Peter Schmidt has been a Partner with E>V since 2008 and is also founder of Peter Schmidt & Friends.

He counsels management and teams on taking new paths and implementing ideas. His focus is on innovation strategy development and the development of a culture of innovation within companies. Peter Schmidt has specialised expertise in the fields of consumer goods, health care, banks, finance and B2B innovation processes.

He is a business economist, systemic consultant and gestalt therapist and for 15 years has held leading positions in the field of sales/marketing (pharmaceutics, OTC, consumer goods).

What drives us onward is essentially one of life’s central issues: “How is innovation brought into the world?” We think the job of grappling with this, in view of the rapidly accelerating changes in commercial life, shouldn't be left to the philosophers alone. Companies demand specific answers. They want to know how value-creating innovations sprout from inventiveness and intuition. We apply ourselves to both worlds with passion: the creative as well as the commercial – i.e., the marketable usability of ideas in terms of customer needs.

We are fascinated by the question of how innovation is born but we also want to know how we can promote innovations in a specific way and bring these to fruition to help companies with their ultimate objective of increasing profitability. We have the will to pry open structures - yet always with the view to bringing the client’s organisation ultimately into a new, more innovation-friendly equilibrium.

Our European and international clients trust us not least because we, as a consultancy with internationally cooperating partners, understand and respect their cultural diversity.