Jens Leckzut
Senior Project Leader / Change Manager / Transformation Manager / Facilitator
Experience
Nov 2024 - Present
7 months Germany
Senior Project Manager
Healthcare Service Provider
- Responsibility: Introduction of a generic interface for third-party providers
- Goal: Reduction of time to market in application development
- Challenge: Bringing together a large number of requesters with partially diametrical interests on a common path. Paradigm shift from general contractor to standard manufacturer
- Measures: Planning, workshops with stakeholders in different formats, focusing on creating a jointly supported reality construction and ensuring results
- Tasks: Team leadership, transparent situation description, stakeholder and risk management, moderation, planning
Apr 2023 - Jun 2024
1 year 3 months Germany
Change Manager
Copyright Protection Society
- Responsibility: Support of all measures for implementing a new business process
- Goal: Conception of a new business model, implementation and introduction of the new business model
- Challenge: Replacement of a 30-year practiced business model with national and international interdependencies
- Measures: Systemic analysis, workshops with stakeholders in different formats, focusing on creating a jointly supported reality construction and ensuring results
- Tasks: Transparent situation description, stakeholder and risk management, moderation, coaching, coordination of all measures with the project manager
- Result: Conception, planning and transformation into the line organization
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
9 months Germany
Program Manager / Project Manager
Copyright Protection Society
- Project management
- Responsibility: 7 sub-project managers, 60 project staff, 8 service providers
- Goal: Dismantling of a large project and introduction of an accounting system
- Challenge: Project transformation, 6 years runtime, many solution attempts
- Measures: Systemic analysis, workshops with 120 project participants in different formats, focusing on generating results and ensuring results through fast failure
- Tasks: Creating transparency, describing situations, leading sub-project managers, stakeholder and risk management, moderation and leadership, coordinating project direction with board members
- Result: Introduction of the solution into the line organization
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
3 months Germany
Transformation Project Manager
Banking Service Provider
- Transformation management
- Goal: Transformation concept
- Challenge: There had been many previous transformation attempts
- Measures: Interviews, systemic analysis, as-is analysis, workshops with executives to introduce rules, moderation
- Result: Transformation concept
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year Germany
Project Manager
Medical Service Provider
- Project management
- Responsibility: 4 sub-projects, 60 internal staff, 20 external consultants
- Goal: Introduction of computer system validation for a new LIS
- Challenge: Introduction of documents and processes that self-organized organization did not need before
- Measures: Setting up project organization, clearing office, implementation of pilot projects, introduction of computer system validation for a new laboratory information system, software development GAMP 5, compliance with medical device regulations, risk analysis
- Tasks:
- Leading sub-project managers
- Project organization and planning
- Ensuring results at each milestone
- Coordinating and implementing interventions in project and organization
- Stakeholder and risk management
- Moderation and coaching of executives and teams
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
- Result: Introduction of computer system validation
Nov 2018 - Dec 2020
2 years 2 months Germany
Project Manager
Medical Service Provider
- Project management
- Responsibility: for 63 project staff
- Goal: Rollout of a new laboratory information system (LIS)
- Challenge: Replacement of various historically grown laboratory information systems, some of which had been operated for more than 18 years
- Measures: Setting up project organization, implementation of a pilot project, organizational development, stakeholder management, rollout of new laboratory information system, project risk analysis
- Tasks:
- Leading project staff
- Project organization and planning
- Ensuring results at each milestone
- Coordinating and implementing interventions in project and organization
- Providing systemic descriptions
- Communication with managing directors and owners
- Stakeholder and risk management
- Moderation and coaching of executives and teams
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
- Result: Rollout of laboratory information system at five locations
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
8 months Germany
Project Manager
Industrial X-Ray Manufacturer
- Project management / Change management / Organizational development
- Responsibility: for 7 project staff
- Goal: Introduction and implementation of a product development process
- Challenge: No new product in the last 5 years. Introduction of the process across the 7 functional pillars of the organization
- Measures: Organizational development, introduction of a jointly supported process, practice of process handling, implementation of process with pilot projects
- Tasks:
- Leading project staff
- Project organization and planning
- Ensuring results at each milestone
- Coordinating and implementing interventions in project and organization
- Providing systemic descriptions
- Resolving conflicts with management, department heads and directors
- Moderation and coaching of executives and teams
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
- Result: 50% reduction in time to market, quality improvement
