Good leadership is not a question of size.It is a question of access.

Contracts, payroll, time tracking – the administration of your staff works. But who supports your managers when it gets personal? In the difficult conversation. In the conflict within the team. With the question of why the best people leave.

Large corporations afford whole departments for this. SMEs, the trades, care, clubs and associations – who carry most of the work in this country – are left on their own. Yet that is exactly where people are missing: seven in ten of the skilled workers Germany lacks are missing in SMEs. More than 281,000 positions nobody can fill.

Source: KOFA study 02/2026, German Economic Institute (July 2024 – June 2025)

Amitié was not dreamed up in a lab but founded out of practice – by three people with more than 70 years of experience in leadership, development and technology between them.

• Tarek Khalek-Ziegler: At home in people and organisational development for 25 years. Change and transformation management in times of digital change are the topics he works on with companies every day, in leadership and management.
• Sylwia Christ: A coach and developer of leaders for more than 25 years, seven of them leading learning and development at one of the largest corporations in the world. She knows how development works in large organisations – and what SMEs really need from it.
• Jürgen Ryannel: More than 20 years as a technology entrepreneur and software architect (among others Chief UI Architect for Daimler MBUX, co-founder of Pelagicore). He builds the platform you entrust your leadership questions to.

We grow almost entirely by recommendation. That is no accident; it is what we aim for.