Riesling Consulting comes with sparkling freshness and offers innovative consulting approaches, tools and solutions.

My career interest is to enable teams and colleagues to grow, get work done, and be successful while finding happiness and meaning with the work that they do. I coach teams and colleagues to create a healthy working environment that provides a safe space to do the right work right, deliver value, collaborate with others, embrace challenges, have the courage to fail and learn fast, and practice inclusiveness.

I have worked in various roles, with diverse start-up and Fortune 100 companies in Europe and the United States.

My passion is to grow professionally and apply the following:

Matthias Jonas,
Principal Riesling Consulting

Get work done and deliver outcomes in line with company mission and strategy – fit for purpose.
Improve organizational systems, work-flow management, leadership communication, and trustworthy behaviors – work & people management.
Understand what motivates people to have a happy, meaningful, and successful work life – (workplace) psychology.
Create a diverse tool set to coach and guide work, people, team, and organizational management so that I am flexible in coaching and facilitation approaches – continuous learning.
Share best practices to learn through receiving and giving feedback – mentoring and training.

Why the name “Riesling” Consulting?

The name “Riesling” is a reference to my upbringing in the Moselle valley in western Germany where the Mosel River flows from the Vosges mountains through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. The Moselle is a left bank tributary of the Rhine river which it joins in Koblenz.

The Mosel wine region is one of the 13 German wine regions for quality wine and is Germany’s third largest in terms of production. The Mosel region is dominated by the Riesling vine. The best wines are grown in dramatic-looking steep vineyards directly overlooking the river. The Mosel wine is light in body due to lower alcohol levels, crisp, of high acidity and with pronounced mineral character.

The art of winegrowing, i.e. cultivating and harvesting grapes, was introduced in the Mosel region by the Ancient Romans about two thousand years ago. The Riesling vine has been the dominating grape in the Mosel wine region since the 18th century.

Source: Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesling

So, how does the Riesling vine, grape and wine relate to consulting?

The Riesling wine’s high acidity comes with freshness with the “young” wine and makes it suitable for aging. High-quality dry or off-dry Riesling wine is known to have been “enjoyable at an age exceeding 100 years”. In addition, Riesling is used to make a variety of dry, semi-sweet, sweet, and sparkling wines.

Like the Riesling, consulting comes often with some “freshness” that some may find rather too “acid-tongued”. However, the right consulting advice and conclusions will prove to be sustainable and longer lasting (maybe not 100 years like some Riesling wines) enabling better outcomes. And, consulting comes with variety depending on the client’s needs and context.