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Together we spark change

to sustain your tomorrow.

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Together we 
spark change
to sustain your
tomorrow.

ABOUT

Tomorrow's Growth
Starts Today

Hi, I’m Alexandra – founder of Spark & Sustain.
I empower organizations, leaders, and teams to shape their tomorrow today by pioneering human, healthy, and future-ready ways of working.


As a former Manager at IDEO, I believe people are the spark of every business — their energy, inspiration, and collaboration drive lasting success. Together we rekindle this spark, turning the so-called “fluff” into business-critical outcomes: emotions into engagement, inspiration into innovation, culture into competitive advantage, resilience into results.
 

Curious, candid, and caring, I help you tune into what’s real before shaping what’s next. Whether it’s navigating change, evolving your culture, building future-fit capabilities, or developing leaders who spark trust and collaboration, I bring clarity, empathy, and energy to my work — always centering your context and your people.
 

My edge lies in translating the big shifts in work into people-first solutions that build energized, adaptive, and purpose-led organizations, leaders, and teams.

Curious what your organization could look like future-ready and people-powered?

  • Founder - Spark & Sustain (2025 - present)

    Head of Talent Germany & Europe - IDEO (2019 – 2024)

    Head of People & Culture - UniCredit S.p.A (2016 – 2019)

    Trainer, Coach and Facilitator - Freelance (2010-2024)

    Psychology Lecturer -
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (2009-2013)

    HR Expert - HypoVereinsbank & UniCredit (2007 – 2016)

  • Resilience Coach (2025) – Kitchen 2 Soul Akademie

    Experience & Learning Experience Designer
    (2022 & 2025) – Kaospilot

    Systemic Organizational Developer (2020) –
    Doujak & Neuwaldegg

    Coaching Skills for Business Leaders (2020) –
    Co-Active Training Institute

    Yoga and Mindfulness Trainer (2015) – Vikasa

    Systemic Business Coach (2012) – 11Drei Institut

    Certified Trainer (2008) – HypoVereinsbank

    Diploma in Organizational Psychology (2006) – RWTH Aachen University

Alexandra portrait

ABOUT

Tomorrow's Growth
Starts Today

Hi, I’m Alexandra – founder of Spark & Sustain. I empower organizations, leaders, and teams to shape their tomorrow today by pioneering human, healthy, and future-ready ways of working.


As a former Manager at IDEO, I believe people are the spark of every business — their energy, inspiration, and collaboration drive lasting success. Together we rekindle this spark, turning the so-called “fluff” into business-critical outcomes: emotions into engagement, inspiration into innovation, culture into competitive advantage, resilience into results.

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Curious, candid, and caring, I help you tune into what’s real before shaping what’s next. Whether it’s navigating change, evolving your culture, building future-fit capabilities, or developing leaders who spark trust and collaboration, I bring clarity, empathy, and energy to my work — always centering your context and your people.
 

My edge lies in translating the big shifts in work into people-first solutions that build energized, adaptive, and purpose-led organizations, leaders, and teams.

Curious what your organization could look like future-ready and people-powered?

  • Founder - Spark & Sustain (2025 - present)

    Head of Talent Germany & Europe -
    IDEO (2019 – 2024)

    Head of People & Culture -
    UniCredit S.p.A (2016 – 2019)

    Trainer, Coach and Facilitator -
    Freelance (2010-2024)

    Psychology Lecturer -
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (2009-2013)

    HR Expert -
    HypoVereinsbank & UniCredit (2007 – 2016)

  • Resilience Coach (2025) –
    Kitchen 2 Soul Akademie

    Experience & Learning Experience Designer
    (2022 & 2025) – KaospilotSystemic

    Organizational Developer (2020) –
    Doujak & Neuwaldegg

    Coaching Skills for Business Leaders (2020) –
    Co-Active Training Institute

    Yoga and Mindfulness Trainer (2015) – Vikasa

    Systemic Business Coach (2012) – 11Drei Institut

    Certified Trainer (2008) – HypoVereinsbank

    Diploma in Organizational Psychology (2006) –
    RWTH Aachen University

WORK

Let's Co-Create Your
Tomorrow

I partner with entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and corporates who know the future of work starts now and who are keen to build high-impact organizations, where people thrive and performance lasts.

