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Sebastian Hartmann

Vice President, Alliances at Intapp

Wiesbaden, Germany

At Intapp, my colleagues and I are focused on orchestrating the growing and exponential capabilities of our partners and alliances to deliver the Industry Cloud for partner-led Professional Services and Capital Markets firms.
In my executive leadership role as Vice President Alliances, reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, I can leverage 15 years of experience in management and leadership positions for both boutique consulting and large global professional services firms. During this time I have also worked as a management consultant for other leading services and technology firms as clients - and continue to serve as an advisory board member for innovative SaaS software start-ups.

Personally, I see the digital transformation and evolution of knowledge work as an incredible opportunity for everyone involved. Being part of this journey and shaping some of the stepping stones for knowledge workers (like special matter experts, consultants, lawyers, auditors, designers, and many others) and their clients is a key driver of my motivation every single day. I try to leverage my insights and experiences as a speaker, lecturer, trainer, and author.

Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Speaking Topics: Professional Services, Management, Digital Transformation

Sebastian Hartmann Points
Academic 5
Author 33
Influencer 12
Speaker 61
Entrepreneur 0
Total 111

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Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Enterprise
Business Unit: Alliances
Theatre: Global
Minimum Project Size: Undisclosed
Average Hourly Rate: Undisclosed
Number of Employees: Undisclosed
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed
Last Media Training: 07/06/2022

Areas of Expertise

Change Management 30.22
Culture
Design Thinking
Digital Transformation 31.25
Ecosystems
Future of Work 30.08
Innovation 30.79
Leadership
Management 34.45
Legal and IP 38.24
Sales 31.30
Business Strategy 31.85
HR
Cloud 30.04
AI 30.13
Risk Management 30.12
Business Continuity 30.56
COVID19 30.81
Procurement 30.04
Analytics 30.04

Industry Experience

High Tech & Electronics
Professional Services

Publications

33 Article/Blogs
Cost Levers along the Next Gen Value Chain of Professional Services
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May 18, 2021
An article by Sebastian Hartmann & Stephan Kaufmann, originally published in LegalBusinessWorld №3, 2020The cost pressure is on for professional services. Shifting client demands, declining prices, new technologies, and an emerging set of fierce competitors are taking a toll on law, consultin

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

Spinning towards a New Reality for Professional Services
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February 03, 2021
by Sebastian Hartmann & Shamus RaeSomething stirs underneath the surface of professional services. Last year, KPMG surveyed hundreds of leaders and managers across professional services firms globally on their use of technology and the signs for change. A significant 48% reported they expected

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

Up or Out. Success Factors for ALSPs in the Legal B2B Market
Legal Business World
February 01, 2021

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Legal and IP, Sales

Managing Technology as a Revenue Driver in Services Firms
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January 26, 2021
Technology is moving to the center of attention across professional and business services – and firms are spending more and more, not just absolutely but also relative to their revenue. If solely treated as a cost position, it becomes a race to the bottom. Instead, if considered a revenue driver a

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

War for (Legal) Talent?
Handelsblatt Fachmedien
December 01, 2020

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Management

Stay Calm and Steer Your Firm
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November 24, 2020
In the light of the pandemic, an economic downturn, and an unparalleled technological upheaval across professional services, we urge firm leaders to take a careful look at their management reporting – and to invest in its maturity and future-readiness. It is, after all, one of the most essential t

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

Being Future-ready means being Cloud-ready for Professional Services Firms
Legal Business World
October 15, 2020

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Tags: Business Strategy, Cloud, Digital Transformation

Being Future-ready means being Cloud-ready for Professional Services Firms: 3 Key Actions
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September 29, 2020
As of today, it is quite unlikely that professional services firms will dial back on their technology investments - instead, we even see increasing technology investments in order to keep up with a faster evolving competitive landscape. Gartner predicts an annual growth of 5 to 15% for the technolog

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

Cost Levers along the Next Gen Value Chain of Professional Services
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September 15, 2020
The cost pressure is on for professional services. Shifting client demands, declining prices, new technologies, and an emerging set of fierce competitors are taking a toll on law, consulting, tax, and accounting firms. Especially in times of crisis, cash is king. Once the topline deteriorates, outla

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

How to increase the profitability of your firm by managing your data?
The Impact Lawyers
September 08, 2020

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Legal and IP

Managing for Outcome: Rethinking Value Chains in Professional Services
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August 31, 2020
An article by Sebastian HartmannThe world of professional services has begun to change dramatically over the past decade — and many of those changes bear strong commonalities across lawyers, consultants, accountants, marketing or technology experts. Aside from the fact that accountants or tax

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

Spinning towards a New Reality for Professional Services
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August 04, 2020
Something stirs underneath the surface of professional services. Last year, KPMG surveyed hundreds of leaders and managers across professional services firms globally on their use of technology and the signs for change. A significant 48% reported they expected major or radical change across their bu

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

Designing for Client-Centricity
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July 22, 2020
Designing for Client-Centricity: A Lens for Legal, Consulting, Accounting and Technology Services FirmsAn article by Sebastian Hartmann & Stephan KaufmannA paradigm shift is driving an evolution across professional services: The clients of professional services firms (short “PSF,” e.g., le

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

Managing for Outcome: Rethinking Value Chains in Professional Services
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May 24, 2020
The pandemic may have put the final nails in the coffin of the „time & material“ model in legal, consulting, tax and accounting firms. But what are leaders, partners and managers focusing on when the game is not about „utilization“ and „billable hours“ anymore?
So, here is a framewo

