We build organizations.

Ethavia Consulting develops people, teams, and organizations that succeed long term. We take responsibility for the result, and we leave behind the capability to sustain and develop it.

We work on two levels

01 — Delivery

Building & Transforming Organizations

We help organizations deliver change, build new structures, and regain operational effectiveness.

Here we take responsibility for the business and organizational result.

02 — Capability

Organizational Capability Development

We help organizations develop the people, leadership, and culture needed for lasting success.

Here we build your capacity to develop and adapt on your own.

01 — Delivery

Building & Transforming Organizations

We help organizations deliver change, build new structures, and regain operational effectiveness — and we own the outcome.

Building New Organizations & Teams

Creating new entities — a branch, a department, a global team, a whole company — or reshaping existing structures so they work.

Project & Program Management

End-to-end management of individual projects, programmes and PMOs, from preparation to delivered results.

Interim Management

Experienced leadership for a defined area and period, arriving with the tools and framework to run it from day one.

Product Management

Leading product initiatives and building the product management function that keeps them coming.

Organizational Transformation

Designing and implementing change across processes, systems and structures, with a clear plan for the transition.

Turnaround & Recovery

We go in, find what isn’t working, say it plainly — and fix it. For conflict, demotivation, or goals that keep slipping.

Functions we build from the ground up

  • Presales
  • Procurement
  • HR
  • Product Management
  • R&D
  • L&D
  • Marketing

Hybrid teams: people + AI agents

Every team we build is designed for how work happens now. We define the roles, workflows and responsibilities that let people and AI agents deliver together.

02 — Capability

Organizational Capability Development

We help organizations develop the people, leadership, and culture needed for lasting success — so they keep learning and adapting long after our work is done.

How an engagement grows

1

Scan

We scan your area and tell you what’s next: sounding interviews, process mapping and root-cause analysis of what isn’t working.

2

Train

Practical training and workshops on how to do things — short, focused formats that turn insight into action.

3

Accompany

Coaching, mentoring, leadership development and facilitation tied to your actual change. Changing your PMO? The coaching is about making that PMO work.

4

Embed

Organizational development and collaborative, learning cultures that keep improving without us.

Built on the Learning Organization

Our framework is Peter Senge’s five disciplines. Each one is a concrete capability we develop with your people.

Personal Mastery

Conscious development of individual competence and responsibility.

Mental Models

Surfacing the hidden beliefs and assumptions that shape decisions, for individuals and teams.

Shared Vision

A co-created picture of the future, so company goals become a collective direction.

Team Learning

The group’s ability to think and solve problems together.

Systems Thinking

Seeing the organization as a whole of interconnected parts, not a set of isolated problems.

All of it, in the context of AI

Leaders, teams and cultures that know how to adopt AI, work alongside AI agents, and keep adapting as the tools change.

Why work with us

Partnership

A partner focused on results

A true partner, not a supplier. Your goals and context guide every decision; we stay pragmatic and execution-oriented, with broad experience across clients, industries and cultures.

Approach

People-centered change that works

We create purpose and ownership, not just alignment — with proven methods that engage people and workshops that turn insight into action.

Responsibility

Commitment you can rely on

We care about the impact of our work and deliver responsibly from start to finish, guided by experience, knowledge and ethics.

Our experts have led teams and programmes at

Vodafone · Telefonica · Orange · T-Mobile · Pekao · VeloBank · ABB · OPITZ Consulting · Comarch · ERGO T&S — across finance, e-commerce, automotive, software, telecommunications, healthcare and manufacturing.

Case studies

Telecommunications · Delivery

IT and organizational change at a top-3 German mobile operator

Led a programme turning a hierarchical organization on legacy IT into a scalable, agile structure — 200+ engineers, 50+ enterprise systems affected.

Outcome: a reshaped organization and IT landscape, smoother delivery of new network technologies, and a new model for outsourcing selected processes.

Finance · Delivery

A new banking platform for a bank with 6M+ customers

Led an agile programme to build a new platform and replace the legacy system — 50+ engineers over more than three years.

Outcome: the bank owns the IP of its platform, is independent of its former provider, and ships new features faster.

IT services · Capability

A shared vision for a German IT services company

Worked with leadership of a mid-sized DACH company to create a vision that reflects its purpose and engages employees.

Outcome: a vision built by leadership and tested with employees, strong alignment across teams, and clear direction.

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Founder

Marek Cienkiewicz

Transformation leader with 20+ years of building teams and organizational units, leading complex change programmes, interim management and product initiatives — combining strategy and operational excellence with coaching and facilitation.