WHAT WE STAND FOR

We are deeply committed to enriching life on Earth in a collectively intelligent way. Our groundbreaking 1492 management system, powered by weBrain AI applications, harnesses collective intelligence to enrich your organization. So, embrace the future of leadership with us.

At 1492 X Venture to Value: As active investors, we blitz-scaling portfolio companies to peak performance with our groundbreaking management system, powered by weBrain AI applications, enriching leadership and culture to leverage enterprise value. 

At 1492 weBrain Technology: We are the groundbreaking weBrain software platform powered by collective and artificial intelligence to bring the governance of organizations and their ecosystems to the next level. The crowd outperforms the core, the crowd is evergreen, and crowd foresters break breakthrough innovations. 

At 1492 New School of Business: We educate managers and leaders to embrace the next level of AI leadership, elevating consciousness, and fostering new capacities. We uplift across all quadrants and all lines (AQAL), equipping leaders to sustain elevated emotions that manifest success.

At 1492 Strategy Consultancy: We revolutionize strategy development and execution as a constant flow with our unique collective intelligence methodology. In combination with our weBrain AI applications, we deliver improved results with just a fraction of the effort. 1492 ensures the self-excited CI+AI circuit.

TAKE A JOURNEY BEYOND YOUR HORIZON…

…by making brave decisions to question the status quo, for changing the game and discovering new worlds.

On August 3rd 1492, Christopher Columbus embarked on his journey heading West. As he discovered the new world, he also changed the paradigm of the old world forever. For many people of his time, a new continent beyond the Atlantic Ocean was not only far beyond their geographic horizon, but far more beyond their mental horizon. read more

150 years prior to the discoveries of Galileo Galilei, safety was found in conformity. Innovative, bold initiatives like the ones undertaken by Columbus were difficult to grasp, yet it is an unconventional enterprise such as this, that bears the potential for true revolution. Had Columbus not questioned the belief that the Earth was flat, he would not have embarked on his journey, proving the contrary and bringing forth countless new opportunities.

A similar paradigm shift is currently in full swing. The global economy is experiencing fundamental change. AI and Blockchain in an IoT landscape are triggering unprecedented technological disruption beyond our horizon of comprehension. The impact of corporate business on the environment has launched a race for renewable energy and the advent of clean and autonomous transportation. Traditional business models are buckling under the pressure to remain competitive, while innovative startups make the stock market headlines.

The AI revolution has resulted in sweeping changes across technology, socio-economics, demographics, and culture, forcing us to question virtually everything. The challenges we face are abrupt, and non-linear resulting in exponential consequences very difficult to predict. Welcome to the slowest day of rest of your life.

This interdependent world requires AI leadership on AQAL and system capacity that are congruent with this new paradigm. Traditional models based on old-school assumptions are failing on a global scale, incapable of adjusting efficiently to change. Success is now, more than ever, the result of our collective intelligence, not just the contributions of an individual. Collective intelligence can be evoked technologically and culturally, ideally both at once.

Columbus’s primary outstanding achievement came from within the reframing of his own internal perspective, in stark contrast with the dogma of his era. Courage and self-reflection are essential to overcome doubt, obstacles, and setbacks while aligning others behind unconventional, risky ideas.

In a world where more of the same is no longer enough, you and your business require truly different solutions. Allow 1492 to guide and support you on your journey towards your new world – towards a new horizon.

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“ENRICHED MINDS, ENRICH THE WORLD!”

MICHAEL HENGL

Board of Management

1492 was founded in 1994 by Katja and Michael as a think-tank for enriching the world with collective intelligence.

When the two met, Katja had reached the zenith of her career as an artist in both classical theater and German film and television, while Michael a former Austrian ski racer and entrepreneur, just had a successful exited his first business.

In 2004, Maximilian Kammerer became involved, providing valuable insight and game-changing spillover effects from his former role as an Apple executive.

In 2008, David Rohrmann joined the 1492 board of management as a graduate of philosophy and economics. He became a managing partner by virtue of his passion for leveraging the meaning of the purpose in corporate cultures.

Armin Blassnig, transitioning from an executive role on the client side, joined the leadership team during the pandemic. His valuable insights and his unique personality are undoubtedly scaling up to the growth of 1492 weBrain significantly.

We are more than ever deeply committed to enriching the world with collective and artificial intelligence.

Click here for our Harvard Business Best Practice example, published in the German Harvard Business Manager.

