What your business travel actually costs, nobody in your organisation can say alone.
Travel costs run through finance, HR, IT and travel. Every function has its own figure. For companies with around 75 regular travellers or more, I establish in one day where those figures contradict each other. Once it is clear what needs to happen, I lead the delivery: rollouts, system changes, building a central travel function, including line responsibility for a fixed term.
I book nothing, broker nothing and receive no commission from any provider.
Get in touchWhere to start
Ten offers, from a one-hour call to interim leadership. Choose your situation to see what fits.
10 of 10 offers
Expert_Sight
One specific question, 60 minutes online, EUR 190. I put your question into context, you receive the key points in writing and know what to do next.
one hour
Travel cost diagnosis
Management asks what travel costs and where savings are possible. In one day I show you where policy, booking tool, agency reporting and expense data contradict each other, and at which three points money is lost.
one day
Business Travel Assessment Day
One day with all the functions involved, on site or remote. Afterwards you know who decides what on business travel, where responsibilities are missing and which measures come first.
one day
Workation and bleisure check
What is decided in your organisation today, and on what basis
one day
Event spend diagnosis
What meetings and events cost each year, and who commissions them
one day
Expense_Alert
A savings decision is coming. In two days you get a roadmap ready for a board decision that replaces a blanket travel ban.
two days
Blended travel policy
Two days, after which it is settled what applies to bleisure and workation
two days
Event governance
Who may commission, above which amount who has a say, and on what basis the agency is selected
two days
Project leadership
I lead undertakings with a defined end state: rollouts, system changes, post-merger integrations, building a central travel function. From clarifying the brief through delivery to handover into regular operations.
weeks to months
Interim leadership
Line responsibility for a fixed term, leading a central travel function or bridging a vacancy.
months
Three fields, one question
Who decides, and by which rules, when people travel for work. The answer differs across three fields.
Corporate Travel & Expense
Processes, policy, systems, sourcing and the data that holds it all together. The main field, and the one with the most offers.
Corporate Travel & ExpenseWorkation and bleisure
Two hybrid forms with two different areas of law behind them. Decided case by case, that does not hold for long.
Workation and bleisureMeetings and events
The budget is spread across the organisation and nobody knows the total. This is about the buyer’s side, not about production.
Meetings and eventsShort profile
- More than 25 years in business travel management
- Most recently four years leading a central group function for travel and expense
- Built the standalone function after the spin-off of Vitesco Technologies from Continental
- Consolidated both landscapes after the acquisition by Schaeffler, around 100,000 employees in more than 50 countries
- Before that, twenty years as managing partner of my own business travel company
I know both sides of the table: the provider's, and that of the company negotiating with them.
If you have something that has been sitting unresolved for a while, write me a line about what it is.
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