• Experienced Agile Coach and Transformation Manager with a proven track record of facilitating agile transformations and driving organizational development in challenging IT & non-IT environments. Adept at fostering a collaborative culture, promoting agile values, and delivering successful outcomes in dynamic environments.
• As an Agile Coach, I focus on enabling and building high-performing teams as well as supporting them by identifying & resolving impediments. I aspire to form teams of strong team spirit, sustainable performance, healthy self-organization and courageous transparency. I serve as a goto-person and with my ?getting things-done'-attitude will help grow the team and its product. All while establishing a healthy and psychologically safe work environment for my team.

Expertise

• Agile Leadership & Management
• Scrum Master
• Agile transformation towards network organizations
• Organisational Development
• Building & coaching self-organizing, high-performing teams

Methods & Tools

• Methods: Scrum, Kanban, Design
• Thinking, SAFe, Nexus, Management 3.0
• Agile Tools: Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence)
• Business engineering Tools: Miro, Conceptboard, Slack
• Code stacks: ServiceNow, Java, Python, C#, R, Stata

Professional Experience

11/2023 - 01/2025:

Role: Department Manager Public Sector

Customer: MSG systems ag l Munich, Germany

Tasks:

• Business owner and department manager "Agile Coaching & Transformation"
• Teamlead and Servant Leader of a team of 10 Agile Coaches / Consultants
• Sales & Staffing responsibility for up to 25 Agile Coaches & Scrum Master in different customer projects
• Program Management - Guarding scope, budget (~3,5 Mio.) and timeline for multiple projects
• See tasks of Lead Business Consultant

01/2022 - 10/2023:

Role: Lead Business Consultant

Customer: MSG systems ag l Munich, Germany

Tasks:

MSG-internal:

• Teamlead of 5 Agile Coaches and Consultants (training, mentoring and coaching)
• Staffing responsibility for up to 15 Agile Coaches and Scrum Master
• Topic owner of the offering "Agile Coaching & Transformation" including, strategy, and development according to market developments and current trends
• Sales responsibilities: preparing tenders and pitching offers

Projects / Client facing:

• Account Manager and project lead for an agile transformation of a public IT service
• provider in Germany (4.400 employees)
• Project Management - Guarding scope, budget (~1,0 Mio.) and timeline for multiple projects
• Single-Point of Contact for multiple clients
• See tasks of (Senior) Business Consultant

05/2018 - 12/2021:

Role: (Senior) Business Consultant 

Customer: MSG systems ag l Munich, Germany

Tasks:

MSG-internal:

• Developing the offering "Agile Coaching & Transformation" including, strategy, marketing and sales according to market developments and trends
• Coaching, mentoring & training 5 Scrum Masters on their learning journey

Projects / Client facing:

• Scrum Master in agile Software development projects
• Agile Transformation Consultant of public sector organizations in Germany (e.g. 4.400 employees, federal ministry), strategically shaping and executing agile transformation
• Introducing agile frameworks & methods as required / fit e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Design Thinking in projects and processes as well as scaling where necessary
• Creating & facilitating workshops, trainings and communities e.g for Scrum Master,
• Product Owners, Agile Coaches and Project Managers in agile projects

Other Experience

08/2017 - 01/2018:

Role: Lecturer Macroeconomics (freelance)

Customer: Cologne Business School l Cologne, Germany

Tasks:

• Giving lectures & tutorials for three classes, setting up and grading exams

05/2015 - 04/2017:

Role: Consultant and Data Analyst

Customer: Cologne Institute for Economic Research l Cologne, Germany

Tasks:

• Data Analyst and Developer of econometric methods (including random/fixed effects estimation, structural equation models)
• Project Manager for data analytics and research projects

Further Assignments

• Agile Coach / Organisational Transformation Coach at the German Federal Foreign Office (2020-2022)
• Agile Coach at the Germany Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2022-2024)
• Keynote Speaker at the gathering of agile coaches of the German federal administration (2023) as well as the leadership event of the German Federal Academy of Public Administration (2024)