Our story

After many successful years in traditional management consulting, Klaus Schuler asked himself a crucial question: What really constitutes entrepreneurial SUCCESS? From a societal perspective, what good is focusing solely on increasing profits if society and the environment pay a high price for it? True value creation should mean that economic activity improves the situation of the company itself, but also of the environment and all those involved and affected.

Supporting organizations in selling even more demonstrably harmful products—such as when a cigarette or alcohol producer specifically targets younger audiences—no longer seemed legitimate to him.

Based on this conviction, he founded Tripl3Leader: a consulting firm based in Tübingen that supports companies in the DACH region and beyond in combining economic success with meaning, responsibility, and sustainability.

Today, Tripl3Leader supports organizations that want more than just short-term profits. Companies that understand that true growth only comes when people, planet, and profit are in balance.

With sound methods, inspiring formats, and practical implementation, Tripl3Leader supports executives in taking responsibility, shaping culture, and aligning business models for the future.

Our Vision

Tripl3Leader strives for your sustainable business success through targeted selection and development of leaders and executives. Our core principle: Value-based business for People, Planet and Profit.

We support your leaders in making the right decisions for the future of your company. In doing so, we promote the development of a new generation of market leaders. Our clients are organizations that are highly profitable and respected by society because they find better solutions to the challenges of our time and deliver sustainable performance for People, Planet and Profit.

Our Philosophy

Through our years of experience working with people and organizations, we have developed a set of principles that we have summarized in our Tripl3Leader basic assumptions. They act as a compass for value-based action, helping us to do the right thing when in doubt.

Our most important basic assumption is this:

 

#1 The Purpose of Business is Society.

Once we perceive the economy as part of society again, rather than separate from it, a good life for all can be achieved. We contrast the greedy and egocentric homo oeconomicus with the responsible and supportive homo cooperativus, whose business activities are primarily aimed at meeting the basic needs of all global citizens.

The best way to use economy as a tool that benefits us in the long run is to serve society and nature, the greater whole. This creates True Collective Value and true prosperity for all. For us, this has to do with wellbeing, fulfillment of needs and development, rather than consumption, possessions and a fixation on economic growth.