Dr. Felix Langness is a Berlin School Faculty Member teaching Creative Leadership. As a former faculty member of the Institute of Executive Capabilities, Felixdesigned and taught highly engaging and interactive classes regarding Change Management and Coaching as well as Organizational Management and Behavior in the Industrial Psychology Master program. Felix is a certified executive coach, with a focus on leadership in fast growing companies, post-merger integration with an emphasis of cultural integration and systemic leadership. As part of his dissertation Felix conducted research on how personality and intelligence factors contribute to different aspects of job success and how therefore job success can be predicted using psychometric tests.

Felix has worked as a management consultant and trusted advisor to executive teams for nearly 20 years. He is an executive coach to international Senior and Executive Leadership Teams as well as individual leaders globally, but mainly in the U.S. and Europe. In addition, Felix works with renowned private equity companies by selecting and developing top-level leaders, especially during an acquisition process (HR due diligence) and after significant change interventions within the business e.g., pivots to the strategy, reorganization/ restructuring. In these roles he interacts with C-suite operatives all over the world, having trained, coached and assessed over 4.000 leaders worldwide.

Felix also served as the Inhouse Academy Head of a large management consulting company and co-founded and lead a software company with an offshore development center in Vietnam for several years. At the Berlin School he also spearheads the development of new teaching modules and is known for his meaningful interaction with students, connecting to their individual challenges leading them to deeper levels of reflection in order to create their own impactful solutions in a psychologically safe environment.

Felix was educated at the Technical University of Aachen, where he earned his Ph.D. He lived and worked abroad in the U.S. and is a member of the Coach Pools of several global companies.