Our story

Why we work
this way.

pclm consulting started from a frustrating observation: most programs do not fail on the plan. They fail after the plan, in the weeks when people are asked to work differently and quietly carry on as before.

A plan cannot adopt itself.​

Steering committees, status reports, RAG ratings, milestone plans: they all live in the same room, several floors above the people whose daily work is supposed to change. The moment the program ends, the old way is still one habit away, exactly when the attention to resist it is lowest. So the milestones get signed off, the tool goes live, and nothing really changes.

So we made it people-first.

We run the plan and the people as one mandate. The same person who owns the governance also owns the communication, the sponsor coaching and the change agent network, because those are not a follow-up phase, they are the delivery. That takes a little more effort early on, and it is the whole point: it is the difference between a promise on a slide and a change the organization can feel.

What we believe

Four things we will not trade away.

Honest status over comfortable status

A red project reported green helps nobody. You get the real picture early, including when the news is that the plan needs rewriting.

Senior from first call to handover

The person you meet is the person who does the work. No pitch team, no handover to someone three years out of university.

Inside the team, not beside it

We integrate into your governance, your tools and your rhythm. Fewer parallel structures means fewer places for a change to get lost.

An exit written on day one

Success is the change holding without us. Every mandate defines what has to be true before we leave, and then we do.

Portrait of Markus Kakavis, founder of pclm consulting
Who you work with

Markus Kakavis, BA, MSc, MBA

Senior project, program and transformation manager, and a networker by instinct. Two decades of business analysis, IT project and program leadership, account project services and transformation management for international clients across Europe and Asia, with management of change at the center of recent years.

A track record built across industries, regions and languages.
25+

Years of international project and change management experience

Certified

PMP, CCMP, SAFe 5, Professional Scrum Master I, MBA in Leadership & Change Management

Regions

DACH, EMEA and the US, trusted across borders. Based in Vienna.

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Languages: German, English, Spanish, French and Greek

We bring the right people together to challenge established patterns and drive successful transformation.

Let's look at your situation.

Bring the messy version. Twenty minutes on the phone is usually enough to tell whether this is a plan problem, a people problem, or both.