Change Management
Bosch
Change management inside a corporation: user research, internal marketing, and building a diagnostic tool that measures an organisation's need for change.
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Sustainability & Change · Project Management
Florian Burkhardt
I take ownership, deliver projects and bring people together.
Student in the field of Sustainability & Change, founder and project lead with hands-on experience in event management, change management and building my own ventures.
- BoschChange Management
- 1.5 GPAGerman scale · Sustainability & Change
The numbers speak for themselves
100%
Full budget ownership for event operations
50+
Volunteers and vendors coordinated per event (leading a core team of 5)
>100%
Profit growth from a newly developed graduating-class partnership model
Who I am
I study Sustainability & Change – and put what I learn there into practice every day. From first idea to delivery: with GangisPartys I built an event series of my own hosting up to 700 guests, at Bosch I both planned and implemented internal change processes, and with Berrybay I developed a new concept and brought it to market. What drives me is not the idea, but the moment it works – and the people it enriches.
Selected experience
Three projects where I carried responsibility and delivered results.
Founding & Event Management
GangisPartys
Building an event series from a bare idea to a packed venue: 5 events, over 2,500 happy guests, more than 100% profit growth from a new segmentation strategy, and total revenue above €50,000.
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Founding & Setup
Berrybay
Discovered in Brazil and loved instantly: I bring açaí and matcha to German street festivals. Our customers' verdict: better than the market leader.
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Experiences from working together inside companies, on projects and in my own ventures.
“His way of working was consistently characterised by great care and systematic thinking, as well as an outstanding sense of responsibility.”
Robert Bosch GmbH
Employment reference — Change Management internship
Official wording from the formal German employment reference (Arbeitszeugnis).
“I can always count on Florian — even if it means working through the entire night.”
Alan Stobbe
Co-founder of GangisPartys & Berrybay
“Our collaboration was marked by open communication, strong organisation and clear agreements that were always kept.”
Philip Neuer
Director, Jugendhaus Süd – event venue
Track record
The milestones that shaped me.
2021
Abitur
German university entrance qualification.
2021–2022
Started studying Environmental Engineering
In my very first year I realised that the human and organisational side of change interests me more than the purely technical one, which is why I moved toward management and business.
2022
Started studying Sustainability & Change
Began my degree with a focus on Sustainability & Change.
2024
Founded GangisPartys
Built an event series of my own, from first idea through to delivery.
2025
Bosch Change Management
Internship in change management focused on user research, building a knowledge platform, and developing a range of analysis tools.
2026
Bachelor thesis on Conversational AI
Academic research on the psychological drivers behind the use of conversational AI.
2026
Berrybay
Founded and built up a food venture of my own.
2026
MBMC
My next chapter. Perhaps at MBMC.
Motivation
Why Mercedes-Benz
I grew up in Ehningen, right next to one of the largest Mercedes-Benz plants in the world in Sindelfingen. The brand has been part of my thinking ever since childhood.
What interests me most is the current competition with China: how manufacturers there manage to build vehicles at high quality while keeping costs so low — and what large automotive groups like Mercedes-Benz can set against that.
Equally important to me is the electrification of the fleet, which is a major lever for more sustainable mobility. That is also a topic that genuinely interested me during my degree (Sustainability & Change). I would like to contribute actively to both.
Why strategy consulting
I find it genuinely exciting to rethink things, analyse how they connect, and turn the right dials early so that, over time, they combine into real impact.
I have already experienced this in practice: at Bosch I built a diagnostic tool that quantifies an organisation's need for change across nine criteria on a scale from 0 to 100 — translating a complex, fuzzy question into a clear, actionable model.
In the same way, at GangisPartys I built a new business line through a targeted segmentation strategy for graduating classes, which grew our profit by more than 100%.
Both show what drives me: I do not just execute, I actively think about which direction a development should take and why.
My experience at Bosch also sits close to how Mercedes-Benz Management Consulting describes its own mandate: developing strategies for business transformation and enabling automation of the core business. That is exactly the space between concept and execution I want to grow in — now on a strategic rather than operational level.