Cidpartners

What Cidpartners does

Cidpartners is a German boutique management consultancy headquartered in Bonn with a secondary office in Berlin, founded in 2006 as a PartG and incorporated as cidpartners GmbH in 2008. The firm specializes in organizational development, change and transformation management, strategy development, and leadership enablement, serving primarily large enterprises and mid-market organizations across German-speaking markets (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) with some international delivery. Its client base spans telecommunications (Deutsche Telekom), insurance (AXA), banking (Kreissparkasse Köln), chemicals (Lanxess), industrial/technology (Voith, Bosch Health Campus, Arvato Systems), media (WDR, BurdaStudios, Ströer), sports (1. FC Köln, DFB), logistics (Timocom), and nonprofit (TelefonSeelsorge) sectors.

The firm's intellectual property is built around proprietary consulting frameworks and methodologies — the 3x2 Leadership Framework, OKR Plus, Movebeyond, Align-Empower Model of Agile Leadership, and Fluid Facilitation — rather than software products. It operates no public APIs, SDKs, or technology platform; it is a professional services firm that packages its know-how into training programs (including a Workpath-certified OKR Blended Learning Masterclass), workshops, executive and team coaching, and multi-phase transformation engagements. Recent service extensions include an AI Transformation (KI-Transformation) advisory offering and sustainability transformation consulting.

Commercially, cidpartners generates revenue through quote-based consulting engagements, structured training and certification programs (open enrollment and in-house), individual and team coaching, and whitepaper-driven lead generation. The firm is privately held by founders and managing partners — Detlev Trapp, Petra Sontheimer, Sabri Eryigit, Kristina Evers, Julia Zirn, and Marc Solga — with no disclosed external institutional investment. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales supplemented by content marketing (cidPodcast, whitepapers, webinars, newsletter, events) and referral networks built over 15+ years of operating history.

Name

Cidpartners

Legal name

cidpartners GmbH

Website

https://cidpartners.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cidpartners is a German boutique management consultancy founded in 2006, specializing in organizational development, change management, strategy development, and leadership enablement for enterprise and mid-market clients, delivered via proprietary frameworks including the 3x2 Leadership Framework and OKR Plus.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Corporate & Leadership Development (BPACANAA)

Keywords

• Organizational development consulting
• Change management services
• Strategy development consulting
• Leadership development programs
• Agile transformation consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Bonn

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Management Consulting & Advisory Services: Core revenue from organizational development, change management, strategy development, and leadership consulting engagements. Services are delivered through senior consultants, coaches, and trainers in project-based and retainer arrangements.
2. Training & Qualification Programs: Revenue from structured training programs including OKR trainings (with Workpath certification), leadership development programs, agile coaching, and team development workshops. Offered as open enrollment masterclasses or in-house corporate programs.
3. Coaching Services: Individual and executive coaching services including agile coaching, leadership coaching, team coaching, and organizational coaching. Coaching is offered as 1:1 sessions or team-based formats with varying duration.
4. Whitepapers & Knowledge Products: Revenue generation through downloadable whitepapers and knowledge publications (CONCEPTS and PRACTICES series) which serve both as lead generation and potential direct sales.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Cidpartners is a German management consultancy that delivers organizational development, change management, strategy development, and leadership enablement services to enterprise and mid-market clients. Services are organized around three pillars: Strategy (OKR Plus, strategy development, innovation programs), Change (organizational development, agile coaching, change management, AI transformation), and Enabling (leadership development, executive development, team development). The firm applies proprietary frameworks including the 3x2 Leadership Framework, OKR Plus methodology, Movebeyond approach, Align-Empower Model, and Fluid Facilitation.

