Paul Weißhaar
Associate Partner
Experience
Apr 2025 - Present
4 monthsJesteburg, Germany
Associate Partner
QRelation Management Team GmbH
Mar 2025 - Dec 2025
10 monthsHeidelberg, Germany
Organizational Development - Change Management and Coaching
Safetec GmbH
- Develop and implement change strategies for agile transformation
- Analyze and optimize 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 improve communication
- Agile coaching for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Product Managers to enhance practices
- Business and systemic coaching for leaders to strengthen leadership skills
- Define and document clear role and responsibility profiles (RACI)
- 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 goals are met
- Continuous process and organizational optimization to maintain competitiveness
Nov 2023 - Feb 2024
4 monthsVarel, Germany
Change Consultant
Premium Aerotec
- Advise site management on plant-wide transformation
- Conduct culture analysis with top management using CONGRID®
- Perform current-state analysis and recommend actions for upper and middle management
Apr 2023 - Sep 2024
1 year 6 monthsBuxtehude, Germany
Organizational Development – Change Management and Coaching
Airbus Operations GmbH
- Change consulting and implement agile transformation using SAFe
- SAFe SPC for two Agile Release Trains with cross-functional software and hardware teams (Buxtehude, Toulouse, Portugal)
- Temporarily served as 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)
- Value stream mapping to identify and remove process bottlenecks
- Introduce Kanban in the maintenance team
- Facilitate workshops, PI planning, retrospectives, sprint planning, and backlog grooming
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
8 monthsDonauworth, Germany
Organizational Development – Change Management and Coaching
Airbus Helicopters GmbH
- Strategic SAFe consulting by SAFe SPC at the solution level for decision support
- Stakeholder analysis and develop targeted communication strategies
- Conduct 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
- Provide 1:1 coaching for Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and line managers
- Leadership coaching to strengthen agile leadership skills
- Agile team coaching to boost efficiency and collaboration
May 2022 - Jul 2023
1 year 3 monthsHamburg, Germany
Agile Organizational Development with Scrum – Agile Coach
Vattenfall Energy Trading GmbH
- Advise leaders on managing agile transformation and leadership development
- Conduct team and organizational maturity assessments with roadmap development
- Strategic stakeholder management and optimize governance structures
- Manage team interdependencies in cross-functional environments
- Introduce and scale agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) including maintenance teams
- Promote self-organization and agile mindset through targeted coaching
- Facilitate agile events: workshops, Scrum meetings, retrospectives, PI planning
- Conflict management to ensure productive team dynamics
- Visual backlog and KPI management to increase transparency
- Provide individual 1:1 coaching for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and key roles
- Hand over and support internal Scrum Masters with sustainable knowledge transfer
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
6 monthsHamburg, Germany
Organizational Development – Change Management and Coaching
Airbus Operations GmbH
- SAFe SPC: led large solution with 4 ARTs and 12 Scrum teams
- Strategic solution-level consulting for organizational optimization
- AS-IS analysis after 4 years of SAFe with recommendations for improvements
- Role updates and individual coaching for PMs, RTEs, and Scrum Masters
- Agile team formation and structuring of new project teams
- Facilitate kickoff workshops for project integration
- Develop targeted stakeholder communication strategies
- Implement Kanban for ME teams with focus on product goals
- Coordinate between Airbus ME and a Silicon Valley startup (SAP automation)
Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 9 monthsBusiness Coach
Weißhaar Consulting
- Conduct individual motivational structure analyses (MSA®) in leadership training and business coaching contexts
- Design and develop tailored coaching and training programs for leaders
- Published the professional book The Chameleon Method
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
1 year 3 monthsSaint-Nazaire, France
Project Manager Change 'Merger Integration'
Airbus Operations GmbH
- Strategic realignment & organizational development by integrating the remaining German operations into French serial production through cross-departmental coordination (engineering, production, QA, logistics, tooling, supply chain)
- Promote cross-functional teams with a shared vision and knowledge exchange while considering corporate politics
- Implement agile frameworks to increase efficiency, flexibility, and iterative project control
- Develop transparent change strategies with active stakeholder engagement to ensure acceptance and commitment
