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When all knots are untangled during an intense test and your employees spontaneously perform a waltz at the end of the day, then it is the Vienna School of Organizational Consulting.

When your consultants help you not only to bring brilliant visions to paper, but also support you until solutions are backed by all: then it is the Vienna School of Organizational Consulting.

When, in a world of imponderables, the first small steps on the way to success are clear to you, then it is the Vienna School of Organizational Consulting.

I am mindful in my work that the spirit and perspective originate from the customer’s vision!

My work is about the mobilization of (hidden) resources: personal development, cooperation and goal attainment in teams, the learning process of organizations.

Through my work I would like to sharpen the eye for options, for a better being together and working together, both in and with organizations.

To bring into motion, to reassure, to inspire, to increase efficacy, to remember forgotten talents, to find solutions, to promote development.

Achieving good results is often easier than one thinks. Every person and every business can do it. It merely requires doing some things while avoiding everything that prevents us from achieving our goals.

Colleagues who are expected to create something truly new need invitations to break taboos as well as protective spaces in which they can think creatively without fear of being punished.

Organizations are like organisms; often all that is required is a gentle external intervention to awaken the powers of self-healing and to bring changes into effect.

What is important to me is the fact that people spend most of their time with their co-workers and partners. It is challenging to attend people, teams, and organizations to consciously appreciate and organise their time together.

You should not confuse the voice in your head with that of the Holy Spirit.

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C/O/N/E/C/T/A’s history

C/O/N/E/C/T/A was founded in 1976 by Herbert Schober, Hanni Jordis, Richard Timmel and Richard Lehrner. By 1982 Eva Dachenhausen, Helga Raunikar (later Weule) and Leo Bernardis had joined them. Their aim was to initiate open dialogues within companies in order to dissolve rigid hierarchical barriers. This enabled astounding improvements in capabilities and efficiency, making C/O/N/E/C/T/A a huge success from the very beginning.

In the 1980s, a paradigm shift occurred in consulting when trigger and catalyst became the concepts behind systemic family theory and therapy as well as sociological, biological and cybernetic system theory. Psychiatrist Gianfranco Cecchin, sociologist Niklas Luhmann, biologist Humberto Maturana and cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster became lead theorists for C/O/N/E/C/T/A. The focus of attention lay on organizations as systems. This development resulted in a book “Radical Market Economy – Behavior as Merchandise or Who Acts, Acts” (1st edition 1992), developed in collaboration with Heidelberg psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Fritz B. Simon.

The 1990s saw the beginning of the change management era. C/O/N/E/C/T/A specialized in assisting companies to find the drive, motivation and tools to change. C/O/N/E/C/T/A itself was also subject to change, as several shareholders left while others joined. The “Vienna School of Organizational Consulting” was born and presented at EXPO 2000 in Hanover and C/O/N/E/C/T/A became “C/O/N/E/C/T/A Vienna School of Organizational Consultancy”.

Since 2000, we have been integrating the results of neurobiological research into our consulting methodology. Thought and learning processes, emotions and social behavior have moved further into the foreground. Today, C/O/N/E/C/T/A is increasingly characterized by the personal histories and professional stances of its individual shareholders. The number of owners has expanded to twelve where it will remain. Our clients are spread throughout the whole of Europe and our work takes us around the world.

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