This is what Spark & Sustain offers.

  • Bringing your vision and strategy to life  through organisational design and development.
     

    I help organizations spark a vision for what’s next and align their strategy, structure, culture, and capabilities for lasting impact. Together, we embed a culture of experimentation, agility, and resilience — empowering leaders and teams to navigate disruption and seize new opportunities. The result: organizations that are future-ready, purpose-driven, and adaptable to sustain high-performance, excellence, and well-being in a fast-changing world.

     

    To achieve this, we’ll collaborate through tailored formats like org design sprints, alignment workshops, co-creation labs, pilots, or immersive offsites.

    Some of the challenges I can help you solve

    “We lack a long-term vision for how we’ll adapt and grow.”
    → I guide visioning and future scenario mapping to prepare your company for what’s next.

     

    “Our strategy is clear, but our organization isn’t built to deliver it.”
    → I translate strategy into structures, roles, processes, and capabilities that empower people.

     

    “We need to upgrade our ways of working and prepare our leaders and teams for the future.”
    → I embed new practices and future capabilities into operating models, roles, and teams.

  • Making transformations smooth, sustainable, and sticky.
     

    Transformation sticks when it’s clear, connected, and co-owned. I help organizations align on what needs to change, engage leaders and teams in shaping that change, and embed the culture, capabilities, and behaviors to sustain it. The result: change that’s understood, embraced, and delivered — with faster adoption, sustained performance, and lasting impact.

     

    To achieve this, we´ll collaborate through tailored formats like change architecture design, transformation journeys, communication strategies, capability-building sprints, leadership alignment offsites, coaching for change leaders, and ongoing advisory.

    Some of the challenges I can help you solve
     

    “Our culture isn’t built for where we’re heading.”
    → I help you evolve and align values, mindsets, behaviors, and systems so your culture becomes a driver of your strategy.

    “We’re going through a post-merger integration and don’t know how to bring people with us.”
    → I design people-first integration journeys that reduce uncertainty and build trust.

    “Change fatigue is real and slowing us down.”
    → I help pace transformation, ingrain resilience practices, and establish rhythms and rituals to protect energy and drive adoption.

  • Growing leaders who inspire trust, spark collaboration, and sustain performance.

    As an executive coach and trainer, I help leaders strengthen empathy, resilience, and self-leadership — enabling them to navigate change, complexity, and conflict with clarity and impact. Together, we build communication, decision-making, and future-critical capabilities that fuel engagement, innovation, and sustainable performance. The result: confident, people-centric leaders who lead with vision, purpose, and values, coach their teams, and create environments of trust, creativity, and psychological safety — all while tackling challenges with confidence and care.
     

    My tailored offer includes executive coaching and mentoring, leadership development journeys, experiential and peer-learning formats, resilience and future-skills training, leadership offsites, and leadership diagnostics.

    Some of the challenges I can help you solve

    “Our managers deliver results but struggle to develop and inspire our people.”
    → I design leadership journeys that build coaching mindsets, emotional intelligence, and people-leadership skills.


    “Leaders feel overwhelmed in times of uncertainty and change.”
    → I equip leaders with resilience tools, reflective practices, and scenario planning skills to refuel and reset.

     

    “Our leadership culture is too operational — we need more strategic, future-focused leadership.”
    → I introduce frameworks and peer-learning formats that stretch perspective and spark forward-looking action.

  • Building connected teams that energize, innovate, and sustain success.

    I partner with teams to strengthen collaboration, resilience, and psychological safety — the foundations of lasting performance and innovation. Together, we align on purpose and goals, recalibrate ways of working, and build future-ready skills and rituals so also hybrid and cross-functional teams can unlock their full potential. The impact: Teams that trust each other, stay energized and take shared accountability — performing under pressure while fueling creativity, connection, and sustained success.

