Naven is your AI advisor, helping you to identify systemic barriers to execution, and to define, prioritise and track targeted interventions.
Idea
These are not isolated issues. They are symptoms. The root cause lies in the system – in invisible barriers that block execution every day.
Naven provides the analytical depth of a consulting team – continuously and at scale.
Execution is no longer a black box. It becomes a system you can steer – whether you’re driving growth, navigating transformation, or integrating after a merger.
Naven combines decades of strategy consulting experience with cutting-edge organisational research – developed in partnership with leading academic institutions.
READY TO MAKE EXECUTION WORK?
Strategy has frameworks. Finance has controlling. Marketing has analytics. Execution — the discipline that decides whether any of it matters — has been managed on intuition, anecdote and quarterly reviews. Naven closes that gap: a dedicated instrument that makes execution visible, diagnosable and steerable. Built on AI, grounded in organisational science.
READY TO MAKE EXECUTION WORK?
Solution
Naven puts AI to work at every stage. An AI coach conducts structured dialogues with your leaders — in their native language, about concrete situations and evidence, not opinions. An AI analytics engine extracts signals from hundreds of conversations, identifying systemic barriers and where they sit in the organisation — with neutral, reproducible scoring. And an AI advisor recommends the targeted interventions that restore execution flow — the smallest possible lever, drawn from patterns proven across organisations.
Delayed decisions, competing priorities, loss of speed — what you see is never the problem itself. Naven traces visible symptoms back to the systemic barriers that cause them, and connects diagnosis directly to intervention. Three proprietary assets make this possible:
Every organisation has the intent to execute. But between intent and outcome, three things must work: people need to want to act, be able to act, and be allowed to act. Barriers at any of these points silently block execution – and remain invisible until you know where to look.
Foundation
In an increasingly complex world, the ability to turn intent into action determines success – for our societies, our economies, and the organisations within them.
Our mission is to eliminate the barriers that are holding us back.
Naven is not built on intuition or best practices. It is built on science. Behavioural psychology shapes how we ask questions — designed to surface concrete episodes and real evidence, not opinions or recall bias. Organisational science explains how systems block execution — mapping barriers, capabilities, and causal patterns with precision. Computer science scales both — turning thousands of conversations into consistent, reproducible diagnostics. Developed in partnership with LMU Munich.
And it is built by people who know execution from the inside. The founding team has spent decades advising organisations on strategy and transformation — building, scaling, and selling consultancies of their own. We know what organisations need from an advisor. And we know where the traditional model reaches its limits. Naven is the answer to both.
Co-founder of Promerit, built it to 150 consultants and sold it to Mercer in 2018. Advising international executive teams on people, leadership and AI — the starting point for the Naven idea. Author and keynote speaker.
Former strategy consultant at Roland Berger. Founded Cardea, a meta-consultancy helping organisations get more from their advisors. One of the most seasoned observers of the consulting industry.
Entrepreneur, product strategist and AI innovator. Co-founder of milch & zucker, one of the leading HR-tech companies in the DACH region, sold to Bertelsmann in late 2023. Today driving AI-based solutions at the intersection of technology, organisation and the future of work.
Started his career at Arthur Andersen Management Consulting, holds a PhD from HSG. Co-built Promerit alongside Kai Anderson. Brings deep expertise in organisation, HR and the application of AI in modern enterprise development.
Expert in organisational and strategy development. Former Partner at HRpepper and Head of People Strategy at Lufthansa Group. Specialises in bridging strategic ambition and organisational reality – where goals, structures and lived practice meet.
Professor of Organisational Economics at LMU Munich. Research focuses on organisational and personnel economics, and voice-to-information mechanisms – how feedback and language become relevant decision intelligence. Chair of the Organisational Economics Committee of the German Economic Association.
Product management expert with over 25 years of experience in HR technology, combining deep experience in product management and client consulting with a focus on enablement and onboarding for major companies in the DACH region.
What stands out is the combination of scalability and depth of dialogue: it integrates a large number of voices systematically — generating valuable insights for both practice and research. It is precisely at the intersection of science and corporate practice that new potential for data-driven organisational development emerges.
PROF. DR. FLORIAN ENGLMAIER
LMU Munich
>90%
felt understood by the AI and answered openly and honestly
>90%
would conduct such an AI dialogue regularly
4 in 5
see high or very high value for their organisation
5 in 6
believe it improves steering and strategy execution
Pilot study conducted by LMU Munich · 30 leaders surveyed in an independent online panel
Credentials
Naven identified the right challenges — and so were the measures it pointed us to. It described the challenges in our colleague's' words, the structural ones separated from the noise, and defined clear measures as a key output.
A board's responsibility is assuring the ability of a company to act. Naven makes the questions that decide that ability discussable, focussed and actionable. Powerful!
"Naven delivers a clarity I have rarely experienced in change and strategy processes. Instead of debating symptoms, the system pinpoints precisely where the real structural blockages in the organisation lie. […] The instrument complements ongoing initiatives without adding complexity, while providing a continuous view of how effective change actually is.“
"Naven quickly gets a feel for what's going on within the organization - not based on opinions, but on facts."
"What convinces me: Here, AI isn't used for automation, but for growth and the long-term viability of our company."
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