Think
Both&
The organisational
consultancy with a twist
A complex world requires differentiated considerations. Context matters.
We believe that things are often nuanced rather than black and white, ‘Both&’ more often than ‘either or’.
If you expect cookie-cutter, off-the-shelf solutions you will not get them from us. We avoid simplistic management fads, will not endorse mere lip service initiatives and see little value in cosmetic interventions.
Because we care.
Does Any of This Sound Familiar to You?
- Are you at the beginning or in the middle of a transformational journey, maybe even feeling stuck?
- Do you feel overwhelmed in your attempt to manage what seems to be oddly unmanageable?
- Is your organisation far more busy with itself instead of focussing on customers and making real progress?
As trusted partners and appreciative irritators, we support our clients in future-proofing their business and in establishing optimal conditions for fruitful collaboration, solution finding, decision making, innovation, value creation and execution.
We assist individuals, teams and whole organisations to adapt and strive, particularly in times of high uncertainty, and to make sense and act in complex contexts.
Our focus is on the human and cultural side of things. Putting it in the center of attention can result in a major competitive advantage.
As trusted partners and appreciative irritators, we support our clients in future-proofing their business and in establishing optimal conditions for fruitful collaboration, solution finding, decision making, innovation, value creation and execution.
We assist individuals, teams and whole organisations to adapt and strive, particularly in times of high uncertainty, and to make sense and act in complex contexts.
Our focus is on the human and cultural side of things. Putting it in the center of attention can result in a major competitive advantage.
As trusted partners and appreciative irritators, we support our clients in future-proofing their business and in establishing optimal conditions for fruitful collaboration, solution finding, decision making, innovation, value creation and execution.
We assist individuals, teams and whole organisations to adapt and strive, particularly in times of high uncertainty, and to make sense and act in complex contexts.
Our focus is on the human and cultural side of things. Putting it in the center of attention can result in a major competitive advantage.
What We Do
Organisational Development
- Organisational Design & Transformation
- Navigation of Complexity & Uncertainty
- Business Agility, Evolution & Resilience
- Future Foresight, Market Insight & Strategy
- Change Monitoring & Analytics
- Change Communication & Moviemaking
- Work Space & Office Design
Team Performance
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Effective Collaboration & Decision Making
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New Ways of Working
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Agile Project Management
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Communication & Conflict Resolution
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Innovation & Design Thinking
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Workshop Facilitation & Meeting Effectiveness
Personal Development
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Executive Coaching & Sparring
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Transformational (E-)Learning
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Development of Soft Skills
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Personal Resilience & Mindfulness
Society & Public Services
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Public Decision Making
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Citizen Engagement & Participation
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Social Architecting & Sustainability
This is why
we are in this together.
We can do better as humankind when it comes to collaborating to tackle today’s and future challenges, both organisational and societal.
In the business world we seem to stubbornly cling to the illusion of controllability and plannability.
We ignore the obvious: both human systems and their environment are unpredictable and can thus not be “managed”. Most of the traditional management literature misleadingly paints a picture of an ideal organisation as a perfectly functioning clockwork or machine.
We try to find security where we should learn to act in uncertainty instead and are surprised if things do not pan out as expected. Repeatedly.
Organisational success will increasingly depend on our ability to navigate complexity and uncertainty. In that regard our traditional ways have been inadequate. Cultural and structural legacy is often a roadblock.
The cost is high – a luxury no company can afford. With increasing awareness, competitive pressure in the field of management innovation will rise. We want to support our customers in standing the test and seizing the opportunity.
Time is of the essence in the light of the complex global challenges threatening no less than our very existence. The next decade will be pivotal for humankind, and enterprises will be crucial agents in shaping our future.
We have no time to waste with half-baked management fads and shallow, merely “cosmetic” interventions. Profound transformation based on solid theoretical foundations, hands-on experience and honest conversations is required.
The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better.
Paulo Coelho
Our Team
Marion is our empathic and curious versatilist.
Marion has an eye for detail while seeing the bigger picture. When full-heartedly supporting individuals, teams and organisations on their journey, she has an urge to understand both specific and multifaceted challenges as well as theoretical foundations. She enjoys bringing people together, heart and mind.
Marion also indulges in her insatiable curiosity for people, interrelations and contexts when travelling.
- Organisational development & business agility
- Navigating complexity & sensemaking
- Communication & conflict resolution
- Executive coaching & leadership development
Marco is our factual and caring innovator.
Marco has a passion for new organisational models and everything related to complex social systems, both public and private.
A great listener and coffee lover, he stays firmly grounded in the “here and now” and helps you find new, sustainable ways forward.
- Cultural & organisational development
- Leadership development
- Sense-making in complex human systems
- Social architecture & public decision making
Lise is our multifaceted and sustainable strategist.
As a passionate lover of future foresight, change, and personal development, Lise is our guru for anything related to future of work, strategy or organisational design.
In her spare time, Lise embraces cultural vibrancy, eclectic architecture and cycling or hiking in the mountains.
- Organisational design & change management
- Agility, innovation & design thinking
- Personal development & growth
Marie-Claire is our connecting and empowering Globetrotter.
Marie-Claire is the frontrunner, inspiring connectedness at an individual and team level by being a mirror, sparring partner, catalyst and advocate, and in doing so empowering them to reinvent themselves and thrive.
Storytelling, on and off screen is Marie-Claire’s passion.
- Executive coaching
- Team coaching
- Global talent development
- Inter-group communication
Ute is our science-loving and hands-on thinking partner.
Ute experiences a sense of flow when she perceives that the work she is doing is theoretically sound and of practical use.
Reading and being in nature, either hiking in the mountains or in the garden, are Ute’s best recipes for charging her batteries.
