In her dissertation, Dr. Henny Lena Holzhauser explored the exceptionally close customer relationships found in family businesses. Drawing on the automotive supplier industry, which often has to navigate a heavy dependence on its customers, she developed an approach to strategic customer analysis that is particularly relevant for family businesses and can be put into practice even with limited management resources.

After earning her doctorate, she turned this very goal — helping medium-sized organizations with practical, workable solutions — into her career. 

 

Having held positions at Baker Tilly Roelfs and EY, she now works as founder and managing director of HLH Consulting GmbH, supporting mid-sized companies and start-ups with a focus on Process Excellence and Compliance Management. In doing so, she continues the work on the Mittelstand that she first began at the chair. Her entrepreneurial spirit and passion for business have also found a very tangible outlet: the "ONDE Bag Belt," a product she invented and brought to life herself.

Dr. Henny Lena Holzhauser is a member of the Supporting Association of the Faculty of Economics, Business Informatics and Business Law at the University of Siegen.