Culture Transformation Specialist

LEAD is a management consulting firm specializing in culture change and transformation, leadership development, and new work. We strive for transformative client impact, growing our business to enable even more impact while continuously nurturing our team culture. Our work includes, but is not limited to: change management, organizational- and leadership development, team alignment, culture diagnostics, value and purpose work, workshop and training facilitation, agile coaching, New Work model design, and diversity strategy design and training. Our clients include small, medium, and large enterprises, non-governmental organizations, start-ups and scale-ups, public and social sector organizations.

Job Description

We are looking for a culture transformation specialist with strong strategic and conceptual sense coupled with hands-on change management and activation experience. In this role, you will support organizations across sectors and industries to transform in a human-centric way. You will design great transition plans and be adaptive along the way, targeting the intended impact. You are known as a great, engaging change facilitator.

Bring your deep expertise in client-facing culture transformation projects:

• Conceptualize culture transformation project flows in connection with cultural change, M&A/due diligence, strategy activation, or other major organizational change projects.
• Co-design and lead projects with clients based on their transformation needs.
• Lead or co-lead the project plan, budget, and timeline.
• Steer and navigate the projects strategically according to the project plan and in collaboration with the LEAD Forward project team members and client core stakeholders.
• Deliver client sessions and workshops, both as strategic and training formats.
• Measure impact and effectiveness using design-driven data.
• Nurture close client relations over time for long-term collaboration and impact.
• Contribute to driving our playful, sharp, and open-hearted identity.
• Participate in mandates groups to decide staffing, recruitment, business development, and more.
• Acquire new client projects and retain client relationships ensuring a good balance of sectors.
• Create meaningful engagements with external stakeholders within a growing ecosystem of collaborators.

Qualifications

Background & Capabilities – What you bring with you:

• Substantial practical culture transformation experience in consulting or in a consulting line function in a large organizational context.
• Experience in more than one sector is an advantage.
• Track record in managing and co-leading projects.
• Strong level of business acumen.
• A demonstrated interest in socio-political or high-impact topics, especially in relation to leadership, change management, or entrepreneurship.
• Expertise in leading and facilitating groups in a formal managing position, project context, and as a facilitator of workshops.
• Exceptional change communication/storytelling skills and presentation excellence.
• Very good understanding of both German and global business dynamics.
• Fluent in German and English.

Additional Information

How we work:

Sharp, playful, and open-hearted is the core of the behaviors we value. This means to us:

• Crystal clear in communication.
• Curiosity and excellent listening and sense-making skills.
• Daring to innovate with formats that shake things up.
• Not shying away from a good challenge and always ready to adapt.
• Acting in a deeply human way, especially under pressure.
• Offering and asking for feedback often, with genuine support in mind.
• Leading with laughter, having impact always in your way of working.
• Planning and managing with excellence in mind.
• Adapting with an open heart, by naming what we see and feel.

At LEAD Forward, we are determined to foster and embrace inclusion among our clients and wider ecosystem and especially within our own walls. We aim to build an open and kind work environment where multiple perspectives, ideas, and backgrounds thrive, are valued, and feel empowered.

You strongly identify with this job description and would like to get to know LEAD Forward?

Great, we can’t wait to hear from you! Please send your application via email attaching your CV (in German or English) alongside your answers to the three prompts below (max. one page):

1. If I were to describe the values I hold most dear at work, they are…
2. My strongest assets are…
3. A transformation project I am most proud of is… because…

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