     

    We achieve this through tailored formats like team building workshops, team coaching, immersive offsites, short “boost” sessions, or longer team development journeys.

    Some of the challenges I can help you solve

    “Unclear ownership and roles create friction and slow things down.”
    → I facilitate clarity sessions to reset roles, responsibilities, and decision-making.
     

    “We’re launching a new team and need to build trust and direction fast.”
    → I design team launches that establish clarity, shared purpose, and clear collaboration principles.
     

    “Ideas and innovation stall because people don’t feel safe to voice concerns or challenge the status quo.”
    → I build psychological safety with reflection labs, resilience training, and new collaboration practices.

  • Making your People & Culture Team a catalyst for change, growth, and future-readiness.
     

    I help organizations transform their People Teams into strategic engines for growth, culture, and future-readiness. Whether through fractional CPO leadership, redesigning people systems and processes, or reimagining the employee experience — I enable HR functions to become visionary, agile, and truly people-led. The outcome: People Teams that align their strategy with business goals, design experiences that attract and retain top talent, and drive performance and growth through human-centered leadership and care.

     

    I partner through fractional CPO services, strategic consulting, process and experience design sprints, ways of working optimization, or ongoing advisory.

    Some of the challenges I can help you solve
     

    “We don’t yet have People & Culture leadership but need strategic direction now.”
    → As fractional CPO, I co-design your people strategy, advise execs, and guide transformation.

     

    “Our People & Culture processes feel outdated and slow us down.”
    → I redesign core systems and processes to be people-centric, experience-led, and values-aligned.

     

    “Employee engagement is low; we’re losing people who don’t feel supported.”
    → I craft employee experience journeys, Employer Value Propositions, and people practices that strengthen retention.

     

    “We want to make DEI and future skills a core part of our DNA.”
    → I embed DEI and future-skills into your talent systems and culture — building inclusion, agility, and readiness for what’s next.

  • I spark fresh thinking through thought leadership on future-readiness, people-centric workplaces, and the human side of transformation. Always designed to provoke new perspectives and inspire action — not just applause.

    Topics I love to speak about

    • The Future of Work Unpacked – what’s coming next and how leaders and teams can prepare.

    • Future Skills & Capabilities – building the talent foundations for agility and growth.

    • New Leadership – leading with clarity, empathy, and courage in disruptive times.

    • The Evolution of Career Development – how to grow a career amid AI, change, and continuous learning.

    • Winning the Talent Game – how to attract, engage, and retain top talent in a shifting market.

    • Resilience as Strategy – why it is a core driver of organizational health and performance and how to strengthen it.

    • Wellbeing Meets High Performance – creating systems where energy and excellence reinforce each other.

    • Embedding Mental Health in Organizations – moving from awareness to systemic support.

    • Future-Ready Organizations – practical pathways to align structure, culture, and strategy for adaptability.

    • Rethinking Talent & Selection – identifying and developing the skills that matter most for tomorrow.

Ready to spark change to sustain your success?
Book your free discovery call.
Can’t find a time that fits? Just drop me a message — we’ll find one that works.

WORK

Let's Co-Create Your
Tomorrow

I partner with entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and corporates who know the future of work starts now and who are keen to build high-impact organizations, where people thrive and performance lasts.

This is what Spark & Sustain offers.

  • Bringing your vision and strategy to life  through organisational design
    and development.

     

    I help organizations spark a vision for what’s next and align their strategy, structure, culture, and capabilities for lasting impact. Together, we embed a culture of experimentation, agility, and resilience — empowering leaders and teams to navigate disruption and seize new opportunities. The result: organizations that are future-ready, purpose-driven, and adaptable to sustain high-performance, excellence, and well-being in a fast-changing world.

