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Paul Weißhaar
Associate Partner
Experience
Apr 2025 - Present
10 monthsJesteburg, Germany
Associate Partner
QRelation Management Team GmbH
Mar 2025 - Present
11 monthsHeidelberg, Germany
Organisational Development - Change Management and Coaching
Safetec GmbH
- Develop and implement change strategies for agile transformation
- Analyze and optimize the organizational structure in software and hardware projects
- Conduct team maturity assessments to evaluate team development stages
- Create an incremental transformation roadmap with prioritized actions
- Promote cross-functional collaboration and optimize communication
- Provide agile coaching for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Product Managers to improve practice
- Offer business and systemic coaching for leaders to strengthen leadership skills
- Define and document clear role and responsibility profiles (RACI)
- Perform value stream mapping to identify and eliminate process bottlenecks
- Establish meeting governance to sustainably improve meeting culture
- Facilitate workshops, retrospectives, and agile ceremonies to ensure goal achievement
- Continuously optimize processes and organization to maintain competitiveness
Nov 2023 - Feb 2024
4 monthsVarel, Germany
Change Consultant
Premium AEROTEC
- Advise site leadership on plant-wide transformation
- Conduct culture analysis with CONGRID® at the top management level
- Carry out as-is analysis and provide recommendations for upper and middle management
Apr 2023 - Sep 2024
1 year 6 monthsBuxtehude, Germany
Organisational Development – Change Management and Coaching
Airbus Operations GmbH
- Provide change consulting and implement agile transformation with SAFe
- Act as SAFe SPC for two Agile Release Trains with cross-functional software and hardware teams (Buxtehude, Toulouse, Portugal)
- Temporarily assume the role of Release Train Engineer (RTE)
- Conduct team maturity assessments and develop maturity roadmaps
- Optimize cross-functional collaboration and drive continuous organizational development
- Coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners, RTEs, and Product Managers
- Define and document roles and responsibilities (RACI)
- Perform value stream mapping to identify and eliminate process bottlenecks
- Introduce Kanban to the maintenance team
- Facilitate workshops, PI planning, retrospectives, sprint planning, and backlog grooming
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
8 monthsDonauworth, Germany
Organisational Development – Change Management and Coaching
Airbus Helicopters GmbH
- Provide strategic SAFe consulting as a SAFe SPC at the solution level to support decision-making
- Conduct stakeholder analysis and develop targeted communication strategies
- Perform maturity assessments with roadmap design
- Clarify roles and coach on responsibilities (RACI)
- Introduce and scale Kanban in requirements management
- Coordinate interdisciplinary processes (Engineering & Production)
- Facilitate development workshops for organizational development
- Offer 1:1 coaching for Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Line Managers
- Provide leadership coaching to strengthen agile leadership skills
- Deliver agile team coaching to improve efficiency and collaboration
May 2022 - Jul 2023
1 year 3 monthsHamburg, Germany
Agile Coach
Vattenfall Energy Trading GmbH
- Advising executives on guiding agile transformation and enhancing leadership skills
- Conducting team and organization maturity assessments and developing roadmaps
- Strategic stakeholder management and optimizing governance structures
- Managing team interdependencies in cross-functional environments
- Introducing and scaling agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), including maintenance teams
- Promoting self-organization and an agile mindset through targeted coaching
- Facilitating agile events: workshops, Scrum meetings, retrospectives, and PI planning
- Conflict management to ensure productive team dynamics
- Visual backlog and KPI management to increase transparency
- One-on-one coaching for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and key roles
- Handing over and mentoring internal Scrum Masters with sustainable knowledge transfer
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
6 monthsHamburg, Germany
Organizational Development – Change Management and Coaching
Airbus Operations GmbH
- Leading a large solution with 4 ARTs and 12 Scrum teams as a SAFe SPC
- Strategic solution-level consulting for organizational optimization
- Conducting AS-IS analysis after 4 years of SAFe and deriving optimization measures
- Updating roles and providing individual coaching for PM, RTE, and Scrum Masters
- Forming agile teams and structuring new project teams
- Facilitating kickoff workshops for project integration
- Developing targeted stakeholder communication strategies
- Implementing Kanban for ME teams with a focus on product goals
- Coordinating interdisciplinary work between Airbus ME and a Silicon Valley startup (SAP automation)
Apr 2020 - Present
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Freelance work
Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 9 monthsGermany
Business Coach
Weißhaar Consulting
- Conducting individual Motivational Structure Analyses (MSA®) in leadership training and business coaching
- Designing and developing tailored coaching and training programs for executives
- Publishing the professional book The Chameleon Method
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
1 year 3 monthsSaint-Nazaire, France
Project Manager – Change
Airbus Operations GmbH
- Strategic realignment and organizational development by integrating the German residual operations organization into French series production, coordinating across functions (engineering, production, QA, logistics, tool management, supply chain)
- Promoting cross-functional teams through a shared vision and knowledge exchange while considering corporate politics
- Implementing agile frameworks to increase efficiency, flexibility, and iterative project management
- Developing transparent change strategies with active stakeholder engagement to ensure acceptance and commitment
- Systematically identifying and mitigating risks, combined with feedback-based continuous improvement processes