Product overview

Cidpartners is a German management consultancy specializing in organizational development, change management, and leadership development. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of consulting services organized into three main pillars: Strategy (including OKR Plus, strategy development, and innovation programs), Change (including organizational development, agile coaching, change management, and AI transformation), and Enabling (including leadership development, executive development, and team development). The firm employs over 40 consultants, coaches, trainers, and facilitators. Key proprietary methodologies include the 3x2 Leadership Framework and Movebeyond. Services are delivered through individual coaching, team workshops, training programs, and large group events. The company operates from offices in Bonn and Berlin.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• OKR Plus Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework implementation and training services for organizations seeking to adopt OKR methodology. Includes OKR Blended Learning Masterclass with Workpath and cidpartners certification.
• Strategy Development End-to-end strategy development consulting encompassing purpose development, strategy processes, implementation, and communication for enterprises.
• Innovation Programs Innovation consulting services including innovation programs and business model design for organizations.
• Organizational Development Comprehensive organizational development services including organizational design, culture transformation, agile organization, and New Work practices.
• Agile Coaching High-end agile coaching combining knowledge transfer, executive coaching, and agile consulting. Includes Base Agile Coaching (1-day intensive) and Advanced Agile Coaching (3 sessions with inter-session practice and reflection).
• Change and Transformation Processes Change management consulting including change architecture, change support and accompaniment, change qualification, and sustainability transformation.
• AI Transformation (KI-Transformation) AI transformation consulting to help organizations assess their AI readiness, identify blockers, and determine next steps for business impact.
• Leadership Development Leadership development services including the proprietary 3x2 Leadership Framework and Agile Leadership programs for managers and senior leaders.
• Executive Development Executive development programs including training and qualification, coaching, and profiling services for managers and senior leaders.
• Team Development Team development services including team coaching, high performance teams, and virtual teams consulting for organizations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully scaled OKRs from directors level to entire organization in 1 year across 3 countries, involving over 600 people (Timocom case study)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• OKR Forum 2023 / Computer FuturesminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 2 February 2023cidpartners participated as a partner at the 5th OKR Forum 2023, one of the biggest OKR conferences in Europe, organized by Computer Futures together with workpath and OKRMentors. The session originally scheduled was cancelled due to illness and made up as a webinar a month later.
• Next Action GmbHminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013Co-founded in Berlin in 2013 as the exclusive marketer of David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This partnership expanded cidpartners' methodological portfolio into the area of agile self-management and productivity systems.
• Prof. Fred KofmanminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013Partnership for Conscious Business leadership approaches. In 2011, cidpartners integrated Prof. Fred Kofman's Conscious Business approach into their methodology portfolio, enhancing their leadership development and coaching offerings.
• WorkpathcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for OKR methodology and training delivery. cidpartners offers the OKR Blended Learning Masterclass including Workpath and cidpartners Zertifizierung (certification). Workpath is a leading OKR software and methodology platform, and this partnership enables cidpartners to deliver certified OKR training programs.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Accenture: Accenture is a global consulting and technology-services firm with large-scale change, digital, and AI transformation practices. It is an indirect broad incumbent comparator because it targets similar enterprise transformation budgets, while cidpartners is a specialist boutique.
• Deloitte: Deloitte is a global professional-services network offering management consulting, human capital, change, digital, and AI transformation. It is a broad incumbent comparator for cidpartners' enterprise transformation and digital-transformation positioning.
• Korn Ferry: Korn Ferry is a global organizational and leadership consulting firm spanning talent, culture, leadership, and transformation. It serves large enterprises with broader advisory portfolios that overlap cidpartners' organizational-development and leadership work.
• Egon Zehnder: Egon Zehnder is a global executive search and leadership advisory firm with organizational consulting and leadership-development capabilities. It is relevant to cidpartners' enterprise leadership, team, and executive-coaching services, though it is broader and more senior-executive focused.
• BTS: BTS is a global business consulting firm specializing in strategy execution, leadership development, and transformation programs. It is comparable to cidpartners' corporate change, executive development, and team-effectiveness work, with a larger international delivery footprint.

Direct peers

• Prosci: Prosci is a global change-management training and advisory organization built around a structured methodology and certification. It is directly comparable in helping organizations plan, enable, and sustain transformation.
• Metaplan: Metaplan is a Germany-based consultancy focused on organizational development, strategy, facilitation, and change. It is a close comparability anchor because it sells similar transformation support to organizations through collaborative workshops and large-group formats.
• Kienbaum: Kienbaum is a German HR and management consultancy covering organizational consulting, leadership development, and transformation. It is comparable through enterprise leadership and people/organization work, although its HR and executive-search activities are broader.

Emerging players

• Workpath: Workpath is an OKR software and methodology platform that also supports training and implementation. It overlaps with cidpartners' OKR Plus and certified masterclass offering, making it a useful emerging competitor and ecosystem peer.
• OKRMentors: OKRMentors is a specialist OKR consultancy and training provider. It competes for OKR adoption, coaching, and implementation budgets that cidpartners targets with OKR Plus and related transformation services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cidpartners

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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