Friederike Schmiedebach - Organisationsentwicklerin & Coach

Winsen, Germany

Experience

Jan 2025 - Present

5 months

Hamburg, Germany

Hybrid

Organisational Development & Leadership Coaching

Die Entwicklungshelferin

Leveraging my comprehensive experience gathered in 100+ organisations to shape the future success stories of your organisation.
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

Apr 2018 - Dec 2024

6 years 9 months

Hybrid

Enterprise Agility Coach | Engagement Manager

Top Management Consulting Firm

Large recruiting efforts, developing recruiting strategy, calculating recruiting funnel, designing, rolling out and tracking of recruiting measures, working closely with CHROs and CEOs
Developing people strategy, recruiting of scarce talent and defining of authentic Employer Value Proposition, identifying relevant recruiting channels and establishing P&C metrics, dashboard and using Kanban to improve the workflow
Designing and introducing learning journeys for key roles, rolling them out, conducting the trainings, as well as group and 1:1 coaching sessions. Setting up metrics to measure development success
Designing and conducting workshops on agile leadership and behavioural change with international senior leadership of various organisations
Leading post-merger integration effort to establish a joint culture, ways-of-working and lines of product. Identifying synergies and streamlining processes
Conceptualising and running change story workshops jointly with key people to develop a narrative suiting each level of the organisation
Process optimisation to ensure feasibility of new ways of working, discover process breakpoints and orchestrate quality assurance dry-runs to collect feedback from people on operative level and stakeholders
Leading large digitisation programmes of multinational organisations introducing agile methodologies, supporting strategic setup of new units and product platforms as well as designing new team setup. End-to-end implementation including training, coaching and running hypercare phase
Coaching and on-the-job training of new VPs building up their units in large digital transformation
Digital transformations, orchestrating various stakeholder groups, running multi-stakeholder workshops and documenting the insights and decisions and following up on implementation. Identifying and removing demotivation factors
Reducing hand-over points, hierarchical thinking and complexity as well as increasing purpose, productivity, speed, decision-making competence and introducing agile practices to achieve these goals in R&D innovation projects.
Introducing the concept of portfolio management to manage competing priorities, budget allocation and foster transparency
Introducing and establishing OKRs and QBR in global organisations and coaching senior leadership and board members to foster the change and help them grow into new understanding of their roles
Contributing to several McKinsey publications on cultural change, people and agile topics

Apr 2016 - Feb 2018

1 year 11 months

Bremen, Germany

Lead Agile Coach & Team Leader ScrumMaster eventim.web

CTS EVENTIM Solutions GmbH

Jul 2013 - Mar 2016

2 years 9 months

Bremen, Germany

ScrumMaster eventim.web

CTS EVENTIM Solutions GmbH

Mar 2012 - Jun 2013

1 year 4 months

Hamburg, Germany

Consultant

Acando GmbH

Jun 2011 - Feb 2012

9 months

Product Owner Mobile & Web Solutions

Oct 2010 - Mar 2011

6 months

Hamburg, Germany

Head of Quality Management

Jan 2009 - Oct 2010

1 year 10 months

Hamburg, Germany

Global Property Insurance Broker

Aon Jauch & Hübener GmbH

Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

1 year 1 month

Hamburg, Germany

Junior Reinsurance Broker

Aon Benfield

Jan 2004 - Jul 2005

1 year 7 months

Hamburg, Germany

Broker Private Insurance

Aon Jauch & Hübener GmbH

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.