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Rike (Friederike) Schmiedebach
Interim Management & Organisational Development
Experience
Jan 2025 - Present
1 year 1 monthInterim Management & Organisational Development
Schmiedebach Consulting
- Leveraging comprehensive experience gathered in 100+ organisations to shape future success stories and create value and impact
- Filling crucial interim leadership positions and supporting scaling organisations by recruiting permanent talent
- Leading large transformation efforts with outside-in business analysis expertise and supporting existing internal leadership
- Establishing data-informed decision-making and leadership training and coaching
- Creating strategic roadmaps and deriving objectives and key results
- Optimising processes by identifying potential breakpoints, reducing handover points, and improving communication
- Conducting structured workshops to create change stories, train leadership and team members, explore business opportunities, and improve customer experience through design thinking
- Coaching leadership and operational teams and recruiting scarce talent
- Establishing metrics on all organisational levels aligned with overarching strategic goals
Apr 2018 - Dec 2024
6 years 9 monthsEnterprise Agility Coach | Engagement Manager
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
- Led large recruiting effort (1300+ talents) by developing recruiting strategy, calculating funnel, designing, rolling out and tracking measures in close collaboration with CHRO and CEO
- Developed people strategy, recruited scarce talent, defined authentic Employer Value Proposition, identified recruiting channels, established P&C metrics dashboard, and used Kanban to improve workflow
- Designed and introduced learning journeys for key roles, rolled them out with group and 1-1 coachings, and set up metrics to measure development success
- Designed and conducted workshops on agile leadership and behavioural change with international senior leadership
- Led post-merger integration to establish joint culture, ways-of-working, product lines, identified synergies, and streamlined processes
- Conceptualised and ran change story workshops to develop narratives for all organisational levels
- Optimised processes to ensure feasibility of new ways of working, discovered breakpoints, and orchestrated quality assurance dry-runs for feedback
- Led large digitisation programmes of multinational organisations by introducing agile methodologies, supporting strategic setup of new units and product platforms, designing new team setups, training, coaching, and running hypercare phase
- Coached and trained new VPs building up their units in large digital transformations
- Orchestrated stakeholder groups, ran multi-stakeholder workshops, documented insights and decisions, followed up on implementation, identified and removed demotivation factors
- Reduced handover points, hierarchical thinking, and complexity while increasing purpose, productivity, speed, and decision-making competence in R&D innovation projects
- Introduced portfolio management concept for competing priorities and budget allocation to foster transparency
- Introduced and established OKRs and QBR in global organisations and coached senior leadership and board members to foster change and grow into new roles
- Contributed to McKinsey publications on cultural change, people, and agile topics
Apr 2016 - Feb 2018
1 year 11 monthsLead Agile Coach & Team Leader ScrumMaster
CTS EVENTIM Solutions GmbH
- Provided functional leadership for 10 ScrumMasters across products and disciplinary leadership for 6 ScrumMasters
- Led one Scrum team functionally
- Reported and consulted at C- and board-level
- Developed and tracked KPIs to measure performance
- Drove continuous improvement of agile processes and teams
- Managed change and conflicts across all levels and products
- Recruited ScrumMasters, software developers, architects, and quality assurance engineers
- Coached product management and software architects in lateral leadership
- Trained product owners and management and supported development of an agile mindset
- Managed stakeholder expectations and conducted Scrum workshops
Jul 2013 - Mar 2016
2 years 9 monthsScrumMaster eventim.web
CTS EVENTIM Solutions GmbH
- Provided functional leadership for two Scrum teams
- Reported and consulted at C-level
- Developed and tracked KPIs to measure performance
- Defined strategic focus for agile processes and drove continuous improvement of team readiness levels
- Recruited ScrumMasters, software developers, architects, and quality assurance engineers
- Coached individual team members and teams
- Managed stakeholder expectations
Jan 2012 - Dec 2013
2 yearsConsultant
Acando GmbH
- Drove continuous improvement of clients’ agile processes
- Coached ScrumMasters and teams
- Led projects with multiple teams and stakeholders at international campaign level
- Led evaluation process to select a new recruitment tool
Jan 2011 - Dec 2012
2 yearsProduct Owner Mobile & Web Solutions
Die Entwicklungshelfer
Jan 2010 - Dec 2011
2 yearsHead of Quality Management
13. Stock Online Relations GmbH & Co. KG
Jan 2009 - Dec 2010
2 yearsGlobal Property Insurance Broker
Aon Jauch & Hübener GmbH
Jan 2008 - Dec 2009
2 yearsJunior Reinsurance Broker
Aon Benfield
Jan 2004 - Dec 2005
2 yearsClerk Private Insurance
Aon Jauch & Hübener GmbH
Jan 2003 - Dec 2004
2 yearsFinland
Aupair
Kauniainen near Helsinki
Summary
13+ years experience in leadership and consulting roles. Flexible and adaptive. Analytical and strategic thinking. Highly structured way of working. Positive attitude and eager to learn.
Skills
- Leveraging My Comprehensive Experience Gathered In 100+ Organisations To Shape The Future Success Stories Of Your Organisation.
- Filling Crucial Interim Leadership Positions And Support Of Recruiting The Following Permanent Talent.
- Leading Large Transformation Efforts To Provide My Outside-in Expertise And Support Existing Internal Leadership.
- Establishing Data-informed Decision-making.
- Creating Strategic Roadmap And Deriving Objectives And Key Results.
- Optimising Processes, Identifying Potential Breakpoints, Reducing Handover Points, Improving Communication.
- Conducting Structured Workshops To E.g., Create Compelling Change Stories And Get People Engaged, Train Leadership And Team Members, Explore New Business Opportunities And Customer Experience Through Design Thinking.
- Coaching Leadership And Operational Teams.
- Establishing Metrics On All Organisational Levels Aligned With Overarching Strategic Goals.
- Collaborating Closely With Key Stakeholders E.g., Team Members, People Department, C-level, Leadership, Change Agents, Works Council.
- Introducing And On-the-job Coaching Of Agile Ways-of-working.
- Scaling Organisations.
- Internationalisation.
- Business Analysis.
- Leadership Training And Coaching.
- Organisational Development.
- Change Management.
- Employee Life Cycle Management.
- Employer Value Proposition (Evp).
- Team Development.
- Capability Building.
- Recruiting Of Scarce Talent.
- Strategic Thinking.
- Top-down Communication.
- Data-informed, Metric-driven Decision Making.
- C-level Savvy.
- Cooperative And Situational Leadership.
- Participation.
- Empiricism.
- Translation Between Business And Tech.
- Problem-solving On All Organisational Levels.
- Fast Learning.
- Adaptability.
- Resilience.
Languages
English
AdvancedGerman
IntermediateEducation
Oct 2005 - Jun 2008
Aon Jauch & Hübener GmbH
Apprenticeship · Commercial Insurance Broker · Hamburg, Germany
Oct 2000 - Jun 2002
Fachoberschule Gestaltung
University of Applied Sciences Entrance Qualification · Design · Winsen, Germany
Oct 2000 - Jun 2001
TöpferGrenvilleCrone GmbH
Trainee · Art Department · Hamburg, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Certified Scrum Professional
Certified ScrumMaster
Co-Active Coaching Fundamentals
Google Digital Garage - Fundamentals Of Digital Marketing
ICAgile Certified Professional - Agility In The Enterprise
ICAgile Certified Professional - Coaching Agile Transitions
Kanban Management Professional
LeSS - Certified LeSS Basics
Leadership Circle Profile
Six Sigma White Belt
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