Predictive, AI-enabled change · Zurich

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

I help organisations find what blocks AI value, change how work gets done and scale what proves effective — while keeping the people affected by change in view.

AI adoption · Workflow redesign · Predictive change

Open to full-time roles — my preference right now · consulting on request

Meik Schartner
Change, made human

01 — What I believe

The belief

Most change problems are really listening problems. 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.

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.

Signal

Hear what shifts before resistance becomes visible.

Model

Turn human evidence into a clear risk surface.

Action

Make timely decisions people can trust.

02 — Experience

The path

I have worked inside and alongside global organisations where transformation is consequential, ambiguity is real and trust cannot be treated as a communications task.

2026 — Now

peakwell

Freelance Consultant

AI enablement in practice — helping organisations turn access to AI tools into practical skills and everyday ways of working through workshops, leadership programmes and team-specific support. Measuring changes in capability, confidence and behaviour, so teams develop their own use cases and continue independently.

2024 — 2025

Julius Baer

Associate Director, Change & Customer Experience

Led change for the largest release of the CRM transformation, integrating client onboarding and compliance across a highly regulated banking environment. Trained 1,500+ relationship managers and 350+ compliance officers in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America; stakeholder satisfaction rose from 7.3 to 9.1/10. Built AI-powered change-assessment tools to track readiness and surface adoption risks in real time.

2023 — 2024

IBM iX

Consultant, Transformation & Change

Digital and organisational transformation across banking, aviation and life sciences. Condensed a 170-page strategy deck into role-based briefings that lifted awareness from under 10% to 78%; defined the Product Owner competency framework for a 50+ volunteer agile learning journey; won an IBM GenAI Challenge with an AI-assisted recruiting concept.

2021 — 2023

Infosys Consulting

Consultant, Talent & Organisation

Workforce transformation across pharma, energy and Fortune 500 clients. Drove adoption of an innovation toolkit across a 3,000+ employee unit — 80% awareness, 600+ participants; cut post-training escalations by 40% on a SAP S/4HANA rollout; helped secure multi-million-pound proposals through gamified workshops and visual storytelling.

2020 — 2021

Roche

Project Manager, HR Transformation

Global HR transformation initiatives at Roche Pharma Basel. Rolled out an intrapreneurship programme across 12,500+ employees — 74% awareness, 200+ ideas and 5 funded projects; co-created an interactive digital hub for the new HR operating model, scaled into a permanent global HR resource.

Early career

Takeda · Swissport · Bracco

Trainee & Operations

Takeda — trainee programme across HR, analytics, supply chain and commercial functions, with a six-month international assignment in Brazil · Swissport Zurich — passenger services for international airlines, specialising in Mandarin-speaking passenger support · Bracco — international medical congresses.

Cross-industry

Banking · consulting · life sciences

Environment

Multinational transformation

Focus

Predictive · AI-enabled change

Edge

Reading the room and the dataset

Languages

  • Fluent (C1/C2) — German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Hungarian
  • Proficient (B2) — French, Chinese, Italian
  • Conversational (B1) — Arabic (Levantine)
  • Basic (A2) — Russian

Education

  • Universitat de Barcelona — Master's, Digital Transformation

    Thesis: "Explainable AI for Financial Inclusion and SME Growth in Latin America"

  • HTWG Konstanz — BA, Asian Studies and Management China

    Thesis: "Leveraging Digital Transformation to Create a Fluid Organization, on the Example of the P&C Transformation at Roche"

Certifications

  • Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner
  • MIT Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy
  • ThePowerMBA Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Innovation & Digital Transformation
  • IMD Digital Transformation Sprint
  • IBM Enterprise Design Thinking
  • Google Project Management Specialization
  • Certified SAFe® 6 Agilist

03 — The method

Predictive change, made practical

A consulting method for seeing where transformation is straining and deciding what to do while there is still room to choose.

01

Listen

Bring together the formal data and the quieter human signals: sentiment, language, influence and friction.

02

Detect

Identify where trust, capacity or adoption is shifting before the pattern becomes a delivery problem.

03

Interpret

Turn scattered evidence into a shared view of risk, grounded in organisational context.

04

Intervene

Help leaders choose a timely, proportionate response that people can understand and trust.

The output is not another dashboard. It is a clearer leadership decision.

Sentiment · feedback · communication · capacity · influence

04 — AI Adoption Programme

From deployed AI to proven value.

One low usage number can hide very different causes. I diagnose the constraint first, then shape the intervention around the evidence.

FindChangeScale

01 · Diagnose

The 4-Week Adoption Read

Why is AI failing to create the expected value?

What you get

A root-cause heatmap, 3–5 priority workflows and an intervention plan with owners and next decisions.

02 · Redesign

The Workflow Studio

How should this work actually be done with AI?

What you get

A redesigned working method, clear human and AI roles, control rules, a baseline and a 90-day experiment.

03 · Lead

The Decision Table

Can the leadership team make sound AI decisions?

What you get

A decision heatmap showing where judgment breaks, which operating rules are missing and who owns each decision.

04 · Recover

The 90-Day Trust Repair

Why is a launched AI product losing users?

What you get

Visible product, workforce and value repairs — ending in a clear Scale, Iterate, Hold or Stop decision.

Enable

Three practical workshops.

Role-specific capability, used where capability is the actual constraint.

Workshop · Entry

First Contact

AI in real work

A shared practical experience and a first working situation the team can improve.

Workshop · Function

Deep Work

Applied AI for a function

Redesigned workflows, usable playbooks, a business baseline and a team-owned experiment.

Workshop · Managers

Make It Stick

Managers as owners

A changed team workflow and a manager operating routine that reinforces it.

Not sure where to begin?

Start with one workflow and the evidence needed to change it.

Scope an engagement →

05 — Quick diagnostic

What might be shifting?

Rate how true each statement feels. This is a conversation starter, not a formal assessment.

Indicative risk

—/100

Complete all five questions to see your quick read.

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

01People's tone about the change has cooled — more sighing than buy-in.

Not trueVery true
What people say in meetings doesn't match what they say in the corridor.

02What people say in meetings doesn't match what they say in the corridor.

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

03Leadership's message isn't landing the same by the time it reaches the front line.

Not trueVery true
Teams are juggling more change at once than they realistically have capacity for.

04Teams are juggling more change at once than they realistically have capacity for.

Not trueVery true
The people others quietly look to aren't really on board.

05The people others quietly look to aren't really on board.

Not trueVery true

07 — Start here

Find where AI value breaks.

Start with one workflow. We can scope a 4-Week Adoption Read, a focused Workflow Studio or the intervention your evidence points to.

Also open to full-time roles — my preference right now

Baden / Zurich, Switzerland · Predictive · AI-enabled · human change