- Leadership & people development
- Change management & organisational development
- Navigating complexity & sensemaking
Annette sparks co-creation & inspirational leadership.
With her long-year experience in the life sciences industry and her threefold background as pharmacist with MBA and Systemic Business Coach, she is our inspirational Bridge Builder. She brings the perfect match of logical-analytical thinking and creative-intuitive insight, which combined lead to innovative solutions on an higher level. Annette is our evolution catalyst when it comes to leadership and team development and guides the path from farsighted vision to pragmatic implementation.
- Future Foresight, Market Insight & Commercial Strategy
- Team & Leadership Development
- Change, Future Work & Resilience
- Executive Coaching
Kathrin is our adventurous storyteller & education expert.
Passionate about education and personal development, Kathrin has looked at the issue from all possible angles, from action researcher (with Otto Scharmer) and government advisor (OECD) to author and award-winning filmmaker (“Teachers for Life”). Drawing on this varied experience, she now helps businesses and individuals to implement transformational learning. A keen sportswoman and adventurer, she continues to further her own education during solo bike trips across America and Russia or unsupported ski expeditions in the Arctic.
- Education & personal development
- Learning as an adventure
- Good stories & filmmaking
Julian is our analytical and hands-on restructurer.
Julian’s approach is data-driven, goal-oriented and compassionate. He strongly believes that a change process can only be successful when facts and emotions are openly discussed and addressed equally.
Julian is passionate about experiencing and protecting nature in all its glory.
- Data- & people-driven analysis
- Secure funding
- Identify saving potential
- Business process development
Katharina is our pragmatic, compassionate learning mate.
Katharina is a weaver of the manyfold threads within and between human beings, to create the opportunity for something novel to unfold. As an expert for e-learning she exerts a strong presence and makes it effortless for others to work in virtual environments. Her business background as a leader is an additional strong asset.
Katharina loves to deep dive into understanding new arenas. Getting back to nature itself by extensive walks is her passion at the moment.
- Workshop facilitation
- Leadership development & individual coaching
- Virtual transformative learning & deep dialogue
Stefan is our agile and innovative growth compass.
With his broad background and deep expertise in domains as varied as computer technology, psychology and cognitive sciences, he assists in planting and fertilising seeds for new ways of working co-creatively. He invites people to join him in his playful, appreciative and at the same serious working style for amazing results.
Family time with his children, being in nature, learning something new and connecting the dots in new ways are Stefan’s main life ingredients.
- Agile ways of working
- Computer science
- Systemic & Gestalt coaching
- Mediation & conflict resolution
Holger co-designs tomorrow's workspaces & more.
As an architect and interior designer, Holger sees his role in helping to bring to life the innovations that will characterise the working worlds of tomorrow.
Spaces are crucial frame conditions for successful collaboration and new, adaptive ways of working. Those affected are always at the centre of and crucially involved in any of his co-creative design processes. He likes to keep the bigger picture in mind – from customer centricity to planet centrictiy – as everyting is interconnected.
- Architecture & Interior Design
- New Ways of Working
- Innovation Enablement
- Lego Serious Play
Shelly is our mindfulness and human potential wizard.
Shelly’s eventful life—as a professional dancer, a coffeeshop owner, an academic researcher and a top-ten consultant for effective social change in Israel, taught her that people and organisations can achieve any change they desire when body, heart and mind are aligned. As an emotional detective she empowers her clients with laser-sharp insights on their limiting patterns, leading to instant results on the practical plane. Because she knows that the success of any strategy depends on capacity.
- Wholehearted leadership development & training
- Individual, team & organisational Alignment coaching
- BS-free mindfulness
- Embodied organisational change
- Internal organisation’s human-capacity training
How we provide value
and what we stand for.
Human beings and their ingenuity are at the core of everything we do. After all, they are organisations’ reason for existence.
We see ourselves as your loyal partner, not as mere service suppliers, and prefer longer-term relationships over hit-and-run quick fixes. At the same time, we do not want you to become dependent on us and aim at transferring knowledge into your organisation.
You are the experts in your field. We will support you in finding your own solutions and in making them come true whilst continuously challenging you and ourselves. The starting point is wherever you currently stand.
Our experience spanning many industries provides us with a profound grasp of the dynamics at play. At the same time, we see a clear benefit in not being too involved.
It is our conviction that practice should be informed by, and experience should be complemented with sound theory.
Participative, co-creative approaches to involve those concerned are the essence for truly meaningful, sustainable results.
Besides its depth, we put emphasis on the breadth of our know-how and diversity of perspectives for novel insights. The latter is crucial to tackle complex, multi-facetted challenges. Concurrently we ensure coherence through a shared, overarching and holistic understanding of the wide range of interwoven topics we cover in our work.
There is a whole list of things we like and measure ourselves by. Some of them are curiosity, critical thinking, honest and open conversations, empathy, pragmatism, trust, reliability, straightforwardness, kindness, a pinch of humour and an unflinching commitment to sustainable impact.
Some Of The
Clients We Have
Worked With
We take on assignments internationally in English, German & French
Are you a nonprofit organisation out to make a difference but with a limited budget? Get in touch with us! We are happy to find a way to support you if we find your cause worthwhile.
Abbott
AbbVie
Arbonia
B. Braun
Bilfinger
BKW Gruppe
Boess + Partner
Daimler
Deutsche Bank
EBRD
GN Resound
Honeywell
Karl Storz
Liip
Merck
Merci So Much
Monvia
Norgine
Roche
OC Oerlikon
Pill Group
ReDI School
S&P
SBB
Schott
Siteco
SEZ
Siemens
Takeda
thyssenkrupp
Unitymedia
Zurich
Our Partners
Think both
We are looking forward to hearing from you!