Hallo! I’m glad you’re here.

My mission is to empower leaders and their teams with new and practical ways of working.

I love agile coaching — not blindly following seemingly smart theoretic frameworks, but confidently adapting to your team’s and organisational needs. Never one size fits all. Pragmatic thinking is necessary.

My expertise is facilitating workshops. In all sorts of settings: Management consulting. Innovation. Design Sprints. Strategy. Scrum. QBR/ABR. PI-Plannings. Team building. Offsites. Remote. In-person. From 5 to 100 participants.

If you have any questions, please email me or book an call.

I wish you a successful day, the best of health, and much love!

PS: Please click the following links for my Notion templates and how-to guides in German.

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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

• 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