Technology creates the potential. Your people determine the return.

Leverage your AI's full potential
by strengthening the human side.

We help organizations move from AI potential to measurable business value, with objective advisory, research-backed leadership development, and a human-centered path to adoption.

Senior expertise, direct access

Direct access to a senior practitioner from day one. No layers, no hand-offs.

Proven in practice, grounded in science

Tested in real organizations, grounded in science. Shaped to what actually works.

Global reach, local awareness

Based in Europe and the GCC, working globally. Tailored to your legal and cultural context.

The landscape

AI is everywhere.
Business value is harder to find.

Most organizations have started: pilots, licenses, use cases, internal initiatives. What leaders need now is a clearer path from experimentation to measurable impact.

01

High activity. Unclear value.

Many teams are testing AI and running pilots. The activity is visible, but the link to strategic priorities, ownership, and measurable business outcomes often remains unclear.

02

New tools. Old work patterns.

AI is being added to existing processes, routines, and decision flows. In many organizations, the technology has arrived before the work around it has evolved.

03

Strong interest. Uneven adoption.

People are curious and willing to engage. What varies is the clarity, confidence, capability, and time they have to use AI responsibly and effectively.

What success looks like

From AI capability
to measurable business value.

Success means more than using AI. It means knowing where it creates value, how to adopt it responsibly, and how to build the human capability to keep improving.

You know where AI creates value.

We help leadership teams translate strategic priorities into focused use cases, clear ownership, and measurable business outcomes.

You make AI decisions with confidence.

We provide objective, research-backed advisory, so you can assess opportunities, risks, vendors, and investments with clarity.

You evolve how work gets done.

We help your teams redesign workflows, roles, and decision routines so AI becomes part of better ways of working.

You keep capability inside the organization.

We build the leadership judgment, skills, and routines your teams need to lead AI long after we are gone.

Team

Seniority at the heart of
every engagement.

Strauss MindTech is led by two of Europe's clearest voices on AI and leadership. You work with them directly, from the first call.

Dr. Christina Strauss

Managing Director & Senior Partner

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Dr. Christina Strauss

Christina brings over a decade of experience advising leaders on AI, digital transformation, and human-centered change. At Strauss MindTech, she works with leadership teams at global industry leaders including organizations like Siemens and RWE, as well as confidential family businesses and multi-billion-euro enterprises.

With a doctorate summa cum laude in digital communication and a background in psychology and management, Christina is a senior advisor on the human side of AI: how leaders build trust, shift behavior, strengthen adoption, and turn technology investments into organizational value. As a board member and advisor, she helps executive teams make AI decisions that are strategically sound, practically actionable, and credible with the people who need to implement them.

Prof. Dr. Erik Strauss

Senior Partner

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Prof. Dr. Erik Strauss

Erik brings over fifteen years of experience advising large companies, family businesses, and senior leadership teams on strategy, management, decision-making, and technology-driven change. As a professor and chairman of the supervisory board of a family-owned industrial group, he combines academic rigor with boardroom judgment.

His advisory work focuses on AI-enabled decision-making, strategy execution, and the governance structures required to turn AI into measurable performance. Erik helps leaders move from abstract AI ambition to better decisions, clearer priorities, and execution systems that hold under real business pressure.

Services

Leverage your AI investments
with the right human operating system.

Strauss MindTech advises leadership teams on how to turn AI ambition into measurable business value – by aligning strategy, reshaping operating models, and guiding the decisions that matter most.

Every organization starts from a different place. We design a tailor-made path for the human side of your AI transformation – strategy, operating model, adoption, governance. The entry points below are our most requested formats; they are not off-the-shelf products but starting references for a conversation about what you actually need. Throughout the entire journey, our Strategic AI Advisory is available – as an ongoing retainer, on-demand sparring partner, or fractional CAIO. Whichever stage you are in, you will never navigate it alone.

Where are you in your AI transformation journey?
01
Exploring AI
02
Setting Direction
03
Prioritizing
04
Building Structure
05
Driving Adoption
06
Sustaining Value
Stage 01

Exploring AI

You know AI matters, but your leadership team needs a shared understanding of what it means for your business.

Recommended entry point Executive AI Alignment
How we help
Executive AI briefings, leadership upskilling, board-level discussions and strategic sensemaking.
Typical output
A shared leadership language, clear decision questions and a first view on where AI could create value.
Stage 02

Setting Direction

AI initiatives exist, but priorities, ownership and strategic direction are unclear.

Recommended entry point AI Value Diagnostic
How we help
Leadership alignment workshops, AI ambition setting, decision logic and governance principles.
Typical output
A common AI transformation agenda, strategic priorities and leadership commitment.
Stage 03

Prioritizing

There are many ideas, but the organization needs to decide which AI use cases are worth pursuing.

Recommended entry point AI Opportunity Portfolio
How we help
Use-case mapping, opportunity assessment, value and risk prioritization and portfolio design.
Typical output
A prioritized AI opportunity portfolio with clear next steps, owners and decision criteria.
Stage 04

Building Structure

The technology path is taking shape, but roles, responsibilities and collaboration models are not yet ready.

