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Bernd Braun

External Mandates as Program, Project and Training Manager | Managing Director

Bernd Braun
Bensheim, Germany

Experience

Feb 2004 - Oct 2025
21 years 9 months
Bensheim, Germany

External Mandates as Program, Project and Training Manager | Managing Director

Braun.Social GmbH

  • External leadership & responsibility: providing and applying expertise in digital etiquette & digital AI competence on a contract basis.
  • Change management & digital etiquette: enhancing the digital collaboration skills of all employees across hierarchies, with a sustainable impact on corporate culture.
  • Training strategy & digitization: implementing central and decentralized training systems (online, in-person, hybrid) for the successful qualification of specialists and managers, and developing trainer guides for process training.
  • Configuration manager: ensuring consistency, transparency and control of complex systems through structured configuration and change management.
  • More efficient leadership: advising and enabling managers in digital communication, time management, artificial intelligence and ethics to increase efficiency and decision quality.
Sep 2000 - Jan 2004
3 years 5 months

Project and Event Manager and Consultant

Self-employed

  • Planning, organizing and conducting training, meetings and seminars.

  • Co-organizer of events and large-scale events with up to 27,500 participants.

  • Specializing in trade shows and corporate events

  • Managing the VIP lounge at Messe Frankfurt

  • Supervisor of the Ball of Sports at the Festhalle Frankfurt am Main

  • Aristocratic wedding at Schloss Saareck for Villeroy & Boch

  • 125th anniversary celebration with 27,500 guests for Kaufhof Warenhaus AG at RheinEnergie Stadium, Cologne

  • Revenue or budget up to €5M | managing up to 150 employees

  • Revenue increases and cost reductions through more targeted deployment planning

  • Introduction of process guides for events and monitoring.

Dec 1997 - Aug 2000
2 years 9 months

Event and Banquet Manager

micador Taunushotel

Jan 1997 - Nov 1997
11 months
Rüsselsheim, Germany

Expedient

American Express

Feb 1996 - Dec 1996
11 months
Wiesbaden, Germany

Operations Assistant

Gerd Käfer & Roland Kuffler Gastronomien

Feb 1995 - Jan 1996
1 year
Hofheim, Germany

Banquet Coordinator

TREFF Hansa Hotel Rhein-Main

Summary

  • Managing Director of Braun.Social GmbH

  • Successful implementation of IT & AI strategies as well as change management and configuration processes for banks, insurance companies, energy utilities & industry.

  • Development and implementation of effective training strategies (in-person, hybrid, online) to quickly enable large groups of employees

  • Process consultant and sparring partner for IT transformation and digital communication with clear measurable results

  • More than 70 Volks- und Raiffeisen banks successfully migrated from Lotus Notes to M365.

  • 200 Deutsche Bank branches successfully migrated from Lotus Notes to M365 and completely switched to mobile consulting with the iPad.

  • 5,500 employees of the E.ON Group transitioned to SAP S/4Hana in a successful change management process under my role as configuration manager.

  • 30,000 sales agents trained in mobile consulting with tablets.

Skills

  • Office Tools: Windows 11, Microsoft 365 Business E5: Teams, Sharepoint, Onedrive, Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Onenote, Forms, Yammer, Power Automate

  • Macos, Iworks, Imovie, Garageband, Final Cut Pro

  • Ios And Ipados, Including 2,800 Apps Tested By Me

  • Management Software (Mdm): Jamf, Intune, Mobileiron

  • Authoring Tools: Articulate 360, Ispring Suite, Adobe Captivate

  • Online Conference Software: Ms Teams, Cisco Webex, Adobe Connect, Gotowebinar, Gotomeeting, Zoom, Google Hangouts, Apple Facetime

  • Collaboration Software: Atlassian Confluence, Jira, Trello, Asana, Ms Planner

  • I Master All Applications At A High Professional Level.

  • Banks & Financial Service Providers

  • Energy & Utilities

  • Industry & Trade

  • Politics & Society

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary

Education

Mar 1997 - Sep 1999

VWA

Studies · Business Administration · Mainz, Germany

Aug 1992 - Jan 1995

TREFF Hansa Hotel Rhein-Main

Hotel Management · Hofheim, Germany

Jun 1990 - Jun 1990

Tilemann-Gymnasium

Commercial Vocational Diploma · Limburg, Germany

Certifications & licenses

AI Manager

Academy for Artificial Intelligence and Digitalization

Project Manager (TÜV®)

TÜV Nord Academy GmbH & Co. KG

Micrsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals MS-900

Microsoft

Design Thinking

Career Tutor

ITIL® Foundation Certificate In IT Service Management

AXELOS | PeopleCert®

Professional Scrum Master I

Scrum.org

Certified European Elearning Manager

CELM

SAFe 4 Certified Practioner

Scaled Agile Framework

Certified OER Specialist

Lübeck University of Applied Sciences

Certified Microtrainer

Institute of Microtraining

Train The Trainer

Adam Academy

Certificate Quality – Transparency – Integrity

Forum for Value Orientation in Continuing Education e.V.

Certified Business Trainer BDVT

TAM Academy

Psychological Advisor – Personal Coach

sgd

Certified Knigge Trainer

Typ Academy

Certified Business Coach

V.I.E.L Coaching + Learning

Trainer Aptitude Examination

Wiesbaden Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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