As an owner-managed management consultancy, venture.idea has been a trusted partner to managers in established companies for over ten years. Based on broad practical experience and its own research and teaching on strategy, innovation and organization, the selected team of top-class experts offers established companies customized support on the most pressing issues of the future.

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Lucas Sauberschwarz

Managing Partner and Director of the Center for Innovation at the SGMI Management Institute St. Gallen
“Lucas Sauberschwarz speaks the language of board members and helps to sort out their thoughts”

Dr. Lysander Weiss

Partner and Researcher at the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
“As a 'researching entrepreneur', Lysander Weiss sets groundbreaking impulses from the combination of science and practice”

The partners

Lucas Sauberschwarz and Dr. Lysander Weiss are the partners of venture.idea, authors, and leading experts in strategy, innovation, and organization. After gaining extensive practical experience as entrepreneurs and in large corporations, they dedicate themselves to the relevant future issues of established companies in consulting projects with venture.idea. In particular, they utilize the latest findings from their own research, which is regularly published in specialist journals (e.g., Management Review Quarterly), in the press (e.g., Forbes, Capital, WirtschaftsWoche), and in specialist books (e.g., Vahlen-Verlag, SpringerNature, Haufe). They also sharpen their expertise by teaching at numerous universities and in executive education programs, such as at the SGMI Management Institute St. Gallen. With their expertise at the interface between theory and practice, they are also popular keynote speakers for high-profile conferences and corporate events (e.g., Personal der Zukunft, Horasis, Facebook Grow, NKF).

The company

Since its founding in 2012, venture.idea has established itself as a specialized management consultancy for strategy, innovation, and organization. The company was recognized by WirtschaftsWoche as Germany's best SME consultancy for Innovation & Growth (2018) and for Strategy (2019). Furthermore, venture.idea has been listed in the "Best Management Consultants in Germany" list by BrandEins magazine since 2020 and won the "Top Consultant" award in 2022 for outstanding consulting services to German SMEs. This demonstrates the consistent quality of numerous projects in more than 30 industries, and the high satisfaction of over 70 clients from large corporations, established medium-sized companies, and innovative scale-ups.