     

    To achieve this, we’ll collaborate through tailored formats like org design sprints, alignment workshops, co-creation labs, pilots, or immersive offsites.

    Some of the challenges I can
    help you solve

    “We lack a long-term vision for how we’ll adapt and grow.”
    → I guide visioning and future scenario mapping to prepare your company for what’s next.

     

    “Our strategy is clear, but our organization isn’t built to deliver it.”
    → I translate strategy into structures, roles, processes, and capabilities that empower people.

     

    “We need to upgrade our ways of working and prepare our leaders and teams for the future.”
    → I embed new practices and future capabilities into operating models, roles, and teams.

  • Making transformations smooth, sustainable, and sticky.
     

    Transformation sticks when it’s clear, connected, and co-owned. I help organizations align on what needs to change, engage leaders and teams in shaping that change, and embed the culture, capabilities, and behaviors to sustain it. The result: change that’s understood, embraced, and delivered — with faster adoption, sustained performance, and lasting impact.

     

    To achieve this, we´ll collaborate through tailored formats like change architecture design, transformation journeys, communication strategies, capability-building sprints, leadership alignment offsites, coaching for change leaders, and ongoing advisory.

    Some of the challenges I can
    help you solve

     

    “Our culture isn’t built for where we’re heading.”
    → I help you evolve and align values, mindsets, behaviors, and systems so your culture becomes a driver of your strategy.

    “We’re going through a post-merger integration and don’t know how to bring people with us.”
    → I design people-first integration journeys that reduce uncertainty and build trust.

    “Change fatigue is real and slowing us down.”
    → I help pace transformation, ingrain resilience practices, and establish rhythms and rituals to protect energy and drive adoption.

  • Growing leaders who inspire trust, spark collaboration, and sustain performance.

    As an executive coach and trainer, I help leaders strengthen empathy, resilience, and self-leadership — enabling them to navigate change, complexity, and conflict with clarity and impact. Together, we build communication, decision-making, and future-critical capabilities that fuel engagement, innovation, and sustainable performance. The result: confident, people-centric leaders who lead with vision, purpose, and values, coach their teams, and create environments of trust, creativity, and psychological safety — all while tackling challenges with confidence and care.
     

    My tailored offer includes executive coaching and mentoring, leadership development journeys, experiential and peer-learning formats, resilience and future-skills training, leadership offsites, and leadership diagnostics.

    Some of the challenges I can
    help you solve

    “Our managers deliver results but struggle to develop and inspire our people.”
    → I design leadership journeys that build coaching mindsets, emotional intelligence, and people-leadership skills.


    “Leaders feel overwhelmed in times of uncertainty and change.”
    → I equip leaders with resilience tools, reflective practices, and scenario planning skills to refuel and reset.

     

    “Our leadership culture is too operational — we need more strategic, future-focused leadership.”
    → I introduce frameworks and peer-learning formats that stretch perspective and spark forward-looking action.

  • Building connected teams that energize, innovate, and sustain success.

    I partner with teams to strengthen collaboration, resilience, and psychological safety — the foundations of lasting performance and innovation. Together, we align on purpose and goals, recalibrate ways of working, and build future-ready skills and rituals so also hybrid and cross-functional teams can unlock their full potential. The impact: Teams that trust each other, stay energized and take shared accountability — performing under pressure while fueling creativity, connection, and sustained success.

     

    We achieve this through tailored formats like team building workshops, team coaching, immersive offsites, short “boost” sessions, or longer team development journeys.

    Some of the challenges I can
    help you solve

    “Unclear ownership and roles create friction and slow things down.”
    → I facilitate clarity sessions to reset roles, responsibilities, and decision-making.
     

    “We’re launching a new team and need to build trust and direction fast.”
    → I design team launches that establish clarity, shared purpose, and clear collaboration principles.
     

    “Ideas and innovation stall because people don’t feel safe to voice concerns or challenge the status quo.”
    → I build psychological safety with reflection labs, resilience training, and new collaboration practices.