- Leadership development through targeted coaching to strengthen personal accountability and decision-making abilities
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019
1 year 1 monthHamburg, Germany
Production Manager System Installation A350
Airbus Operations GmbH
- Overall responsibility for optimizing production processes while maintaining the highest quality standards
- Disciplinary leadership and team motivation to achieve targets
- Promoting employee development through targeted training and career programs
- Implementing KPIs for continuous process improvement
- Ensuring occupational safety and environmental compliance
- Driving organizational development by introducing agile, self-organized cross-functional teams
- Establishing high-performance teams through innovative shopfloor practices
- Reducing non-conformity lead time by breaking down traditional department silos and shortening decision paths through team empowerment
- Implementing and optimizing lean principles to increase capacity and reduce waste
Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
11 monthsSaint-Nazaire, France
Production Manager Final Assembly System Installation
Airbus Operations GmbH
- Managing production processes and leading multifunctional teams to maximize productivity and quality
- Implementing quality feedback loops for continuous process and product improvement
- Responsible for supply chain management and supplier coordination to optimize material flow
- Applying and optimizing lean principles to boost efficiency and reduce waste
- Initiating continuous improvement projects and Kaizen workshops to optimize production and logistics
- Establishing and promoting a safety culture to meet legal occupational safety standards
- Developing and implementing technical training programs to enhance skills
- Managing budgets and resources for cost control and ROI maximization
Sep 2012 - Jan 2017
4 years 5 monthsSaint-Nazaire, France
Site Manager Final Structural Assembly
Premium AEROTEC GmbH
- Acted as central interface to Airbus, managing strategic and operational site matters
- Monitoring production processes with focus on compliance, cost, and schedule management
- Providing disciplinary and technical leadership including targeted personnel development
- Driving organizational development and process optimization to improve efficiency and quality
- Establishing and optimizing logistics for missing and special components
- Implementing quality management with a focus on Practical Problem Solving (PPS)
- Planning and leading internal/external audits, particularly for aviation authority compliance
- Initiating continuous improvement projects for capacity and resource optimization
- Establishing and promoting a safety culture to the highest industry standards
Sep 2010 - Dec 2012
2 years 4 monthsNordenham, Germany
Manufacturing Engineer & Production Planner
Premium AEROTEC GmbH
- Co-led sub-project for test article manufacturing in the A350 XWB program
- Responsible for planning, completion, and on-time delivery of test shell MSN5065
- Supporting the engineering team in creating manufacturing documentation
- Defining and implementing the production concept
- Designing and procuring necessary assembly and transport fixtures
- Providing technical leadership to an interdisciplinary team
- Planning and creating production schedules and developing tooling concepts for shell assembly of sections 13/14 of the A350 XWB
- Pioneering work with carbon fiber composite (CFRP) in aviation
- Planning series production and coordinating the on-time completion of production facilities
- Designing the shell assembly station according to lean principles
Aug 2007 - Aug 2010
3 years 1 monthNordenham, Germany
Aircraft Mechanic Structural Assembly
Premium AEROTEC GmbH
- Assembling primary and secondary structural components in shell series production according to aviation standards
- International assembly deployments in the A380 final assembly team for component integration and adaptation
- Collaborating with engineering and quality teams to solve production issues and bottlenecks
- Performing quality inspections to ensure aviation-specific certification requirements
- Attending technical trainings to integrate current aviation technologies and regulations
- Implementing lean principles to increase efficiency, optimize material flow, and shorten work paths through workstation design
Summary
Paul Weißhaar is a certified Business Coach and Senior Management Consultant specializing in leadership and change management, especially in agile organizational development. He stands out for his ability to communicate professionally and effectively at all levels – from the shop floor to the top floor. With 20 years of experience in the aviation industry, including over a decade leading cross-functional international teams, he is an expert in transformation projects. He uses his deep knowledge of motivational psychology to achieve measurable results and lead teams effectively. In 2021, he published the book The Chameleon Method: Leading with Adaptability, Staying Authentic, which reflects his insights into authentic leadership in dynamic environments.
Skills
- Leadership
- Team Development
- Organisational Development Production / Assembly
- Change Management Aerospace
- Agile Framework It Industry
- Project Management Energy Industry
- Agile Coach
- Organisational Development
- Change Management
- Team Development
- Mechanical Engineering
- Aviation
- It Software & Hardware
- Kanban: Scrum: Safe: Pm
- Lean
- Coaching Skills
- Servant Leadership
- Situational Leadership
- Conflict Management
- Motivational Psychology
- Facilitation
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedFrench
AdvancedRussian
AdvancedEducation
Jan 2022 - Present
Euro-FH
Master of Arts in Business Coaching & Change Management, specialization in Business Coaching · Business Coaching & Change Management · Hamburg, Germany
Sep 2010 - Jun 2015
Wilhelm-Büchner-Hochschule
Bachelor of Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Darmstadt, Germany
Aug 2004 - Jul 2007
Airbus GmbH
Aircraft Mechanic · Nordenham, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Business Coach
Certified SaFe 6 Practice Consultant
Certified ScrumMaster
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