About Martin Kallenbach

Down to earth, and I do the work myself

I lead business and IT transformation that gets organisations ready for what comes next, where business, technology and people change together. In financial services and manufacturing I have led large service organisations, turned engagements around and built operating models that hold.

As acting VP at Tieto I restructured a €320M Shared Services organisation of 2,500 FTE, with about 10% cost reduction and the targets slightly overachieved. At Vorwerk I turned a 500+ FTE, $40M+ ACV engagement around and rebuilt the CIO’s trust within 6–12 months. I built SIAM operating models at HCL and Tieto, kept Nokia’s 24×7 global operations running through restructuring, and in manufacturing also worked with UPM and Cargotec.

More recently I presented a paper at VikingPLoP 2026, Finding Your First Client — A Pattern Language for Early-Stage Consulting Startups, and was an invited speaker at the Developer Tools Bhutan retreat in May 2026, with two workshops on leadership, career development and practical AI.

I am an AI practitioner: I run my own AI operating model every day — the right work on the right device with the right model, local and cloud models side by side, secrets managed properly, all code under version control. I run AI in production for myself, so I can set it up and lead your teams through it.

What I do best isn’t inventing something clever. It’s reading people and organisations accurately — often before they’ve said the real thing out loud — and building the system that lets them change and flourish.