  • Making your People & Culture Team a catalyst for change, growth, and future-readiness.
     

    I help organizations transform their People Teams into strategic engines for growth, culture, and future-readiness. Whether through fractional CPO leadership, redesigning people systems and processes, or reimagining the employee experience — I enable HR functions to become visionary, agile, and truly people-led. The outcome: People Teams that align their strategy with business goals, design experiences that attract and retain top talent, and drive performance and growth through human-centered leadership and care.

     

    I partner through fractional CPO services, strategic consulting, process and experience design sprints, ways of working optimization, or ongoing advisory.

    Some of the challenges I can
    help you solve

     

    “We don’t yet have People & Culture leadership but need strategic direction now.”
    → As fractional CPO, I co-design your people strategy, advise execs, and guide transformation.

     

    “Our People & Culture processes feel outdated and slow us down.”
    → I redesign core systems and processes to be people-centric, experience-led, and values-aligned.

     

    “Employee engagement is low; we’re losing people who don’t feel supported.”
    → I craft employee experience journeys, Employer Value Propositions, and people practices that strengthen retention.

     

    “We want to make DEI and future skills a core part of our DNA.”
    → I embed DEI and future-skills into your talent systems and culture — building inclusion, agility, and readiness for what’s next.

  • I spark fresh thinking through thought leadership on future-readiness, people-centric workplaces, and the human side of transformation. Always designed to provoke new perspectives and inspire action — not just applause.

    Topics I love to speak about

    • The Future of Work Unpacked – what’s coming next and how leaders and teams can prepare.

    • Future Skills & Capabilities – building the talent foundations for agility and growth.

    • New Leadership – leading with clarity, empathy, and courage in disruptive times.

    • The Evolution of Career Development – how to grow a career amid AI, change, and continuous learning.

    • Winning the Talent Game – how to attract, engage, and retain top talent in a shifting market.

    • Resilience as Strategy – why it is a core driver of organizational health and performance and how to strengthen it.

    • Wellbeing Meets High Performance – creating systems where energy and excellence reinforce each other.

    • Embedding Mental Health in Organizations – moving from awareness to systemic support.

    • Future-Ready Organizations – practical pathways to align structure, culture, and strategy for adaptability.

    • Rethinking Talent & Selection – identifying and developing the skills that matter most for tomorrow.

Ready to spark change to
sustain your success?
Book your free discovery call.
Can’t find a time that fits?
Just drop me a message —
we’ll find one that works.

SELECTED COMPANIES & PARTNERS I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO WORK WITH

SELECTED COMPANIES & PARTNERS
I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO WORK WITH

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I design with people and purpose at the heart 
- co-creative, experience-led, and system-smart –
to drive meaningful change and lasting impact.

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I design with 
people and purpose at the heart 
- co-creative, experience-led, and system-smart –
to drive meaningful change and lasting impact.

WHAT MY CLIENTS SAY

Co-Created Change
with Impact

WHAT MY CLIENTS SAY

Co-Created Change
with Impact

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“Working with Alexandra was a real turning point for us. She deeply understood both our business challenges and the pressures the teams were facing and wasn’t afraid to address even the most critical topics with empathy and candor. Her expertise in resilience and the human side of transformation sparked a clear shift — the team moved from feeling weighed down by a major transformation to approaching it with optimism and ownership. The management team looks forward to working again with Alexandra.”

Martin H. – IT Manager

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“My coaching with Alexandra was a powerful experience. The way she caringly holds space for deep reflection — while bringing clarity, structure, and challenge when it’s needed — created real breakthroughs for me. Her blend of empathy, candor, and an impressive range of tools helped me reconnect with what truly drives me as a leader. I left each session with greater focus, confidence, and a renewed sense of direction.”

Katja S. - Founder

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“Working with Alexandra during a major transition was transformative. The Leadership Offsite she designed helped us shift perspectives, strengthen our collaboration, and translate deep reflection into concrete action — creating lasting impact for both the management team and each individual. The value she brought led us to continue our partnership beyond the initial engagement.”

