About Peter
Dr. Peter von Wartenberg
Learn to Serve & Protect
Executive leader focused on leadership, high performance teams and self leadership - for executives and organisations on the path from leading themselves to leading a business.
The guiding sentence
Where the sentence comes from
The sentence appears on every page of this website. It was not written at a desk: Peter found one part of it and added the other himself.
Learn to
Added by Peter
Learn first, then lead
Peter added this part himself, over the course of his working life. Because anyone who wants to take on responsibility has to be willing to learn first: to listen, to understand how things connect, to gather experience. That is how every new task and every leadership role began for him - which is why learning is not a single step for him, but an attitude.
Serve
What leadership does
Leadership does not hand down answers
Peter is convinced that good leadership does not consist of handing down answers. Good leadership creates clarity, develops people and enables others to take on responsibility.
& Protect
Washington D.C.
Where Peter found the sentence
Before he moved into business, Peter served with the German armed forces, among other roles as a military police officer. That service took him, among other places, to Washington D.C., and there he came across a guiding sentence that has stayed with him ever since: “Serve and Protect.” It was a time in which he experienced responsibility, discipline and the value of trust at close range.
Mindset
Who Peter is
Leadership has accompanied Peter von Wartenberg throughout his working life - not as a theoretical concept, but as an everyday responsibility. Along the way he learned that lasting success never comes from strategies or processes alone: it comes from people.
Learned
Well-founded knowledge
Over the course of his career he learned from some of the most renowned strategy consultancies and leadership experts, and experienced modern management methods, change processes and leadership approaches first-hand.
Applied
Many years of leadership experience
The decisive difference: he did not merely get to know these concepts, he applied them himself for many years in practice - under real conditions, with real decisions and real responsibility.
Both together
The basis of his work
That combination of well-founded knowledge and many years of leadership experience is the basis of his work today as an adviser, coach, mentor and sparring partner. He does not support leaders with standard solutions, but with a practical eye that keeps both the strategic perspective and the person at the centre.
- Adviser
- Coach
- Mentor
- Sparring partner
Today
Where this experience lands
Today he works with executives, leadership teams and organisations - through keynotes, leadership development, executive sparring, and team and culture development - aiming to support them not only with well-founded knowledge, but above all with experience that has proven itself in complex situations.
- Keynotes
- Leadership development
- Executive sparring
- Team and culture development
His conviction
And he is convinced: good leadership does not hand down answers. It creates clarity, develops people and enables others to take on responsibility.
Creating clarity
Developing people
Enabling others
Career
Peter’s career path
From the German armed forces through almost three decades in industry to his work with leaders today - the stations his perspective comes from.
1988
1988
Before business: the German armed forces
Service with the German armed forces, among other roles as a military police officer (NCMP: NATO Combined Military Police), and among other places in Washington D.C. A formative time in which Peter experienced responsibility, discipline and the value of trust at close range - to this day the foundation of his leadership philosophy.
1990-2000
1990-2000
University studies
From 1990 to 1995 Peter studied business administration at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, focusing on logistics, controlling and marketing, and graduated as Diplom-Kaufmann. From 1996 to 2000 - in parallel with the start at Bosch - a doctoral programme in business administration followed at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, with a focus on logistics.
- 1990-1995: Diplom-Kaufmann (German diploma in business administration), Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
- 1996-2000: Dr. rer. pol. (Doctor rerum politicarum, doctorate in economics and social sciences), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
1996
1996
Joining Bosch
Peter’s career at Bosch began in 1996, with first assignments in logistics. Over almost three decades it grew into an international leadership career with increasing responsibility.
2000
2000
Growing responsibility
Roles in several areas of the group - and the opportunity to help shape both national and international sites.
- Logistics
- Controlling
- Commercial management
- Plant management
2003-2005 · 2014-2018
2003-2005 · 2014-2018
International: Brazil and the USA
International postings - among them Brazil and the USA - opened up new perspectives on leadership, corporate culture and transformation. Across different business units Peter was responsible for complex change programmes, supported phases of growth and restructuring, and led international teams through demanding economic and organisational challenges.
- 2003-2005: Brazil
- 2014-2018: USA
since 2019
since 2019
Executive and general management functions
Later in his career Peter took on executive and general management functions in different business units of the Bosch group. His remit ranged from finance and controlling through human resources and operational excellence to the strategic development of business units and organisations. Working closely with international strategy consultancies, leadership experts and executive boards sharpened his view of effective leadership further.
Today
Today
Adviser, coach, mentor and sparring partner
Today Peter combines his experience from industry, international management and company leadership with developing people and organisations.
The stations follow the order in which Peter tells his own path. Years appear where Peter has named them explicitly.
1996
Start in industry
almost three decades
Career inside the group
Brazil & USA
International postings
Personal
What shapes his view
Peter is the father of two now grown-up children and married to an entrepreneur.
These two worlds - family and entrepreneurship - still shape how he looks at responsibility, leadership and working together.
Personal development never ends - it begins anew every day.
The model
Three levels, one path
Peter’s approach is not a kit of three separate offers, but a sequence: first the self, then the team, then the business - each level builds on the one before.
- LEVEL 01
My Self
Health, energy and focus as the foundation - leading your own self so it can carry responsibility for the long run.
Learn more - LEVEL 02
My Team
From I to we: trust, culture and talent development, until individuals become a high performance team.
Learn more - LEVEL 03
My Business
Leading strategy, priorities and change - until leadership shows up in entrepreneurial results.
Learn more
Peter on LinkedIn
That is where you can reach Peter if you want to stay in touch - no detour through a contact form.
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Next step
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