Christoph Hilberath joined the Munich office of Boston Consulting Group in 2004. After leaving the firm in October 2010 to work as an entrepreneur, he rejoined BCG in 2014, transferring to Melbourne in 2017. 

Christoph leads BCG’s People & Organization practice in Australia and New Zealand. He is a member of the Change Management leadership team and a core member of the Industrial Goods practice. Christoph works mainly on transformations and people-centric change—putting the employee at the center of any change effort in order to flip the odds of success and unlock the full potential of transformations and change movements. He is an expert in operating model redesign, cost and efficiency, and large-scale change management. 

When he was not working for the firm, Christoph was the CTO/CFO for a startup offering digital customer engagement and business intelligence services to brick and mortar retailers.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • Masters in Finance, London Business School
  • BSc, finance, Indiana University at Bloomington
  • BSc, international management, ESB Reutlingen

Publications and Videos

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What the Industrial Goods Workforce Wants

A global survey of 16,600 industrial sector employees reveals changing attitudes about work, what’s important on the job, and the training needed to stay ahead.

Driving Long-Lasting Change by Focusing on What Matters: People

Companies have gotten much better at designing transformation initiatives — but most of them fail to implement the intended change. Employee-Centric Change is BCG’s methodology to put employees at the center of a transformation, so change is truly adopted. In this session, you’ll learn how to help clients ensure the change load for their employees is manageable and how to better address change sentiment. We’ll also showcase a demo of our upgraded tool, Absorb.

Hybrid Work Is the New Remote Work

Hybrid Work Is the New Remote Work

Leaders should be managing remote working conditions amid the uncertainty of today and prepare for and optimize the hybrid working models of tomorrow.
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Personalisation for Your People

The COVID-19 crisis has activated a modern industrial revolution. It has forced a rapid shift in where and how most Australians work, and broken through longstanding barriers to change in just three months.
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Meetings and Email Are Here to Stay, So Make the Most of Them

High-performing companies make the most of these office mainstays by setting guidelines that help keep things as simple as possible.
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Putting People at the Center of Change

An employee-centric transformation requires deep understanding of the workplace ecosystem and how well, and how fast, it can adapt to change.
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Zero-Based Budgeting Comes to Business Functions

Prime your corporate processes for digital (or any) transformation by drilling down to the essentials.
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The Corporate Center of the Future

The growth of automation, digitalization, and virtual collaboration is putting pressure on companies to reimagine the way their corporate centers operate.
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Mastering Complexity Through Simplification: Four Steps to Creating Competitive Advantage

Amid growing complexity, many companies act in ways that increase their “complicatedness.” Instead, they should simplify, using an approach that fundamentally changes employee behaviors.
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