Frankfurt am Main, August 7, 2026. Holger Heinze stepped down from the Executive Board of O’Donovan Consulting AG effective June 30, 2026, and will leave the company on December 31, 2026. From 2027 onward, he will remain connected to O’Donovan as an independent network partner. Both sides are using this step as an opportunity to sharpen their respective profiles.
Heinze joined O’Donovan as a project manager in 2020, became a partner in 2022, and joined the Executive Board in 2025. Over these years, he contributed conceptual clarity, new formats, and direct engagement with decision-makers. At the same time, O’Donovan sharpened its own positioning, combining customer centricity with a consistent focus on change, refreshed its brand, and added professional development to its portfolio. Together, they built, achieved, and occasionally missed the mark quite impressively. Both look back on all of this with gratitude.
Good collaboration strengthens everyone involved and comes to an end when it has fulfilled its purpose. Both have evolved over these years, in positive directions, just not in the same one.
Two Dimensions, Two Profiles
Consulting has two sides: the organization and the people within it. Both require attention, but they require different approaches.
O’Donovan works at the organizational level. Structures, processes, customer centricity, change. The company is the partner to turn to when an organization wants to become more customer-centric, not as a one-off initiative, but as a competitive strategy. CRM selection and implementation support, process optimization, and customer service improvements are means to an end. The goal is to build native customer centricity into the organization and crack the Customer Code. It is a core expertise developed over decades, refined through hundreds of projects, and firmly established in the market.
Holger Heinze works at the individual level. As a sparring partner, trusted advisor, trainer, and coach for executives, entrepreneurs, and decision-makers. His principle is simple: work in the background so his clients can be effective in the foreground. An outside perspective, loyal and available.
He is the right person to turn to when decision-making feels lonely and a clear counterpart is missing. When a concept needs to take shape and you need someone who thinks alongside you rather than simply agreeing. When experts need to become managers and managers need to become leaders. When clarity and direction are needed in uncertain times. And, more recently, when someone has always felt a little different, out of place, or somehow not quite at home within the social system of work and suspects that this may be precisely where their strength lies.
What Remains
Heinze will remain connected to O’Donovan as a network partner, podcast host, and trusted dialogue partner, and as someone who knows the company well and recommends it because he knows what it can do. Where appropriate, he will also continue to contribute to projects as a consultant or project manager. Both sides will continue to recommend each other whenever there is a strong professional or personal fit.
Contact
Not sure who the right person to speak to is? No problem. Get in touch with either of us. We know each other’s strengths and will point you in the right direction when the other is better suited to help.
Holger Heinze · hh@holgerheinze.de · holgerheinze.de · LinkedIn: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holgerheinze/
O’Donovan Consulting AG · Ingo Scheidweiler · ingo.scheidweiler@odonovan.de · LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingo-scheidweiler-8474985/
