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She received numerous awards for her books “Entigungs-Matrix” and became known to a larger audience in Germany and internationally. She has been living in Frankfurt am Main since the beginning of the year and the city is happy to welcome such a new citizen. Because Frankfurt should now be their home.
I hope you are healthy! I am sending you a portrait of the decision-maker Johanna Dahm, which you are welcome to publish with images. Johanna Dahm is at your disposal as an interview partner or with guest contributions. Kind regards, your Jane Uhlig
Frankfurt am Main, April 1, 2022
Queen of the selected Frankfurt
A hymn for Johanna Dahm
In Germany, she is not only recognized for her achievements in decision-making culture, but also for her personality. Johanna Dahm is currently one of the most successful people in change management in companies and institutions and has massively revolutionized the decision-making culture in Germany.
With her books “Sucher sucht,uren sucht” and “Entschluss-Matrix” she received numerous awards and became known to a larger audience in Germany and internationally. She has been living in Frankfurt am Main since the beginning of the year and the city is happy to welcome such a new citizen. Because Frankfurt should now be their home.
Decision paths, making decisions and a culture of decision-making are your trademarks. Since then, Johanna Dahm has been on the road to success. She is considered THE decision-maker in Germany, is an entrepreneur, speaker and best-selling author. If decisions have to be made, whether in business or politics, she is there to help.
She had not foreseen that you should one day become Germany’s most important woman in matters of decision-making, or even initially wanted it. Originally, Johanna Dahm came from a family of entrepreneurs and it was intended to take over her father’s company.
Not an easy career move
It wasn’t her parents who made this career path possible with such success.
The Düsseldorf-born entrepreneur and change expert in various cultural and communication sciences, economic philosophy culture and later an MBA at the University of Cologne. Her mother, a doctor, and her father, a doctor and entrepreneur, who run a large orthodontic practice with laboratory operations.
It was a harsh statement from her father, who said to her at the time, “If you don’t go to medical school, you’re no longer my child.”
Dahm was not intimidated by these words and went her own way. In doing so, she made the first and most important decision in her professional development, which has accompanied her to this day.
Even if her father disinherited her at the time. The inheritance was not important to her, she wanted to shape her life on her own. She had no contact with her father for several years.
But it was also to be a family decision that caused her years of pain. “My father and I have not spoken to each other as my decision follows me to break with my family. I had to bear the break with my family because of my decision, although I would have liked fatherly advice one time or another, but my father completely refused to help me,” explained Dahm.
Going against her father’s wishes was a difficult decision because from that day on she had to support herself. “I had an inner urge to study economics and not medicine, as my father wanted. So I went to the University of Cologne and managed my studies with a number of part-time jobs. I spent more time in part-time jobs than regular study time. But there is no other way,” says Dahm.
Later, Dahm’s father was proud of Johanna. And the family has reunited and the wounds have been healed.
precision landing. entrepreneur broader will
She achieved her first fame as a decision-maker when she set up her first company with venture capital from Henkel. She was very young, quickly much too young, and a woman, to found her first company, which she later sold with a large profit. It was a precision landing.
And it all started when you, as your professor, did your doctorate and set up a research center between business and science. Of course, the scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes also appealed to her at the time, and that is how she came into contact with business for the first time and with the Henkel company, which supported her first business start-up.
“My task was to integrate all graduates into training and further education in the company; I already had a web-based solution back then and later I was able to set up my own GmbH with employees for reasons,” says Dahm. At that time she was already on the road in companies all over Germany and seemed to have had a lot of fun with the passion that she conveys. Even though the economy was ailing at the time, Dahm was successful with her company. “In times of crisis, that gives me a lot of impetus,” says Dahm.
Today, Dahm is grateful for the way things were, because after all, her personal responsibility and self-efficacy were enormously shaped.
Of course Dahm can understand her father much better today. Because today she is still active in the family business and here it is always about company succession.