Recommended entry point Human AI Operating Model
How we help
Human AI operating model design, role mapping, cross-functional team design and governance routines.
Typical output
A practical operating model that defines who decides, who owns, who enables and who executes.
Stage 05

Driving Adoption

The strategy is clear, but adoption, communication and capability building need to reach the organization.

Recommended entry point AI Adoption Architecture
How we help
AI adoption architecture, stakeholder mapping, communication strategy, leadership enablement and curated literacy pathways.
Typical output
A rollout logic that helps people understand, trust and use AI in the right way.
Stage 06

Sustaining Value

AI is embedded, but leadership needs a trusted thought partner to keep decisions sharp and momentum high.

Recommended entry point AI Value Realization
How we help
Impact measurement, performance cadence design, scaling successful use cases and embedding AI deeply into organizational routines and leadership rhythms.
Typical output
A long-term advisory cadence that keeps AI transformation on track and aligned with real business value.

You know AI matters, but your leadership team needs a shared understanding of what it means for your business.

How we help
Executive AI briefings, leadership upskilling, board-level discussions and strategic sensemaking.
Typical output
A shared leadership language, clear decision questions and a first view on where AI could create value.
Entry pointExecutive AI Alignment

AI initiatives exist, but priorities, ownership and strategic direction are unclear.

How we help
Leadership alignment workshops, AI ambition setting, decision logic and governance principles.
Typical output
A common AI transformation agenda, strategic priorities and leadership commitment.
Entry pointAI Value Diagnostic

There are many ideas, but the organization needs to decide which AI use cases are worth pursuing.

How we help
Use-case mapping, opportunity assessment, value and risk prioritization and portfolio design.
Typical output
A prioritized AI opportunity portfolio with clear next steps, owners and decision criteria.
Entry pointAI Opportunity Portfolio

The technology path is taking shape, but roles, responsibilities and collaboration models are not yet ready.

How we help
Human AI operating model design, role mapping, cross-functional team design and governance routines.
Typical output
A practical operating model that defines who decides, who owns, who enables and who executes.
Entry pointHuman AI Operating Model

The strategy is clear, but adoption, communication and capability building need to reach the organization.

How we help
AI adoption architecture, stakeholder mapping, communication strategy, leadership enablement and curated literacy pathways.
Typical output
A rollout logic that helps people understand, trust and use AI in the right way.
Entry pointAI Adoption Architecture

AI is embedded, but leadership needs a trusted thought partner to keep decisions sharp and momentum high.

How we help
Impact measurement, performance cadence design, scaling successful use cases and embedding AI deeply into organizational routines.
Typical output
A long-term advisory cadence that keeps AI transformation aligned with business value.
Entry pointAI Value Realization
Examples of our most booked formats – all adapted to your context. Everything we do is tailor-made.

Executive AI Alignment

Help your leadership team make better decisions about AI. We create a shared understanding of AI's business implications and align your C-suite or board around priorities, risks and next steps.

AI Value Diagnostic

Understand where AI can create value and what is holding your organization back. We assess your current maturity, leadership alignment, use-case potential and organizational blockers, then define the most effective path forward.

AI Opportunity Portfolio

Move from scattered AI ideas to a clear portfolio. We help identify, structure and prioritize use cases based on business value, feasibility, risk, adoption effort and strategic relevance.

Human AI Operating Model

Design the roles, routines and decision rights needed to make AI work. We define how leaders, teams, functions and partners collaborate around AI so value does not get lost between strategy and execution.

AI Adoption Architecture

Turn AI initiatives into behavior change. We design the communication, capability-building and stakeholder engagement needed for people to understand, trust and use AI in daily work.

AI Value Realization

Turn early AI wins into lasting organizational capability. We help you measure impact, build a performance cadence, scale what works and iterate what does not – so AI creates sustained, compounding value rather than one-off results.

Quick self-assessment

Not sure where your organization stands?

Five questions. Get a first idea of where your organization stands – and what might help most right now.

Success stories

Leaders keep
coming back.

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Working with Strauss MindTech has brought real added value to our leadership team. Particularly noteworthy is the customized, practice-oriented upskilling, which has not only given our executives a deeper understanding of AI topics, but above all has made them more articulate in communicating the associated added value. The benefits of the initiative were so clear after the first C-suite workshop that we were able to secure significant budget approval at short notice. Since then, we have continued to rely on Strauss MindTech to drive the targeted development of our management team and promote innovation within the company in the long term.
Marina Sverdel
Marina Sverdel
Head of AI, Digital Strategy, and Business Transformation at RWE
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We engaged Strauss MindTech to conduct several C-Suite-level workshops, which proved instrumental in shaping our ambitions and governance around this topic. The team provided a practical and scalable framework for assessing and prioritizing use cases, from quick wins to longer-term investments. The model they introduced for building business cases has been invaluable, as has their ability to broaden our perspective on the human side of AI. I would confidently recommend Strauss MindTech for future engagements and ongoing support.
Fabian Morgan
Fabian Morgan
Regional Managing Director and Member of the Global Management Committee at ARDEX
95%
repeat booking rate
100%
client satisfaction
80+
projects
450+
partner network
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