Product Development and Innovation Consultant

• Advising companies on developing a sustainable future strategy and navigating the complex and uncertain future by providing strategic guidance, driving innovation and empowering them to embrace opportunities as they arise
• Developing workshops on future foresight and trend management (also for training purposes) for customers (including Tech, IT, medical companies)
• Facilitating futures, innovation and ideation workshops (offline and online) to shape a better future
• Simultaneously managing diverse projects, clients, processes, timelines and project objectives
• Supporting clients in developing innovative business models, designing new products or services and formulating long-term strategies to stay competitive
• Developing strategies that are aligned with future trends and challenges - for clients in the finance, IT, mechanical engineering and medical technology sectors
• Planning and design of high-quality deep dives, trend reports and studies on relevant global trends and influencing factors

• Planning and facilitation of innovation trainings, design thinking workshops and design sprints focusing on the development of new solutions (products, services, processes)
• Creating learning programs (workshops and lectures) together with renowned training providers and own courses on the topics of innovation methods, team building and remote tools (e.g., Miro)
• Presenting the self-developed "InnovationShortcut" framework - among others: at the Innovation Arabia 15 conference
• Speaking on the topic of "Superpower Diversity" to increase innovation power in team collaboration
• Guest lecturer on creative education for children at 3Duxdesign in the USA

A selection of activities:

• Masterclasses: "Setup of innovative teams" and "Setup Your solution"
• Advisory to create innovative solutions for technology companies
• Speaking and workshop facilitation

Publications:

• "8 reasons why appraisal interviews can help your business grow", PORT41 · Dec 4, 2017
• "Achieving innovative products with design thinking", PORT41 · Jan 11, 2019
• "Take off with airstream", VDI nachrichten · Jun 24, 2016

Final thesis with the topic: "Specification for aircraft deceleration function analysis taking into account particular risk of wheel and tire failure."

• Responsible for the internal communication and marketing
• Transforming complex context into inter-divisional marketing material
• Design of the department logo, presentation templates, the intranet page and the CI