Thomas M. – CEO

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“Working with Alexandra was great. She combined professionalism with genuine humanity, building trust quickly and creating a space where honest reflection, learning, and creative experimentation could thrive. The team left energized, connected, and ready to take action.”

Participant Voice - Project Manager

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“Working with Alexandra was a real turning point for us. She deeply understood both our business challenges and the pressures the teams were facing and wasn’t afraid to address even the most critical topics with empathy and candor. Her expertise in resilience and the human side of transformation sparked a clear shift — the team moved from feeling weighed down by a major transformation to approaching it with optimism and ownership. The management team looks forward to working again with Alexandra.”

Martin H. – IT Manager

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“My coaching with Alexandra was a powerful experience. The way she caringly holds space for deep reflection — while bringing clarity, structure, and challenge when it’s needed — created real breakthroughs for me. Her blend of empathy, candor, and an impressive range of tools helped me reconnect with what truly drives me as a leader. I left each session with greater focus, confidence, and a renewed sense of direction.”

Katja S. - Founder

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“Working with Alexandra during a major transition was transformative. The Leadership Offsite she designed helped us shift perspectives, strengthen our collaboration, and translate deep reflection into concrete action — creating lasting impact for both the management team and each individual. The value she brought led us to continue our partnership beyond the initial engagement.”

Thomas M. – CEO

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“Working with Alexandra was great. She combined professionalism with genuine humanity, building trust quickly and creating a space where honest reflection, learning, and creative experimentation could thrive. The team left energized, connected, and ready to take action.”

Participant Voice - Project Manager

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CASES

A major transformation was on the horizon for the IT organization of a global mobility and transportation tech supplier. Instead of merely changing systems and structures, leadership chose to focus on something more fragile — and more powerful: their people.

From surviving change
to shaping it together

Building Resilience through
Exposure and Experience

In an engaging four-month journey, built around three immersive modules, teams didn’t just talk about resilience — they lived it.
In workshops, coaching sessions, and reflection phases, participants explored how body, brain, and emotions react under pressure. They practiced tools for self-regulation and self-management, experimented with agile team practices, and used future-focused scenario work to imagine healthier ways of working.

The program became a safe space to connect, test, and learn. Teams built trust, discovered practical ways to support each other, and shifted from “this change is happening to us” to “we’ve got this — and we are shaping it together.”

Teams built the muscle to thrive in transformation - leaving with resilience skills, stronger cohesion, and a renewed sense of agency. And the organization gained something equally valuable: an IT function sustaining its health, ready to face the transformation with confidence, optimism, and mutual support.

A Resilient IT Function
Ready to take on the Future

An IT organization on the brink of major transformation chose to focus on its people. The result: stronger resilience, renewed optimism, and teams ready to shape change with confidence.

People-Powered Change –
Building Resilience and Momentum

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CASES

This team inside a fast-moving  enterprise was running hot. Constant firefighting left little space to think strategically, grow intentionally, or keep pace with future trends. Energy dipped, engagement slipped, and development stalled, with careers feeling outside of one´s control. The real challenge? Moving from reacting to emergencies to owning the future vision of both work and career.

Making time to prepare
for what's next

A Strategic Reset to evolve both
Work and Career in the Age of AI

We hit pause. In a half-day offsite, the team stepped out of urgency mode and into a creative space of inspiration, exploration and design. We unpacked major shifts in career development - like linear career ladders being replaced by dynamic mosaic careers - and explored how AI can act as both career coach and assistant to free up time. Using tools like Ikigai and futurecasting, team members mapped values, strengths, and aspirations, and sketched personal career visions and action plans for where to head next, individually and as a team.
 

The offsite became more than a workshop -
it was a reset. The team built trust, reimagined what growth could look like, and shifted from “we’re stuck reacting” to “we’re shaping what’s next - together.”

