Description

I‘m a freelance consultant, design manager and digitalisation expert living in Munich.

As an entrepreneurial design manager I connect people and technology, business and change. I’m passionate about understanding the problem, creating strategies and solutions, and leading the execution with world-class product, service and organisational design.

In short: I’m enabling teams to achieve their best.

In my leadership and entrepreneurial positions I hired and led multidisciplinary teams to develop innovative, future-oriented and sustainable solutions. My job understanding was always to provide the space, culture, methods and processes to make new things happen.

Over the years I got insights into a wide range of companies, organisations, industries and markets.

Before starting my advisory business I worked six years as Director of Design & UX at ExB, a German B2B SaaS AI/ML company that processes text on industrial scale. Prior I co-founded and lead the Munich office for SinnerSchrader (now Accenture Song). My four years as Managing Director and Associated Partner at IDEO, the masters of Design Thinking, deeply influenced my understanding of the strategic role design can and should play.

Book me for:

Design Strategy

Defining the future of your business with design.

Design Management

How to set-up your organisation to use the strategic power of design.

Innovation Consulting

How to use all the ideas and answers your organisation already has.

Product Development

How to orchestrate all the involved stakeholders and ensure delivery.

UX/UI Leadership

Processes, methods, tools? Yes, but it all comes down to people.

Project Leadership

Ensuring the teams success – from planning to execution to launch.

Start-up Mentoring

How to start it, launch the product and scale without loosing sanity and fun.

Company & Team Assessment

Can this be successful? What is good? What is missing?

Languages

German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

München (up to 50km)

EXB Group
Director of Design & UX
SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
October 2016 - August 2022 (5 years and 10 months)
München, Germany
I joined ExB in 2016 to fuse high-tech AI research, state-of-the-art software development and design. With the ExB teams, I developed a generic, modular, trainable, browser-based AI platform to make the cognitive tools of the future a reality today: The Verstehmaschine. Besides the responsibility for the UX team I was a driving force of the continuous transformation from a lab to a product company, including establishing agile product development, heading customer support and founding the technical documentation department.
Exaring AG
Head of Design and Product
ENTERTAINMENT AND LEISURE
September 2015 - November 2015 (2 months)
München, Germany
I was responsible of creating the brand strategy, name and design design as well as the initial product design (APP) for waipu.tv - the Germany market leader for Internet TV (OTT) with over three million customers.
SinnerSchrader
Executive Director | Member of the Executive Board
DIGITAL AND IT
May 2012 - September 2015 (3 years and 4 months)
München, Germany
Co-founding and leading the Munich office of SinnerSchrader (now Accenture Song). Growing the operations successful from zero to 50 employees. Clients included Allianz, BMW and O2.