It is particularly difficult for companies when children do not want to follow in their parents’ footsteps. This can lead to major conflicts. And since Dahm knows all the problems that have to do with company succession, she is particularly in demand at family businesses that have problems in this regard.
A life between managers and their decisions
As a change expert, entrepreneur, speaker and bestselling author, Dahm has been accompanying managers worldwide for 21 years. Your books are currently being wrestled with, one edition follows the next. They are important, inspiring, required reading for every decision-maker.
Her latest book “Atlas of Decision Makers” will be published in June. Springer approached you at the beginning of the pandemic, because since Corona, decisions that affect human life and of course the economy have been more important than ever. A time that could not have been better chosen. More than ever, companies are making decisions about digitization systems, remote or home office. Dahm found out that making decisions is always about the decisive criterion of clear goals, but also about self-efficacy. She is already proud of her first invitation to a TV station.
“The pandemic also posed the big question of change management. Companies were sold and bought up or they had to divest themselves of the portfolio completely. I’m in great demand here. With my model, which I developed specifically for decision-making in companies, but which can also be used by private individuals,” says Dahm.
Her last book, “The Decision Matrix”, which was published by Springer Verlag last year, explains the causes of a lack of decision-making culture and the consequences. It is about shortening decision paths and simplifying decisions.
model woman. decision checker.
Keep going and creating is her motto
Johanna Dahm is a charismatic personality who always strives for perfection. Her irrepressible urge to provide decision-making support is reflected in her entire development. She is in demand like never before. 2000 consulting hours in companies speak for themselves.
Teams of executives, top managers and board members sit in front of her. Dahm acts in a clear and structured manner with a cool head, and decisions are always at stake.
And the corona pandemic also showed her that decisions are difficult to make. For Dahm, it means making decisions, taking responsibility for what you do.
Yes, Dahm is one of the model women in Germany, not only professionally but also privately. And it is to her credit that she also took time off for family matters when she was still young and held a very high management position at Novartis Pharma and acted with a lot of responsibility internationally.
Why private? When her mother became in need of care, she quit her job and cared for her mother until her death. “I accompanied my mother with love, but for me that meant giving up my career, my salary and my network at the time.”
She herself is a role model for the fact that it is not worth giving up. Keeping going and creating is her motto, because in addition to caring for her mother, she was building a company at the same time. But that was also a decision: no to a career. Yes to the care of the mother.
Smart and ambitious. Her superpower is foresight
Despite the success, Dahm has remained down to earth. She is smart and ambitious. Her big dream is the cherry blossom in Japan, she wants to experience it. Even if not for a long time, then soon. She has already set a date. That’s your decision.
“Many think decisions are irreversible, they are afraid to make decisions, but it is never too late,” says Dahm.
If you look at Dahm’s lifestyle, then she lives the simplest way. The Bauhaus style is becoming more and more concise for her life. And that becomes more specific as she gets older. She also combines working and living, whereby her situation in her new home in Frankfurt is very luxurious, for business processes, consulting and customer meetings.
Dahm has nothing left for meat, she is a convinced vegan. She swears by curry, preferably from morning to night and then very spicy.
She is also disciplined with her physical fitness. Dahm walks 20,000 steps a day, even when she’s on the phone. Exactly twice as many decisions that we humans make every day.
They’d like to die forward-thinking because everything’s so upside down right now. Dahm wishes that he had the gift of looking into the future. Although she can do that a bit and speaks of her third eye, since she is able to foresee things from time to time, the newspapers die two days later.
Her place of secrets is Bali. She wishes to be there again. And then she meditates. She is very interested in Buddhism. And here she does it like the Dalai Lama, in which she asks herself a question in certain moments of calm in order to get an answer.
When it comes to the word trust, says Dahm, the trust lies in her. And immediately adds that most projects fail because of trust. And that is a task and a wide field.
Johanna Dahm sent along the message that you should always keep your goals in mind. And you should always keep in mind what will happen if you don’t act. Because then someone else will act. And he might act worse. (portrait written by Jane Uhlig)
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