Something shifted. The team walked away not just with tools and action plans, but with a new mindset: careers aren’t handed down — they’re co-owned and co-designed. Individuals felt more confident, more in charge, and more connected to what truly motivates them. As a team, they found fresh energy, a stronger sense of cohesion, and a shared belief that they could step out of firefighting into the driver’s seat of their own growth.

Confidence, Clarity and
Career Agency reloaded

A digital team stuck in firefighting mode paused to reimagine work and career. The half-day offsite led to renewed energy, career clarity, and a team ready to own their future.

From Firefighting to Co-creating
the Future of Work & Career

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CASES

CASE 01

People-Powered Change –
Building Resilience and Momentum

An IT organization on the brink of major transformation chose to focus on its people. The result: stronger resilience, renewed optimism, and teams ready to shape change with confidence.

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CASES

CHALLENGE

From surviving change
to shaping it together

A major transformation was on the horizon for the IT organization of a global mobility and transportation tech supplier. Instead of merely changing systems and structures, leadership chose to focus on something more fragile — and more powerful: their people.

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CASES

APPROACH

Building Resilience through
Exposure and Experience

In an engaging four-month journey, built around three immersive modules, teams didn’t just talk about resilience — they lived it.
In workshops, coachings, and reflection phases, participants explored how body, brain, and emotions react under pressure. They practiced tools for self-regulation and self-management, experimented with agile team practices, and used future-focused scenario work to imagine healthier ways of working. The program became a safe space to test, learn, and build trust — shifting the team from “change happens to us” to “we shape it together.”

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CASES

IMPACT

A Resilient IT Function
Ready to take on the Future

Teams built the muscle to thrive in transformation - leaving with resilience skills, stronger cohesion, and a renewed sense of agency. And the organization gained something equally valuable: an IT function sustaining its health, ready to face the transformation with confidence, optimism, and mutual support.

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CASES

CASE 02

From Firefighting to
Co-creating the Future
of Work & Career

A digital team stuck in firefighting mode
paused to reimagine work and career.
The half-day offsite led to renewed energy, career clarity, and a team ready to own
their future.

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CASES

CHALLENGE

Making time to prepare
for what's next

This team inside a fast-moving  enterprise was running hot. Constant firefighting left little space to think strategically, grow intentionally, or keep pace with future trends. Energy dipped, engagement slipped, and development stalled, with careers feeling outside of one´s control. The real challenge? Moving from reacting to emergencies to owning the future vision of both work and career.

getty-images-J2WoiS6HUXM-unsplash.jpg

CASES

APPROACH

Making time to prepare
for what's next

In a half-day offsite, we hit pause. The team stepped out of urgency mode, into a creative space of inspiration, exploration, and design. Together, we unpacked key shifts in career development, identified aspirations, and explored how AI can act as career coach and assistant — freeing time for strategic work. Using tools like Ikigai and futurecasting, participants mapped their values, strengths, and drivers, turning their insights into visions and action plans. The offsite became  reset, helping the team build trust and shift from being stuck to shaping what’s next — together.

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CASES

IMPACT

Confidence, Clarity and
Career Agency reloaded

Something shifted. The team walked away not just with tools and action plans, but with a new mindset: careers aren’t handed down — they’re co-owned and co-designed. Individuals felt more confident, more in charge, and more connected to what truly motivates them. As a team, they found fresh energy, a stronger sense of cohesion, and a shared belief that they could step out of firefighting into the driver’s seat of their own growth.

SPARKS

What Sparked My
Interest

I love to share what inspires me.
In this section, you’ll find sparks with my own thought leadership and resparks featuring inspiring voices from others.

SPARKS

What Sparked My
Interest

I love to share what inspires me.
In this section, you’ll find sparks with my own thought leadership and resparks featuring inspiring voices from others.

CONTACT

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Say Hi!

What would you like to explore together?
Write to hi@spark-and-sustain.eu or use the form.

I can´t wait to connect!

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