I support companies, institutions, NGOs, universities, and students designing visions, utopias, and concrete fields of action with the method Design Thinking and Human Values.

For companies, organizations, civil society and NGOs

Do you need to set up an open and innovative mindset in your company? Would you like to develop new sustainable products, services or strategies in cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary teams? Would you like to be informed about new models of leadership? Would you like to organize Open Design Cities to include citizens in the development of their city?

For universities and students

Do you want to prepare your students well to become the most wanted talents for companies and institutions who need people who are open-minded, innovative, and able to work independently in cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary teams?

My services

Design Thinking and Human Values

Trust in oneself, in common values, and in the reliability of each team member guarantees the success of a project. These are my experiences from over 10 years’ work as a coach and lecturer for Design Thinking. Therefore, I developed a special team building program in active listening and building empathy. This program aims to train people, who might be completely different, in becoming a smart and successful team very easily. After that, they are able to develop innovative products, services, and strategies by using the six steps of the Design Thinking Process in a rather short time.

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The Future of Leadership

In view of the effects of globalization and digitalization, the kind of work and leadership changes. Openness for new ideas of leadership, for diversity, creativity and intuition are affordable. Therefore, participants of the seminar get an insight view in different kinds of leadership during several excursions and interviews at companies employing new leadership models. A team training in Mindful Leadership leads participants to an intensive personal reflection about different aspects of leadership before they try out these in role plays.

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Intercultural Innovation

Since 2010, I have been training cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary teams in Design Thinking. In spring 2016, I started working with mixed groups of refugees, migrants, and students. In several classes, I could observe that Design Thinking helps people to discover their skills and creativity and regain their self-confidence by a special creativity program I developed. In times of New Work, I enjoy empowering people to work in diverse teams successfully.

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Workshops

My workshops train people in companies, institutions, and NGOs to build trust in their teams and to make them use the innovation method Design Thinking and Human Values routinely in their work.

Seminars

My seminar programs in Design Thinking and Human Values, Intercultural Innovation and the Future of Leadership are for universities, companies, institutions, and NGOs.

Summer and Winter Schools

My Summer and Winter Schools are for universities which are targeted to offer students and migrants from around the globe a program which trains them to develop innovative solutions for challenges given by the Global Goals like food, diversity, and many more.

The process

As a Design Thinker, I follow Tim Brown, Valerie Casey, David Kelley, and the Design Thinking Process how it is described by the d.school. Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University and the HPI D-School in Potsdam.

1. Teambuilding

First, get the team up and running.

Whether an organization or team is successful very often depends on the culture, the team spirit and the mindset they build up by values and goals they share. For this reason each seminar or workshop starts with a team building process.

2. Understand - Observe - Point of View

Then get to know the design challenge.

Design Thinking is known as a human-centered innovation process for the development of new services, products, and strategies based on the needs of people. For this reason active listening, observing people who are involved and talking with experts about the social, technical, environmental and economical aspects of the design problem lead to a deeper understanding of the design challenge. After summarizing up the key insights called the Point of View, the innovation process starts.

3. Ideate - Prototype - Test

And now it's time for riding the waves.

Now it is time to encourage the team to become creative and to get rid of fear in order to come up with innovative ideas for solving the design challenge. Sketching first ideas, getting feedback from the team, and developing the ideas further and further until all get in a flow is the most exciting moment of the Design Thinking process. It is like riding the waves of the ocean.

My network

For my projects, I collaborate with a large network of freelance and permanent trainers, coaches, and experts in the field of design thinking, fair fashion, circular economy, mindful leadership, performing arts, photography, communication design, and ux design in order to work in proven teams for companies, institutions or NGOs.

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