Johannes Faupel

Key Person Risk and health: What must a keyman coach know about illness and exhaustion?

Most interim absences have no dramatic cause. A hospital stay, a long illness or exhaustion is enough to show how much depends on one person.

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Key Person Risk and illness: What does a hospital stay of the CEO change?

Bennedsen, Pérez-González and Wolfenzon (2020) use hospital stays of CEOs to measure their influence: their absence affects profitability and investment, more strongly in growing and family-controlled firms.

Key Person Risk and exhaustion: How does the WHO define burn-out?

In ICD-11, the World Health Organization describes burn-out as “a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed”, with three dimensions: exhaustion, increased mental distance from one’s job and reduced professional efficacy. “It is not classified as a medical condition” (WHO, 2019).

Key Person Risk and capacity to decide: Who acts when the owner can no longer decide?

Without a lasting power of attorney, the guardianship court appoints a legal custodian; with a suitable power of attorney this is not necessary (Section 1814 BGB).

Key Person Risk and health: Which questions should be settled before the emergency?

  • Who would notice first that the key person is reaching his limits?
  • Who may tell him so?
  • What happens to the business if he is unavailable for six weeks from tomorrow?
  • Which tasks could he hand over today without losing anything that matters to him?

Key Person Risk and health: Where is the gap that medicine leaves open?

Doctors treat the illness. How a strong person can admit his own limits without experiencing it as a deficit, and who in the organisation takes over in the meantime, is a question for the conversation before the emergency. Where there are signs of severe exhaustion, Johannes Faupel asks for a check with the family doctor beforehand.

This is where keyman coaching starts: Johannes Faupel clarifies with owners, families and successors what is wanted before the professionals put it into words, and invites representatives of other professions when negotiations are due.

This page gives an overview and does not replace medical advice.

Key Person Risk (Keyman Risk): How can it be minimised?

The One Session: Key Person Risk Coaching

The One Session is a four-hour 1:1 intensive session in Frankfurt am Main, optionally online. It identifies the imponderables and uncertainties that matter beyond financial data, insurance benefits and production security: among them trust in deputies and successors and the appreciation of the life's work of founder personalities. Fee: EUR 5,000 plus 19 % VAT, B2B.

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Phone: +49 69 4800 8888
Email: info@johannesfaupel.com

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Key Person Risk and health: Which sources does this page rely on?

  1. Bennedsen, M., Pérez-González, F., Wolfenzon, D. (2020). Do CEOs Matter? Evidence from Hospitalization Events. The Journal of Finance. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jofi.12897
  2. World Health Organization (2019). Burn-out an “occupational phenomenon”: International Classification of Diseases. www.who.int/news/item/28-05-2019-burn-out-an-occupational-phenomenon-international-classification-of-diseases
  3. § 1814 BGB – Voraussetzungen der Betreuerbestellung. www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__1814.html

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