Michael H. - Organizational Transformation Consultant

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Panketal, Germany

Experience

Jan 2025 - Present

10 months

Berlin, Germany

Organizational Transformation Consultant

Blacklane GmbH

Coaching leadership and teams in evolving their ‘ways of working’ through strategic planning habits, OKRs, and operational governance
Fostering a modern company culture
Integrating the tech organization with the company-wide ‘ways of working’ to ensure maximum effectiveness and alignment
Providing strategic product consulting

May 2024 - Present

1 year 6 months

Berlin, Germany

Mentor

Techstars

Mentoring Deep-Tech founders and companies

Apr 2024 - Present

1 year 7 months

Berlin, Germany

Founding Advisor & Interim CPO / CTO

Evela Health GmbH

Co-Founder, advisor for product, technology, and operations
Interim CTO and Product

Apr 2024 - Dec 2024

9 months

Berlin, Germany

Interim Director of Product

Blacklane GmbH

Managing 6 cross-functional product teams
Transforming the product & tech organization towards a “Next-Generation” operating model

Jul 2023 - Present

2 years 4 months

Berlin, Germany

Interim Operations- & Product Lead, Consultant, and Coach

Michael Haizmann Consulting

Interim & fractional lead: Product & operations leadership, Chief of Staff, CDO
Consulting: Transformation and change management, strategic product management, creating high-performing teams, OKRs
Coaching: Product leadership and management teams

Jan 2020 - Dec 2022

3 years

Berlin, Germany

Advisor

Likeminded GmbH

Provide strategic guidance and coaching to the management team
Individual coaching for the Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer
Consulting on enhancing the ‘ways of working’ such as decision-making, leadership, and organizational governance

Jan 2019 - Aug 2019

8 months

Berlin, Germany

Advisor

Tausendkind GmbH

Provide strategic guidance and coaching to the management team
Individual coaching for the Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer
Consulting on enhancing the ‘ways of working’ such as decision-making, leadership, and organizational governance

Sep 2018 - Mar 2024

5 years 7 months

Berlin, Germany

Chief Operating Officer

Data4Life gGmbH

Leading Operations and Chief of Staff team
People & Organization, User Research, Customer Success

Jan 2018 - Aug 2018

8 months

Berlin, Germany

Chief Product Officer

Deutsche Fintech Solutions GmbH

Chief Product Officer for Deutsche Fintech Solutions GmbH, a joint venture of FinLeap and Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG

Jan 2017 - Aug 2018

1 year 8 months

Berlin, Germany

(Venture) Chief Product Officer

FinLeap GmbH

Chief Product Officer for several FinLeap ventures

Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

1 year

Berlin, Germany

Chief Product Officer

MoneyMap GmbH

Chief Product Officer for MoneyMap GmbH, a joint venture of FinLeap and HVB

Aug 2015 - Dec 2016

1 year 5 months

Berlin, Germany

Chief Product Officer

McMakler GmbH

Leading Product Management, Tech, Design, Business Intelligence and Quality Assurance

Apr 2015 - Jul 2015

4 months

Berlin, Germany

Senior Product Manager

BCG Digital Ventures

Digital innovation consulting for the automotive branch

Oct 2014 - Mar 2015

6 months

Assen, Netherlands

Product-/Country Manager Germany

Catawiki BV

Analysis, planning and execution of a complete overhaul of the product focusing on the KPIs to ensure a sustainable success on the German market

Apr 2014 - Oct 2014

7 months

Berlin, Germany

Head of Product Management

Contorion GmbH

Product lead of 5 cross-functional product teams
Launch of [link]
Connection of several wholesalers with several hundred thousand products

Feb 2014 - Mar 2014

2 months

Berlin, Germany

Head of Product Management

Migusta GmbH

MVP launch of an eCommerce platform for kitchen appliances within 2 weeks
Preparation of joint venture with Chefkoch

Jul 2013 - Jan 2014

7 months

Berlin, Germany

Head of Product Management

Minodes

Leading product delivery including an MVP-launch within 2 weeks
Product vision, strategy, and advising the management team

Jan 2013 - Jun 2013

6 months

Los Angeles, United States

Lead Product Manager

Saatchi Art

Significant professionalization through changes to UX, usability, development processes and the product strategy, resulting in a significant increase in order numbers and sales

May 2012 - Mar 2015

2 years 11 months

Berlin, Germany

Senior Product Manager

Project A Ventures GmbH & Co. KG

Incubation, acceleration and internationalization of several ventures
Recruit and coach many product managers and train product juniors
Conduct due diligence reviews

May 2012 - Dec 2012

8 months

Berlin, Germany

Head of Product Management

Wine in Black GmbH

Product redesign and development of an iPhone/iPad app
Internationalization of the DE platform, expansion to the Netherlands and France

Aug 2010 - Feb 2012

1 year 7 months

Co-Founder (CTO & CPO)

Development of a highly scalable platform, leading architecture, product, and tech

Mar 2010 - Mar 2011

1 year 1 month

Karlsruhe, Germany

Software developer (Intern & working student)

CAS Software AG

Connection and integration of different systems via an EAI system using mainly C#

Summary

Entrepreneur, Interim & Fractional Product- and Operations Lead, Consultant, and Coach.

Expert for early, acceleration, and growth phase companies in the domains of product management, organizational operating systems, organizational governance, creating high-performing teams, project management, and coaching (management- and leadership-) teams.