Change Management Services & Consulting Berlin – Organizational Change, Participation & Transformation
Foresight, knowledge management, and capacity building for all stakeholders in change processes
Ellery Studio provides change management consulting and guides organizations through change processes. We develop change stories, participation formats, and communication strategies for transformations that have to land in everyday work.
Where we come in
Change management challenges we know inside out
Strategy without traction
A new direction has been decided and the slides are done. But what it means for people's everyday work hasn't landed in the organization yet.
Leadership under pressure
Leaders are expected to represent change credibly before their team has even understood it. Without preparation and tools, that leads to overload.
Change fatigue
Workshops were held, surveys sent, town halls run. Still, nobody feels they were truly heard.
Endless research, no action
Concepts, strategy papers, and training materials exist. But hardly anyone reads or uses them, because the format and language don't fit the audience.
Change without a story
Wait, was something going on? What's missing isn't a plan but a common thread: a narrative that explains why the change is necessary and what it means for each individual.
How we work
Dialogue-driven, iterative, quick wins
We listen, sort, and bring change into a form people can work with. Sometimes as a workshop. Sometimes as a target vision. Sometimes as a toolkit for leaders or changemakers. What matters is that change doesn't become a parallel project nobody has the capacity for in everyday work.
Narratives & guiding principles
How do you successfully introduce a new change governance?
Change needs a story people can follow. Not project-management jargon that only works in the steering committee. People want to understand why something is changing, what direction is behind it, and what it means for their own work. We develop change stories, guiding principles, and visual narratives that align leadership, teams, and communication behind one shared change management strategy.
Capacity building
Equipping leaders and changemakers
One of the biggest challenges in change processes is confidence during implementation. Leaders have to answer questions, make sense of resistance, and model new routines. We develop training, ambassador programs, change toolkits, and workshop formats that give people in positions of responsibility practical support.
Participation formats
Change as a team sport
Participation doesn't work through a survey shortly before the project ends. We design dialogue spaces, gallery walks, participatory workshops, and co-creative formats in which the organization's knowledge becomes visible early on. This helps most when decisions are being prepared, conflicting goals need to be resolved, or new ways of working are to be tested together.
Getting into action
Reducing friction, speeding up decisions
Many change processes spend a long time analyzing, aligning, and fine-tuning. At some point, you need formats that make the next step possible. We help teams sort open questions, prioritize first measures, and set up quick wins properly. This isn't about busywork. It's about turning uncertainty into next steps a team can actually work with.
Future visions
Making the future tangible
Some transformations stay too abstract as long as they're only described as a target state. Future visions show what new structures, roles, or ways of working could look like in concrete terms. They work well in workshops, leadership communication, and internal participation, because pictures help people see faster what convinces them, what's missing, and where clarification is still needed.
Knowledge transfer & materials
Making complexity accessible without oversimplifying it
Strategy papers, process logic, and new role models are rarely understood on their own. We translate change content into formats that people actually use in everyday work: infographics, explainer videos, factsheet series, concept cards, digital learning formats, or presentations for leaders. Good material takes the load off teams, because not every explanation has to start from scratch.
Our services as a change management agency
Guiding transformation, building knowledge, and making implementation easier
Our change management services start with a close look at the organization, stakeholders, and everyday work. We develop processes, formats, and materials that make change understandable and get people into implementation.
Initial assessment
We clarify where the organization stands: which goals have been set, which groups are affected, and where friction arises. Interviews, brief analyses, and workshops help uncover blind spots early.
Stakeholder analysis
Change doesn't affect everyone equally. We analyze who needs to be informed, involved, enabled, or convinced. The result is clear communication logic and fitting participation formats.
Leadership workshops
Leaders need space to make sense of change and good materials for their role in the process. We develop workshops, briefings, and conversation formats that give them confidence during change.
Ambassador programs
We design and support programs for change agents and multipliers. They get tools, content, and formats they can use to carry change forward in their teams.
Change Stories
We develop the story of the change together with the people who have to explain and implement it. A good change story makes direction, reason, and impact understandable.
Acceptance
Acceptance doesn't come from agreement on paper. We design formats in which questions, resistance, and experiential knowledge from the organization become visible.
Progress communication
Longer change processes quickly lose attention. We develop formats for milestones, learnings, and next steps that teams can keep using internally.
Knowledge transfer and learning formats
We develop materials for onboarding, training, and internal knowledge sharing. These include explainer formats, toolkits, concept cards, and digital learning modules.
Change Management Team
Experts in storytelling, strategy, and transformation
Our team knows organizational change management from companies, public administration, and research. We structure change processes, facilitate groups, and develop materials that leaders and teams can use in their day-to-day work.
Bernd Riedel
Executive Creative Director
Florence Zurfluh
Foresight & Participation
Eugen Litwinow
Managing Director
Dodo Vögler
Executive Creative Director
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Our strategic triad
Curious, creative, fully committed: we think ahead, cut through complexity, and get into action. That's how we shape the future, share knowledge, and guide change – for a world that is more open and more just.
Foresight
We shape futures
Strategic Foresight
Futures Research
Trend Radar
Speculative Design
Scenarios
Design
We communicate knowledge
Infographics
Data Visualization
Explainer Videos
Science Communication
Spatial Communication
Transformation
We guide change
Change Management
Organizational Culture
Workshop Facilitation
Participation Formats
Process Facilitation
