A warm hello!
My mission is to empower leaders and their teams with new and practical ways of working.
I’m really glad you’re here. Have fun looking around my website. If you have any questions, please email me at dh [at] dannyholtschke [dot] com.
I offer free Notion templates and how-to guides on my German website (in German targeting the German market),
I wish you a successful day, the best of health, and much love!
Me in 41 words
- Podcaster ‘Agiler Senf’
- Independent consultant & trainer
- Intrapreneur @AJSmart
- Lifestyle entrepreneur (StartupGeist.com, StartupGeist.de)
- 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
- 2022:
- Working for 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