Shaping transformation with participatory dialogue formats
As the most important representative body for visual artists, with over 3,000 members, the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Berlin (bbk) is one of the institutions whose influence extends beyond the borders of Berlin.
Participatory orientation and transparency are core values of the association’s statutes. It was therefore a great honor for me to accompany this association as a consultant for organizational development processes during the transformation of the organization in the context of a generational change in management.
One of the particular highlights of the process was certainly the bbk Future Conference in the project room at ExRotaprint, to which all employees of the bbk and its subsidiaries Kulturwerk and Bildungswerk were invited. Here, it became clear once again how much motivation and power large group dialogues can generate for transparent transformation. I would like to thank the chairwomen of the board, Frauke Boggasch and Birgit Cauer, and the bbk’s general manager, Wibke Behrens, for their excellent cooperation, which made this long and profound development process possible.