Welcome to Heartprint

Your sustainability consultancy for twin transformation with heart

We can help you through the sustainability jungle. With over 30 years of experience in IT, digitalization & sustainability, we can clarify and support you with the following questions:

  • =Why do you need to deal with sustainability?
  • =What are the relevant fields of action for you?
  • =What can you do immediately - with the resources you already have?
  • =How do you ensure that sustainability is not just the responsibility of one person?
  • =How can Heartprint support you, from creating a vision to implementing a roadmap?

“Heartprint supports companies in identifying the relevant fields of action in order to find their own path between idealistic aspirations and regulatory requirements.”

Rainer Karcher, Gründer Heartprint

Do you find yourself here?

3 motivating factors (future viability, market requirements, legal regulation) form a triangle with a question mark in the middle
There are many different motivations for dealing with sustainability.
From the future viability of the planet, to the market requirements of customers and employees, to legal regulations that cannot be ignored.
At the same time, there is a great lack of orientation in many companies:

  • What should you tackle first?
  • What has the greatest effect?
  • Should you hire a service provider, and if so, which one?
  • Which legal requirements must be met by when?
  • How can the data be collected smartly?
  • Who can coordinate this in the company?
  • How are you supposed to manage this alongside your day-to-day business?

We can help you find answers to all these questions. We know the challenges you face and have probably already developed ideas to deal with them. We look forward to getting to know you in an initial, non-binding meeting to find out what you want to focus on and your perspective on implementation.

Motivation - Expertise - Experience

Since having children, the word “sustainability” has become much more concrete and, above all, more urgent.
My mission is to make the knowledge I have acquired as an IT specialist with many years of experience in the field of sustainability in corporate structures accessible and usable for small and medium-sized companies.
Rainer Karcher stands in an office and looks into the camera
Sustainability

Knowledge is the only resource that increases when it is shared. I have spent the last few years developing sustainability guidelines for companies and therefore also for their suppliers. I now want to pass on this knowledge.

In order to reach many stakeholders quickly, I want to enable companies to manage their own sustainability activities as quickly as possible – but prioritised and with a clear focus and roadmap.

In addition to my consulting work, I pass on my knowledge as a speaker and ‘in my spare time’ as a board member and CSO of SustainableIT.org.

I am also a certified Human Rights Officer.

IT

In my first jobs, I laid the cables myself and guided customers through problems on the phone.
Later, it became more and more strategic and I was allowed to carry out international consolidation projects.
But even back then, I would never have dreamed that today I would be talking about the connection between sustainability and IT on stage and in workshops. However, it is precisely this background – coupled with my direct reporting line to the Group’s Management Board – that enables me to speak to supervisory and management boards as well as employees at eye level and in their real lives.

Group know-how

I have been working for various companies since 2008.
I have been able to get to know very different sectors.
From the media sector and industry to the world of finance and insurance. Together with my teams, I have developed and implemented the guidelines for the companies themselves and their suppliers in all areas.
I know what it means in practice to transform processes and involve employees at all levels.
That’s why I attach great importance to communicating in a pragmatic, approachable, solution-oriented way and, above all, at eye level – without buzzword bingo.

With heart

We will only succeed in bringing about change if people join in of their own free will and not because they are forced to. That’s why it’s my mission – as a man of conviction and a climate activist in a suit – to reach people’s hearts and help ensure that everyone from the caretaker to the CEO knows what needs to be done, is able to make their contribution and is motivated to act.

See also the Heartprint approach

Sustainably on the way

With Heartprint GmbH, I have the same questions and challenges as other companies. Who do I work with? What resources do I use? How do I use as few resources as possible?

There are areas where this works very well. Heartprint GmbH is consistently sustainable in areas such as finance, insurance and mobility (e.g. rail card instead of company car).

In other areas, we are still on the way. For example, we have not yet gone far enough in terms of the website’s accessibility and resource efficiency.

However, we have decided to do what we advise our customers to do: rather start imperfectly than never start ‘perfectly’. … and allow ourselves to ask healthy questions about time, money and effectiveness.

If you have any questions about our service providers, please let me know. Maybe I have a tip for you.

See also the Heartprint approach

Our approach

The Heartprint approach is based on the realization that transformation – i.e. real change – is a team sport.
The Heartprint approach supports you in competently and independently navigating your company through the sustainability jungle.
We are the sustainability consultancy that empowers you and makes further consultancy obsolete as quickly as possible. Along the way, we help you to develop the following key success factors:

  • Wanting | Pulling together
  • Knowledge | Knowing what to do
  • Ability | Develop competence in-house

Our offer

We accompany you at very different levels of intensity.
From an impulse lecture to implementation support.
Our support starts where your in-house knowledge, skills and, if necessary, will reach their limits.
Our aim is to help you find your way through the sustainability jungle, identify the fields of action that are relevant to you and get you up and running as quickly as possible without us.  

Contact us

Would you like support and guidance with your individual sustainability challenges?
Or would you simply like to discuss your situation without any obligation? You can book a free appointment for an initial consultation here:
You can also leave me a message using the contact form.
I will get back to you shortly.