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Maximilian Gracz

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

Maximilian Gracz
Berlin, Germany

Experience

Jan 2022 - Aug 2023
1 year 8 months
Reutlingen, Germany

Transformation Project Manager focusing on building 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 people
  • Set up a transformation team and co-created an organizational analysis to identify strengths and challenges for strategy implementation
  • Conducted a top management workshop to review the analysis results, develop change actions, and create ownership for implementing the transformation
  • Developed a PO and tribe concept to establish (agile) practices and roles that promote global collaboration across different sites and plants
  • Hosted an offsite event to engage the top 60 leaders in driving the transformation and implementing the vision and strategy
  • Managed multiple stakeholders and project management across all parties (HR, C-level, works council)
  • Designed and ran communication events ("roadshows") at all plant sites to share the organizational analysis and involve them in the path forward for strategy implementation (following awareness-ownership-commitment)
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
1 year 4 months
Berlin, Germany

Project Manager for a Leadership Development Program for Science Managers

Global network of public sector research institutes

  • Co-created a program structure for emerging leaders
  • Delivered various training modules in 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 2021 - Dec 2021
1 year
Hamburg, Germany

Project Manager for Transformation Support and Change Implementation

Global media corporation

  • Designed and led activation formats (including with the top 200 leaders) on the leadership model, purpose, and strategy to embed them in daily practice
  • Developed change measures (including impact analysis, bar camps, agile pilots)
  • Facilitated management workshops (from 10 to 200 participants) and communication formats (town halls, pop-up events)
  • Project coordination and management
  • Stakeholder management with C-level, executives, 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

  • Guided the cultural change process and agile transformation, including culture diagnosis, change workshops, communication initiatives, and top management workshops
  • Developed and delivered a leadership development program on giving clarity and direction, agility, delegation, and empowerment
  • Introduced New Work concepts to support hybrid work (including flex desk policy, technical infrastructure, agile teams in domains)
Jan 2019 - Dec 2023
5 years
Hamburg, Germany
Hybrid

Project Manager & Trainer for Leadership Development of Emerging Group Leaders

Global financial services provider

  • Designed a modern interactive hybrid leadership development program
  • Delivered four modules covering: (1) leading in uncertain times and VUCA, (2) agile leadership and empowerment, (3) coaching & enabling, (4) digitalization basics
Aug 2018 - Dec 2019
1 year 5 months
Gütersloh, Germany

Consultant & facilitator for transformation support

Global IT and logistics services company

  • Set up and support a transformation team to kick off change with an impact analysis (e.g., hypothesis and synthesis workshop, mirror workshop with executives on the analysis results)
  • Design and implement change measures (e.g., building a leadership academy, leadership mission statement, value workshops, strategy development)
  • Carry out communication campaigns (e.g., town halls at all sites) with 100 to 200 participants each, including a gallery walk of 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

  • Design a two-day workshop series as part of the digital transformation, focusing on leadership and change
  • Develop playful formats, including a time-travel exercise with storytelling, building an app within one hour to experience agile working, and a competency card game
  • Train 1,500 leaders in large-group formats (about 50 leaders each) in Germany and the USA
  • Awarded by WirtschaftsWoche as "Best of Consulting" in the mid-market in the "Organization" category

Summary

  • Passionate about 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 on coaching & enabling, delegation, conflict resolution, agile leadership
  • 1-1 coaching for top management, department heads, team leads, and employees

Languages

German
Advanced
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2011 - Jun 2017

Technical University of Berlin, Tongji University, Queensland University of Technology

B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering · Industrial Engineering · Brisbane, Australia

Certifications & licenses

Systemic, WingWave® and emTrace® Coach

Besser-Sigmund-Institut and Eilert Academy

Neuro-Resonance Master Practitioner

Denys Scharnweber

Management Trainer®

Steinbeis University Berlin and the expert platform Gedankentanken

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