Strategy is what people do on Monday morning.
Stepwise helps leadership teams turn ambition into shared direction — and shared direction into behaviour that lasts beyond the workshop.
„The balance sheet more than doubled and profit after tax nearly quadrupled. Beyond the numbers, Frank helped us shift the conversation inside the company — from technical compliance to genuine ownership of our values.”
— Jaco Viljoen, Group CEO, FMBcapital Group · 2026
Our Services
Strategic Alignment & Change
From many initiatives to one shared direction — across countries, business units and cultures.
Leadership & Team Development
We work with leadership teams on the issues they cannot delegate: difficult decisions, fragile trust and the courage to act together.
Professional Learning Communities & Networks
From the field, for the field — peer learning that creates impact inside organisations and beyond.
Coaching & Sparring for Senior Leaders
For leaders who do not need more tools, but a trusted partner to think with. Especially when complexity, visibility and the loneliness of leadership weigh most heavily.
I believe that leadership
can be learned – provided the
right conditions are in place.
Frank Kretzschmar is the founder and owner of Stepwise Management and has worked for more than thirty years as an industrial and organisational psychologist in organisational development and change management.
He helps clients in Africa, Europe and Asia remain successful in the face of continuous and unexpected disruptive change. His work focuses on strategic alignment, conflict and crisis management, and on developing courage, boldness and resilience in leaders, their teams and their organisations.
Trust among organisations in Europe and Africa
Microsoft Deutschland GmbH
Roche Pharma AG
Equity Bank Kenya Limited
GIZ
Fraport AG
KRONOS TITAN GmbH
Siegwerk
Swisscontact
HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
Walser Raiffeisen Bank AG
MCI Management Center Innsbruck
pronova BKK
APA Insurance
First Capital Bank
LEBOSOL® Dünger GmbH
Management School St. Gallen
African Renaissance Trust
Evangelical Church of the Palatinate
