We are a consulting studio, based in Berlin.
We create environments with and for organizations where people adapt an entrepreneurial spirit and start to ignore gravity.
Tomorrow, 9pm Berlin time, we'll launch our #csexplorer. Just before, we'll host the world's first addathon https://t.co/mrTfGmsEgn. Yeah.
Serendipity, synchronicity, love at first sight
For whatever reason, three soon-to-be co-founders met in 2011 and figured out: We’re quite different, yet fascinated with the same thing: working with organizations and communities on tough challenges that can only be solved through intense human collaboration and co-creation.
But as a three-man-show only gets you so far, we’re glad to work with an inner circle of skilled and diverse people and a community of other exciting organizations.
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Dr. Bernhard Krusche
Anthropologist, author and explorer of the Next Society. At IG, he’s the expert on post-heroic leadership & corporate innovation.
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Jan Bathel
Curious curator and artist, coach and special agent for organizing impossible endeavors. At IG, he loves to change his role every day.
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Jonathan Imme
Music business major, tech geek, entrepreneur, in love with bad puns. At IG, he’s focused on (un)conferences, innovation labs and the development of eventflow.
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Philipp Rafelsberger
Business major, juggler, tuned to great bass lines. At IG, he’s surfing all size waves of group dynamics & intercultural mix-ups.
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Karolina Jakubowski
Literature scientist, East Europe specialist, Advertiser & Communication acrobat. At IG, she’s the Project & Happiness Manager
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Rabea Edel
Writer, novelist, journalist, translator, moderator and “making things happen” in the mean time. Chief editor of the »REVUE-Magazine for the Next Society«.
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wigwam
Our office family friends in Berlin Wedding and sparring partner for online campaining strategies.
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bleech
Our favorite partner when it comes to web development for challenging projects. Yet they also build simpler websites, like this one.
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10hoch16
The design studio 10hoch16 is our favorite partner when we are to create interactive & surprising physical environments for events.
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BathenJelden
We enjoy collaborating with Jörg Jelden on projects that involve a great amount of publishing, research & trend consulting.
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Global Shapers
We’re delighted to interact with the young global change makers community of the World Economic Forum.
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jovoto
With jovoto, we focus on how to effectively leverage external networks to solicit, refine, and select ideas for innovation via crowd storms.
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Uni Witten/Herdecke
The private university is one of our most important network hubs regarding modern philosophies and economical & health trends.
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Zeppelin University
The work of Prof. Dirk Baecker and his institute often serve us as a theoretical backbone of our work.
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morethanshelters
We support social entrepreneurship in general and the nonprofit association morethanshelters in particular with coaching + sparring.
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Münzsalon
Münzsalon is our preferred Berlin Salon for events and discourse platforms
How do we enable our clients to leave their organizational routines and begin to ignore gravity?
We don’t believe that there’s a single “innovation process”, which magically turns everyone into a collaborative superhero. But we don’t want to build a consulting empire around one methodology anyway.
What gets us really excited when we work with our clients: handcrafting a smart format for each project that defies the specific gravities in the best possible manner. To achieve this, we utilize and combine a broad range of tools, approaches and inspirations from different domains.
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Anthropology
Participant observation is one of our favourite methodologies, when it comes to some real “field work” with our clients. Being part of the game while observing what’s going on is something we really enjoy.
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Social Networks
A considerable part of our work is to build (better) connections between people. That’s why we spend lots of energy to explore, use and create social networks – online and offline.
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Improvisation
We believe that careful planning makes every project better. But as we work with complex social systems and human beings, a great flow often calls for great improvisational skills. Something we love.
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Art & Music
We get a lot of inspiration through art & music – something that we always try to embed in our formats & work.
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X-Generations
We generally strive for great diversity. We believe in the power of learning & working within more than two generations.
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Open Source
As we often benefit from external collaboration, input & ideas, we try to share as much of our work as possible in an open source manner.
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Open Innovation
There are always more smart people outside your organization than within. That’s why we don’t only consult on open innovation, but also frequently apply it ourselves.
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Prototyping
We try to prototype, test and iterate everything, even processes and formats. We operate as a lean consulting studio, adapting the methodology of the lean startup.
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Systems Theory
As a kind of conceptual umbrella, modern systems theory serves us as a reliable guide when it comes to all those questions concerning the complexity of society, organizations and their ongoing transitions.
Our projects start: with a challenging question
We’ve worked with large corporations, family run businesses, start-ups, NGOs, agencies and universities. We’ve designed & facilitated strategy workshops, (un)conferences, art exhibitions, learning journeys and innovation camps. We’ve kick-started communities and accompanied whole merger processes. But there’s one thing every project has in common. It’s a challenging question that can only be answered by ignoring the existing fields of gravity.
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How can young (<30) and older (60+) creatives inspire each other? -
Can HR professionals experience the future of work in one afternoon? -
How can we create a ConSensus to boost Germany’s innovation climate? -
Can designers and teachers collaborate to not kill kids’ creativity in school? -
Can a dedicated innovation space change the corporate culture? -
How to bring entrepreneurial spirit into a mature insurance company? -
How to transform a traditional family business into an agile company? -
How can you feed a market leader with entrepreneurial spirit? -
Does 1 + 1 really equal 3 in a merger process? -
How to prepare leaders to cope with uncertainty? -
How does the future of cities look like? -
Do different company cultures sum up to a new entity? -
How to tie a start-up incubator program into an established conference? -
How to ignore the gravity when it comes to strategy development? -
How to prototype a working world of the GenerationY?
We are able to work on intrapreneurship with our clients because we’re entrepreneurs ourselves.
During our daily work, we often come across situations that make us wonder: “Why is there not a tool / platform / event / medium that does XY in a better way – or at all”. If we figure out: we wouldn’t be our only lonesome customers, but there are plenty of other people with the same desire, we stick to Richard Branson’s working ethos:
Screw it, let’s do it.
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How can corporate innovation labs learn from each other and build a community?
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How to design a sustainable innovation processes?
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How can we as a consulting studio trigger the discourse about the Next Society?
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How can we unsuck & inspire the planning experience of events?
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How do creative spaces become aware of each other on a global level?
Feeling like you want to ignore gravity with us?
We’d love to hear from you. And we’re always looking for curious & dedicated people that work together with us on our projects. Drop us a note and we’ll let you know what’s currently hot.
ignore gravity GmbH
Prinzenallee 74
D-13357 Berlin
Reach out to us directly:
Jan Bathel: +49 173 659 89 96
Jonathan Imme: +49 171 778 05 47
Dr. Bernhard Krusche: +49 172 737 04 49
General requests:
letme@ignore-gravity.com
How to get to our office
With BVG (public transportation), take the U8 and exit at Pankstr. or take the S41/S42/S25 and exit at Gesundbrunnen. Our office is located in the backyard on the 3rd floor.
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ignore gravity GmbH, Prinzenallee 74, 13357 Berlin
Represented by: Jan Bathel, Dr. Bernhard Krusche and Jonathan Imme
Commercial Register: district court Berlin-Charlottenburg, register number: HRB 140 824 B | VAT ID: DE283257180
Bank account: GLS BANK | Account number: 1 135 745 100 | routing number: 430 609 67