Constanze Buchheim
Managing Partner
Constanze Buchheim is Founding and Managing Partner of i-potentials, the leading executive search boutique for companies in transformation. She has been filling top positions in the German-speaking business and innovation landscape for over 15 years. She works closely with founders, CEOs and board members to provide necessary development impulses on a personal level, in organizational design and in leadership culture, thus ensuring the future viability of organizations through leadership quality.
Her particular expertise lies in understanding the leadership requirements related to the company’s phases, in the mature leadership concept she developed, which describes the connection between leadership quality and personal maturity, and in defining a modern understanding of power and responsibility. Constanze is a sought-after expert and speaker on future leadership and corporate development in German-speaking countries.
She also contributes her experience as a supervisory board member, business angel and political advisor, including as a member of the Monopolies Commission, which advises the German government on competition issues. Handelsblatt named her one of the 50 most influential women in the tech industry in 2021 and voted her one of the 50 best female entrepreneurs in Germany in 2022.
- “Wegen guter Führung: Keine Angst vor Macht und Mächtigen”, podcast interview with manager magazin 2024
- “Passende Mitarbeiter finden und führen”, interview for Murakamy podcast 2024
- “Gerade Familienunternehmen müssen ihre Aufsichtsräte professioneller besetzen”, guest commentary for Handelsblatt 2023
- “Warum sind so wenige Ostdeutsche Chefs?”, interview with Sächsische Zeitung 2023
- “Headhunterin Constanze Buchheim: ‘Verantwortung ist uns nicht in die Wiege gelegt worden'” guest on podcast “Rethink Work” by Handelsblatt 2023
- “Wieso ist Personenkult so schädlich, Constanze Buchheim?”, podcast interview with manager magazin 2022
- „Autonomie und Flexibilität sind die neuen Statussymbole“, interview with Handelsblatt 2022
- “Die 50 einflussreichsten Frauen in Tech” in Handelsblatt 2021
- Guest in Female Founders Podcast by The Pioneer
- “Die Führungsformel der Zukunft lautet 1+1=3”, essay in editorial volume “ICH WIR ALLE” 2021
- “HR-Basics für Start-Ups”, book, Springer Gabler 2014