A consultancy
An ideas lab
Through our work, we support organizations, leaders, and teams on their path toward an economy that truly serves life. As an ideas lab, we continuously develop new ideas and offerings—and deliberately test them within our own organization—to help shape the world of work and business of tomorrow.
As an active node in a vibrant network, we stay in close, ongoing connection with our ecosystem and practice co-creation as a lived reality, not just a buzzword.
We see ourselves in our projects as development partners, building bridges between yesterday and tomorrow.
At TheDive, a wide range of personalities work together: from business economists to psychologists, communication scientists, and service designers.
Our work combines systemic-integral thinking with a hands-on, practical mindset. We bring both process-consulting expertise and subject-matter know-how—depending on what is needed. We create spaces where new things can emerge: co-creative, iterative, and with a clear view of the bigger picture. Our consulting services are not based on blueprints, but on what truly moves organizations forward.
At the same time, we see ourselves as bridge-builders between organizations and society: we strengthen future-shaping competencies, foster responsibility for societal impact, and
What we stand for
We are committed to a life-serving and regenerative economy.
We take the principles of living systems as our model: interdependence, cycles, continuous renewal, and diversity as a resilience factor. Instead of merely treating symptoms as they appear, we look at the challenges of our surrounding systems in a holistic way.
We start with ourselves.
We see ourselves as both a lab and a prototype of a life-serving organization. We believe that change begins within us, while also being inseparable from the influences of the systems around us. We use our organization as a testing ground for experimentation, learning, and growth. Our approach to change follows the principle of “safe enough to try”: we dare to try new things in small steps. When tensions arise along the way, we adapt.
We work with autonomy and a tension-oriented mindset.
Everyone decides for themselves which work they do, when, and how. As individuals, we take full responsibility for our tensions and proactively seek solutions to problems we perceive. For us, tensions are any impulses for changes. This requires trust and a safe environment. As an organization, we therefore work every day to build structures that create psychological safety and enable self-efficacy.
We thrive in connection.
We believe that organizations can only truly flourish when the people within them do as well. We see TheDive as a space designed to hold a balance between individual freedom and a vibrant community. We celebrate what unites us and honor our differences. Self-care and mutual care are essential to keeping the whole system strong. You could say we are each other’s “growth companions.”
We practice transparency.
All essential information is transparent, unless there are compelling reasons in individual cases not to be. This ensures that the entire organism of TheDive is informed about itself. Information silos or “privileged knowledge” do not fit our understanding of collaboration. We speak with one another, not about one another—and even in difficult situations, we share what is on our minds.
We hold contradictions and believe in a both-and.
We believe in a both-and: profit and purpose, order and emergence, doing and allowing. We embrace ambiguity and the beauty that comes with it. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, we practice lightness again and again, and we trust the process of life.
Becoming Regenerative
Ownership, leadership, economic processes—we explore every day how we can continue to evolve as a life-serving organization. In this five-part article series, we give you a detailed look into our experiences so far.
TheDive is an active hub in a network of like-minded people. New ideas and offerings for supporting a life-serving economy continually emerge both within our organization and across our network.
B the Change.
We are a certified B Corporation. This means we commit not only to balancing economic profit with positive impact on society and the environment, but also to including our employees, clients, and suppliers in how we do business.
B Corp is a global movement of now over 10,000 companies that have set themselves the goal of changing the world for the better.
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The TheDive Hive is our community where people come together who are already living and exploring “the new” today. People who are taking the lead in their roles and areas of responsibility and helping reshape the world of business.
Our hive already has more than 2,300 members—and it grows every day.
New things are constantly emerging at TheDive.
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