When your culture blocks every step forward.

When what shapes your organisation today slows its renewal tomorrow. A typical starting point is “culture as a brake”: patterns of thinking and acting that worked in the past now stand in the way of necessary development. Strategy and everyday reality drift further apart. Approved strategies fail in implementation because cultural patterns work against them. And culture change achieves nothing if it is started in isolation from strategy.

Our promise: strengthening culture and identity. Cultural blockage turns into the ability to develop. Contradictions turn into clarity. Identity turns into strength for the future. transformis® is a consultancy for systemic culture work embedded in strategy. We advise and support companies in using and developing culture deliberately as a lever for performance, focused collaboration and the ability to change. We see culture as an enabler for developing and implementing corporate strategy.

We look at corporate culture systemically, as a fundamental part of everything that happens in a company. At the same time, it can only be steered directly to a limited extent. You cannot decide on a culture; you can only change it indirectly. There is no “good” or “bad” culture, only one that holds you back or one that helps.

We group the 12 services in this field into 2 areas: “Making culture visible” and “Developing culture deliberately”. Those described in detail include culture analysis, corporate culture development, Smart Decision Culture and employer attractiveness. The full overview is further up this page; in the initial call, we relate each service to your situation.

We facilitate every working session, agree all results together in the room and document them online. Each session ends with minutes accepted by everyone present. Afterwards, transformis reviews each session internally and uses what it learns to prepare the next one.

External consultants add clear value when blind spots need uncovering, unhelpful established patterns need breaking, complex change needs facilitating, structuring and stabilising, or when neutrality and independence are needed, especially if conflict, competing goals or internal politics are blocking decisions.

The “Global Innovation 1000” study series by Booz & Company (2004 to 2011), analysed in the transformis white paper “New Work” (2021), shows culture to be a key factor in successful innovation: companies whose innovation strategy was backed by their culture achieved 33 per cent more enterprise value and 17 per cent profit growth over five years. Robert A. Sedlák, founder and CEO, in PVH-Magazin 2021: “Culture is central to a company’s identity and cannot be changed at the push of a button or by decree.”

Your contacts are Laura Wruck (Head of the Values and Corporate Culture competence team, Senior Project Manager, business mediator) and Eva Scholz (Senior Consultant, Head of the Organisation competence team, business mediator). We start with an initial call about your situation, the people involved and the right next step. External consultants provide structure and fresh observations, not the business decision itself; that responsibility stays with you.