Dr. Christina Gaupp – Consultant, Coach, and Sparring Partner for Sustainable Transformation

Work

Enabling sustainable transformation — from insight to implementation

I support CFOs, heads of controlling, and HR leaders in shaping and driving transformation — structurally, culturally, and personally. My work focuses on translating complexity into clarity, and creating real movement in the organization. I’m brought in when business structures are shifting, new capabilities need to be built, or leadership wants a thoughtful, external sparring partner.

‍Typical project areas include:

Building and scaling Finance Academies
Developing BI functions with user-driven logic
Designing and implementing new roles and organizational structures
Enabling leadership and transformation teams through coaching and dialogue

I’m based in the DACH region and work globally. My clients value my ability to connect the strategic with the operational – and to deliver lasting value for people and business.

My Focus areas

Shaping sustainable transformation.

Transformation

Supporting cultural and structural change with clarity, dialogue, and direction.

Finance

Building capability and mindset in finance teams – from business partnering to BI.

Controlling

Strengthening decision support and strategic thinking in controlling functions.

Learning

Designing learning architectures and Finance Academies that enable real development.

About me

Consultant, Coach, and Sparring Partner for Sustainable Transformation

Raised on a farm in southern Germany, I’ve always valued clarity, responsibility, and context. These principles still guide my work – today as a consultant, certified business coach, and speaker in Executive Education at the University of St. Gallen.

With a PhD in Management from the University of St. Gallen and over 15 years of international experience (Spain, Australia, Switzerland, Principality of Liechtenstein), I support organizations in shaping transformation – grounded, structured, and people-focused.

My professional journey has taken me through roles at BMW, Hugo Boss, and Hilti – across industries and cultures. At Hilti, I built and led the Global Finance Academy and drove large-scale transformation initiatives, collaborating with leaders across regions.

My work connects vision with execution, strategic clarity with personal growth – enabling change that is both thoughtful and lasting.

Dr. Christina Gaupp

My Values

Working with depth, direction, and a sense for people.

Focused

I reduce complexity to what really matters – without oversimplifying.

Collaborative

I work as a sparring partner – reflective, honest, and connected  to context.

Growth-oriented

Every intervention is designed to strengthen both people and systems.

Balanced

I combine academic perspective with practical intuition.

Some of my clients

"Working with Christina has been a success story over the past 4 years. She is professional, excels at bringing structure and has a goal-oriented mindset. We collaborated in very heterogenous projects like development of a line organizational operating model, driving a UI/UX study with an external counterpart but also boosting the operational excellence through improving the scrum/agile working mode in a multicultural technically oriented team. (…) Christina’s approach holistically challenges the status quo. She creates and maintains the required momentum for change while demonstrating patience when needed to bring everyone on board. Christina embodies the perfect combination of strategy, conceptional, and execution skills – it is an absolute pleasure to collaborate with her!"

"As project leaders for the global Controlling Strategy at NETZSCH, one of our main challenges is to overcome boundaries between our three business units and their respective different functional areas. Mrs. Christina Gaupp, PhD always has the right impulses, perspectives and solution approaches for us. (…) Her great ideas, combined with her long-term experience working on organizational and people development projects, really helped us.(…) We especially want to mention her empathic way of reaching out to our colleagues worldwide, while at the same time mastering challenging obstacles together with us through being an understanding & reliable coach."

Publications

Research with depth – rooted in practice, made for impact.

Gaupp, C.; Hacker, I. (in production)

Aufbau einer user-zentrierten Business-Intelligence Einheit. Von der Vision effektiver Entscheidungsunterstützung zur Umsetzung bei der Hilti AG

Gaupp, C. (2022)

Intrapreneurial behavior in the role of the Finance Business Partner: A mixed-methods study(Doctoral dissertation, Universität St. Gallen). Dis5220.pdf (unisg.ch)

Gaupp, C.; Caliz, S.; Haussmann, P. O.;
Wirnsperger, F.; Möller, K. (2018)

Der Lernende im Mittelpunkt – die Hilti Finance Academy. Wie die Ambition des Finance Business Partnerings Realität werden kann. Controlling, 30(2), 45-51.

Gaupp, C.; Kuhn, M. (2013)

Determination of Success Factors oft he Shop-in-Shop and the Concession Model in the Fashion Industry. An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Perception in the Case of Hugo Boss Benelux in Spain. Proceedings AMS World Marketing Congress Melbourne 2013, 609-618.

Ascher, N.; Gaupp, C. et al. (2012)

Nachhaltigkeit und Markenwahrnehmung. Nachhaltigkeit im Spiegel der Konsumentenwahrnehmung, Forschungsberichte des Zentrums für Empirische Forschung (ZEF), Band 3. Kuhn, M.; Zajontz, Y.; Kollmann, V. (Hrsg.). Stuttgart 2012,14-19.

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