onions are a perfect metaphor for the things I do.
here is how it works:
The onion project helps you to detect your core, the purpose of what you do.
By removing each layer with questions and deep listening and involving your curiosity.
All your individual layers are closely interwoven by their nature. All layers have meaning.
clarify goals
What is your vision?
How will you measure your success?
What will the impact on the world be when you are successful?
grow people
What skills and strengths do your employees or your team need to be successful?
How should you work together in the management team to be a beacon for the transformation?
focus on purpose
Why do you do what you do?
What is your passion?
How do you live the purpose?
How will your purpose change the world?
why-how-what
WHY
I love to support people in change. I believe people can grow and change with their own strength and their own power.
HOW
I create space for people so they can grow.
By using human connection, creativity and lightness I spark the energy for change. By using head, heart and hand people learn to adapt the change for themselves.
WHAT
I design change and transformational programs for organisations. I design and facilitate leadership trainings for top executives and leadership teams. I create experiences for people to let them.
I do not have customers or clients.
I have partners.
change management
People are at the heart to any process of change (or have you ever said “hello” to an organisation?). You cannot fundamentally make people into something different but how you approach change programmes and how you engage your teams will be critical to the overall success.
At onion-project we know that people do not follow you because it is the logical thing to do. They follow you because the feel a connection towards you and/or the goal. So the one thing to do for you is transport the vision of the future in all ways possible.
The more interacting and fun way you engage with your organisation the easier it is for your transformation.
Honest and direct interaction with your employees can feel a bit uncomfortable at first. However – you have the best employees (they would not work for you if it would be otherwise) and therefore they will understand. And you still need to follow a plan that will be subject to change because the path the future is rocky and curvy.
team & leadership development
The world is changing fast. Current and predicted levels of disruption require transformational leadership in organization that are agile and adaptable. Nowadays leaders know a lot about management and but less about leadership. To become a leader one has to face his personal barriers and establish a personal vision. Every program needs therefore to focus firstly on the leader’s personal transformational journey then on how each leader can support organisational transformation. Furthermore, every program has to be deeply rooted in the culture of the organisation.
I develop programs that takes the design principles, leadership concepts and your unique ulture and extend them into the organizational practices required in the 21st century.
Knowing that people learn through facing immersive experiences reproducing real-life scenarions, an onion-project program will have challenging situations. After all, you do not learn to sail without wind.
experiences that change
Our whole life is an experience. We think experiences, we feel experiences, and we remember experiences and our role in them. Experiences can change our lives, can let us recognize something out of the blue and can connect us to our past. A designed and focused experience, that connects head, heart and hand, is able to lift you out of your life and transforms you to another place. Here magic happens.
change management
People are at the heart to any process of change (or have you ever said “hello” to an organisation?). You cannot fundamentally make people into something different but how you approach change programmes and how you engage your teams will be critical to the overall success.
At onion-project we know that people do not follow you because it is the logical thing to do. They follow you because the feel a connection towards you and/or the goal. So the one thing to do for you is transport the vision of the future in all ways possible.
The more interacting and fun way you engage with your organisation the easier it is for your transformation.
Honest and direct interaction with your employees can feel a bit uncomfortable at first. However – you have the best employees (they would not work for you if it would be otherwise) and therefore they will understand. And you still need to follow a plan that will be subject to change because the path the future is rocky and curvy.
team & leadership development
The world is changing fast. Current and predicted levels of disruption require transformational leadership in organization that are agile and adaptable. Nowadays leaders know a lot about management and but less about leadership. To become a leader one has to face his personal barriers and establish a personal vision. Every program needs therefore to focus firstly on the leader’s personal transformational journey then on how each leader can support organisational transformation. Furthermore, every program has to be deeply rooted in the culture of the organisation.
I develop programs that takes the design principles, leadership concepts and your unique ulture and extend them into the organizational practices required in the 21st century.
Knowing that people learn through facing immersive experiences reproducing real-life scenarions, an onion-project program will have challenging situations. After all, you do not learn to sail without wind.
experiences that change
Our whole life is an experience. We think experiences, we feel experiences, and we remember experiences and our role in them. Experiences can change our lives, can let us recognize something out of the blue and can connect us to our past. A designed and focused experience, that connects head, heart and hand, is able to lift you out of your life and transforms you to another place. Here magic happens.
about
michael liehmann
Michaels passion are groups. To trigger the creative potential of a group of people and to accompany them on a journey to see what strength and joy lies
in doing something together is one of his goals.
Michael as a wide range of experience in supporting difficult organisational transformations and in designing and facilitating challenging leadership development journeys. His international management experience, combined with numerous trainings in the areas of systemic consulting, coaching enable him to work in a diverse, focused and high-quality manner. Further more he is a Kaospilot Experience Designer and connects complex change with experiences that let people and organisations grow. Michael grew up in Austria, has worked all over the globe and has lived for more than 3 years in his most favourite city, London.
Currently he and his family live next to Vienna where they enjoy life and occasionally the mountain side of Austria. Customers appreciate his sense of humor, his lightness and positive side of being and his constant strive for more value.
what will change
when I am gone?
Value is the center of my work. How will you measure the value of my work and of my interventions is a discussion that I am always eager to initiate.
Because I know that success comes with focus on value add.
Change Management
You will have a lifelong partner
to support you in change.
Team & Leadership development
You will stop managing
and start leading.
Experience design
Your memory of the experience and your memory of yourself in the experience will change the way you see.
