Meike Leue

Meike Leue helps companies design competencies, organizational development, and workforce structures in a way that yields measurable results: higher productivity, greater adaptability, and sustainable performance. Drawing on corporate strategy, she combines results-oriented thinking with a deep understanding of human motivation and behavioral change.

Her work focuses on capability building, corporate learning and development (L&D), organizational performance, and L&D governance. The central question is how companies can identify, highlight, strategically develop, and effectively deploy strategically relevant competencies. A healthy dose of pragmatism plays a major role in this process. A particular focus is on the intelligent allocation of skills and competencies within the workforce: How can an effective balance be achieved between corporate needs, individual motivation, and actual potential?

Before becoming self-employed, she was in charge of the “Learning Center” at Hays AG and developed it into a beacon for the industry. Her many years of sales experience and work in the staffing services sector shape her strong business focus: She understands how performance is achieved under real-world market conditions and why competencies are only relevant if they contribute to concrete results.

In addition to her consulting work, she gives lectures and teaches courses on business development and corporate learning, competency management, learning motivation, skills-based organizations, and AI in learning and development.

Selected Projects

Competence based Learning & Development

• Transformation of a global pharmaceutical company from document-based learning to a competency-based learning and training approach for production employees in regulated environments
• Development of an international program to build internal capacity for competency management and documentation optimization
• Further development of a global competency and documentation transformation framework with a focus on “right-first-time,” reducing ineffective learning processes, and shortening the “time to proficiency
• Operationalization of competencies based on real business processes and role requirements as the foundation for capability building

Corporate Learning & L&D Governance

• Establishment and strategic development of the Hays Learning Center as a DACH-wide learning organization
• Digitization and transformation of the training landscape at Hays into a hybrid, modular system; establishment of an appropriate learning governance framework
• Introduction and implementation of a learning management system (ILIAS), including the creation of a company-wide learning library as a knowledge and skills platform

Organizational Performance & Transformation

• Developing sustainable upskilling programs to support organizational and digital transformations
• Helping companies align learning, talent management, and business objectives to increase productivity and employee retention
• Developing learning and communication strategies to support sales and cultural transformations
• Supporting executives, mentors, and talent development teams through change and role development processes

Leadership, Motivation & Behavioral Change

• Development of motivational learning architectures with a focus on self-efficacy, ownership, and sustainable behavioral change
• Storytelling and communication formats for emotionally anchoring change and learning
• International workshops on influence, communication, negotiation, and motivation to learn