About us
HAFELEKAR is …
- Hafelekar Peak,
2,334 m, the landmark mountain of Innsbruck. The Innsbruck „Nordkettenbahnen” Cableways take you from Hungerburg up to Seegrube Mountain; from there, you can ride all the way up to Hafelekar Peak. During the summer, it is a hitch hiking area offering numerous hikings paths in all degrees of difficulty. During the winter it is a European snowboarder metropolis with varying pistes with slope inclinations of 40 degrees and more. - Management consultancy,
founded in 2001 and located in Neulengbach since 2019. We have taken the mountain – at least its name – with us. The focus of Hafelekar Unternehmensberatung’s activities is on organizational and human resources development, innovation management, regional development, qualitative and quantitative social research and project management.
The three main areas are business, education and social affairs.
Business
creating.values
We combine business management and social science expertise to offer a wide range of services in the areas of strategy, organisational- and human resource development, project- and innovation management.
We are successful in creating values that endure in a rapidly changing economic and working world.
Education
love to learn
Life is learning and loving, both of which we combine in our love to learn.
Our understanding of learning goes far beyond qualification and competence building. We understand education as an engagement with ourselves and our environment. As such, education as a political concept, is closely related to social values and individual convictions.
Social affairs
empowering.people
We research, collect, analyse and report in order to show connections as a basis for our approaches to action and strategies. Our goal is to develop new ideas, models, measures and processes that contribute to solving social problems.
We empower people, our results are always comprehensible, understandable, implementable and well-founded.
We are promoters in the implementation of social innovations!
Professional responsibility and leadership
Dr Paul Schober
Dr Paul Schober holds a doctorate in business administration, a postgraduate qualification in education management, and certification as a coach and supervisor in symbol work. Since 2001, he has served as the managing director of Hafelekar under Austrian trade law. He combines academic analysis, entrepreneurial responsibility and extensive experience in developing people and organisations.
In his consulting work, he supports companies and organisations in leadership, quality development and innovation. He designs and leads executive development and quality management programmes, conducts employee and customer surveys for large companies, and delivers cross-sector innovation projects. Drawing on robust analysis and the active involvement of stakeholders, he translates findings into sound strategies and practical steps for change.
Research and evaluation are another central strand of his work. For more than 25 years, he has developed, led and evaluated national and European projects in research, education and innovation. Hafelekar works with interdisciplinary partner organisations across numerous European countries, while its international cooperation also extends to Indonesia, Moldova and North Africa. These projects produce practical methods, curricula, consulting approaches and digital learning formats.
A current focus of his work is the responsible use of artificial intelligence. Paul Schober approaches AI as a cross-cutting capability for consulting, organisational development, learning and research – and as a tool that extends human experience and professional judgement rather than replacing them.
His research and evaluation work includes studies on residential care in Tyrol, social welfare organisations in Upper Austria, and the labour-market situation of migrants in Salzburg. His academic publications include books, book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals. His work addresses knowledge management, organisational development, education and migration, organisational resilience, social innovation, psychological symbol work, and the prevention of loneliness in later life. His teaching appointments have included the University of Innsbruck, MCI Management Center Innsbruck and St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences.
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