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Petra has been an instrumental part of Howie from the very early days. What began as temporary executive coaching to support me through the challenges of solopreneurship evolved into a trusted, ongoing partnership over the past two years as we scaled the company. Her clarity, structure, and ability to cut through complexity have been invaluable during high-growth and high-pressure phases. In addition, Petra played a key role in shaping our financial strategy and developing a robust financial plan to support our VC financing round. I’m deeply grateful for her steady guidance and would highly recommend her to any founder navigating a complex journey of building a company.

We decided to work closely with Konsultori to implement the sale of our company strategically, and that was the right decision. Petra Wolkenstein guided us through the various phases of the process with her experience, clear structure, and in-depth M&A expertise. Her input helped us prepare important negotiation steps in a targeted manner and sharpen our positioning in line with our strategic goals. The structured development of a convincing deal framework – including financial data, narrative, and argumentation – as well as the targeted preparation for critical discussions with potential buyers, was particularly valuable. As the founding team, we were able to consistently implement our strategy while benefiting from Konsultori’s sound external perspective and methodological certainty. Startups that want to approach their exit in a well-founded manner will find Konsultori an excellent choice.

As a young company, we faced the challenge of drawing up a convincing financial plan for investor meetings. With Petra’s support, we redesigned the entire financial plan, worked specifically on the structure, assumptions and calculation methods and were prepared for all queries. Her expertise and experience in M&A and startups were incredibly valuable. In the end, not only did we as founders have a clear roadmap, but we were also able to convince our investors and close a six-figure financing round.

Scaling Readiness Run is probably the best program any of us (in the founder team) has attended. Its well-structured sequence of sprints is carefully designed and balanced: Actionable content is paired with practical frameworks, many of which we have started to integrate into our practice. Particular highlights among those topics were Product-Market-Fit, OKRs and the Employee Value Proposition. As a result of Konsultori’s Scaling Readiness Run, we have already made significant progress across various scaling dimensions and will continue to do so.

Thank you for all the great insights on the topic, looking forward to the next ones!

The workshop Organization Design and Essential HR Practices brought tremendous value to our startups. Huge thanks, Michael Kubiena.

Petra helped us in structuring the key message and all relating documents for finding venture capital for a newly founded start-up in the field of green chemicals. Petra also provided us contacts and venture opportunities for our mission. We totally appreciated Petras’s very experienced, well-skilled but still hands-on way of working with us. Petra is perfectly capable of sensing what her customers really need. We really learned a lot! Thank you, Petra.

Our incubatees raised their negotiation skills for B2B Sales & Partnering to the next level with the help of our negotiations expert Petra Wolkenstein. From understanding the theory and processes of negotiations to strategic moves and systematic preparations and overcoming difficult moments, our tech founders learned how to get more out of their negotiations.

Thank you for the really excellent support and advice.

Thank you konsultori team! It was our pleasure to be present in the vibrant Startup ecosystem that Vienna is becoming and to be part of the Wirtschaftsagentur Wien Vienna Startup program. One of the biggest advantages though was to learn from you and to work with you on our future plans.

Our Ag-Tech Startup Accelerator always aims at having motivating speakers and workshops in order to develop the founders‘ skillsets further. Petra Wolkenstein held an incredibly informative and exciting negotiations workshop where everyone had a lot fun while taking away numerous learnings. I can highly recommend her negotiations workshop to everyone who needs to improve in this field.