Dr. Simon Berkler

Guiding mid-to-large organizations through deep, responsive transformation — combining systemic and integral OD methods with strategic thinking to develop organizations that treat complexity as a resource, not a problem.

Helping organizations move beyond pure growth logic toward life-serving economic models. Using the Stellar Approach as a practical transformation toolkit: 4 principles, 7 practices, 3 virtues — translating systemic change into concrete team-level action.

Designing and facilitating leadership development programs that shift leaders from role-based to competence-based engagement — enabling adaptive, self-organizing leadership in changing environments.

Developing global cultural transformation programs, scaled effectively through train-the-trainer approaches and digital learning formats across diverse industries and geographies.

Speaking at conferences, events, and executive education programs on organizational transformation, New Work, regenerative economics, and steward ownership — with a focus on making systemic complexity tangible and actionable.

Worked as Unit Director and Managing Director at the Berlin/Hannover strategy agency diffferent, building deep expertise in strategic brand development and positioning — a foundation that continues to inform how he communicates complex transformation to clients.

Established independent practice as a systemic organizational and management consultant — integrating systemic OD competences with strategic brand expertise, working with organizations of diverse sizes, sectors, and cultures.

Helped establish the global B Corporation movement in Germany, supporting companies in steering by social and ecological goals alongside economic ones.

Co-founded TheDive as a consulting and transformation collective, building it into a recognized Berlin-based hub for organizational innovation, regenerative economics, community building, and content development.

Founding member of Shift Collective, a network of practitioners committed to systemic and societal transformation.

Part of the founding group building the Regenerative Business Hub Berlin — a community and platform for organizations committed to regenerative economic practices in Berlin and beyond.

Studied media, communication, and legal sciences — a multi-disciplinary foundation that shapes his systemic, cross-sector consulting perspective.

Conducted doctoral research in media economics, developing analytical rigor that now informs his work on economic system change and organizational strategy.

Trained at the Institut für Systemische Beratung in Wiesloch — one of Germany's leading institutes for systemic consulting — acquiring core competences in organizational development and change.

Completed integral leadership training, deepening his whole-system perspective on organizations, leadership, and economic transformation.

Teaches and lectures at academic institutions in Germany and the UK, translating cutting-edge thinking on organizational and economic transformation into educational contexts.

Accompanied the leadership team of a subsidiary of a globally operating automotive company, supporting leaders in navigating complex transformation in the emerging field of new mobility concepts.

Guided the introduction of a new organizational operating system in a worldwide operating medtech company — enabling more adaptive, self-organizing ways of working across the organization.

Accompanied an international innovation project focused on the topic of integrity within a globally operating automotive company — bridging cultural, structural, and values-based dimensions of organizational change.

Provided leadership team accompaniment for one of the world's largest insurance companies, supporting the team in developing shared direction, trust, and adaptive leadership capacity.

Convinced that the economic system must be redesigned to serve life rather than deplete it — and that organizations can and must contribute to this shift, beginning within their own sphere of influence.

Deeply committed to the idea that organizations are not machines to be engineered but living social systems that develop through tensions, iterations, and genuine shared responsibility — and that this distinction changes everything about how we lead and transform.

Believes that meaningful systemic change starts with small steps, taken with trust in the process: what matters is trusting that solutions will emerge together in the process of moving forward — not having all the answers before you begin.

Advocates for steward ownership as a structural answer to the question of how companies can sustainably serve purpose over profit — contributing actively to this discourse through talks and writing.

Co-authored with Ella Lagé — a practical transformation toolkit and systemic contribution to the regenerative economy debate, endorsed by Maja Göpel, Otto Scharmer, John Fullerton, Erinch Sahan, and others. Available in German and English.

Featured in Human Resources Manager, Changement Magazin, personalmagazin, Forum Nachhaltig Wirtschaften, and contributed a chapter to a 2024 Erich Schmidt Verlag anthology on New Work, digitalization, and sustainability.