We combine deep industry and functional expertise with hands-on execution support to help companies develop circular business opportunities — and actually bring them to life.
We are business practitioners first. With backgrounds spanning top-tier management consulting, corporate leadership and corporate innovation, we understand what it takes to move a new business approach from strategy to measurable impact inside real organisations. We combine this business acumen, scientific and engineering rigor with years of hands-on circular economy experience to help you navigate the transition.
Over the past decade, working hands-on with companies, we have seen the same pressures surface again and again — across industries and stages of maturity. These are the challenges we now take on together with our clients.
Our Mission
Your challenges are our challenges, until they become opportunities
The circular economy touches every stage of how value is created — from how products are designed and used to how materials return at end of life. At each stage, companies face real pressure: to stay compliant and resilient, to keep growing, and to control cost. We work relentlessly to identify the circular approaches that create measurable business value — reducing risk, strengthening resilience, and opening up new opportunities for growth.
Challenges
Circular opportunities
Production & Design
Use Phase
Recovery & End-of-Life
Our Approach
From insight to impact
We combine a broad view of market dynamics and thorough scientific and technical expertise with a deep understanding of your organisation's capabilities — to identify where circular economy creates the most value for your business, and how to get there. Our insights are based on 10 years of working with industry practitioners on hands-on circular economy implementation.
01
Explore
We assess where you stand: market trends, regulatory pressure, value chain dynamics, and your own circular readiness.
02
Strategise
We define and quantify your circular opportunity and develop a strategy built on your strengths, with clear priorities, goals, and a roadmap to act on.
03
Implement
We turn strategy into results through pilot projects, capability building, partnership curation, and hands-on interim support.
What we offer
Circular Inspiration
Keynotes, half- and full-day interactive workshops to get started. Let us inspire your team and explore tangible circular opportunities for your organization.
OutcomesShared vision · Momentum
CE Readiness & Opportunity Check
A structured assessment of your circular maturity, material flows, supply chain risks, capabilities, and the highest-value opportunities for your business, evaluating changing market dynamics and customer requirements in your industry and beyond.
A tailored scan of relevant legislation (current and upcoming) and how it applies to your organization and industry, deriving the opportunities for your products or services, helping you turn compliance pressure into strategic advantage.
OutcomesCompliance clarity · Strategic foresight
Interim role possible
CE Business Strategy
Developing your circular ambition based on a thorough opportunity assessment and translating it into a concrete strategy — with measurable outcomes on revenue, cost and risks, clear priorities, and a roadmap your organisation can act on.
OutcomesActionable roadmap · Quantified targets
Ecosystem & Partnership Curation
Let's tap into our extensive network to identify and structure the right partnerships for you across the value chain — from recyclate suppliers to take-back operators and refurbishment partners to software providers.
OutcomesReady ecosystem · Secured partners
Interim role possible
M&A Due Diligence & Market Entry
Assessing acquisition targets, market entry opportunities, and venture ideas through a circular economy lens — evaluating market potential, business model viability, and strategic fit for investors and corporate builders.
OutcomesInvestment confidence · Market clarity
Interim role possible
Circular Operations & Process Design
Designing and optimizing circular operations — from reverse logistics and take-back systems to recommerce channels and operational process flows. In a pilot or at scale. We bring experienced operations experts from your industry.
OutcomesOptimized operations blueprint · Development goals · Validated pilot
Interim role possible
Capacity Building & Organizational Development
Tailored training, team workshops, and structured programmes that strengthen internal knowledge and equip your teams to drive circular initiatives from the inside. We help you design the right roles and mandates to make your transformation successful.
OutcomesEmpowered teams · Internal capability
Impact Assessment
Quantifying the climate, resource, and business impact of circular initiatives — using our proprietary CBMI and CBOA methodologies developed with leading partners from industry and science. We will set up the right KPIs and tracking instruments to measure your success.
OutcomesMeasured impact · KPIs & tracking
We orchestrate collaboration for the Circular Economy.
Through Circularity e.V. — Germany's leading CE practitioner network — we connect clients with roundtables, learning programmes, and cross-industry collaboration formats that provide extended insights, partnership and peer-learning opportunities.
Team
Who we are
Dr. Marianne Kuhlmann
Co-CEO
10+ years in strategy consulting and CE implementation. PhD at ETH Zurich on circular transitions, MSc from LSE. Former McKinsey Senior Consultant and Head of Sustainability at Grover. Focuses on CE strategy, collaborative industry programmes, product design, market analysis, and regulatory assessment.
Dr. Paul Wöbkenberg
Co-CEO
15+ years in strategy consulting and innovation management. PhD in Solid State Physics from Imperial College London. Competent in business case- and impact assessment for circular strategies and technologies. Deep material expertise. Former McKinsey Project Leader and trained systemic organisational consultant.
Experts in our team
For each project we draw on a trusted team of senior practitioners — members of Circularity e.V., Germany's leading CE practitioner network — assembled specifically for the expertise your challenge requires.
Dr. Manuel Braun
Circular Business Transformation — author, ex-Systemiq, IMD & TU Munich
Dr. Christoph Zehe
Chemistry & green materials — Co-Founder C1 Green Chemicals, ex-BCG
Legal — Ecodesign, EPR, (reverse-) supply chain, CRM, DPP, AI
Vera Meinert
Data & AI for sustainability — impact measurement & digital tools
Dr. Lukas Gast
Industrial decarbonization & circular innovation — UCL Professor
Dr. Oliver Schneider
Digital Supply Chain & Operations — 20+ yrs, ETH Zurich research
Markus Plack
CE Strategy — former Head of Manufacturing Circularity, ex. A.T. Kearney and ex. WEF
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More experts across LCA, recycling tech, strategy, communications & materials science
Selected Projects
Our impact spans across multiple sectors
Medical Devices
CE Strategy & Product Design Integration
Developed circular toolkit for a global medical device company — including structural embedding of CE principles into packaging and product design and scorecard development.
Consumer Electronics
Market Study & Circular Services Strategy
Conducted market research and developed a Circular Services Strategy for a European consumer electronics manufacturer — identifying new service-based revenue models.
Automotive
Plastics Recycling Value Proposition
Validated a value proposition for plastics recycling in the automotive value chain for a leading venture builder — including market sizing, expert interviews, and regulatory assessment.
Chemicals & Plastics
M&A Due Diligence — Recycling Sector
Assessed a potential acquisition in the plastics recycling sector for an international investor — market analysis, material flows, players, and CE opportunity sizing.
Consumer Goods
CE Academy & Capability Building
Delivered structured training and capability-building on circular economy for a major European retailer — equipping teams across functions with practical tools and frameworks.
Construction
Circular Economy Workshops
Designed and facilitated circular economy workshops for a global construction equipment supplier — building cross-functional understanding and identifying priority initiatives.
Chemicals & Plastics
New Market Entry — Recycling Sector
Assessed market opportunity and market entry strategies for the regeneration of dielectric and cooling fluids in the wind energy and data centre industries.
Diverse
Circular Economy Quick Assessment
Analyzed material flows of a major think tank to assess circular impact potential across IT, consumables, facility management, event organization, print, and waste management.
Circularity Partners GmbH Corinthstr. 41, 10245 Berlin E-Mail: info@circularity-partners.eu
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