Developing capabilities together

Public One builds new strategies, asks the necessary questions as to purpose, use and road-map and will provide the suitable methods to develop new hypotheses and usable scenarios to get the right answers. Public One develops organisations, plans structural change, holds presentations, documents step by step, intervenes, provokes, creates and orchestrates in order to animate and stir up organisations to try and master contemporary challenges. Public One aims at encouraging people to take the lead using their authenticity, their resourcefulness, their values and their competence.

At the interface of politics, administration, economy, social profit, NGO's and society Public One focusses on the improvement of strategy, organisations and management.

Suited to the matter in hand we choose our methods carefully. Presentations of all group sizes, surveys, quantitative as well as qualitative social research, online and one-stage presentations, third-party perspective evaluation, documentation, coaching and supervision, leadership development, blended learning, scenario planning, thinking, analysis, multi-stakeholder-dialogues, actor analysis, professionally qualified consultation are all part of our repertory. Our attitude towards our clients will always be respectful, self-aware learners. At the same time we will not be afraid to cover inconvenient scenarios and topics.

Our topics are as manifold as our clients' requests.

We believe that quality matures over time. We appreciate Public One's development over the years. With tentative beginnings in the nineties, officially founded in 2000 and restructured in 2005, Public One developed successfully as a solely privately financed enterprise in the market. The founding members came together having worked with the Munich based Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Oxford's Mondus Ltd. and Bertelsmann corporation.

Having left Public One in 2003, founding member Max von Bismarck is now Director General for Europe with Sky Bridge Capital, one of the leading alternative investment businesses. Today he assists Public One as member of the advisory board. From September 2005 until May 2011 he served as Director and Head of Investors with the World Economic Forum. There he built and headed an international committee dealing with the World Economic Forum's activities and relationship with finance and investment on a global basis.

Quite a number of Public One's former consultants are currently working for renowned companies all over the world and are members of Public One's alumni network.

Over the span of years since its establishment Public One has been steadily developing as regards the subject matter as well as its methods. Apart from a strong tendency towards international cooperation there is one important aspect which has made Public One what it is today: our complementary approach between systemic consulting and public sector expertise.

We liaise closely with many associate consultants around the globe. In Germany, there are currently twelve of our consultants based at Public One's Berlin branch, which maintains another set of offices in the town of Essen in the heart of the Ruhr.

In real life, it's always the concrete individuals who make a difference. At Public One, you will meet authentic consultant personalities with rough edges. Economists, experts in public administration, political scientists and social scientists, as well as psychologists, pedagogues, and sociologists—both women and men. We believe in diversity, in teams of women and men, in different nationalities, backgrounds, perspectives, and competencies. We value differences and are skeptical of black-and-white solutions that reduce a complex problem to a simple either/or.

We rely on values and are proud that our consultants don't dedicate their lives exclusively to Public One. We appreciate that our employees volunteer to make the world a better place—in kindergartens, schools, with Greenpeace, in churches, and in democratic parties across all political factions. At Public One, you'll find talents with their own opinions and curious minds who dare to leave well-trodden paths to discover unknown terrain. What unites all team members is their passion, high competence, and willingness to always go the extra mile for our clients.