The challenge

Employee engagement has become a critical bottleneck for organizational performance. According to Gallup’s Engagement Index, apathy toward work is increasing in Germany: 78% of employees do only what is required, while only 9% feel a strong emotional connection to their employer.

Low engagement directly affects business outcomes:
- declining quality and productivity
- lack of innovation and continuous improvement
- limited proactivity and ownership
- erosion of critical capabilities over time

At the same time, strategy execution and transformation initiatives depend on the active participation of skilled and motivated employees. Without engagement, even the best strategies, systems, and tools fail to create value.

Training alone is not enough. What organizations need are engaging mechanisms that attract, motivate, and mobilize people.

Our perspective

We believe that value creation follows a simple logic:
Value = Strategy/Tech/System x People

Even the best strategy, system, or tool creates little value if it is not adopted, lived, and actively used. The true value of any system depends on both its quality and the intensity of its use.

Effective People Engagement, therefore, means:
- designing solutions that fit the organizational context and daily realities
- aligning systems, content, and architecture with business value
- understanding adoption as a social process, not a technical one
- deliberately addressing pioneers, early adopters, and the early majority
- connecting rational concepts with positive emotional experiences

People engagement is not an afterthought. It must be co-designed and embedded from the very beginning of any initiative – whether it is a transformation, digitalization, or learning program.

Our approach

Our People Engagement approach is human-centered, social, and value-driven.

We support organizations in creating engagement mechanisms that:
- address employees’ intrinsic motivations
- make opportunities for growth, contribution, and impact visible and accessible
- foster participation, dialogue, and ownership
- accelerate adoption and diffusion of new ways of working

We combine deep contextual understanding with structured engagement design to ensure that initiatives do not remain abstract concepts but become part of everyday organizational life.

Our services

Depending on organizational needs and ambition, our services include:
- Strategy Implementation and Transformation: Design of change journey for successful implementation work
- Community Building & Corporate Culture: Design and facilitation of internal communities that strengthen identification, collaboration, and shared purpose
- AI & Digitalization Engagement Programs: Engagement concepts and initiatives to support the adoption of digital tools, platforms, and AI solutions
- New Work & Collaboration Models: Engagement formats supporting new ways of working, collaboration, and leadership practices
- Global & Intercultural Collaboration: Improving collaboration across countries, cultures, and organizational boundaries
- Employee Engagement Measures: Strengthening employer attractiveness and engagement along the employee lifecycle
- Company Ecosystem Engagement: Activating and strengthening engagement with key external stakeholders and partners

Selected references

We have designed and facilitated engagement initiatives across industries, including:
- Global leadership conferences in manufacturing
- Design and facilitation of global corporate communities in manufacturing
- Leadership journeys and large-scale engagement events in the energy sector
- Co-organization of a New Work Festival
- Team development initiatives in manufacturing environments
- AI adoption and engagement initiatives

Further details on references can be shared upon request.

Let’s talk

If you want to increase engagement, accelerate adoption, and unlock the full value of your strategy, systems, and people, we look forward to the conversation.