Meik Schartner · Predictive, AI-enabled change · Zurich

People don't resist change. They resist not being seen.

I help leaders catch the human signals — where trust, adoption and energy are quietly shifting — early enough to do something useful and kind about them. Part behavioural read, part AI, wholly focused on the people who make change real.

Meik Schartner
change, made human
01 / WHAT I BELIEVE

Most change problems are really listening problems.

After a decade inside large transformations, I've stopped being surprised by the same pattern: the data is always there, and the people are always trying to tell you something. What's usually missing is someone who can hear both at once.

That's the work I'm built for. I read a room and a dataset with the same attention — pairing behavioural instinct with the discipline to structure it, and the technical fluency to turn quiet signals into something a leader can actually act on. Not louder dashboards; clearer decisions.

I've spent my life between languages and cultures — eleven languages, three industries, never quite fully from one place. It turns out to be good training for organisations that don't fully understand themselves either. And it taught me the thing that matters most in change: people will go a long way for someone who makes them feel genuinely seen, and almost nowhere for someone who doesn't. So I care less about being the cleverest person in the room than the one people trust enough to tell the truth to. That's almost always where change really turns.

02 / THE THESIS

Reactive change management is over.

For years the model was simple: launch, hope, and scramble once the damage shows. That era is ending. Organisations aren't short on data — they're short on signal, clarity and timing. The next stage of change is quieter and far more useful: predictive, continuous, and built on the signals you already have.

95%
Training complete — what the board sees
23%
Actually using it — what's really happening
01

Sentiment Risk

Shifts in tone that precede visible resistance.

02

Feedback Breakdown

The gap between formal answers and informal signals.

03

Communication Gap

Where the message stops landing.

04

Change Overload

More simultaneous change than capacity allows.

05

Influence Gap

When informal influencers quietly disengage.

03 / WHERE I CAN HELP

Three ways I can help.

Pilot

The 4-Week Risk Pilot

In four weeks, you'll know where your transformation is really heading — and what to do about it. I run my predictive change-risk read on one live programme, using the data you already have, and hand you clear, honest decisions while they can still change the outcome.

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Advisory

Interim Change Leadership

When a high-stakes change needs a steady, senior pair of hands, I step in — strategy, leadership alignment, and the unglamorous work that makes change hold. Effective from day one, and genuinely yours while I'm there.

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Enablement

AI-Adoption Programmes

Your people don't need more training — they need to actually use the tools. I design adoption that moves real usage: champions, literacy and habits that stick, measured by behaviour change rather than boxes ticked.

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04 / THE SYSTEM

I built the system I always wished I'd had.

The Transformation Risk Engine is lightweight and AI-supported. It turns the signals you already have — surveys, usage, conversations, change logs — into a clear, real-time read on where a transformation is straining. Not a dashboard or a data dump: a handful of honest signals, and the decisions they point to, while there's still room to choose.

See earlier.Decide better.Act in time.
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05 / TRY IT

A two-minute read on your own transformation.

Rate how true each statement feels right now. It's a lightweight echo of what my Risk Engine does on real data — honest, quick, and yours to sit with.

1. People's tone about the change has cooled — more sighing than buy-in.

Not trueVery true

2. What people say in meetings doesn't match what they say in the corridor.

Not trueVery true

3. Leadership's message isn't landing the same by the time it reaches the front line.

Not trueVery true

4. Teams are juggling more change at once than they realistically have capacity for.

Not trueVery true

5. The people others quietly look to aren't really on board.

Not trueVery true
Answer the five, hit "See my read," and your signals appear here.
06 / SELECTED WRITING

If you want to know how I think, start here.

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07 / EXPERIENCE

Track record.

Julius Baer2024 — 2025 · Zurich
Associate Director, Change & Customer Experience. Drove the change — strategy, execution, comms, training and stakeholder alignment — for the bank's largest CRM release across EMEA & LATAM, lifting stakeholder satisfaction 7.3 → 9.1.
IBM iX2023 — 2024 · Zurich
Consultant, Transformation & Change. Digital and organisational change across banking, aviation and life sciences; lifted programme awareness 10% → 78% and won the IBM GenAI Challenge.
Infosys Consulting2021 — 2023 · Zurich
Consultant, Talent & Organisation. Workforce transformation and adoption across pharma, energy and Fortune 500 clients.
Roche2020 — 2021 · Basel
Project Manager, HR Transformation. Intrapreneurship and HR operating-model enablement at scale across 12,500+ employees.
Education
MSc, Digital Transformation · Universitat de BarcelonaBA, Asian Studies & Management (China) · HTWG Konstanz
Credentials
MIT Sloan — AI for Business StrategyIMD — Digital TransformationProsci® Certified Change PractitionerThePowerMBA
Languages — eleven, and counting
11 languagesGerman · nativeEnglish · C2Hungarian · nativeSpanish · C1Portuguese · C1Romanian · C1French · B2Chinese · B1Italian · B1Levantine Arabic · A2/B1Russian · A1/A2

Let's make your change one people trust.

Currently open to select pilots, interim work, and the right permanent role.