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

Designing for Client-Centricity: A Lens for Legal, Consulting, Accounting and Technology Services Firms
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May 19, 2020
Facing the current challenges has unleashed innovative thinking, agile methods and more dynamic organizations in many professional services firms. But how to anchor this way of thinking permanently?
Infusing old ways of working and outdated services with technology will not do the trick. Collaborat

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

The Invisible Threat to “Traditional”​ Law Firms, Consultants and other Professional Services Firms
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May 04, 2020
by Connie Brenton & Sebastian HartmannIt’s fairly plain to see that the nature of knowledge work at businesses across the globe is changing. The Fourth Industrial Revolution — the digital revolution characterized by a fusion of technologies blurring the lines between the physical, digita

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

The Invisible Threat to “Traditional”​ Law Firms, Consultants and other Professional Services Firms
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April 28, 2020
Is the next generation of competitors even visible to a traditional lawfirms or the providers of consulting, tax or accounting services?
Many established players seem to have a hard time recognizing the underlying shifts in the market, which can be observed upon closer inspection of demand and spend

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

Best Practices for Virtual Design Thinking Workshops in Professional Services
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April 26, 2020
An article by Lina Krawietz, Stephan Kaufmann and Sebastian HartmannDue to COVID-19, professional services are currently facing unprecedented challenges. In view of this unique situation, it would be irresponsible for them to base their actions solely on their given knowledge and experience. If anyt

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

The Benefits of Virtual Design Thinking Workshops
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April 21, 2020
An article by Lina Krawietz & Sebastian HartmannAs a framework for solving complex problems, Design Thinking takes on a whole new meaning, in times of Corona, when practically everyone needs to adapt to uncertain, rapidly changing external conditions within a matter of moments. With the drastic

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

Best Practices for Virtual Design Thinking Workshops in Professional Services
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April 21, 2020
Professional Services Firms are currently facing questions such as:
- How to best solve our clients‘ issue in the COVID19 crisis?
- How can we deliver in virtual or fully digital setups?
- How to design or adapt solutions for the emerging recession?
- How to adapt our solution portfolio and firm f

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

The COVID-19 aftermath for Professional Services: Three Hypotheses
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April 15, 2020
An article by Sebastian HartmannContinue reading on Predict »

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

Innovation Evidence: How to Keep the Innovation Engine Running in a Professional Services Firm
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April 12, 2020
An article by Sebastian Hartmann, Stephan Kaufmann and Hans WinterhoffAnyone who is trying to motivate the partners in a law, consulting, accounting, engineering or any other typically partnership-based firm to start or keep investing in innovation, will quickly understand what we want to talk about

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

The Benefits of Virtual Design Thinking Workshops
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April 08, 2020
Professional Services, like everyone else, are forced to move quickly towards delivering their expertise virtually or even digitally in the face of the COVID19 crisis. For legal, consulting and other expert services, design thinking takes on a whole new meaning, in order to adapt services and solut

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

The COVID-19 aftermath for Professional Services: Three Hypotheses
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March 16, 2020
As the world is bracing itself for the impact of #COVID19 on our nations, economies, companies as well as individuals and societies, #professionalservices firms (#legal, #consulting, #accounting) are both positively and negatively impacted at once.
While it is clearly necessary to deal with the seri

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

Innovation Evidence: How to Keep the Innovation Engine Running in a Professional Services Firm
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January 24, 2020
For 2020 we expect the pace of Digital Transformation and client-centric innovation to increase a lot across ProfessionalServices, especially legal, consulting, accounting and marketing services.
Leaders and managers need to be able to prioritize innovation efforts strategically and demonstrate to

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

1 Conference Publication
Next Generation Management of Professional Services
VHB
April 15, 2020

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Tags: Change Management, Digital Transformation, Management

5 Keynotes
Next Generation Management Playbook
Legal Design Summit
September 13, 2020

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Legal and IP, Management

Sales and Solution Management in Next Generation Professional Services
Legal Marketing Association
June 11, 2020

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Legal and IP, Sales

AI‘s Impact on Managing Professional Services Firms
KI Community
April 13, 2020

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Management

Global Strategy in Professional Services
NYU Stern University
December 05, 2019

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

Next Generation Management of Professional Services
Vis-a-Vis Technology Leaders Summit
September 18, 2019

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

3 Media Interviews
REthinking Law #02 mit Sebastian Hartmann (KPMG)
recode.law
December 15, 2020

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Legal and IP, Management

Challenging times or new career opportunities?
4cLegal
July 29, 2020

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Tags: Future of Work, Innovation, Management

Reinventing Legal with Ari Kaplan ft. Sebastian Hartmann
Litera
July 15, 2020

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Legal and IP

2 Panels
Re-Imagine the Role of Technology to Drive Time-Critical Insights
Evalueserve
October 22, 2020

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Tags: Analytics, Innovation, Sales

Technology Providers and Traditional Law Firms
ELTA
November 13, 2019

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Legal and IP

3 Quotes
Microsoft 365: Life-changing tools you already use
Accounting Web
February 03, 2021

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Tags: Future of Work

Procurement’s changing role in professional services firms
SpendMatters
May 27, 2020

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Tags: Procurement

Time to take a modern approach to business acceptance
Accounting Today
December 13, 2019

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Tags: Risk Management

3 Webinars
Resilience and the Connected Firm
Intapp
July 23, 2020

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Tags: Business Continuity, Business Strategy, COVID19

Next Generation Management of Professional Services
Next Gen PSF
June 22, 2020

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Tags: Innovation, Legal and IP, Management

Professional Services Management Lecture
EBS University
October 17, 2019

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

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