About

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

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
  • Till 2004: Lived in Finowfurt, Germany, and mostly played football.
  • 1984: Born in Eberswalde-Finow, East Germany
Danny’s interview as a guest speaker on Google’s first Design Sprint conference