Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Twenty years at the intersection of strategy, communication, and organization — in government, international agencies, and my own consultancy in Vienna. The work has converged on a single observation: most organizational problems that look like communication problems are not. They are shared reference problems. The message was clear. The interpretive frame from which it was received was different. The book I have been writing — The Hidden Cost of Speed — is about that fracture. Why it accumulates invisibly under organizational acceleration, and what to do about it. The Shared Reference Diagnostic is the operational application of the framework. It maps the interpretive frames actually operating in your organization across five dimensions — Attention, Resources, Risk, Reward, Decision — and compares them against the reference your leadership intends to operate from. For Boards, CEOs, and leadership teams who suspect their organization is hearing a different message than the one being sent. — The book: hiddencostofspeed.com — The Diagnostic: contemporary.co.at/advisory.html — A 30-minute conversation: calendly.com/christoph-svoboda/new-meeting
Hired as event expert for the Austrian EU-Presidency 2006