Our Mission:
Towards a Partnering Economic Paradigm
The need for professional partnering leadership is more critical than ever — across geopolitical landscapes as much as business arenas.
It is becoming increasingly visible that under competitive, hierarchical leadership models, we create advantages at the expense of humanity, social peace, and the planet’s resources.
The Partnering Leadership Academy is committed to fostering a relational management paradigm that supports sustainable and inclusive stakeholder capitalism — grounded in a new We-consciousness.
Leadership, rewritten: Design conditions, not just behaviors
Partnering leadership goes beyond leading a team for good collaboration. It’s about intentionally designing the conditions — principles, routines, structures, and even digital features — that enable the creation of relational value across a collective.
The leaders' task no1 is to become a relational architect.
Focuses on leading individuals or teams
Often depends on strong personalities or roles
Works within defined hierarchies
Prioritizes motivation, coordination and control
Collaboration as a skill
Bases on structure
Focuses on enabling collective engagement
Anchors trust and collaboration in routine and process design
Works across boundaries and ecosystems
Prioritizes bridge building, shared commitment and responsibility
Collaboration as a system design responsibility
Bases on principles
Our new digital and circular business models are partner-to-partner models. They require a co-creative value generation among all partners, including a fair distribution thereof.
grounded in 15+ years of hands-on experience supporting hundreds of leaders in organizations across diverse industries.
rooted in a proven, research-based methodology for holistically transforming leadership cultures.
viewing leadership as the intentional design capacity to shape routines, processes, structures, and digital enablers that allow scaling trust-based collaboration.
Dr. oec. Eva Bilhuber Galli
Eva is a multi-stakeholder engagement expert, senior consultant, executive coach, lecturer, author, and founder of the Partnering Leadership Academy.
Over the past 15+ years, she has supported hundreds of global leaders across sectors and industries in shifting toward a partnering leadership culture — helping them move beyond silo-thinking, matrix inertia, and power struggles toward greater agility, trust, and collaboration.
Having experienced firsthand how competitive “win-lose” dynamics can harm collaboration, productivity, and wellbeing, Eva began researching the social conditions that enable successful boundary-spanning collaboration. This work led to the development of the Partnering Maturity Model.
She received her PhD in strategic management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and her insights have since been published in Leadership Quarterly, Harvard Business Manager, NZZ Libro, and Handelsblatt Verlag.
From dialogue to design: A Model for scalable collaboration
Our evidence-based Partnering Maturity Model is the foundation of all our programs.
It guides you through a clear, structured process to help you envision, align, reflect, and evaluate your efforts toward more effective collaboration.
Whether at a personal, team, or organizational level, we show you how to apply the model in your own context — growing your leadership capacity as:
a Partnering Leader
a Partnering Culture
or a Partnering Organization
My personal why
Since the beginning of my career in the financial industry, I often felt lost in — and even shut down by — competitive work dynamics. Like many, I was encouraged to become bolder, more assertive, and to fight harder for my own interests.
But the more I tried, the more I felt a growing discomfort — a sense of emptiness, exhaustion, and inner disconnect from having to fight “me first” battles in the name of business success.
It took turning fifty to realize there was never anything wrong with me desiring more partnering ways of working and doing business.
What felt more and more wrong was blindly following a century-old “competitive imperative” — one that taught us to suppress our collaborative human nature in favor of system-driven win-lose dynamics.
For too long, we’ve focused on perfecting competitive leadership, instead of questioning the paradigm behind it.
That needs to change.
That’s why I devote my work to elevating, researching, testing, and teaching a more partnering form of leadership — one that allows us to shape a sustainable future for people, organizations, and humanity as a whole that we share.
Meet Human Facts AG — the company powering the Partnering Leadership Academy
Who we are - Human Facts is a Swiss-based boutique consultancy with over 15 years of experience in organization-wide transformation and multi-stakeholder engagement.
What we do differently - We help organizations to lead change through a partnering leadership approach — building trust, alignment, and shared responsibility across entire systems.
Why we founded the Academy - The Partnering Leadership Academy was created to share this expertise more broadly — offering tools, programs, and peer learning to individual changemakers creating conditions for partnering mastery.
We are a certified Women-Owned Business and a 1% for the Planet member — as is the Partnering Leadership Academy.