Clients

A1 TELEKOM Vienna – 3M Borken – ABB Zurich – AGILENT San Francisco – AGRANA Vienna – AGRANA FRUIT Vienna – AIRBUS Toulouse – AIT Vienna – GOVERNMENT OF ALBANIA Tirana – ALTIA Helsinki – ALLIANZ Munich – ALMIRALL Munich – AMD San Jose – AMGEN Munich – AMIBLU Klagenfurt – AOK Postdam – ARAL Bochum – ASHRIDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL Berkhamsted – AUSTRIAN AIRLINES Vienna – AUSTRO CONTROL Vienna – AUSTRIAN JUICE Kroellendorf – AZ MEDIA Collogne – BAUER Schrobenhausen – BAYER Leverkusen – BAYER SCHERING Berlin – BAYRISCHE LANDESBANK Munich  – BBDO Dusseldorf – BFI Klagenfurt – BLACKBERRY Waterloo – BMW Munich – BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM EEC Ingelheim – BOSCH Hildesheim – BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP Dusseldorf – BRAU AG Linz – CANON Vienna – CG GROUP Berlin – CHINA POST Beijing – CISCO San Francisco – CITY GROUP New York City – COMBITEL Munich  – COMDISCO Munich – COMMUNISYSTEMS Leibzig – CREDIT SWISS Zurich – DAIMLER Stuttgart – DANZAS Hamburg – DEGUSSA Frankfurt – DEUTSCHE BAHN Frankfurt – DEUTSCHE BANK Frankfurt – DEUTSCHE TELEKOM Bonn – DOMO CHEMICALS Leuna – DPD Aschaffenburg – DR OETKER Bielefeld – DRÄGER Lübeck – EADS Paris – EASYSTAFF Vienna  EBAY San Jose – EC Cohrweiler – EFFEM Verden – ELCA Zurich – ELECTRONICPARTNER Dusseldorf – EMBA Vienna – EMIRATES Dubai – ENTECCO Lahr – E–PLUS Dusseldorf – ERSTE GROUP Vienna – EVN Maria Enzersdorf – FAIRCHILD DORNIER Oberpfaffenhofen – FENIX OUTDOOR INTERNATIONAL AG Munich – FEDERAL MINISTRY REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA Vienna – FH URSTEIN Salzburg – FRAPORT Frankfurt Main – GEPPERT Hall i.T. – –GRASL & PARTNER Vienna – GREINER HOLDING Kremsmunster – HAPPY & NESS Vienna – HAWLE Vöcklabruck – HELSINGIN SANOMAT Helsinki – HEWLETT & PACKARD Cuppertino – HSBC Dusseldorf – IBM Munich – IDENTITÄTER Vienna – INPRO Berlin  – INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS Geneva – INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE RED CROSS Geneva – JK ERGOLINE Bad Honnef – JOHNSON CONTROLS Hannover – JUMPTOMORROW Vienna – KAPSCH Vienna – KÄSSBOHRER Salzburg – KFW Frankfurt – KIND&CO Wiehl – KNORR-BREMSE Munich – KOHLBECKER  Gaggenau – KPMG Berlin – LAMODA Moscow – LANGNESE IGLO Hamburg –LAPP Stuttgart  LUFTHANSA Cologne – LUFTHANSA TECHNIK Hamburg  MARKETING FORUM Linz  MASTERFOODS Verden – MBE Berlin – MERCEDES–BENZ Berlin – MÜNCHNER RÜCK Munich  – NECO Munich – NESPRESSO Lausanne – NIKE Beaverton – NICHIA EUROPE Kronberg  NOKIA Helsinki – OBERBANK Linz – ORS Vienna – ÖRV Vienna – OUTFITTERY Berlin – PERRY EVENT PRODUCTION Vienna – PERSONIO Munich  – PESSL INSTRUMENTS Weiz – PKZ Zurich – POST AG Vienna – POSTBUS AG Vienna – PREMIUM AEROTEC Augsburg – PRITIDENTA Stuttgart – QUESTER Vienna – RAIFFEISEN CAMPUS Vienna – RAIFFEISEN SOFTWARE Vienna – RAIFFEISEN SOLUTIONS Vienna – RBI Vienna – REEMTSMA Hamburg – REPOWER Pochiavo – REWE Cologne – RHI Vienna – RLB STEIERMARK Graz  RSG Vienna – RUDOLF STEINER SCHULE Witten – ROTTENBURGER WERKE Rottenburg – RTL Cologne – RVS Salzburg – RZB Vienna – SAMSUNG Seoul – SAP Walldorf – SAPPI Graz – SECURITAS VERSICHERUNGEN Bremen – SECURITAS HOLDING Berlin – SIEMENS Munich – SINOPEC Beijing – SPARKASSE OÖ Linz – STARBUCKS Seattle – STORCK Hannover – STYRIA Graz – SUN MICROSYSTEMS Los Altos – SWISSLIFE Zurich – TCI Vienna – TEEKANNE Düsseldorf – TESAT Backnang – THOMAE KG Ingelheim – TILAK Innsbruck – TIROL KLINIKEN Innsbruck –TNS Hamburg – TOYOTA Aichi – TPN NETWORKS Munich – TRENKWALDER Vienna – TREVOX Mexico City –  TRIQUINT Munich – T-SYSTEMS Frankfurt –TVM Dubai – UMDASCH Amstetten – UNIFY Munich  – UNILEVER Rotterdam – UNIQA Vienna – UNIVERSTITÄT SEEBURG Seekirchen – UNIVERSITÄT WITTEN/HERDECKE – VESTAS Arhus – VICTORIA´S SECRET Columbus –  VIRGIN ATLANTIC London – VOLKSWAGEN Braunschweig – VORWERK Wuppertal – VÖSTALPINE Linz – WALT DISNEY COMPANY Burbank – WHIRLPOOL Benton Harbor – YAHOO Sunnyvale – YPO Washington – ZAPPOS Las Vegas – ZDNET Munich – ZFU Zurich – ZIFF–DAVIS Munich

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