The future does not belong to the most visible companies.It belongs to the companies people trust.
IMBEO is the thought-leadership and business-development partner for industry and the Mittelstand. We make your expertise visible to the decision-makers who still buy from others today, and turn that trust into enquiries.
Top 50 LinkedIn® experts DACH- LinkedIn® Learning Instructor
- Innovation coach of the European Commission
- 10
- years of IMBEO
- 1.000+
- clients
- 30+
- years of B2B experience
- 3
- regions: Europe · Türkiye · Central Asia
More than 1,000 customer contacts reveal the same pattern. The best in their industry get overlooked.
Excellent products. Outstanding engineers. Decades of experience. And yet the decision-makers who need you most do not know you. They buy from those who speak, not from those who are best.
Most companies do not have a product problem. They have a communication and trust problem. It shows in empty trade-show stands, in price discussions, in skilled professionals who never apply, and in tenders you only hear about once they are decided.
Future readiness 2030 means: trust instead of reach. Impact instead of communication. Systems instead of isolated measures. That is exactly what IMBEO has been repositioned for, so your expertise reaches the places where contracts, partnerships and talent are decided.
Two frameworks. One system. The IMBEO Method™.
People develop influence. Organisations develop impact. Communities develop movement. Business development develops growth. The IMBEO Method™ connects The Social Leadership Quadrant® for people with the Corporate Social Performance Program™ for organisations – and makes your company fit for 2030.
The Social Leadership Quadrant®
For people · Move your mouse across the quadrantTap a stage
Identity
Values, stance, positioning. The decision about what you want to be found for.
Corporate Social Performance Program™
For organisations
Communication
Visibility
Trust
Community
Activation
Business Development
Growth
- Communication
- Visibility
- Trust
- Community
- Activation
- Business Development
- Growth
Growth
Create scale
Predictable growth, talent, reputation – future readiness 2030.
Systems instead of isolated measures
A post before the trade show, a stand in the hall, a press release about the new material: isolated measures create attention briefly and then fizzle out. What remains is the impression that communication "does not work". Before the IMBEO Method™ talks about channels, it therefore asks one question: which problem should your communication ultimately solve for good? Only the answer produces a system in which every measure pays into the next.
For people, The Social Leadership Quadrant® describes the path from identity via visibility and trust to real influence. For organisations, the Corporate Social Performance Program™ is the operating system. It leads from communication via visibility, trust, community and activation to business development and growth, in exactly this order. Whoever skips stages pays with credibility, for instance when sales contacts people who have never noticed your company.
At the centre is LinkedIn® as the top of the funnel for awareness and thought leadership. YouTube and podcasts flank the channel because search engines find them and because they give your content depth. Social selling, event campaigns, PR, international market entry and go-to-market build on top. This is how visibility becomes plannable growth that your sales team can read in conversations and enquiries.
Content → conversation → activation → closing
- 01Attention
Problem-focused content, controversy, story – at the top of the funnel on LinkedIn®, flanked by YouTube and podcast.
- 02Trust
Results, authority, mini lessons – newsletter, video, live, community.
- 03Movement
Strong CTAs, DM and InMail dialogue, exclusive invitations – passivity turns into action.
- 04Closing
Chat-based conversation, clear next steps, business development.
Four areas. One transformation.
At first glance the number of services is large. In the first conversation, almost always two or three areas crystallise, interwoven like the matrix of a fibre composite. Start with the area closest to your biggest challenge.
LinkedIn®
Decision-makers look you up on LinkedIn® before they get in touch. Turn that moment into visibility, reputation, community and business development.
Services
For companies, associations and NGOs whose performance is stronger than their reputation. Communication, growth, market development and innovation that show impact.
European Innovation Council
Ten years of innovation coaching for the European Commission – now for your deep-tech venture.
Career & Leadership Development
From career to impact. The most successful careers do not happen by chance – they arise from clarity, positioning, leadership and visibility.
