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Nobody achieves the extraordinary alone.

JOIN EXCELLENCE

EXTRAORDINARY GOALS. THE RIGHT SPECIALISTS. A SHARED PATH.

There are situations, goals and challenges in life that we cannot master alone. And sometimes even a single expert is not enough. Then it takes different specialists who pool their competences for a common goal.

A look behind the scenes of a Hollywood film

The extraordinary physical transformations of the actor Christian Bale impressively show the role that professional preparation, different areas of expertise and consistent implementation can play in achieving extraordinary goals. The images and the story serve here as an editorial example of the interplay of different competences.
Portrait Bale Photo: AFF/Alamy Stock Photo; Bale portrait in Vice Photo: Landmark Media/Alamy Stock Photo; Bale The Machinist Photo: Photo 12/Alamy Stock Photo; Bale in Vice dormitory Photo: Landmark Media/Alamy Stock Photo; American Psycho Photo: Pictorial Press/Alamy Stock Photo
Editorial example. Christian Bale has no business relationship with Z WAY to excellence AG.

Behind his extreme transformations stands not a single coach but a network.

In our example, different areas of expertise from training, nutrition and medical support interlock, orchestrated by a master coach. This provides the concentrated power to successfully overcome challenges.

EVEN THE FILM CHARACTER "BATMAN" NEEDS A TEAM.

The film character, too, does not function as a completely self-sufficient lone fighter. Other characters help him become capable of acting Batman is a strategist and decision-maker – but neither an engineer nor a technician, lawyer or specialist for every challenge. His strength arises from others contributing their skills: people with different knowledge, different perspectives and, above all, the right tools.

from left to right: Photo: Collection Christophel/Alamy Stock Photo, Photo: Bang Media International/Alamy Stock Photo, Photo: See Li/Picture Capital/Alamy Stock Photo

The film story makes visible a principle we all know deep down:
Great challenges are only mastered successfully when different competences work together perfectly.

THE PARALLEL TO OUR EVERYDAY LIFE

Nobody wins the big challenges alone.
What matters is having the right people with the right know-how and the right tools at your side at the right moment.
Whether in business as an entrepreneur and executive – or quite privately in demanding situations: nobody has to know, master and solve everything themselves.

The right solution for your challenge

Every task requires its own approach. Sometimes it is a precise individual performance, often it is an interplay of different disciplines.

As trusted advisors we do not have to be able to do everything ourselves either. We get to the point, understand your challenge, keep the goal in view and, where necessary, orchestrate exactly the expertise that moves you forward. What matters is not the quantity of advice but the precise competence for your situation.

AS MANY EXPERTS AS NECESSARY. AS FEW AS POSSIBLE.
LET'S FIND OUT TOGETHER WHICH COMPETENCES WILL MOVE YOU FORWARD NOW.
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SOME VALUES DO NOT APPEAR ON ANY BALANCE SHEET.

Statement by Alexander Christiani at an entrepreneurs' meeting in 2019

Alexander Christiani is one of the most distinguished marketing thought leaders and most successful entrepreneurs in the German-speaking world.
As a pioneer of strategic storytelling he has shaped the industry for decades and today, with his sons and Christiani.AI, is a major driving force behind the AI-supported marketing revolution.

Your competitive advantage: A network of experience, trust and special expertise that has grown over decades cannot simply be bought. With Z WAY to excellence you use this established foundation immediately from day one, instead of having to laboriously build it up yourself over decades.

Your personal competence team

For companies & private individuals

Challenges are becoming more complex. Solutions are becoming interdisciplinary.

There are situations in which a single specialist is exactly the right person.
And there are situations in which one challenge demands several competences at the same time.

A leadership problem, for example, can entail organisational or HR questions. New regulatory requirements may call for suitable technologies and specialised implementation partners in addition to expert knowledge. A conflict creates the need for mediation. If that fails, other methods of conflict resolution are required. A business succession touches on legal, financial and personal questions as well as strategy and leadership.

Private challenges, too, can suddenly touch on different fields of expertise and demand further competences.

Save yourself the tedious search for and coordination of different providers. For every challenge, our interdisciplinary network bundles exactly the expertise needed for fast, practical and sustainable solutions. Many specialists do not always have to be involved.

Conceived from a single source. Delivered with the expertise of many specialists.
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Your advantages with Z WAY to excellence

  • One central contact person.
  • Precisely matched expertise instead of unnecessarily large consulting teams.
  • Genuine collaboration: different competences that work with each other rather than side by side.
  • Minimal effort: less coordination work on your side.
  • Holistic solutions: conceived across disciplines and consistently geared to implementation.

What is burning for you?

Some challenges announce themselves long in advance. Others suddenly land on the table.

What matters is not already knowing a consultant for every conceivable problem. What matters is having a contact who understands the situation and brings together the right competences when needed.

You call us because of a leadership problem. In the joint exchange it turns out that structures in HR also need to be adjusted. Two key people may need mediation. Elsewhere there is a lack of communication or consistent implementation.

