Lydia Braun

Problem-solver · Business Partner · Mediator

Lydia Braun

Experience

  • More than a decade of international HR and business-partner experience – from global corporation to mid-sized company, at executive level.
  • Sound HR and employment-law knowledge and extensive experience with sensitive people and leadership situations.
  • Experience in building and developing departments, functions and complex organisational structures.
  • Strong expertise in conflict resolution, works-council collaboration and co-determination.
  • HR steering in international M&A and transformation contexts.
  • Experience in designing and introducing leadership models, people-development strategies and complex decision formats.
  • Expertise in talent-acquisition strategies, recruiting structures and the digitalisation of HR processes and AI-supported solutions.

Qualifications

  • Certified mediator, NLP master, certified coaching competence and certified in modern personality-based diagnostic methods.
  • University degree in Sociology (Dipl.-Soz.) specialising in work, human resources and organisation.

My advisory approach

Between HR and management, I encounter the same areas of tension again and again – and precisely where professional, human and political levels interact, well-rehearsed routines often are not enough. As an external adviser, this is exactly where I come in: with the distance needed for a clear judgement and the closeness to the case that prepares sound decisions.

More on the advisory approach

Female leadership – the cause closest to my heart.

Women carry the same responsibility – and yet often meet different hurdles. Addressing these is a particular concern of mine. I support them in convincing through competence, impact and assurance – not through quotas. My aspiration is a working world in which female leadership and senior expertise are a matter of course: visible, respected and successful, at every level and at every stage of a career. Where women deliberately use their strengths and support one another, leadership emerges that inspires and sets standards.

View the programme WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP – MASTERY. View the programme WOMEN IN BUSINESS – COMEBACK!