With a career anchored in the belief that people and leadership are at the heart of lasting organizational impact, Sabine Bothe brings profound strategic perspective to senior appointments. As a former CHRO, she has over two decades of leadership experience across transformation-driven organizations, including firsthand insight into how leadership decisions shape business outcomes. She brings more than 15 years of HR and leadership experience in the telecommunications industry, complemented by experience as a management board member and senior executive.
Based in Vienna, Sabine is a consultant in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications and HR practices, specializing in executive search and leadership advisory for boards, CEOs and senior executives. She combines a business perspective with deep expertise in leadership and transformation, innately understanding both the strategic importance of senior appointments and the realities leaders face once in a role.
Strategic transformation and executive leadership expert
- Throughout her 20+ year career, Sabine has created measurable business value through transformation, culture, operational efficiency and technology, enabling sustainable performance at scale, strengthening leadership effectiveness and delivering results in complex, multifaceted stakeholder environments.
- Sabine was group head of people and culture at Erste Group Bank and Erste Bank Oesterreich, CEE`s largest banking group, with responsibility for over 50,000 people in eight countries.
- Previously, as senior vice president employee journey at Deutsche Telekom, Sabine was part of the business leader team in Bonn. Before that, she served as a management board member at Magenta Telekom in Vienna. Sabine also held HR management roles within A1 Telekom Austria in Vienna and Deutsche Lufthansa AG in Frankfurt/Main.
Sabine earned both state exams in law and a Ph.D. in law from the University of Mannheim. She is a native German speaker and fluent in English.