Consulting organizations and teams in dynamic phases like scaling, change or innovation to a better, sustainable and healthy delivery.
- Deep understanding of digital products and disruptive business models.
- Organisational building, organisational development and transformations.
- Holistic and hypothesis-based Product Management.
- Domain expertise in eHealth, hospitals and the German health system.
- Supporting teams, individuals and business units on their way to an agile mindset and work practices like Scrum and Kanban with a systemic and solution-focused approach.
I work and lead based on the values focus, collaboration, transparency, respect and courage.
Leadership means enabling spaces where motivated individuals and teams can collaborate and create value, driven by a vision.
Community work like barcamps, learning circles, community of practices and supervision are an integral part of my professional life.
Companies
- Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Curalie / Fresenius Group (2022–2024).
- Organisational Development with Johanniter (since 2025 as internal OD), Leanovate (2017–2021 as consultant).
- Leading company product management, reporting to CEO at Lieferando (2011–2013), Flaconi (2014–2015) and Servicepartner.one.
- Product Manager / Product Owner / Group PM / Product team lead roles at TopTarif, aladoo.de, nu3.de, mobile.de and others.
- Consulting and training at Leanovate (2017–2021) in Product Management, Organisational Development, Agile/Scrum/Kanban and team development with clients at eBay Classifieds Group, DCSO, myToys/Otto Group and many others.
- Head of Coaching & Consulting — leading a team of Agile and Organizational Development Coaches, Product Consultants and Dev Coaches at Leanovate (2019–2020).
Industries and domains
Experience and clients across multiple domains in international companies. Expert knowledge in eHealth, eCommerce, tech platforms and classifieds. Solid knowledge in other fields like Cybersecurity and Fintech. Multiple customer groups: B2C, B2B, C2B.
Strong in explore and scaling business phase.
Education
Master (M.A.) in Systemic Consulting with focus on Organizational Consulting — RPTU Technical University Kaiserslautern (2024). Master Thesis on Paradoxies in Scale-Ups (Grade 1.0).
Background in Philosophy, Political Science and Economics — University of Heidelberg.
Trained Software Product Manager — University of Alberta (2017).
Further Qualifications
- Systemic Business Coach / University of Applied Science Wismar 2019 / Solutions Academy 2020 / International Coach Federation 2020
- Agile Leadership (CAL2 Certified Agile Leader) / Scrum Alliance
- Systemische Organisationsentwicklung / Grubendorfer / Simon, Weber & Friends
- Software Product Management (Specialization) / University of Alberta
- Strategic Technology Management (Specialization) / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Strategic Leadership: Impact, Change, and Decision-Making (Specialization) / Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
- Kanban Management Professional / Kanban University
- Certified Scrum Professional (CSPO) / Scrum Alliance
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) / Scrum.org
- Enterprise Service Planning Manager (ESPM) / Kanban University
- Design Thinking / SAP, Darden School of Business
- The Responsibility Process® Leading & Coaching / Christopher Avery
- Agendashift — Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation / Mike Burrows
- Systems Thinking and Complexity / UNESCO UNITWIN Complex Systems Digital Campus
Member of Scrum Alliance, Scrum Alliance D-A-CH e.V. and gfo — Gesellschaft für Organisation.