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Our story

Why I founded 8C Consulting

Organizations need leaders and teams that can address what matters, navigate conflict constructively, and turn existing potential into performance. I founded 8C Consulting to help organizations understand what holds people and teams back and strengthen the leadership, relationships, and organizational conditions needed for sustainable results.

Today, we combine executive coaching, leadership team development, and cross-cultural expertise with approaches including Transactional Analysis, Nonviolent Communication, and Positive Intelligence®. In this way, we help leaders and organizations develop the capabilities needed to communicate openly, collaborate effectively, and perform sustainably.

Tilman Rieger

Tilman Rieger

CEO & Founder · Executive Coach, Team Coach, Trainer, Facilitator, Conflict Mediator, Cross-Cultural Consultant.

“Avoided conversations create friction. Destructive conflict erodes trust. Both limit ownership, innovation, and performance.”

Throughout my career as a leader, HR Director, and executive coach across cultures and industries, I've seen talented people and capable teams held back by unproductive ways of communicating, leading, and navigating conflict.

When conflict is handled well, it becomes a competitive advantage and drives learning, innovation, stronger relationships, and sustainable performance.

Our mission is to develop leaders who create psychological safety, foster healthy conflict, and build organizational cultures where trust, ownership, and performance reinforce one another.

Milan

Milan 米兰

Partner · Executive Coach, Team Coach, Trainer, Facilitator, Conflict Mediator

“The quality of relationships determines the quality of conversations—and ultimately the quality of results.”

As a specialist in human relationships and communication, with extensive training in Transactional Analysis, I've learned that team effectiveness depends on something that is often overlooked: our level of self-awareness and our capacity for empathy.

By combining the self-awareness fostered through Transactional Analysis with the non-judgmental and empathy-centered approach of Nonviolent Communication, we help individuals recognize the patterns that shape their interactions. This enables teams to communicate more empathically and consciously, build stronger relationships, and create healthier dynamics that support collaboration and performance.

Our team

Experienced practitioners helping leaders navigate conflict into collaboration.

Bringing together decades of executive leadership, HR, coaching, and organizational development experience across Europe and Asia, we combine local cultural understanding with a shared commitment to our clients’ success. Our practitioners help organizations identify and reduce performance interference, navigate conflict constructively, and strengthen leadership, collaboration, and organizational culture.

Our Core Team based in Shanghai

8C Consulting

Our Shanghai-based core team works closely across consulting, coaching, organizational diagnostics, project coordination, and client support. For every engagement, we bring together the right expertise around the client's specific context, challenges, and goals.

Chenyue Wang

Chenyue Wang

Manager Product & Business Development · Organizational Diagnostics & Psychological Safety Consultant

Ivy Ye

Ivy Ye

Manager Operations · Project Coordination, Client Relations & HR Consultant

Klaus Schmitt

Klaus Schmitt

Associate · Executive Coach, Trainer, Facilitator, Cross-Cultural Consultant

Our Global Network of Experts

Depending on the scope and location of an engagement, we bring together experienced practitioners from our international network.

Mainland China based and bilingual

Wendy Wu

Wendy Wu

Executive Coach, Team Coach, Facilitator, Trainer

Sonja Hilbig

Sonja Hilbig

Executive Coach, Team Coach, Facilitator, Trainer

Sherie Li

Sherie Li

Executive Coach, Facilitator, Trainer, Mindfulness Expert

Julie Zhang

Julie Zhang

Executive Coach, Team Coach, Facilitator, Trainer

Shiv Kumar

Shiv Kumar

Executive Coach, Trainer, Facilitator

Lucy Lei

Lucy Lei

Executive Coach, Team Coach, Facilitator


Based outside Mainland China

USA

Jeff Hasenfratz

Jeff Hasenfratz

Executive Leadership Coach, Dialogue Facilitator

Canada

Renee Hodgkinson

Renee Hodgkinson

Executive Coach, Trainer, Facilitator

Brazil

Peter A. Meier

Peter A. Meier

Executive Coach, Team Coach, Facilitator, Psychologist

Germany

Oliver Hirsch

Oliver Hirsch

Coach, Facilitator, Team Coach

Germany

Steffi Fehnle

Steffi Fehnle

Executive Coach, Trainer, Communication Expert

Germany

Sebastian Kremser

Sebastian Kremser

Coach, Trainer, Facilitator, Mediator

Spain / France

Laurent Fontaine

Laurent Fontaine

Executive Coach, Facilitator, Team Coach

UK / France

Valerie Larrodé Guglielmi

Valerie Larrodé Guglielmi

Executive Coach, Cross-Cultural Consultant, Facilitator

India

Chitra Ravi

Chitra Ravi

Executive Coach, Transactional Analysis Expert and Trainer, Psychotherapist

Singapore / Malaysia

David Heng

David Heng

Executive Coach, Team-Coach, Facilitator

Japan

Ilan Bass

Ilan Bass

Mediator, Conflict Expert, Facilitator

Working across cultures, time zones, and industries.

Our team operates in English, German, and Mandarin, supporting global organizations with on-the-ground presence in China, APAC, Europe and North America.

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