Jan 2015 - Aug 2017
1 year 8 months Germany
Project Manager
Industrial X-Ray Manufacturer
- Project management
- Budget responsibility: > 3 million euros
- Responsibility: for 8 project staff
- Goal: Development of an inline wheel testing system
- Challenge: The wheel testing system causes production downtimes at customer
- Measures: Crisis management, parallelization of development, testing and customer deployments
- Tasks:
- Leading project staff
- Project organization and planning
- Leading daily planning meetings
- Ensuring results at each milestone
- Coordinating and implementing interventions in project and organization
- Moderation and coaching of executives and teams
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
- Result: Customer-approved inline wheel testing system
Jan 2015 - Present
10 years 5 months Germany
Senior Project Manager
- Project management / Project consulting
- Systemic project management / Agile project management
- Systemic analysis / Process management
- Change support
- Turnaround management / Change management / Transformation management
- Systemic organizational consulting / Organizational development
- Moderation and coaching of executives and teams
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
- Conception and moderation of virtual workshops
Oct 2013 - Dec 2015
1 year 3 months Germany
Overall Project Manager
Industrial X-Ray Manufacturer
- Project management / Change management / Organizational development
- Budget responsibility: > 5 million euros
- Responsibility: for 12 sub-project managers and 43 project staff
- Goal: Development of a new CT machine
- Challenge: Project progress had a 4-year delay
- Measures: Introduction of fixed public deadlines, using culture for self-organization, organizing fast failure
- Tasks:
- Leading project staff
- Project organization and planning
- Ensuring results at each milestone
- Coordinating and implementing interventions in project and organization
- Providing systemic descriptions
- Resolving conflicts with management and department heads
- Mediation between project, line and suppliers, communication with all project participants
- Moderation and coaching of executives and teams
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
- Result: Successful implementation of a 5-year project within one year
Dec 2012 - Mar 2013
4 months Germany
Interim Manager
Social Networks
- Interim manager for a Big Data team
- Leading self-organization according to Scrum
- Interface between Product Owner and team
- Responsibility: for 10 staff
- Tasks:
- Agile project management
- Project management in building and expanding Big Data technologies
- Monitoring Scrum process
- Project planning and controlling
- Risk management
- Leading project team
- Result: Big Data team goals achieved
May 2012 - Nov 2012
7 months Germany
Project Manager, Change and Process Manager
Media Company
- Project management / Change management / Organizational development
- Responsibility: for 10 project staff
- Goal: Building and consulting on optimization of project and process management in online games area
- Challenge: Company grew from 20 to 150 employees within months without adapting structures
- Measures: System analysis and creating transparency, introduction of new processes with all process participants, resolving conflicts with parent company
- Tasks:
- Leading project staff
- Project organization and planning
- Ensuring results at each milestone
- Coordinating and implementing interventions in project and organization
- Providing systemic descriptions
- Creating solutions between three managing directors
- Mediation between organization and parent company
- Implementing changes
- Controlling and documenting newly introduced procedures and agreements
- Result: Processes, agreements and structures approved by management
Nov 2011 - Dec 2011
2 months Germany
Change Manager
German Business Network
- Change management / Organizational development
- Goal: Goals are achieved
- Challenge: Important goals for organization not being achieved
- Measures: System analysis and workshops with board members, recognizing own behavior, establishing protected spaces, reflection among board members
- Tasks:
- Moderating workshops
- Providing systemic descriptions
- Analyzing organization and processes
- Designing systemic interventions
- Creating transparency about existing system structure elements
- Developing new structure and leadership elements
- Reflecting leadership work using video recordings
- Result: New leadership behavior among board members
Mar 2011 - Sep 2011
7 months Germany
Change and Process Manager
Video on Demand Provider
- Change management / Organizational development
- Goal: Change management in Video on Demand area for reorganization with 80 employees
- Challenge: Implementation of new strategy with personnel changes
- Measures: System analysis, organizational development, creating transparency, close coordination with management for iterative approach
- Tasks:
- Building iterative approach
- Coordinating and implementing interventions in organization
- Providing systemic descriptions
- Analyzing organization and processes
- Identifying, selecting and implementing outsourcing partner for IT reorientation
- Shaping organizational and personnel transition
- Implementing accompanying measures during change phase
- Reporting to management
- Result: Realization of new organizational structure
Mar 2010 - Nov 2010
9 months Germany
Project Consultant
Telecommunications Provider
- Project consulting
- Goal: Plan, implement and organize migration of 2600 locations for IP telephony conversion for a federal state
- Challenge: Tender ran for 3 years. At implementation time, tender specifications were outdated. How to comply with tender while implementing other solutions?
