Jörn (Hendrik) Ast

Producer

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Aug 2023 - Aug 2023
1 month

Producer

New Work Scenes

Shortfilm Series on the Future of Work: The New Work Scenes are a high-quality video format that gets to the heart of the problems in our working world with disarming clarity. Production: Jörn Hendrik Ast, Jendrik Wichels, Lara Wichels, Jamie Watson

Jul 2022 - Apr 2024
1 year 10 months
Berlin, Germany

Agile Coach/Consultant

50Hertz Transmission GmbH

Strategic development, implementation and training of an agile working model for the SuedOstLink project in the area of civil engineering/lines. The SuedOstLink (volume: EUR 1.9bn) is the biggest infrastructure project in Germany to transport electricity over a length of 540km.

  • Development of a scaled-agile working model for the work dimensions: values, roles, events, artefacts and workflows
  • Team size: four delivery teams with 48 team members, 5 product owners, 3 agile masters
  • Development of strategies in the area of scaled-agile product development according to Scrum, LeSS and the New Work Heroes transformation helix
  • Moderation of the SOL Planning Workshop for the overall project with +100 participants (PI planning according to SAFe)
  • Coaching of all five areas their managers for the SOL Planning Workshop (structuring the work packages, preparing the planning board)
  • Coaching and mentoring for the three Agile Masters in the scaled-agile team environment (4+ delivery teams)
  • Moderation of scaled agile events, such as Sprint Planning I-III, Multiteam Refinement II, Sprint Review, overall team retrospective
  • Support in consulting for stakeholder management and the strategic area of all project partners (Construction site management: Inge, ARGE, cable producer NKT GmbH)
  • Support for increasing measurability and the development of metrics according to agile product development
  • Moderation of workshops, training and coaching for the overall project
  • LeSS (Certified LeSS Practitioner Workshop)
  • SAFe (PI-Planning Moderation)
  • Product Ownership
  • Scrum Mastery
  • Systems Thinking
  • User Story Mapping
  • Teamhood (Backlog Ticketing System)
  • Miro
  • Kanban
  • Flight Level
Mar 2022 - Oct 2023
1 year 8 months
Bibow, Germany

Seminar Leader

Nordmetall

Management seminar for Nordmetall. Topic: New Work Leadership.

Mar 2021 - Nov 2023
2 years 9 months
Herzogenaurach, Germany

Agile Coach

adidas AG

Agile coach for the adidas Agile Transition project "Future of IT" in a scaled, agile environment with 300 teams. Coaching of the product area Customer Experience & Commerce with 9 product teams and +40 distributed IT development teams (Gurgaon/ India, Romania, Spain, Italy, New York) in the following areas (Project Partner: Pentalog GmbH):

  • Agile Coaching: Providing clarity on the agile maturity of all product teams and their features teams through the adidas internal Success Framework with +30 metrics from product set-up to planning, cooperation, DevOps and continuous delivery
  • Cooperation with an international Agile Coaches team, OKR consulting: Moderation of workshops with the teams and management
  • Implementation of LeSS principles for the scaled team structure, focus on cross-team events like Product Team Refinement, Product Team Planning and Global Reviews
  • Leadership Coaching in the fulfillment of new agile roles: responsibilities and role descriptions, stakeholder management through stakeholder mapping and personal leadership coaching sessions
  • Creation of the Agile Playbook in Confluence for the onboarding of the growing product area, implementation of Flow Metrics and Flight Level methodologies with examples and success cases
  • Scrum Mastery
  • LeSS
  • OKRs
  • User Story Mapping
  • Atlassian Tool Stack (Jira, Confluence)
  • Atlassian Plugins (Upraise, Advanced Roadmap, EazyBI)
  • Flow Framework
  • Flight Level
Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
1 year 1 month
Cologne, Germany

Agile Coach

yello Strom GmbH

Agile coaching for the Digital Platforms cluster and the four associated teams in a scaled agile environment in the following areas:

  • Support for business modeling, pivoting and growth hacking following the Lean Startup methodology for existing and new business models
  • Further development of the different customer journeys of the teams according to Customer Experience/Centricity models
  • Coaching in the area of the Yello Agile Flow: Events, Artifacts, Roles, Scrum Mastery, Impact/Story Mapping, Scaled Scrum/SoS
  • 1:1 Coaching with the Business Owner and the Product Owners
  • Coronability coaching and remote work sessions with the teams on the impact of the pandemic-related 100% home office situation
  • Scrum Mastery
  • OKRs
  • Lean Startup
  • Business Modeling/Investment Portfolio Modeling
  • Microsoft Azure DevOps
  • Flight Levels
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
5 months

Facilitator of Creative Workshops and Team Coachings

AVM GmbH / Fritz!Box

Idea Loop creative workshop for Instagram content strategy.

Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
5 months
Remote

Facilitator of Creative Workshops and Team Coachings

AWIN AG

Coronability Team Coaching for 24 worldwide, remotely working executives.

Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
5 months

Facilitator of Creative Workshops and Team Coachings

DCSO GmbH

Three-part strategy workshop with leadership team for upcoming investment round.

Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
5 months

Facilitator of Creative Workshops and Team Coachings

Eisenschmidt Consulting Crew

Idea Loop creative workshop for the launch strategy of the MAIN7 online course for organizational development.

Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
5 months

Facilitator of Creative Workshops and Team Coachings

PROLAN Datensysteme GmbH

User story mapping workshop for the pitch to develop an individual CRM for Amnesty International.

Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
5 months

Facilitator of Creative Workshops and Team Coachings

design for human nature

Coronability Team Workshop for a client.

Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
4 months
Herzogenaurach, Germany

Agile Coach

adidas AG

Agile coach for the Agile Transition project "Future of IT" in a scaled, agile environment with 300 teams. Coaching of the Digital Asset Management product area with four product teams and distributed IT development teams (Hyderabad, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine) in the following areas (Project Partner: neusta GmbH):

  • Scrum Mastery: Moderation of agile events, coaching in the use of agile artifacts
  • Cooperation with an international 20-person Agile Coaches team from four adidas locations, conception and implementation of an adidas internal Agile Maturity Framework
  • OKR consulting: Moderation of workshops with the teams and management, development of a method from OKRs to the product backlog (reporting and training)
  • Requirements: Workshops on Definition of Ready/Done (DoR/DoD), User Story Mapping, User Story Cutting, Magic Estimation, User Acceptance Criteria (UAC), Product Backlog Workshops, Jira Sprint Boards and Labeling
  • Leadership Coaching in the fulfillment of new agile roles: responsibilities and role descriptions, stakeholder management through stakeholder mapping and personal leadership coaching sessions
  • Scrum Mastery
  • OKRs
  • User Story Mapping
  • Atlassian Tool Stack (Jira, Confluence)
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
5 months
Coburg, Germany

Agile Coach

HUK Coburg

Agile Coach for the agile transition for two Scrum teams of the Platform 4.0 project in the following areas (Project Partner: beOriginal GmbH):

  • Scrum Mastery: Moderation of agile events, coaching in the use of agile artifacts
  • Product Backlog Workshops, Coaching of the fulfillment of agile roles, agile requirements (story cutting methods, magic estimation, user acceptance criteria definition)
  • Agile Workshops (conception and moderation of formats: Agile Thinking, Scrum Method, User Story Mapping)
  • Scrum Mastery
  • User Story Mapping
  • Atlassian Tool Stack (Jira, Confluence)
Mar 2019 - Present
6 years 5 months

Producer and Host

New Work Heroes Podcast

+93 Podcast Episodes on Personal Development, Organisational Design and Entrepreneurship. Solo-Episodes and Interviews (mainly German). Production: Jörn Hendrik Ast

Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
1 month

Moderator

Bernstein GmbH/ E3

E3 Moderation of the International Network Meeting.

Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
1 year 3 months
Wolfsburg, Germany

Agile Coach

Volkswagen AG

Agile Coach for the agile transition of the MOD4/ID3 Volkswagen project for the new series of electric vehicles (Neo ID3) in an internationally scaled project environment with 1,500 project partners and 50+ teams according to SAFe in the following areas (Project Partner: Silpion IT Solutions):

  • Agile Requirements (Coaching with User Story cutting methods, estimates, user acceptance criteria definition)
  • Collaboration with a team of 15 Agile Coaches, conception and implementation of an Agile Maturity Framework
  • Conception and moderation of three agile workshop formats: Scrum/SAFe Framework, Agile Requirements, User Story Mapping
  • Scrum Mastery: Moderation of agile events, coaching in the use of agile artifacts, coaching of the fulfillment of agile roles
  • Coaching during the PI-Plannings with +1,500 participants, workshops with feature teams and international DevTeams
  • Integration workshops with markets (North America, China) and brands (Seat, Skoda) in Wolfsburg and Prague
  • Scrum Mastery
  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
  • User Story Mapping
  • Atlassian Tool Stack (Jira, Confluence)
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
4 months
Stuttgart, Germany

Agile Coach and Facilitator

Daimler AG

Agile Coach and Facilitator for various projects of the Daimler Group (Project Partner: TheDive, Ignore Gravity):

  • Design and facilitation for the internal leadership roadshow for Mercedes Benz Trucks. Facilitation of Design Thinking and Innovation workshops for an Intrapreneurship team of the MBVD.
  • Agile Coach for a Groupwide employee Swarm. Design and facilitation for strategy workshops of the Leadership 2020 initiative.
  • Scrum Mastery
  • Service Design
  • Facilitation
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
1 month

Designer and Facilitator

Fischer Appelt AG

Design and facilitation of a strategy meeting for the leadership team.

Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
1 month

Workshop Facilitator

Ottogroup

Workshop on digital leadership for 15 leaders.

Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
4 months

Workshop Facilitator

EWE AG

Workshop for the Corporate Accelerator Journey.

May 2017 - Oct 2017
6 months

Coach

Roq.ad GmbH

Coaching of the Leadership and Business Development Team.

May 2017 - Aug 2017
4 months
Berlin, Germany

Scrum Master Hospitation

idealo Internet GmbH

Moderating dailies, weeklies and retrospectives. Sprint planning and accompaniment of the Agile Coaches in Huddles.

  • Scrum
  • Kanban
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
1 year 6 months
Berlin, Germany

Seminar Leader

The School of Life Berlin

Seminars at “The School of Life Berlin” about career coaching.

Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
1 month
Dessau-Roßlau, Germany

Designer and Facilitator

Energieavantgarde e.V

Design and facilitation of an ideation workshop.

Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
3 years
Berlin, Germany

Stage Host/Moderator

re:publica

Stage Host/Moderator at the re:publica.

Jan 2016 - Apr 2017
4 months

Freelance Product Owner

Dampsoft GmbH

Dec 2016 - Present
8 years 8 months
Berlin, Germany

Managing Director

New Work Heroes GmbH

Managing Director. New Work Heroes GmbH is a company focused on new work, agile coaching, and organizational design, as evidenced by various projects and publications.

Nov 2016 - May 2022
5 years 7 months

Coach

Holzconnection GmbH

Coaching of the Leadership Team.

Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
1 month

Workshop Facilitator

Ottogroup

Workshop on digital leadership for 15 leaders.

Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
4 months
Berlin, Germany

Consultant

Aleri Solution GmbH

Conception, writing and testing of the new career page.

Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
2 months
Darmstadt, Germany

Workshop Facilitator

Merck Group

Candidate Journey Workshop.

Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
1 month
Lübeck, Germany

Designer and Facilitator

St.Petri Kirche zu Lübeck

Design and facilitation of an ideation workshop.

Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
10 months
Bremen, Germany

Designer and Facilitator

SWB Kraftwerk Accelerator

Design and facilitation of a six-part sales training.

Jan 2015 - Dec 2022
7 years
Frankfurt, Germany

Workshop Facilitator

Frankfurt School of Finance

Career workshops for the Freshmen.

Nov 2015 - May 2016
7 months
Dresden, Germany

Head of Sales & Marketing (Parttime Employment)

Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH

Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
2 months
Milan, Italy

Workshop Developer

Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A.

Development of a Design Thinking Workshop.

Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
6 months
Berlin, Germany

Designer and Facilitator

betahaus Gmbh & Co KG

Design and facilitation of various workshops.

Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
9 months
Berlin, Germany

Business Development and Service Design

Mandalah GmbH

Feb 2015 - May 2015
4 months
Brühl, Germany

Organisational Designer

Phantasialand

Organisational design for the construction of a new department.

Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
7 months
Germany

Designer and Facilitator

Tourismus Agentur Schleswig Holstein

Design and facilitation of an innovation workshop series.

Sep 2014 - Feb 2017
2 years 6 months

Designer and Implementer

betahaus GmbH & Co. KG

Design and implementation of a multi-part sales training workshop.

Jan 2014 - Dec 2016
3 years
Berlin, Germany

Workshop Facilitator

betahaus Berlin

6-part workshop for betahaus Berlin. Topic: Sales training for freelancers and startups.

Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
2 years
Berlin, Germany

Seminar Lecturer

Free University of Berlin

Seminars at the Free University of Berlin. Topics: Social recruiting, career networks, application training.

Dec 2012 - Dec 2015
2 years 1 month
Berlin, Germany

Head of Sales & Marketing (Parttime Employment)

jovoto GmbH

Jan 2005 - Dec 2015
9 years
Hamburg, Germany

Key Account Manager

Hays AG

Key Account Manager (employed).

Jan 2005 - Dec 2015
9 years

Monitoring Supervisor

Ipsos Phone

Monitoring Supervisor (employed).

Jan 2005 - Dec 2015
9 years

Freelancer (Social Media Recruiting)

Various Clients

Freelancer in the area of Social Media Recruiting for various clients.

Summary

44 years old, father of a 16 years old daughter, Author, Filmmaker and Podcaster at New Work Heroes, Kundalini Yoga

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Portuguese
Advanced

Education

Oct 2005 - Sep 2006

Universität Hamburg

Bachelor of Arts · Sociology · Hamburg, Germany

Aug 1999 - Feb 2002

Dirala Blankeneser Werkstätten GmbH

Apprenticeship as Interior Decorator · Interior Decorator · Hamburg, Germany

Certifications & licenses

LeSS Certified Practitioner

Lean Sherpas GmbH

Certified Product Owner

Scrum Alliance

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance