Tackle Complexity &
Create Impact,
Now.
Achieve Clarity. Overcome Barriers. Unlock Success.
If you're an entrepreneur or part of an executive team seeking a big-picture perspective on complex challenges—you’re in the right place.
Two Services: Designed to Solve Real Problems
Visual Problem Solving with a Success Map
Bring clarity, alignment, and direction to your team—visually.
When teams face complex challenges or feel stuck, traditional discussions often go in circles. With the Success Map, a visual and systemic problem-solving tool, your team can literally see the root causes, hidden dynamics, and paths forward. This method draws on systemic principles to create shared understanding and momentum—often within a single workshop.
With this approach, you achieve:
- Clarity: Cut through confusion and misalignment. Uncover obstacles, blind spots, and key leverage points. Gain a deep understanding of your challenges by mapping stakeholder interests, their interconnections, and the root causes at play.
- Structure: Transform chaos into a clear, step-by-step strategic roadmap.
- Solutions: Solve problems at their source rather than treating symptoms - fast, intuitive, and highly engaging.
- Confidence: Move forward with an actionable plan, a shared vision and ownership.
Curious if your situation could be resolved more easily than you think? Let’s talk and explore what’s possible.
Product Market Fit Check-up
Quick, deep insights into how your product is truly perceived.
Did you know that over 40% of startups fail due to lack of product-market fit? Countless companies waste time, energy, and money developing ideas no one actually wants.
With the Product Market Fit Check-up, you gain direct access to what the information field reveals about your product or service—before you over-invest. Using a powerful tool called Explorative Management Constellation, we uncover early indicators of interest, trust, or indifference—often in just minutes, and completely online.
And it’s not just about the product. Many startups struggle when choosing the right investor or strategic partner—a decision that can make or break the business. The constellation method allows you to test different options (e.g. Investor A, B, or C) and see how each one may impact the energy, alignment, and trajectory of your startup—before signing any deals.
Instead of spending months (or even years) on expensive testing, focus groups, and research, this method delivers fast, cost-effective insights. It’s your shortcut to knowing whether your product is on the right track—before burning your budget.
Who is it for?
- Open-minded companies: exploring new R&D ideas
- Startups: with limited budgets and big ambitions
- Marketing teams: preparing for A/B testing or campaign launches
Ensure you're building something people truly want—
with the right product, and the right investor by your side.
FAQ
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I specialize in collaborating with small teams of decision-makers, particularly within startups and forward-thinking established companies. I work best with businesses that prioritize innovation, sustainability, and continuous improvement. My ideal partners embrace creativity, cutting-edge business practices, and a culture of exploration. They are open to experimenting with new tools and methods while viewing sustainability not just as a necessity, but as a driver for growth and excellence. These values align perfectly with my thrivability mindset, making our collaboration both impactful and future-focused.
Yes! Most of the tools I use are effective both online and offline, making remote consulting via Zoom highly efficient. While I sometimes prefer in-person collaboration, the choice depends on the project's stage and specific needs. Whether virtual or face-to-face, my approach ensures seamless communication, strategic insights, and impactful results.
The timeline depends on the project's complexity. For a success map - a structured approach based on systems thinking to solve complex problems in a cross-functional team - we can create an initial version 1 in just one day with up to seven participants. Each participant needs about 20 minutes of preparation beforehand.
If we use the extended STAV+ method to explore deeper, hidden or unconscious influencing factors, I recommend a second 2-hour workshop for a more comprehensive analysis with the method system constellation.
Afterward, the new insights from the system constellation are integrated into an updated success map (version 2). This refined version serves as the foundation for developing highly effective and holistic solution strategies tailored to your needs and the needs of the whole system.
The process includes a short preparation phase (about 20 minutes to answer a few focused questions) followed by a 1-hour guided online workshop session.
A constellation is a systemic tool that makes invisible dynamics visible. By representing key elements—like your product, customers, team, or potential investors—we can gain intuitive insights into how they interact, align, or create friction. It’s not just theoretical—it’s experiential and often surprisingly clear.
Absolutely. Many founders use constellation work to compare potential investors (e.g., Investor A vs. B) or strategic directions. It can reveal hidden tensions, alignment, or mismatches—helping you make more informed decisions before committing.
While not a replacement for traditional research, constellation work provides deep, systemic insights that often uncover blind spots or emotional dynamics you might miss otherwise. Many users find it to be surprisingly accurate and actionable.
Testimonials: Stories of impact and Success
"I would recommend the workshop to everyone dealing with complex systems/problems because I am scared the planet and its inhabitants have to suffer the damage when the problem solvers make one of the ten mentioned mistakes that may cause dramatic effects."
Lysanne Jackson
Biodiversity policy and legislation advisor, NLadviseurs
”I would recommend Violetta`s coaching to anyone seeking to reconnect with the missing energies in their life, to listen and feel more deeply. It provides a unique framework that you won’t typically find elsewhere. Violetta is a compassionate, energetic, and inspiring coach who makes the journey both transformative and enjoyable. Thank you, Violetta!”
