Thomas Hampel
Director Business Development DACH
Experience
Director Business Development DACH
BizzTech
Founder & CEO
muse.um
Summary
Thomas Hampel is an organizational consultant, change manager, and transformation architect with over 20 years of experience in crisis, turnaround, and innovation situations. He supports organizations where traditional consulting reaches its limits: with cultural blockages, fear of decision-making, innovation backlogs, and the introduction of new technologies under high uncertainty.
His main focus is on shaping learning organizations in the age of agentic AI – not as a technology project, but as a cultural, structural, and leadership transformation. With his approach, he combines systemic organizational consulting, governance design, error culture, psychological safety, and operational implementation capability.
The basis of his work is the belief: organizations do not fail because of mistakes – they fail because they are not allowed to learn from them.
Thomas Hampel is deployed when organizations don't fail for lack of knowledge, but for lack of courage, decision-making ability, and learning ability – and when technology demands more than new tools.
Skills
Translator Between Technology, Culture, And Responsibility
Viewing Agentic Ai, Digital Twins, And Metaverse Technologies As A Stress Test For Organizational Culture, Governance, And Decision-making Logic
Making Thought And Behavior Patterns That Are Amplified By Ai Visible
Designing Necessary Changes Before Productive Technology Use
Error Culture As A Strategic Lever – Not A Soft Topic
Mistakes As Learning Signals
Responsibility Instead Of Blame
Safety Through Simulation, Piloting, And “Safe-to-fail” Designs
Measurable Learning Ability As A Kpi
Confident Action In Crises And Clarity In Uncertainty
Experience In Turnaround, Crisis, And Interim Consulting In Industry, Fintech, Universities, Startups, And Smes
Effectiveness In Situations Of Blocked Decision-making
Clarifying Diffusely Distributed Responsibility
Handling Political, Regulatory, And Cultural Tensions
Decision-making, Structuring, And Enabling Action
Systemic Approach With Strong Implementation Power
Leveraging The Complementary Consulting Approach Of Königswieser & Network
Systemic Disruption
Clear Roles And Governance Architecture
Concrete Operational Routines (Okrs, Aars, Pre-mortems, Learning Cycles)
Developing Working Decision And Learning Architectures Instead Of “Powerpoint Transformation”
European Perspective With International Connectivity
Addressing European Organizational Reality (Security Logics, Co-determination, Regulation, Diffusion Of Responsibility, Perfection Culture)
Supporting Organizations Between Innovation, Compliance, And Societal Responsibility
Organizational And Cultural Transformation
Implementing Ai, Agentic Ai, And Digital Twin Programs
Building Learning Organizations
Decision And Governance Redesign
Crisis And Turnaround Support
Leadership Coaching In Transformation Situations
Experience In The Public Sector, Industry, Energy, Education, Research, Infrastructure, And Smart Cities
Languages
Certifications & licenses
BAFA-certified business consultant
BAFA
Certified Change Manager
Königswieser & Network, Vienna
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