Transition & Interim Management
based on LEAN culture

Some challenges cannot wait for the right permanent hire.

You are facing a situation many organisations encounter at some point: a key management position is suddenly vacant, a major transition requires experienced leadership, or an operational challenge demands immediate, focused attention. Recruiting a permanent Director takes months. 
You cannot wait.  

Experience meets Efficiency

I work inside your organisation, not alongside it. As a Senior Interim Manager with over 25 years across logistics, supply chain and operations in various countries, I step in quickly, deliver measurably, and hand over cleanly. 

No committee. 
No ramp-up. 
One person, fully accountable.

WhyTransition Management

Not a permanent hire — by design 
Recruiting a permanent Director takes months. Interim management fills that gap immediately — senior expertise, full accountability, no long-term overhead. I step in, deliver, and hand over cleanly to your permanent hire.

Not a consultant — embedded 
Unlike a consultant who advises from the outside, I work inside your organisation. Managing your teams, your clients, your operations. I arrive battle-tested, with no ramp-up period.

Flexible by nature

No minimum duration
A mission can be as short as a few weeks or run for many months — scoped entirely around your actual need, not a standard contract template.

On-site or remote — your choice
Presence is adapted to what the situation genuinely requires. A mix of on-site and remote is often the most efficient arrangement — and is always agreed up front.

Not necessarily 100%
Engagement can be part-time — 2 or 3 days per week. This keeps cost proportional to scope and gives you senior leadership without a full-time commitment.

A Situation & the Solution

Not sure where your transition stands?
Every transition is different — the stakes, the timeline, the people involved. I don't offer templates. I offer a conversation: a chance to think through where you are, what the real risks are, and what a practical path forward might look like. 
No pitch, no pressure. Just an open exchange — and if it's useful, we go from there.

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Further Service Offerings

Operational Improvement 
Diagnosing and resolving operational inefficiencies,  KPI management, team structure and reporting — grounded in proven LEAN methodology.

Project & Change Management 
Leading complex client integrations, geographical site migrations, and cultural transformation — from scoping through to clean handover.

...and... LEAN ...just read on...

Your RoadMap to LEAN

Preparing for change

"If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail."

Benjamin Franklin

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Knowledge transfer

"The way you think, the way you become."

Brian Tracey

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Embarking on LEAN

"If you stop getting better, you stop being good."

Oliver Cromwell

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Our value proposition - LEAN culture

Preparing for Change

Building the foundation for your future

‘Go and see’ where you are today & where you want to go

Before starting to train you and your people on the essential Lean tools, we will together assess your current situation and define the purpose of the changes ahead. 

During this phase we define where to start, where to go  and how to get there. Once completed you will have:

- an understanding of what Lean is and how to lead lean
- a clear communication plan
- a step by step itinerary for your Lean journey
- a change team who will lead the teams on this new journey


Now your team understands the purpose of the changes ahead and can shift to the new way of looking at things.

Learning Differently

Pragmatic & easy to understand

To create an engaging atmoshpere, we have developped a series of Lean games using unique tools.

Participants will immediately be thrown back into their early experiences of playing, and as a consequence learn the various Lean tools and ways to observe the environment in an enjoyable and relaxing fashion.

There are no rules, but only experiences from which your teams will develop an in depth understanding of Lean thinking and the related tools.

Customised tools

What can be more fascinating than seeing the real environment in a miniature world.

With our customisable tools, we can reproduce your specific industrial environment with its equipment and flows as models, that can be touched, amended, improved and even maybe removed. We call the this prototyping gamification.

Anything that in reality may seem as an unsurmountable hurdle, can be experimented in a model world.

All-In

You don't have to worry about anything.

We will identify together your needs and requirements, and all the materials will be adapted to get your teams under way on your collective Lean journey.

Let your teams lead the way to a promising and successful future.



Our Values

Honesty

Honesty is our first and foremost attribute we belive in. 
Only with total transparency you can achieve conditionless participation of all involved stakeholders. As soon as your teams can put aside all worries of being played or used for someone other's  benefit, everyone will give everything in their ability to make progress together.


Honesty drives confidence

Respect

No matter at what level you are within the organisation, your input is key to the future. 
A company's culture is driven by leadership and how the majority behaves as a consequence. 
Respect is especially being practiced top-down, only then teams do feel valued and part of something bigger.


Respect drives trust

Engagement

We do believe in what we do. Our conviction is that every organisation has opportunities to grow through inherent knowledge and creativity.
Once you get your team to share their views, and you are attentively taking them seriously, you are creating  an orgnaically growing engagement, which will drive your business further than you may have ever dared to believe.

Engagement grows business

Our Vision

Our vision is to create cultural change into a lean organisation through shared commitment across all levels of the organisation. Every single individual has a voice with the freedom to share ideas, concerns, fears and success.

Our Mission

We will achieve this through a structured step-by-step program, which will assure that no one is left behind, and that all aspects of the journey have been covered before moving on to the next level.
Our focus is on the right-first-time foundation creation, to assure you are ready to embark on the Lean journey.  



Michael Schroeger

About Michael's horizon

After more than 30 years of professional experience within the consumer & industrial sector, Michael decided to share his experience with organisations which are ready and willing to change.

His experience in working with global leaders within the fast moving bluechip, entertainment  and pharmaceutical market, has enabled him to live through the life-cycles of multiple product launches and market-changing initiatives.

The constant thrive for optimisation and aiming for perfection through his Lean Six Sigma Black Belt methodology was one of his 'passions'; today, it is his 'conviction' that change for the better is possible to create stable and continuously improving working environments, where the term 'people are our capital' are not just only fashionable words, but a living system where everyone aims for the same: 
a common safe future.

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All services can be delivered in English, French and German. 

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Contact 

MS horizon
14, Route de Burange
L-3429 Dudelange
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Europe)

Phone: +352 621 232 535
email: michael.schroeger@mshorizon.com

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