„Trust is not built in the quote. It is built months earlier – in the perception of your decision-makers.“
Why good products no longer sell on their own
For decades the industrial Mittelstand worked by a simple logic: whoever convinces technically, wins. Trade shows, field sales and personal recommendations did the rest. That logic still holds, yet on its own it no longer carries. Today a large share of B2B purchasing decisions is made before anyone calls your sales team. Buyers and heads of engineering research, compare suppliers, read specialist articles, listen to podcasts and form a judgement. Whether your company features in that judgement at all is settled long before the first meeting.
In more than 1,000 customer contacts we have come across this vacuum again and again. Outstanding companies from composites, lightweight engineering, machinery and plant engineering, chemicals or technical textiles are hardly findable online. Their managing directors have stance, experience and foresight, yet towards the outside only data sheets speak. You feel the consequences in everyday business straight away. In the quote you negotiate on price rather than on value. Applicants do not know your name, even though they drive past your plant every day. And you hear about some tenders only once they have long been decided.
IMBEO closes this vacuum with thought leadership, LinkedIn® consulting, corporate communications and systematic business development. We rely on presence that builds trust rather than on loud advertising. Precision you can feel – and it can be measured: in conversations with the right decision-makers, in partnerships and in orders.
Selected services
- 01LinkedIn® Thought LeadershipBecome the voice of your industry before others tell your story.View details
- 02LinkedIn® Positioning FinderThose who stand for everything get booked for nothing. Find the positioning that tells decision-makers at once why they should contact you in particular.View details
- 03Business DevelopmentNew business should not depend on chance. Business development with industrial understanding – digital, international, trust-based and IMBEO’s umbrella since 2016.View details
- 04Community BuildingReach can be bought. A community has to be earned, and it pays you back.View details
- 05LinkedIn® Employer BrandingSkilled professionals never visit your careers page. They visit your LinkedIn® and decide there.View details
- 06EIC Accelerator CoachingThe EIC Accelerator backs Europe’s boldest deep-tech ventures. The jury interview tests whether you know your market as well as your technology.View details
Vision
An industry in which the best are also the most trusted – visible, connected, future-ready.
Mission
We make industries visible, connect regions and create impact that resonates with decision-makers – not with algorithms.
Values
Innovation, technology, sustainability – extended by digitalisation, empowerment and transformation.
Premium or Individual – two ways, one standard
Every IMBEO service comes in two modes. In Premium mode you work independently with our frameworks, methods, trainings and checklists and receive feedback, sparring and readjustment. This route suits professionals, executives and teams who want to implement themselves and need a clear structure to do so. You set the pace and build the competence in-house.
In Individual mode IMBEO becomes visible with you. İlkay Özkısaoğlu stands at your side, in joint LinkedIn® Lives, panels, video podcasts, event campaigns and community formats. This route suits managing directors, boards and organisations that want to accelerate their visibility and benefit from established reach.
Both modes rely on the same proven tools. They differ in proximity, not in quality. Which mode suits you is something we clarify in the free, no-obligation initial conversation. A collaboration often starts in Premium mode and grows into Individual mode for individual campaigns.
The value chain in view – from raw materials to the operator.
Nine stages, one chain. IMBEO knows each of them from thirty years in industry – and connects them.
- 1
Raw materials
Chemicals
- 2
Substrates
Textiles
- 3
Materials
Composites · Prepregs · Seals · Packaging
- 4
Machinery & plant engineering
Textile · Converting
- 5
Process technology
UV curing · Coating
- 6
Additive manufacturing
3D · AI · Deep tech
- 7
Engineering & design software
Components · Systems
- 8
OEM
OES · MRO · Operators
- 9
Ecosystem
Institutes · Clusters · Associations
- Aerospace
- Automotive
- Defence
- Wind
- Sport
- Medical
- Textile
- Chemicals
- Advanced Materials
- Lightweight Engineering
- Industrial Manufacturing
From the Nuremberg region to Europe, Türkiye and Central Asia
IMBEO is based in Seybothenreuth in Upper Franconia, in the heart of the Nuremberg metropolitan region, and works internationally. We accompany hidden champions, family businesses, technology leaders, associations, NGOs and research organisations that want to open up markets across borders. Conversations, texts and formats are created in German, English and Turkish, so your message reaches every market in the language of its decision-makers.
