Nadine Sauerzapfe - Organizational Development & Transformation Consultant
Experience
Project lead — Participatory transformation process (ELER-funded)
Äpfel & Konsorten e.V.
- Overall responsibility for a two-year, EU-funded transformation project commissioned by the Brandenburg Ministry of Agriculture and Climate Protection
- Design, steering, and overall management of the project (budget, team, reporting)
- Design and facilitation of multi-stakeholder workshops with actors from politics, administration, agriculture, and nature conservation
- Established and launched the Brandenburg Orchard Parliament as a permanent participation body
- Created a 300-page practical handbook with measures, study analyses, and video tutorials by leading experts
- Sustainably implemented a participation format with broad institutional anchoring
Senior project manager — Organizational development & network building
Äpfel & Konsorten e.V.
- Strategic development of the association and its formats, from internal vision and strategy work to managing participatory processes with a growing network of stakeholders
- Strategy and vision work for the association; design and management of participation processes
- Transformed the annual conference format into a biannual digital event series, expanding its reach from regional to national
- Developed new communication formats: a podcast series and a video interview series
- Developed CSR projects for external clients
- Successfully acquired funding for four projects, including an ELER application for the follow-up project "Orchard Perspectives"
Project lead "ReUse Pop-Up Store"
CRCLR
- Designed and fully managed a participatory engagement format at the interface of administration, civil society, and business, commissioned by the Berlin Senate Department for Environment, Transport, and Climate Protection
- Led a team (5 people), responsible for budget, and stakeholder management with a public client
Head of organizational development & strategic setup
CRCLR
- Built and strategically developed two new organizational units from conception to operational implementation
- Developed the strategic rental, pricing, and membership model for the new CRCLR House
- Established the Circular Events department, including service concept, processes, and team leadership (5 people)
- Budget responsibility, stakeholder management, sales and communication
- Workshops and presentations on circular economy
Founder & Managing Director
East London Restaurant e.K.
- Founded, designed, and built the company from idea to full operational maturity
- Sole management with full responsibility for the team (10 people), budget, operations, and communications
Consultant for Organizational Development & Transformation
Nadine Sauerzapfe Consulting
- Organizational development: analyze and further develop structures, roles, processes, and culture
- Change management: design, manage, and communicate change processes
- Strategy development & working on vision and values with leadership teams
- Workshop design and facilitation: psychological safety, intergenerational collaboration, agile transformation
- Stakeholder management in complex multi-stakeholder environments
- Advising on agile project management for a law firm
- Strategy and vision process for a Berlin-based IT start-up
- Designing the workshop "Psychological Safety in Organizations"
- Designing the workshop "Intergenerational Collaboration"
- Strategy workshops and business development for clients (AFI Communications GmbH, 2017–2018)
- Designing and running recruiting formats for IT talent in multiple cities (young targets GmbH, 2017–2018)
Project Manager & Facilitator — "Generations Club"
Junior Enterprises Europe (JADE)
- Independent development of the content, methodology, and structure of the workshop format for structured dialogue between students and experienced entrepreneurs at the European level
- Moderation and facilitation of the intergenerational debate
- Topics: reflecting on life, work, and business with a solution-oriented mindset for future challenges
Management Consultant — Medium-sized Businesses
Junior Consulting Team Nürnberg
- Consulting projects at medium-sized companies in the Nuremberg metropolitan area: process analysis, optimization, and strategy development
- Leading the customer acquisition and management department (12 months)
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Experienced in Professional Services, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Agriculture, and Government and Administration.
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Experienced in Strategy, Project Management, Human Resources, Operations, Sales, and Finance.
Summary
Organizations are living systems. They grow, search for themselves, lose themselves—and find themselves anew. The best don’t evolve despite change, but through it. I guide exactly that process: with clarity, structure and an eye for what’s truly needed.
As a consultant for organizational development and transformation, I support companies, NGOs and public institutions in anchoring change structurally, carrying it culturally and making it sustainably effective. My work happens at the intersection of strategy, organizational culture and participation—with the goal that change is not only decided but lived.
Over 15 years of freelance practice have sharpened my perspective: for systemic connections, for what really blocks organizations—and for the difference between well-intended processes and those that actually move things.
What clients appreciate about me: I structure complexity without oversimplifying. I design participation that holds. I work on an equal footing—clear, committed, pragmatic.
Skills
- Organizational Development
- Change Management
- Systemic Consulting
- Culture Development
- Strategy Development
- Facilitation
- Participatory Design
- Design Thinking
- Agile Methods
- Workshop Design
- Multi-stakeholder Processes
- Funding Management (Eu/eler)
Languages
Education
Diploma in Business Administration · Business Administration
Certifications & licenses
Trainer Certification for Management Training
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