 28779 Bremen · Germany
Phone: +49 170 2138240 · Email: Olaf@ruetzel.de
