13th Leadership MeetUp: Red and blue make purple

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At the 13th Leadership MeetUp, discuss how managers can strengthen mental health in the workplace through their attitude and structural design, and why leadership needs to be rethought as an interplay between leading and following.

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Your speakers

Verena Ambros

Ramon Frank

Susanne Gansweid

Conny Dethloff

This event will focus on the interplay between leadership and mental health. We will discuss how managers can enable real change through their attitude, actions and structural design, and how they can work with their teams to create a resilient, healthy work culture.

Join us for these two presentations:

From intention to responsibility: Mental health – a luxury problem or a management task? How leadership for the soul can make a difference
Susanne Gansweid | Head of Department | msg for automotive

Mental health is no longer a nice-to-have or a personal luxury. As managers, we have a special responsibility in this regard. In this keynote speech, we will explore why individual measures such as fruit baskets are not enough and how we can enable real change through our attitude, actions and the design of structures. We will highlight how leadership creates orientation and resilience, why prevention and early intervention are crucial, and how we can work together to establish a healthy work culture. Let’s move together from good intentions to active responsibility – for ourselves and our teams.

Leading and following – it takes two to play the game.
Conny Dethloff | Managing Partner | Ordo Novus GbR

Conny Dethloff examines the phenomenon of leadership from the perspective of sociological systems theory. While leadership is often mistakenly attributed to a single person, he focuses on the interaction and underlying processes between people. His reflections are based on many years of experience in leadership positions since 2008. From these insights, he derives his personal leadership principles and invites us to rethink leadership.

The Leadership MeetUps are aimed exclusively at managers of all hierarchies and from all specialist areas of savings banks and cooperative banks as well as data centres (Atruvia/FI), preferably “ambassadors” from both financial groups.

Verena Ambros

is a department manager in the IT Consulting division of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe at msg for banking and leads a team in a job-sharing model. As a certified strengths coach and a staunch advocate of New Work, she is committed to promoting individual talent. In this way, she supports the development of effective teams and promotes a positive corporate culture.

Ramon Frank

is Business Unit Manager at msg for banking and contact person for all customers of the Sparkassenfinanzgruppe. Together with his team, he stands for software engineering, sustainable banking, process data technologies and application management services. He has held various management positions in recent years, including in business development and in organizational and change projects for the development of resilient organizations.

Susanne Gansweid

is Head of Department at msg for automotive and is responsible for the Automotive Consulting Solutions Practice Group. With her experience as a personnel officer in the IT, automotive and construction industries, she has in-depth knowledge in the management and development of teams. As a systemic consultant (DGSF) and certified mental first aider (MHFA), she is committed to promoting mental health in the workplace. Her focus is on strengthening individual resources and building resilient work cultures - especially in times of change.

Conny Dethloff

holds a degree in mathematics and has worked in business since 1999 - as a management consultant at PwC and IBM until 2011, and then as a manager in the Business Intelligence department at OTTO until 2020. From 2020 to 2025, he was again active as a consultant, including at borisgloger consulting and emergize. From May 2025, he is now active in two roles: as Head of Organisation at OstseeSparkasse Rostock and as Managing Partner of Ordo Novus, a consultancy for leadership and organisational design. He is passionate about designing organisational environments in which people can and want to contribute their skills in a beneficial way.

This event will take place online. This means you can take part from the comfort of your computer. We use the video conferencing tool MS Teams for our online events. You can find more information on the technology in our FAQs.

Do you need help?

Isabel Menrath

Events & Trainings

events-banking@msg.group +49 721 6674 1880

Registration

Price

free

Date

21.01.2026

Time

8:30 am

Duration

1.5 hours

Registration deadline

16.01.2026

Workshop

Online

This event will be held in German!

Good to know

If you have any questions about our event programme, please do not hesitate to contact us. Simply give us a call or send us an e-mail. We look forward to exchanging ideas with you. Isabel Menrath events-banking@msg.group +49 (0) 172 947 47 33

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