Maximilian Gracz

Change and Transformation Consultant, Trainer/Facilitator & Coach

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Jan 2021 - Present
3 years 7 months
Berlin, Germany

Change and Transformation Consultant, Trainer/Facilitator & Coach

Self-Employed

  • 9+ years of experience as a senior consultant, trainer, and coach focusing on change management, transformation, talent development, culture diagnosis, and multi-project management
  • Training focus including coaching & enabling, delegation, conflict resolution, agile leadership
  • 1-1 coaching for top management, department heads, team leads, and employees
Jan 2021 - Aug 2023
1 year 8 months
Reutlingen, Germany

Project Manager for Transformation focusing on establishing a global collaboration culture and modern leadership

Global Semiconductor Corporation

  • Developed a 5-chapter change story and vision and presented it in a global virtual town hall to 800 participants
  • Set up a transformation team and co-creatively developed an organizational analysis identifying strengths and challenges for strategy implementation
  • Conducted a top management workshop to review analysis results, develop change measures, and create ownership for transformation execution
  • Developed a PO and Tribe concept to establish (agile) practices and roles that foster global collaboration across different sites and plants
  • Conducted an offsite to activate the top 60 leaders for transformation implementation and for vision and strategy execution
  • Managed multi-stakeholder engagement and project management across all interest groups (HR, C-level, works council)
  • Designed and conducted communication events ("roadshows") at all plant sites to present the organizational analysis and involve participants in the path forward to strategy implementation (following awareness-ownership-commitment)
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
1 year 4 months
Berlin, Germany

Project Manager of a Leadership Development Program for Science Managers

Global Network of Public Sector Research Institutes

  • Co-creatively developed a program architecture for emerging leaders
  • Delivered various training modules of the learning journey on team, self, and organizational leadership in the scientific environment (on-site)
  • Conducted interactive digital formats (including live voting and quizzes)
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year
Hamburg, Germany

Project Manager for Transformation Support and Change Implementation

Global Media Corporation

  • Designed and delivered activation formats (including with the top 200 leaders) on the leadership model, purpose, and strategy to role model them in daily operations
  • Developed change measures (including impact analysis, bar camps, agile pilots)
  • Conducted management workshops (from 10 to 200 participants) and communication formats (town halls, pop-up events)
  • Project steering and project management
  • Stakeholder management with C-level, leaders, and works council
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
1 year 6 months
Munich, Germany

Project Manager for Cultural Change, Leadership Development, and Agile Transformation

International Bank

  • Supported the cultural change process and agile transformation including culture diagnosis, change workshops, communication initiatives, workshops with top management
  • Developed and delivered a leadership development program on providing clarity and direction; agility; delegation and empowerment
  • Introduced new work concepts that promote hybrid working (including flex desk policy, technical structures, agile teams in domains)
Jan 2019 - Dec 2023
5 years
Hamburg, Germany
Hybrid

Project Manager & Trainer for Leadership Development of Emerging Team Leaders

Global Financial Services Provider

  • Designed a contemporary interactive hybrid leadership development program
  • Delivered 4 modules on (1) leading in uncertain times and VUCA, (2) agile leadership and empowerment, (3) coaching & enabling, (4) digitalization fundamentals
Aug 2018 - Dec 2020
1 year 5 months
Gütersloh, Germany

Consultant & Facilitator for Transformation Support

Global IT and Logistics Service Company

  • Established and supported a transformation team to initiate change with impact analysis (including hypothesis and synthesis workshop, reflection workshop with management on analysis results)
  • Designed and implemented change measures (including building a leadership academy, leadership manifesto, value workshops, strategy development)
  • Conducted communication campaigns (e.g., town halls at all locations) with 100 to 200 participants each, including a gallery walk on the impact analysis results
Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
1 year 4 months
Stuttgart, Germany

Change Consultant & Trainer/Facilitator for Leadership Activation

Global Machinery and Plant Manufacturer

  • Designed a 2-day workshop series as part of the digital transformation with a focus on leadership and change
  • Developed playful formats, including a time travel exercise with storytelling, app-building within 1h for agile experience, competency card game
  • Trained 1,500 leaders in large group formats (approx. 50 per session) in Germany and the USA
  • Awarded WirtschaftsWoche’s “Best of Consulting” in the mid-market category “Organization”
Jan 2016 - Dec 2023
7 years
Berlin, Germany

Project Manager for Change, Leadership Development, Transformation, and Cultural Change

LEAD Mindsets & Capabilities GmbH

Jan 2016 - Dec 2019
2 years

IT Strategy Consultant

Capgemini Invent

Summary

  • Passion for guiding change in times of uncertainty and complexity
  • 9+ years of experience as a senior consultant, trainer, and coach focusing on change management, transformation, talent development, culture diagnosis, and multi-project management
  • Training focus including coaching & enabling, delegation, conflict resolution, agile leadership
  • 1-1 coaching for top management, department heads, team leads, and employees

Languages

English
Advanced
German
Advanced

Education

Oct 2014 - Jun 2017

TU Berlin; Tongji University; Queensland University of Technology

Master of Science · Industrial Engineering · Australia

Oct 2011 - Jun 2014

TU Berlin; Tongji University; Queensland University of Technology

Bachelor of Science · Industrial Engineering · Australia

Certifications & licenses

Certified Systemic Coach

Besser-Sigmund-Institut; Eilert-Akademie

Certified WingWave® Coach

Besser-Sigmund-Institut; Eilert-Akademie

Certified emTrace® Coach

Besser-Sigmund-Institut; Eilert-Akademie

Certified Neuro-Resonance Master Practitioner (NLP with Heart Focus)

Denys Scharnweber

Certified Management Trainer®

Steinbeis University Berlin; Expertenformat Gedankentanken