This bridge between regions is one of our strongest advantages. Through the Composites Lounge, trade shows such as JEC World, industry events in Istanbul, Baku or London and a network that has grown for more than thirty years, we connect industries and regions. This gives you access to OEMs, tier-1 suppliers, MRO companies, institutes and clusters. And it gives you communication that the buyer in Istanbul understands just as well as the head of engineering in Bavaria.
Hello, I am Ilkay.
I work in a segment of European industrial communication where excellence is not explained – it is felt. My approach combines strategic clarity, technical substance, and a quiet, atmospheric elegance that builds trust without noise.
For more than thirty years I have worked in B2B sales and business development for composites, technical textiles, mechanical and plant engineering, aerospace and automotive. With IMBEO I have accompanied more than 1,000 professionals, executives, entrepreneurs, companies and organisations since 2016. I am an official LinkedIn® Learning Instructor, an innovation coach of the European Commission and rank among the top 50 LinkedIn® experts in the DACH region.
I am not a content creator in the traditional sense, but a thought-leadership partner who transforms complexity into confidence and communication into an experience.
- Top 50 LinkedIn® experts DACH · Social Index 2026
- Official LinkedIn® Learning Instructor
- Innovation coach of the European Commission
- ERFOLG magazine: 500 most important minds 2025
- 10 years of IMBEO · 1,000+ customer contacts
Frequently asked questions
IMBEO is a thought-leadership and business-development partner for industry and the Mittelstand. We combine LinkedIn® consulting, training and coaching with corporate communications, PR, event campaigns, international market entry, EIC Accelerator coaching and career and leadership development. The goal is always the same: visibility that creates trust, and trust that leads to conversations, partnerships and orders.
Our roots are in composites, technical textiles, lightweight engineering, advanced materials, chemicals and machinery and plant engineering. We work for aerospace, automotive, defence, wind, medtech, sport and industrial manufacturing – along the entire value chain from raw materials to OEMs, MRO and operators. Add associations, NGOs, research organisations and service providers such as recruitment and management consultancies.
If your customers, partners and future employees are on LinkedIn® – and in B2B they almost always are – then yes. LinkedIn® is where decision-makers research before getting in touch: the buyer before the tender, the engineer before applying, the partner before the trade show meeting. Whoever is missing there, or has been silent for years, is not asked. In industries that need explaining, such as composites or plant engineering, this is an opportunity, because technical depth stands out when it is rare. What matters, however, is working with positioning, strategy and a system that fits your company rather than simply posting.
No. IMBEO is based in the Nuremberg metropolitan region and works internationally – with a focus on the DACH region, Europe, Türkiye, Azerbaijan and Central Asia. We offer consulting, coaching and campaigns in German, English and Turkish, remotely or on site, at trade shows and with your customers.
That depends on the mode and scope. Individual Premium services such as the positioning finder or profile optimisation are compact sessions, while programmes such as the Corporate Social Performance Program™ or event activation campaigns run over several months. We only name a price once it is clear what you need. That way you do not pay for building blocks that do not move you forward. In the free, no-obligation initial conversation we clarify which two to three areas these are. Afterwards you receive a clear proposal and decide in your own time.
Usually within two to three weeks after the initial conversation. Campaigns around trade shows and events are ideally planned three months ahead so the phase before the event can be used fully. For EIC projects we recommend starting three to six months before submission.
Where clarity becomes confidence.
In a free initial conversation we clarify where you stand today, what is holding your growth back and which two or three areas move you forward fastest.
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