- Systematic risk identification and mitigation combined with feedback-based continuous improvement processes
- Leadership development through targeted coaching to strengthen accountability and decision-making
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019
1 year 1 monthHamburg, Germany
Production Manager System Installation A350
Airbus Operations GmbH
- Overall responsibility for manufacturing process optimization while maintaining highest quality standards
- Disciplinary leadership and team motivation to achieve goals
- Promote staff development through targeted training and career programs
- Implement KPIs for continuous process improvement
- Ensure workplace safety and environmental compliance; additionally:
- Organizational development by introducing agile, self-organized cross-functional teams
- Establish high-performance teams through innovative shopfloor practices
- Reduce non-conformity lead time by breaking down departmental silos and shortening decision paths through team empowerment
- Implement and optimize 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
- Oversee manufacturing processes and disciplinary leadership of multifunctional teams to maximize productivity and quality
- Implement quality feedback loops for continuous process and product improvement
- Manage supply chain and supplier coordination to optimize material flow
- Apply and refine lean principles to improve efficiency and reduce waste
- Initiate continuous improvement projects and Kaizen workshops for production and logistics optimization
- Establish and promote a safety culture to meet legal health and safety standards
- Develop and implement technical training programs to enhance skills
- Manage budget and resources for cost control and ROI maximization
Sep 2012 - Jan 2017
4 years 5 monthsSaint-Nazaire, France
Site Manager Final Assembly Structure
Premium Aerotec GmbH
- Central liaison to Airbus, managing strategic and operational site matters
- Oversee manufacturing processes focusing on compliance, cost, and schedule management
- Disciplinary and technical leadership including targeted personnel development
- Drive organizational development and process optimization to boost efficiency and quality
- Build and optimize logistics for spare and special parts
- Implement quality management with a focus on Practical Problem Solving (PPS)
- Plan and lead internal/external audits, especially aviation authority compliance
- Initiate continuous improvement projects for capacity and resource optimization
- Establish and promote a safety culture to the highest industry standards
Sep 2010 - Dec 2012
2 years 4 monthsNordenham, Germany
Manufacturing Engineer and Production Planner
Premium Aerotec GmbH
- Subproject lead for test article production for A350 XWB ('MSN5065')
- Support the engineering team in creating production documentation, defining and implementing manufacturing concepts, and lead an interdisciplinary team
- Responsible for planning and creating production plans and developing tooling concepts for the shell assembly of Airbus A350 XWB sections 13/14
- Innovate with carbon fiber composites (CFRP) in aviation
- Coordinate timely completion of production equipment (riveting machine, pulse-motion line, clip-setting station) and design the shell assembly station according to lean principles
Aug 2007 - Aug 2010
3 years 1 monthNordenham, Germany
Aircraft Mechanic Structure Assembly
Premium Aerotec GmbH
- Assemble primary and secondary structural components in shell series production according to aviation standards
- Participate in international assembly missions in the A380 final assembly team for component integration and adaptation
- Collaborate with engineering and quality to solve production problems and bottlenecks
- Perform quality checks to meet aviation certification requirements
- Attend technical trainings to integrate current aviation technologies and regulations
- Implement lean principles to improve efficiency and optimize material flow
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 of the hierarchy – from the shop floor to top management.
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 deliver measurable results and lead teams effectively. In 2021, he published the book The Chameleon Method: Lead Adaptively, Stay Authentic, which reflects his insights on authentic leadership in dynamic environments.
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedRussian
AdvancedFrench
Elementary Education
Jan 2022 - Present
Euro FH Hamburg
Master of Arts, Focus - Business Coaching · Business Coaching & Change Management · Hamburg, Germany
Sep 2010 - Jun 2015
Wilhelm Büchner University Darmstadt
Bachelor of Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Darmstadt, Germany
Aug 2004 - Jul 2007
Airbus GmbH Nordenham
Apprenticeship as Aircraft Mechanic · Aircraft Mechanic, Manufacturing Technology · Nordenham, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Certified SAFe 6 Practice Consultant
Business Coach
Certified ScrumMaster
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