Change Enthusiast,
Co-Thinker, Collaborator.
As a leader, strategist, and sparring partner with years of experience both on the corporate side and as an entrepreneur, Chantal Schmelz brings to transformation and innovation projects not only her knowledge, experience, and network, but above all her enthusiasm for change.
She is fascinated by the power of collaborative learning and thinking, successful collaboration with and by teams, and the new possibilities of digitalization to make collaboration across national borders even more efficient, diverse and profound.
As an entrepreneur and co-founder, she is actively involved in several companies. She shares her experiences and perspectives as a columnist in the Handelszeitung and in various online magazines. She also works as a lecturer, keynote speaker, and facilitator for various educational institutions, public bodies, and NGOs to bring the potential of crowd wisdom, collaboration, and agile progressive methods to a wide audience.
- Founder, ansprechend GmbH
- Co-Founder, Boost2Rethink
- CCO, DALI Discount AG
- Assessor for WEConnect International in Switzerland
- Lecturer for Economics and Law
- Facilitatorin LEGO® Serious Play®
- Design Sprint Master
“Stuck” situations have seemingly magically found me again and again.
No, I often didn’t shout “hurray” when the next restructuring was due or something was handed over to me with status “zero” or “totally run down”. But I have discovered in the process that I am not good at managing and that there is no such thing as THE end.
It fascinates me far too much to learn how to take seemingly finished puzzles apart into their individual parts and develop something new from them, to accompany people, projects and organizations in their development.
It’s not the one moment that excites me, but how things keep changing. It’s not about “finishing” something or reaching THE one goal, but recognizing that change is what we make of it.
Let’s connect.
Speaker-Bio & Portrait
Perspectives – on the blog.
“Riding the wave” – Handelszeitung column, 18 March 2021
Sun, beach - and simply letting yourself drift with the waves. That's probably what many have been dreaming of for the last twelve months. After all, we have been dealing with waves almost daily for a year now. But unfortunately in a different way. It is important to...