Review of the 2025 Transformation Conference

Our colleagues Dr. Yvonne Görlitz and Florian Beck recently had the opportunity to attend the Transformation Conference 2025 in Heidelberg – the meeting place for the German transformation scene. A place where transformation is not just talked about, but where real challenges, pragmatic solutions, and open insights are shared.

A special moment was the joint presentation by Katja Weingärtner and Paul Herwarth von Bittenfeld from Seibert Group GmbH on the topic of “Strategy work at Seibert Group – How do alignment and autonomy fit together?”

What made this presentation special for us at KEGON was that our colleague Dr. Yvonne Görlitz accompanied and advised the Seibert Group in the design and implementation of its strategy process. The presentation was therefore not only a powerful practical story – it was also a success story of our joint work. The presentation focused on the central challenge of how to create space for autonomous decision-making in a dynamic organization with over 500 employees while still ensuring a high degree of common alignment.
The clear conclusion: Autonomy requires alignment – and alignment is only successful through co-creation.

Our impression of the conference:
The Transformation Conference 2025 was full of inspiration that encourages us to keep our own transformation going. Whether it was digitalization, new organizational structures, or cultural development, the focus was always on effectiveness and sustainability, not on methodology.

Transformation is not a “project” but a continuous learning process. We need platforms like this conference where experiences can be openly shared, blind spots can be exposed, and new paths can be explored together. For this, we say: Thank you to Prof. Dr. Henning Werner and his team!

And us? We're staying on track—in projects, in strategy processes, and on stage.

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