About
Kia ora! I’m glad you’re here.
Senior agile leader and coach with +15 years in product development, strategic project management, and large-scale agile transformations. Strong intercultural skills, an expert in Design Thinking & Lean Startup, agile coach, trainer & consultant who loves workshop facilitation. If you have any questions, please email me or book an call.
Make it a great day!
Danny in 48 words
- Startup Advisor @Rotate
- Wisdom advocator @Mohios
- 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
- 2025: Bought a house in Auckland, NZ Growing Rotate Discovering Mohios — Where Inner Wisdom Shapes Your OS
- 2024: Started Rotate as an exclusive Startup Advisory with Heiko Burdack (exCTO of Commerzbank, one of Germany’s largest DAX 40 companies) Joined Kollege’s Incubator to explore business opportunities 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