Michael Fröhlich
Founding Partner & CEO
Consulting is changing. Responsibility remains.
Your Mission Critical Initiative in Safe Hands
LucSien exists for organisations facing their most critical transformations. We don't hand over slide decks and move on. We take ownership, work inside your organisation, and remain accountable until change becomes reality. When we leave, your business doesn't depend on us—it performs without us.
Vienna
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Frankfurt
The world we saw
What decades of transformation taught us
LucSien exists because we became tired of watching great businesses fail for predictable reasons. Across decades of leading high-stakes transformations, we saw the same three failures repeated—regardless of industry, geography, or budget. They wasted time, destroyed value, and eroded trust. LucSien was built to eliminate those failures, not simply advise on them.
01
Complexity outpaced
the methodology.
Most large transformation programmes still miss their objectives. The frameworks firms bring were built for a simpler era — rigid, sequential, and unable to bend under real organisational pressure.
02
The partner who sells the engagement rarely delivers it.
Clients invest in senior experience, yet delivery is often delegated to large teams several layers removed from the people they trusted. That model scales consulting businesses. It doesn't always deliver better transformations.
03
Incumbents can’t deploy AI without cannibalising themselves.
Billable hours and headcount pyramids fund the traditional firm. AI threatens both, so it gets adopted at the edges — never at the core of how work is delivered.
What we do
We solve the transformations that others struggle to deliver.
LucSien works with organisations facing their most critical change programmes—from enterprise transformation and technology modernisation to turnaround, remediation and value creation. Our senior partners combine decades of executive leadership with AI-enabled delivery to make faster decisions, execute with precision and leave organisations stronger than we found them.
Why LucSien
Built for outcomes, not utilisation.
Most consulting firms grow by adding people. We built LucSien differently. Our engagements are led by experienced partners who work inside your organisation and remain personally accountable for the outcome. Around them sits a lean, AI-enabled delivery engine that amplifies—not replaces—human expertise. The result is faster decisions, fewer layers, lower cost and transformations led by the people you hired in the first place. AI is our force multiplier. Experienced leadership is our product.
Personal responsibility
Personal responsibility
Embedded delivery
Embedded delivery
Radical honesty
Radical honesty
Lower total cost
Lower total cost
Small teams.
Inside your organisation.
A lean engine room.
We don’t arrive with an army. Experienced partners work from within your teams and take personal responsibility for the outcome. In the engine room — analysis, research, preparation — we work lean and AI-supported, built that way from the outset, which is how small LucSien teams deliver what others need much larger ones to produce. AI sharpens our judgement; it never replaces the experienced person in front of you.
Industries
Deep expertise in complex, regulated environments.
Banking & Financial Services
Insurance
Private Equity
Technology & Software
Critical Infrastructure
Healthcare
Public Sector
Selected experience
Credentials that matter today.
Programme recovery, post-merger integration, core-platform modernisation and more — drawn from LucSien partners’ and senior advisers’ work, including assignments completed in previous executive and consulting roles.
Leadership
A founding partnership.
Nicole Daniel
Founding PartnerMichael Görlitz
Founding PartnerJulia Watson
Founding PartnerUlrich Linnebank
Founding PartnerAndreas Traum
Founding PartnerPeter Ginser
Founding PartnerMartin Felsch
Founding Partner
Partners
Complementary partners extend what we deliver.
The earlier the real issues are identified, the more options remain.
Speak with a LucSien partner about a critical programme, a transformation decision or a value-creation priority.