Dr. Gebhard Grimm
As Managing Director and founder, Dr. Gebhard Grimm is our entrepreneurial backbone.
What drives a person who wants to understand the world? Unbridled curiosity, mental freedom and an intrepid self. Gebhard Grimm is just such a person. He grasps new topics at an early stage, understands complex change processes and tackles the issues of our time with a combination of knowledge, fuzzy logic and openness.
His personal experience makes him a competent speaker in all areas of social tension between science, business and politics. He is driven by his vision: with his knowledge and commitment, he wants to help bring about lasting change in our society.
Dr. Gebhard Grimm
Managing Partner
Consulting focus: Strategy & Organization, Value Chain & Purchasing, Energy & Supply
Born in 1962 in the tranquil village of Wört in the foothills of the Swabian Alb, Gebhard Grimm grew up in modest circumstances on his parents’ farm. From an early age, his mother and father gave him the freedom to develop independently and according to his talents. His desire to think and the joy of understanding eventually led him to study physics after leaving school. Grimm wanted to understand and not just learn. And he did: first as a student and later, during his doctorate and as a research assistant at the Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Tübingen. His mentor and companion at the time was Professor Harald Stumpf, a student of Werner Heisenberg, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Like his mentor, as a physicist Grimm initially spent several years researching the theoretical roots of our world. Numerous encounters shaped him and made him curious.
However, it was one that was to have a direct impact on his life. A rather chance meeting with the physicist, philosopher and peace researcher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker developed into a close and intimate relationship. The exchange with his almost fatherly friend showed Grimm that science alone would not help him to understand the world in all its complexity. He turned his back on the university and moved into the world of business in 1995.
As a management consultant, Grimm first learned his trade in a small, focused strategy consultancy and deepened his experience at one of the large, established consulting firms. Seven years later, he finally put his personal understanding of customized, individual and co-creative consulting into practice. Grimm founded the management consultancy 3con Management Consultants with the conviction that sustainable change can only be achieved by working together with clients to find the best solutions.
Personally, competently and with high standards: Grimm’s focus is on holistic strategy and organizational development, including cross-company optimization through value-added-oriented purchasing management. He is also an expert in innovative and sustainable energy and supply concepts.
As a consulting company, we stand for individual solutions that we develop and implement together with our customers.
Grimm now lives in the Rhineland, is a husband, father of four children and grandfather. He is consciously involved in a few selected projects that move him both emotionally and in terms of content. For example, the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, of which he is a board member, focuses on communicating and promoting knowledge and education.
He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Metis Foundation for the Promotion of Science and the Fine Arts. With his active involvement as a Rotarian, he also helps to promote social projects.
Gebhard Grimm: scientist, entrepreneur, mentor and family man. Undaunted, determined and always humane, he faces the constantly changing challenges of our society – his diverse interests and skills make him a strong character with a true calling. Because only those who understand complex issues holistically and understand the people behind the multi-layered challenges of our global world can act as a mediator between those involved, help others in the community and ultimately bring about lasting change in society.