We do not only look at the symptom, but at the situation as a whole.

A business succession, for example, is rarely just a transaction.
Strategy, ownership, leadership, financing, law and, not least, the people involved interlock.
This is precisely where a coordinated competence team can be decisive.

New regulatory requirements such as NIS-2 demand specialist knowledge, suitable systems and consistent, rapid implementation.
Instead of searching for solutions to each sub-problem in isolation, we combine specialised expertise, proven tools and a coordinated approach.

Private decisions, too, can quickly become complex.

You yourself need discreet mentoring in matters of leadership or personal development.

In a separation or divorce, for example, the legal perspective is not always enough. Depending on the situation, further specialists can be useful – from sparring and wealth matters to family-related expertise.
When we accompany such mandates, the well-being of the children of affected families comes first for us. We do not accept divorce mandates in which the child’s well-being does not come first.

Sometimes the challenge lies simply in the dimension of a task.

A multi-day international further education programme, for example, may require several highly qualified specialist trainers. A conflict resolution workshop that is supposed to lead to solutions quickly often needs additional tools or several facilitators in addition to expert knowledge.

A family office requires different specialist disciplines. A market entry, in turn, requires completely different competences.

You describe the challenge to us. Together we define which expertise is actually needed.

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Join Excellence: a strong alliance for clients and experts

For our customers & clients, Join Excellence means being able to access the right competences and the best solutions on the market quickly and easily – without any coordination effort of their own.

For selected specialists and organisations, this alliance opens up new perspectives and opportunities: those who are professionally excellent should not lose their valuable time on acquisition, market reports or building up large structures of their own.

Join Excellence offers outstanding solution providers, experts and education professionals the chance to become part of a strong, interdisciplinary alliance.

Together we open doors to new clients, demanding projects and promising markets, with every partner concentrating fully on what they do best.

For B2B partners, solution & product providers

Do you have a solution that makes the difference?

Exceptional solutions deserve maximum visibility on the right market. Together we pave the way there.

Does your offering set new standards?

Whether a specialised compliance solution, a digital event format or a technology that tackles a well-known problem in a completely new way – if you go beyond established standard approaches, we should talk.

We are particularly interested in solutions and products that

  • demonstrably solve a concrete customer problem better than before,
  • offer a clear saving, quality or efficiency advantage,
  • sensibly develop established approaches further,
  • as innovative offerings for private individuals – from physical products to digital formats – guarantee measurable added value for quality of life, balance and personal development,
  • create additional benefit together with other competences.

Your strength remains your solution. You do not have to wear yourself out between specialisation, sales, network management and general contracting … wearing countless hats at the same time.

You concentrate on what your organisation excels at. Together we create access to the situations in which precisely your solution or product is needed.

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For experts

Good in your own field, yet as a lone fighter often left to your own devices? If you want the dynamics of a strong team without giving up your independence, you have come to the right place, because with us you do not have to handle everything else on your own as well.

Outstanding experts often spend a surprising amount of time on tasks that are not their real strength at all: acquisition, positioning, PR, networking or trying to solve complex client problems single-handedly.

With Z WAY to excellence you can concentrate fully on your core skills again. We pool our strengths for professional marketing, PR and the right market access, so that your special abilities reach exactly where they are needed.

We do not rely on a mass of experts, but on the right ones.

Do you recognise yourself here?

  • Special expertise: You have a specialist field in which you demonstrably possess outstanding professional competence.
  • High standards: You stand for reliability, integrity and uncompromising quality.
  • Solution-oriented action: You think consistently pragmatically and take full responsibility for results.
  • Willingness to create synergy: You value professional exchange on an equal footing and want to combine knowledge with others.

Are you one of them? Then let us find out, without obligation, whether we are a good match.

What we can achieve together:

More market presence & new mandates

  • New horizons: Direct access to demanding projects, markets and client structures that are hard to reach alone.
  • Joint clout: The opportunity to bring your own expertise into complex large-scale projects.

Synergy & genuine teamwork

  • Genuine collaboration: Hand-in-hand solutions with complementary experts for holistic client requirements.
  • Valuable cooperations: New professional and entrepreneurial partnerships on an absolutely equal footing.

Focus & entrepreneurial freedom

  • More core competence: Maximum concentration on your professional strength while the alliance minimises administrative burdens.
  • Independence with backing: You remain completely independent but act in the market with the strength of a well-rehearsed network.

Do you recognise the enormous opportunities that arise from coordinated market development and joint mandates?
Send us a short enquiry to discuss the details of a cooperation in confidence.

Start the dialogue now. Join Excellence.

Join the Business School Support Unit

For education professionals

Academic expertise deserves more opportunities to make an impact.

Universities, business schools and corporate universities constantly face demanding tasks: people have to be led, programmes developed further, quality assured, new learning formats created, international cooperations established and change managed professionally.
For this they need people who combine academic quality, practical experience and implementation skills. It is precisely these personalities that we want to bring together.

