Michael Haizmann

Organizational Transformation Consultant

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Berlin, Germany

Experience

Jan 2025 - Present
1 year 1 month

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 9 months

Mentor

Techstars

  • Mentoring Deep-Tech founders and companies.
Apr 2024 - Present
1 year 10 months

Founding Advisor & Interim CPO / CTO

Evela Health GmbH

  • Co-founder, advisor for product, technology, and operations.
  • Interim CTO and product lead.
Apr 2024 - Dec 2024
9 months

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 7 months

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

Advisor

Likeminded GmbH

  • Providing strategic guidance and coaching to the management team.
  • Individual coaching for the Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer.
  • Consulting on enhancing ways of working such as decision-making, leadership, and organizational governance.
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
8 months

Advisor

Tausendkind GmbH

  • Providing strategic guidance and coaching to the management team.
  • Individual coaching for the Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer.
  • Consulting on enhancing ways of working such as decision-making, leadership, and organizational governance.
Sep 2018 - Mar 2024
5 years 7 months

Chief Operating Officer

Data4Life gGmbH

  • Leading operations and chief of staff team.
  • P&O.
  • User research.
  • Customer success.
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
8 months

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

Venture Chief Product Officer

FinLeap GmbH

  • Chief Product Officer for several FinLeap ventures.
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
1 year

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

Chief Product Officer

McMakler GmbH

  • Leading product management, tech, design, business intelligence, and quality assurance.
Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
4 months

Senior Product Manager

BCG Digital Ventures

  • Digital innovation consulting for the automotive branch.
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
6 months

Product/Country Manager Germany

Catawiki BV

  • Analyzed, planned, and executed a complete overhaul of the product focusing on KPIs to ensure sustainable success on the German market.
Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
7 months

Head of Product Management

Contorion GmbH

  • Product lead of 5 cross-functional product teams.
  • Launched [link]
  • Connected several wholesalers with several hundred thousand products.
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
2 months

Head of Product Management

Migusta GmbH

  • MVP launch of an eCommerce platform for kitchen appliances within 2 weeks.
  • Prepared joint venture with Chefkoch.
Jul 2013 - Jan 2014
7 months

Head of Product Management

Minodes

  • Leading product delivery including an MVP launch within 2 weeks.
  • Defining product vision and strategy; advising the management team.
Jan 2013 - Jun 2013
6 months

Lead Product Manager

Saatchi Art

  • Professionalized UX, usability, development processes, and product strategy, resulting in a significant increase in order numbers and sales.
May 2012 - Mar 2015
2 years 11 months

Senior Product Manager

Project A Ventures GmbH & Co. KG

  • Incubation, acceleration and internationalization of several ventures.
  • Recruiting and coaching many product managers and training product juniors.
  • Conducting due diligence reviews.
May 2012 - Dec 2012
8 months

Head of Product Management

Wine in Black GmbH

  • Redesigned product and developed an iPhone/iPad app.
  • Internationalized the DE platform; expanded to the Netherlands and France.
Mar 2010 - Mar 2011
1 year 1 month

Software Developer (Intern & working student)

CAS Software AG

  • Connected and integrated 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.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2007 - Feb 2012

Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences for Business and Technology

Bachelor of Science · Business informatics · Karlsruhe, Germany

Certifications & licenses

CO-ACTIVE® Fundamentals

ICF ACTP Training Program

The Loop Approach® – Fellow

Certified SCRUM Product Owner (CSPO)

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