- Measures: Establish communication concept at different levels with all stakeholders, organizational development, stakeholder management
- Tasks:
- Designing communication measures
- Organizing and planning workshops
- Creating trust and transparency about current project status
- Coordinating and implementing project interventions
- Providing systemic descriptions
- Managing service providers
- Mediation between project, line, suppliers, authority and communication with all project participants
- Result: Successful implementation of IP telephony
Jan 2009 - Dec 2015
6 years Germany
Senior Project Manager
Setzwein IT-Management GmbH
- Project management
- Change management / Organizational development
- Process management
Apr 2008 - Dec 2009
1 year 9 months Germany
Project Manager
EnBW HOL
- Ensuring purpose-bound and controlled usability of organizational data
- Organizational development
- Implementation of data protection and IT security requirements
- Budget and results responsibility
- Resource responsibility for 20 project staff
- Moderation and coaching of executives and teams
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
Jul 2007 - Apr 2008
10 months Germany
Project Manager
EnBW HOL
- Building identity and organizational data management, rolling out operations in HOL and SIS
- Organizational development
- Implementation of group IT security requirements
- Implementation of data protection requirements
- Budget, results and resource responsibility for 10 project staff
- Moderation and coaching
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
Jul 2006 - Dec 2006
6 months Germany
Project Manager
EnBW SIS
- Optimization of business processes and development of IT strategy for SIS
- Organizational development
- Budget, results and resource responsibility for 10 project staff
- Moderation and coaching
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
Sep 2005 - Jul 2007
1 year 11 months Germany
Project Manager
EnBW HOL
- Implementation of group security requirements
- Development and deployment of risk management for IT projects
- Implementation of user authorization concept for web-based internal IT systems
- Budget, results and resource responsibility for 50 project staff
- Moderation and coaching
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
Sep 2004 - Jul 2005
11 months Germany
Project Manager
EnBW HOL
- Implementation of group security requirements
- Development of user authorization concept for web-based internal IT systems
- Budget, results and resource responsibility for 10 project staff
- Moderation and coaching
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
Jan 2004 - Present
21 years 5 months Germany
Coach
Executive coaching
Jan 2004 - Dec 2006
3 years Weil der Stadt, Germany
Lecturer
Landesakademie für Jugendbildung
Project management lecturer
Apr 2003 - Nov 2004
1 year 8 months Germany
Project Manager
EnBW SIS
- Legally compliant archiving of all productive SAP R/3 systems in group
- Implementation of legal requirements
- Budget, results and resource responsibility for 5 sub-project managers and 107 project staff
- Moderation and coaching
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
Jan 2003 - Mar 2003
3 months Germany
Project Manager
EnBW SIS
- Project study for tax and commercial law group archiving
- Budget, results and resource responsibility for 8 project staff
- Moderation and coaching
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
Mar 2002 - Jun 2002
4 months Germany
Project Manager
EnBW SIS
- Project management and crisis management
- Budget responsibility: > 1 million euros
- Responsibility: for 6 sub-project managers and 98 project staff
- Goal: Release change of SAP IS-U software from 4.62 to 4.63
- Challenge: Project was prerequisite for all follow-up projects in SAP area. Without release, damage in double-digit million range would have occurred. Required resources were not available. Project had planned runtime of 6 months
- Measures: Planning and implementation of project in 3 months, agreement with 6 board members and managing directors that all resources are available
- Tasks:
- Leading project staff
- Project organization and planning
- Ensuring results at each milestone
- Coordinating and implementing interventions in project and organization
- Creating redundancies for early error detection
- Developing B and C plans as part of risk management
- Moderation and coaching
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
- Result: Successful implementation within 3 months
Apr 2001 - Aug 2001
5 months Germany
Project Manager
EnBW KWG
- Introduction of SAP Business Information Warehouse to build unified reporting system for board
- Project management, budget responsibility, results responsibility, resource responsibility for 8 project staff
- Moderation and coaching
- Conception, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops
Jan 1998 - Dec 2009
11 years Germany
Project Manager
EnBW AG
Manager in HR department for identity and organizational data
Summary
My name is Jens Leckzut, passionate senior project leader for human projects, change manager, transformation manager, facilitator, pattern recognizer, system analyst and implementer with heart. With my experience from over 25 years of IT project management, a systemic training as an organizational consultant and the knowledge from more than 65 organizations in different industries, I have continuously improved my talent to recognize the connection between people, organization, and processes.
Achieving goals together with people is my motivation!
I would be happy to support you with: Project management / project consulting Systemic project management Agile project management System analysis / process management Turnaround management / change management / transformation management Systemic organizational consulting Organizational development Facilitation and coaching of managers and teams Design, planning and implementation of interdisciplinary workshops Design and moderation of virtual workshops
Industry experience:
10 years of experience in the energy industry Pharmaceuticals and healthcare Telecommunications Information technology Metal and electronics media Trade Internet and others
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Education
Oct 1995 - Jun 1999
NORDAKADEMIE
Diplom-Wirtschaftsinformatiker · Wirtschaftsinformatik · Elmshorn, Germany
Oct 1976 - Jun 1989
Gymnasium Kronwerk
Abitur · Rendsburg, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Systemisches Coaching
Systemische Organisationsberatung
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