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Vision, mission & history

What makes us tick

On the market for a long time
initio has 21 years of experience in all aspects of organizational development.

Our work excels
We have received many awards for the quality of our advice.

Our vision:…that everyone does a better job together and therefore goes home happier.

Our mission:
To always provide tailor-made and effective solutions in all relevant development areas of companies and organizations.

Our motto:
change & develop – that’s why our limited company is called “change & development GmbH”.

How we became what we are:

März 2003

Foundation of the “original company” hc house of competence GmbH

Günther Grassmann and Ekkehard Zamel are the first partners. Consulting for a few major customers. Main areas of expertise are strategy and organizational development.

Feb. 2004

Florian Grolman becomes an employee

… as a consultant and also internally responsible for marketing

Juni 2005

Move to the new website organisationsberatung.net

Development of a blog around our consulting competencies

Mai 2006

Change of name to “initio”

Enhancing our consulting portfolio. A visible expression of this is the new “initio” brand.

Die Jahre vergehen…

… we are busy.

We are broadening our consulting fields and enhancing our methodologies in various key account projects.
As a result, our team is also growing – currently to 30 consultants.

Februar 2017

New limited company

Silent partners have passed away, other partners are reducing their work to part-time. We are therefore dissolving the old limited company and continuing our consulting business under the name “change & development GmbH”.
Florian Grolman joins as the 3rd partner and is promoted to the management board.

April 2017

First “Top Consultant” award

Word gets around about the quality of our consulting services.

März 2018

First award as Germany’s “Best Consultants”

The “initio” brand continues to grow: we also achieve top marks in unprompted surveys.

August 2019

Two more partners join the company

Petra Friedlaender and Philip Dönhoff become partners and strengthen important consulting fields with their expertise.

März 2020

Expansion of our portfolio to include virtual formats

Covid was also a driver of innovation for us. We move large parts of our consulting and customer workshops online.
A visible expression of this is the first international large-group conference across all continents and (almost) all time zones in October 2020.

seit 2020

Agile topics determine day-to-day business

The trend towards hybrid organizational designs also drives the topic of agility among our customers. “Agile” and “high performance” therefore become further important pillars of our service portfolio.

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