Iman Davoodian
Co-Founder of Story Spark
”The success energy coaching supported and re-energized me during continuously difficult times. I’m not sure I would have maintained my motivation to work towards my goals without this support. Now, I feel equipped with techniques that help me adjust my focus and energy whenever I face challenges. I highly recommend Violetta's coaching to anyone who regularly reflects or meditates, as it’s a powerful complement to those practices.”
David D.
UX Director and Head of Site Berlin
Why Most Change-Projects Fail -
and How My Research Can Help
Nearly 75% of all change and problem-solving projects fail. Why? Most problem analysis approaches do not go deep enough, focusing on symptoms rather than addressing root causes. This issue inspired me to act: During my PhD, I developed a systemic problem-solving approach designed to help organizations tackle complexity effectively and achieve sustainable success. My method is called STAV (Systemorientiertes Tiefenanalyse-Verfahren).
You can dive deeper into my research in my book (available in German) here!
Drawing on insights from Cybernetics II (second-order), one of the most critical conclusions from my work is this: real change begins from within. For organizations to truly transform, leaders must be willing to reflect on and evolve their thinking, emotions, and behaviors.
That is why I offer STAV-Coaching to teams as well as 1:1 coachings to entrepreneurs. Teams benefit from enhanced goal alignment and clarity, but the most profound and lasting impact comes when leaders embrace personal growth and development: It is the internal transformation that drives meaningful and sustainable progress across entire organizations. Or, as Rumi once put it: 'Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.'
About Dr. Violetta Neumann-Wolff
I believe true success lies in mastering complexity through holistic, systems-based approaches. With expertise in systemic analysis and problem-solving, I empower individuals and organizations to transform uncertainty into clarity, chaos into structure, and challenges into opportunities and innovative solutions. By applying strategic, integrated methods, I help navigate complexity and drive sustainable success and impact.
Dr. ViolettaNeumann-Wolff
Consultant, Coach & Researcher
Thrive: Where Effectiveness Meets Innovation
My expertise in solving complex problems is rooted in a profound commitment to systems thinking and holistic methodologies. The journey began with an MBA in California in 2009/2010, where I immersed myself in the Cradle to Cradle® paradigm and sustainability’s circular principles. This foundational experience underscored the value of addressing root causes rather than treating superficial symptoms in isolation. Read my article on Cradle to Cradle®, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the five Inner Development Goals (IDGs) here.
After three years with a specialized consulting firm in Switzerland focused on visual complexity management and systems thinking, I pursued a PhD to develop a comprehensive methodological framework for analyzing and solving complex organizational challenges. This approach also integrates organizational psychology and Edgar Schein's model of organizational culture to drive deeper, more sustainable results.
Inner Development, Perseverance and Power: Keys to Growth & Success
The path to success is rarely linear. It’s marked by challenges, detours, and breakthroughs that define the journey. Over the course of seven years of personal development and training in intuitive and energy-based methods, I’ve gained insights into how to influence key variables for achieving desired outcomes.
As an energetic business coach and certified mental trainer, I combine these experiences to help clients achieve profound transformations and breakthroughs. By combining systems thinking, advanced information field analysis, kinesiological muscle testing, and energy work, I can uncover and resolve root causes while identifying high-impact leverage points. Hence, my work bridges science, intuition, and practical tools to unlock potential and accelerate growth.
Lastly, I believe there’s nothing more powerful than uniting courageous people who share a drive to innovate for a better future. That’s why I’m building the Thrivability Network—a collaborative initiative at the intersection of three key forces:
- Tailored R&D and problem solving for a Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C)-based circular economy
- Education and educational marketing to build awareness and critical thinking
- Strategic nudging to accelerate the implementation of solutions that push the needle and shift the status quo
If that speaks to you, let’s connect—I’d love to explore how you can be part of it.
Vision
I envision a world where leaders are self-reflective and capable of solving complex problems with ease, while being deeply connected to their purpose and aware of their unique gifts and talents. Their success is not only personally fulfilling but also contributes to the greater good, creating positive ripple effects in healthier natural ecosystems, communities and the world at large.
Mission
My mission is to support individuals, established companies, and startups in tackling complex challenges through a deeply systemic approach—transforming problems into opportunities for growth and development. I do this by designing and facilitating workshops, as well as conducting coaching sessions.
Through the creation of the Thrivability Network, I aim to push the needle toward healthier people, a healthier planet, and sustainable businesses. This is achieved by combining:
- Tailored R&D and challenge formats to solve open problems in the Cradle to Cradle-based circular economy
- Educational marketing to build a critical mass of informed, critically thinking consumers
- Empowerment through nudging, enabling critical consumers to encourage established companies to implement the existing (C2C-) solutions already available
Values
- Effectiveness and Impact: I’m committed to actions and decisions that serve a higher purpose and create meaningful value—both now and for the future. It’s about doing what matters, and doing it well.
In short: Do the right things right. - Creativity and Innovation: Embracing R&D to challenge what is and inspire what could be.
- Learning: Create an environment where continuous learning, discovery, and a safe space for being vulnerable allows for personal growth and development to happen.
- Integrity and Accountability: Upholding truth and transparency in all interactions, fostering trust and accountability. Taking full responsibility for my actions, decisions, and growth, while encouraging my clients and network to do the same.
Let's connect over a >> virtual coffee << and explore how I can support you and your project.
Crack Complex Problems. Deliver Real Impact.
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