Kathrin (M.a.) Bardt
Co-Founder
Experience
Co-Founder
Age of Style - The Conscious Collective
- Strategic concept and content development for Age of Style
Client Service Director
Serviceplan Group
- Strategic leadership and key account management for, among others, Zentis, Tchibo, Capgemini, flatex, World Vision, Four Paws, Lavera, LAIC
- Integrated development and derivation of creative concepts from communication and media strategy
- Development of display and social advertising campaigns and leading social strategy development
- Quality responsibility for the creative output and consistent brand management (online/offline, social/display)
- Ensuring creative output for data-driven media & advertising
- Key account for Zentis and collaboration with partner agencies Plan.Net UX, HMMH, Serviceplan Integrated
- Building, training, and leading integrated teams in changing business models
- Guiding and shaping change management processes and successfully integrating the team profile
- Optimizing and adapting processes and integrating the creative team into the media agency Mediaplus
- Responsible for workload and management of the creative team, KPI setting, and budget responsibility
- Disciplinary leadership and personnel development of the account management team (span of control 3–6 people)
Achievements:
- Establishing Plan.Net Hamburg as the digital lead agency for Zentis and significantly expanding the client
- Developing the client flatex and integrating additional services of the Serviceplan Group (e.g., SP Strategy)
- Successful integration of different departments: media, technology, design, strategy, and traditional communication
- Developing effective processes for collaboration between creative and media to optimize client management
- Zero turnover in the existing team for 5 years
Unit Head, Member of the Board of Directors
people interactive GmbH
- Shaping the transformation process from a software development workshop to a digital communications agency with a focus on UX
- Building a suitable account management team
- Team leadership and disciplinary management (project teams of 5–8 people, disciplinary responsibility for 3–5 people)
- Strategic account supervision for clients such as Miele, Lufthansa, Deutsche Telekom
- Focus on the international customer journey at Lufthansa to optimize conversion, personalization, and experience design
Achievements:
- Leading the most important new business pitch in 2012 and securing the Lufthansa account
- Establishing a cultural change as a foundation for cross-departmental and cross-team processes
- Ensuring compatibility as a communications agency for acquisition by Jung von Matt (2014)
Brand & Communications Manager
HRS - Hotel Reservation Service, Robert Ragge GmbH
- Responsible for strategic brand management and corporate design
- Integrating the digital booking process with communication activities
- Planning, concept development, and implementation of national and international communication measures (B2B & B2C)
- Agency management and implementation of digitally developed in-house communication projects
- Conducting pitches and agency screenings
- Leading media planning with the Crossmedia agency
Achievements:
- Redesign of corporate design with Metadesign agency
- Developing a new communication strategy
- Successfully establishing the agencies Lukas Lindemann Rosinski and Crossmedia for key campaigns in 2009/2010
Management Supervisor
Proximity Germany GmbH (BBDO Proximity)
- International account management (Procter & Gamble, Volkswagen)
- Team leadership and development
- Strategic, conceptual, and operational project management with result responsibility
- Managing clients such as Volkswagen, Masterfoods, Procter & Gamble, Henkel
Achievements:
- Launch of the customer magazine "For me" by Procter & Gamble in international markets
- Establishing a central design management system for Volkswagen in brick-and-mortar retail
- Implementing processes for dealer communication in international markets
Online Editor and Copywriter
White Lion International GmbH
- Development and implementation of communication projects and campaigns
Editorial Intern
Filmpool Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH
- Editorial work for the parenting magazine "Kinderella" on the tm 3 channel
Dramaturgy and Assistant Director
Freie Mitarbeit
- Dramaturgy and assistant director for a literary evening (texts by Friedhelm Kändler)
Dramaturgy and Assistant Director
Ensemble Diagonal, Satiricon Theater
- Dramaturgy and assistant director
Dramaturgy Trainee
Saarländisches Staatstheater
- Internship in the dramaturgy department
Directing Intern
Saarland State Theatre
- Internship in the directing department
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Advertising (18 years), Media and Entertainment (7.5 years), Fashion (4 years), Tourism (1 year), and Arts and Crafts (0.5 years).
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Experienced in Marketing (23 years), Strategy (21.5 years), Project Management (7 years), Sales (3 years), and Production (0.5 years).
Languages
Education
Bergische University Wuppertal, IOP - Institute for Work and Organizational Psychology
Work and organizational psychology · Wuppertal, Germany
Ruhr University Bochum
Magister Artium, theater, film and television studies, sociology and English studies · Theater, film and television studies, English studies and sociology · Bochum, Germany · Excellent
Robert Schuman Gymnasium
Abitur · Saarlouis, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Tough Conversations
BRIDGEHOUSE Holding GmbH
Leadership Training I - III
Dorothea Meyer, Hamburg
Leadership Coaching
Lorenz Consulting, Dortmund
Creative Excellence
BBDO University Barcelona
Leadership Training
Dr. Sonnenberger Business Coaching
Structured Presentation Development
BBDO Group Germany
Client Management
BBDO Group Germany
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