Kia ora! I’m glad you’re here.
I help business owners and their teams in Auckland to overcome the AI Skill Gap. If you have any questions, please email me or book an call.
Make it a great day!
Me in 47 words
- Advocator of your true value
- Podcaster ‘Agiler Senf’
- Product Manager @University of Auckland
- Intrapreneur @AJSmart
- Lifestyle entrepreneur (StartupGeist.com, StartupGeist.de)
- Ex-Podcaster ‘The StartupGeist Podcast’
- Startup co-founder (exit to uberall)
- Silicon Valley experience: Startup Genome Reports [Co-Autor]
- Strategy & Innovation [MSc] @Maastricht University
- Business Administration [B. A.] @HWR Berlin
Timeline for context
- 2024:
- Joined Kollege’s Incubator — best decision in 2024!
- Exploring business opportunities (also freelancing/ contracting again)
- Implementing SAFe at UoA (Certified SAFe practitioner 6.0, DevOps, Coach ART Execution)
- 2023:
- Senior Product Manager at the University of Auckland (UoA)
- Launched ‘Agiler Senf‘ — German Podcast
- Received New Zealand permanent residency
- 2022:
- Senior Delivery Coach at Auckland Transport
- Father of two now 🙂
- 2018-2022:
- Becoming a husband & father
- Freelancer — living in Berlin and working globally
- Senior Agile Coach & Head of Agile Coaching @Signul Iduna
- Design Sprints Guide
- BIOTRONIK, Nicolas Heyer, Berlin
- Lufthansa, Sebastian Keilich, Frankfurt
- Kartenmacherei, Christoph Behn, Hamburg
- YOOX, Johannes Sieber, Mailand
- Custom-made workshop for HSBC, Adidas, Lufthansa, GateGroup,
- Startup Workshop, Gategroup, Zurich
- Leadership Alignment, Adidas
- Customer Satisfaction, Porsche (VCE)
- Bain & Co., Warsaw, Amsterdam, London
- Business Coaching @Silberpuls, Ben Müller, Berlin
- Startup Coaching @Betahaus, Max von der Rohe
- AJS Design Sprint 2.0 (Berlin & San Francisco)
- Certified Search Inside Yourself Trainer
- 2015-2018:
- Digital nomad — living in Bali, Berkeley, Chiang Mai & Berlin
- StartupGeist — a blog and podcast about Entrepreneurship & Startups
- 3x Burning Man experience
- 2x Vipassana Retreat
- 2012-2015:
- Committed founder — living in Berlin and working in globally
- Co-founder of Spotistic (acquired in uberall)
- 2010-2011
- Product owner @StartupGenome — decoding the DNA of startups
- Startup Genome Report
- Startup Ecosystem Report (dataset: 20,000 global startups)
- Aspirational founder — living in San Francisco
- 2010-2011
- Studied @Maastricht University (MSc, International Business, track: Strategy & Innovation)
- Master Thesis: Business Model Design and Innovation through Effectuation (view)
- 2009-2010
- Work’n’Travel in Australia & New Zealand
- 2004-2009
- Studied @Berlin School of Economics and Law
- Student exchange year @Fresno State University, California
- Bachelor Thesis: Von der Idee zum Geschäftsmodell – am Beispiel einer Digital-Intelligence-Dienstleistung zur strategischen Frühaufklärung ()
- Till 2004: Lived in Finowfurt, Germany, and mostly played football.
- 1984: Born in Eberswalde-Finow, East Germany