Many highly qualified teachers, lecturers and accreditation experts have decades of experience and an excellent network. Not everyone, however, wants to build their own consulting firm from it or continuously work the market on their own.
The Z WAY Business School Support Unit gives selected partners the opportunity to contribute their knowledge to demanding international projects without having to constantly acquire new universities, clients or mandates themselves.

You concentrate on your expertise.
Whether university strategy, quality management, accreditation, didactics, executive education, digitalisation or international university development: you contribute the knowledge and experience you stand for. Z WAY identifies suitable project opportunities, connects the required competences and, depending on the assignment, coordinates the overall project.

A cooperation is particularly suitable for:

  • former rectors and deans
  • experienced programme directors and programme managers
  • higher education consultants
  • executive education specialists
  • experts in quality and accreditation
  • trainers and lecturers with high professional and didactic competence
  • digital learning and blended learning specialists
  • peers and assessors
  • specialists in internationalisation and university development

Business School Support

Get in touch as an education professional

Our four value promises

  • Clients: You do not have to find and coordinate all the specialists yourself.
  • B2B partners: You do not have to carry your solution to market alone.
  • Experts: You do not have to be specialist, salesperson and generalist at the same time.
  • Education professionals: You do not have to turn your expertise into a consulting firm of your own first in order to bring it into exciting projects.

You bring the expertise. Together we create impact.

Briefly describe your request

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Your expertise for demanding education projects

Do you have special experience in the university, executive education, corporate learning or educational innovation environment? The Z WAY Business School Support Unit offers selected education and innovation professionals the opportunity to contribute their expertise on a project basis to national and international mandates – together with other experienced specialists and without having to work the market alone.

Your details

My academic & strategic focus (multiple selection possible)
How many years of relevant experience do you have?
Which tasks and projects interest you? (multiple selection possible)
In which regions do you have particular market knowledge or an active network? (multiple selection possible)
In which languages can you work professionally? (multiple selection possible)
What international experience do you have?
What interests you about working with the Z WAY Business School Support Unit? (multiple selection possible)
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Would you like to contribute your expertise to Join Excellence?

We are opening Join Excellence specifically to experienced professionals, consultants and specialised personalities who want to contribute their expertise to individual mandates and interdisciplinary projects. What matters to us is not as many profiles as possible, but special expertise, experience, reliability and the willingness to develop effective solutions together with other specialists.

Your information

How many years of experience do you have in your field?
Which target groups do you prefer to work with? (multiple selection possible)
How would you like to contribute your expertise? (multiple selection possible)
What interests you about working with Z WAY to excellence? (multiple selection possible)
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Do you have a solution that makes the difference?

We are open to selected cooperations with companies and providers whose products, services or technologies offer our customers & clients clear added value. What matters to us is not how new something sounds, but which problem your solution solves better, faster or more effectively than existing approaches. We are not looking for more offers. We are interested in solutions that demonstrably make a difference.

Your information

Topic area (multiple selection possible)
Primary target group of your solution
Where is the strongest benefit of your solution? (multiple selection possible)
Are there already references or successful applications?
What form of cooperation do you have in mind? (multiple selection possible)
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Do you have an exceptionally good online course, a special offer or a recommendation that fits Me Time?
Then briefly introduce the offer to us. We will be happy to check whether it fits our selection in terms of quality and content.

What would you like to recommend to us?
Topic area
Cooperation options

Let’s talk about your challenge.

You do not yet need to know which expertise your situation requires – that is exactly what we clarify together. Whether business or private: simply tell us briefly what it is about. We will contact you personally.
How time-critical is your matter?
How may we best contact you?
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Are you interested in the Z WAY Swiss Quality Label?

Share the key information about your institution and your executive education programme with us.

Prerequisite is the official recognition of your university in its home country and the authorisation to run the stated programmes and degrees.

1) Your institution

How can we support you?

Which online format suits your project?

An online congress, a digital trade fair or an on-demand course can support very different goals. Tell us briefly what you have in mind. We will contact you personally and discuss the next steps with you.
What are you interested in?
What would you like to achieve?
Non-binding contact. We will get in touch personally.

Strategy 4.0 – let’s talk about it

Would you like to implement strategies faster, identify organisational brakes or specifically improve your team's implementation strength? Describe your situation and your goal briefly. We will contact you personally and discuss which next step makes sense.
What would you like to achieve? (multiple selection possible)
What are you interested in?

Would you like to clarify what NIS-2 means for your company or how you can implement the requirements in a structured and verifiable way?

Give us some brief information. We will contact you personally and discuss the next steps.

Let’s talk about it

Would you like to find out how the leadership cockpit can be used in your organisation? Describe your matter briefly. We will contact you personally.

Let’s talk about it

Would you like to develop your organisation further, strengthen leadership or improve your impact? Describe briefly what concerns you. We will contact you personally and discuss together how we can support you in a meaningful way.
How can we support you? (multiple selection possible)

Let’s talk about it in confidence

Business succession and family office matters are personal, complex and confidential. Describe your matter to us briefly. We will contact you personally together with the responsible expert and discuss the next steps with you.
What is it about?
What is it about?*