Stephan Polomski is a specialist in employer branding and organisation development. He works as human resources director of a medium-sized company which delivers telematic and multimedia solutions in the automotive sector near Stuttgart (Germany). In his organisational function he also embodies the roles of a management consultant and leadership coach.
Stephan´s vision is to develop medium-sized and mostly owner-driven companies into top employers. In 2009, his current employer was certified Top Employer for Engineers by CRF.
He has over 18 years of international experience in different leading positions and various industries like TV and journalism, pharmaceuticals and chemicals, energy, mobility, design and engineering as well as automotive.
He was born in 1963 and studied in Berlin, Florence, Rome, Bejing and Pforzheim graduating with two master degrees in arts and humanities and in economics. Two times he was DAAD fellow.
Furthermore he is master of neurolinguistic programming and certified as systemic consultant by the University of Augsburg. Currently he attends professional trainings in systemic coaching and supervising in Munich as well as in process oriented psychology after Arnold Mindell in Zurich.
Personal Mission
Every single person can make a difference. If I decide to make a difference I can change the world by being and enjoying myself and by respecting others and enjoying them. Hence, my attitude towards life becomes my mission and my life my message.
The first step though is to take care for myself. This is a big deal when you are leading and your focus is constantly directed outwardly to others. Only, when I am in a good inner state of mind, in balance, and endowed with a clear set of values and principles, I am able to balance and lead a team or an organizational system integrating all interests and stakes. With care, that means with attentiveness and regardfulness I offer people a good experience with me as a leader in the presence and for the future I direct them towards a joint vision. What I get in return is trust and peace and wellbeing and happiness.
To Make a Contribution That Matters
After a successful career as a filmmaker, a personal bankruptcy as a musical producer, after overcoming a lethal illness and starting a new career as manager, after almost 20 years of leading time has come to share experience and knowledge with a broader and interested audience. Writing this blog, I would like to encourage people, especially young leaders, to discover their own potential to lead and encourage them to lead with care and humanistic principles.
I deeply experienced that it is the individual heart, which moves another heart. And that it is the heart beat of individuals, their emotions, which find their resonance and their harmonic balance, and finally a unique sound of many diverse voices which I may call the song of life.
In order to change systems leaders have to understand themselves and then to offer perspectives to individuals. These perspectives are designed to motivate people and to initiate change within themselves. This change will change the organizational world and society.
I hope, the visitor sharing our experience, finds inspiration for his work as a leader or future leader.
Professional Focus
My professional objective is to enhance organic and opportunity growth by supporting organizational and leadership development together with corporate and employer branding and strategy to maximize potential and performance.
- Employer Branding and Corporate Communication
- Organizational and Leadership Development
- Consulting, Coaching, Training
- Change Management and Facilitation
Publications
- 2001: „Courage, Risk and Opportunity. Entrepreneurial Challenges out of the Perspective of Employer Branding.“ Merck Ltd., Thailand, Bangkok, 2001
- 2005: „More than Branding: Employer Branding“; in: Praxisorientierte Markenführung (ed. B.Gaiser, R.Linxweiler, V.Brucker, Gabler Publishing House)
- 2005: „Because We Care – Integrated Brand Management Considering Merck Ltd., Thailand“; in: ibidem (together with Heinz Landau)
- 2007: „Target Group Employees – Entrepreneurial Success through Motivation” in: Qualitative Marktforschung (ed. G. Naderer, E. Balzer; Gabler Publishing House)
