How Klaus Works

Klaus takes a partnership-driven approach that ensures collaborative success from initial discovery through sustainable impact. His process is designed to build authentic trust and address power dynamics explicitly—particularly important when bridging pharmaceutical and diagnostics industry objectives with community health needs.

Discovery & Partnership Formation | Initial conversations to understand your goals, context, and constraints. Klaus ensures alignment on values, approach, and desired outcomes before formal engagement. For pharmaceutical and diagnostics partnerships, this phase includes explicit discussion of community concerns, historical context, and equitable benefit-sharing frameworks—building trust from the outset rather than treating it as an implementation detail.

Strategic Design | Collaborative development of work plans, timelines, and success metrics. Klaus brings expertise and proven approaches while adapting to your unique situation. For industry-community partnerships, strategic design includes governance structures that give communities meaningful decision-making power, not just advisory roles—recognizing that authentic partnership requires sharing power, not just seeking input.

Implementation Support | Hands-on facilitation, strategic guidance, and problem-solving throughout the engagement. Klaus remains actively involved, not just delivering recommendations and disappearing. For pharmaceutical and diagnostics partnerships, this includes navigating regulatory environments, building sustainable commercial models, and integrating products into community health systems.

Knowledge Transfer | Building your team's capacity for sustainability. Klaus documents processes, trains staff, and creates resources you can use long-term. This includes capacity building for trust-building and authentic community engagement—skills that extend beyond single projects to transform how organizations approach all partnerships.

Evaluation & Learning | Measuring impact, extracting lessons, and translating findings into actionable next steps or broader dissemination. Klaus's evaluation framework assesses both health outcomes and commercial sustainability, recognizing that industry partnerships require demonstrable business value alongside social impact. He also measures trust-building success—a critical but often overlooked dimension of partnership effectiveness.

Ready to Explore Working Together?

Klaus welcomes inquiries from organizations committed to health equity and collaborative innovation. Whether you have a fully formed project or an emerging idea, initial conversations help determine if there's a good fit.

Klaus is particularly interested in partnerships that:

  • Require authentic community engagement in LMIC or underserved contexts

  • Seek to build trust with populations skeptical of industry involvement

  • Value equitable power-sharing and community voice in decision-making

  • Aim for both commercial sustainability and health equity outcomes

  • Are willing to address historical harms and power dynamics explicitly