Qwinnt - to the point
What we care about
Decision-making under pressure, scarce resources, constant change - if you don't want to become a casualty of pace, you need places where you can reflect and go deep. Agility is good, but only if you know what matters. Because we are convinced that ultimately the quintessence wins, we have named ourselves Qwinnt.
With Qwinnt, we want to create spaces of depth and reflection for leaders and organisations. We want to bring thought leadership right into practice and everyday life, and to do this, we want to combine theory and practice - with rigour and precision. For more substance, clarity, and impact.
Therefore, we not only advise and research - we also actively promote the exchange of knowledge and experience between managers, experts and researchers, using a number or frameworks formats. Qwinnt is a community of people who want to understand and solve complex problems together. Its members confront and challenge each other with new perspectives to jointly get to the bottom of current issues and challenges, from which new and more effective solutions emerge.
For us, effectiveness does not only mean MORE (of the same). To become effective means to make something DIFFERENT as well. So that something becomes BETTER, SIMPLER, and at the same time, MORE VERSATILE. Effectiveness brings focus, but also opens up new options. It reduces to essentials but not at the expense of critical dimensions. It thinks interdisciplinary and acts networked, not technocratic and monocausal.
Effectiveness is not an abstract concept. It improves concretely and creates meaning in the process. It optimises the "machine room" and, at the same time, strengthens the spirit of people and organisations. It is rooted in the responsibility – to and for people, organisations, and society – espoused by Peter Drucker, the doyen of modern management, to which we remain firmly committed.
We work with organisations from the private sector, from public administration, and non-profits. Even if the topics are different, the challenges are similar. Solutions and approaches in one area can help in others. We want to facilitate and promote this transfer of experience.
Founders and management
Wolfgang Lassl
I am attracted to understanding complex issues and getting to the point. Finding the best, most sensible and most elegant solution - one that makes sense because it helps on the ground. My work focuses primarily on strategy and organisational development.
- Studies in theology, international relations and management in France, Canada, Austria and as a Fulbright scholar in the US.
- Research assistant in Systematic Theology (Univ. of Vienna) and International Economics (Fletcher School, Tufts Univ., US).
- Author of several books and articles on the functioning of organisations (see list of publications).
- Chief strategy officer and member of the program committee of the Drucker Forum.
- More than 20 years of consulting experience in different industries in operational and strategic areas.
- Teaching activities in the areas of strategy, organisation and leadership.
- Training as a value-oriented systemic coach.
Isabell Egger-Peitler
My heart beats for public administration. Hardly anywhere else can so much be achieved. I am attracted to using existing knowledge and competencies more effectively through diversity in methods and clarity in results. I work with impact modelling, from conception to evaluation.
- Specialisation in public management and governance at all levels of national government and at European level. I speak the language of public administration.
- Since 2006 active in research and teaching at the Institute for Public Management and Governance at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. (Inter)national publications.
- Research interests: public service motivation/ethos, public sector attractiveness, public management reform, performance management and HRM, governance structures.
- Since 2007 active as a consultant, supporting large and small (reform) projects in the public sector.
- Supervising and managing the implementation of public administration projects in cooperation between students and practitioners.
- Since 2017 working as a national expert for the European Commission on the project "European Public Administration Country Knowledge".
- Panel member in the funding program IÖB-Toolbox.
- Trained as a value-oriented systemic coach.
