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Co-Founding
- Co-founding and growing Mobisol from a team of 5 German engineers in a co-working space to a company with 1000+ employees selling hundreds of thousands of PV solar systems in Tanzania, Rwanda and Kenya. And then (almost) going bankrupt again. Mobisol’s Hard-learned lessons 2011-2018
- Co-creating UNLOCK, Wikimedia Deutschland’s accelerator program What makes UNLOCK unique 2019-2021
- Co-founding Lovolab, a collective of likeminded researchers, managers and designers working on projects for a more equal and sustainable future. 2021 – today
Consulting + Coaching
- Project coach for Femtec’s 4-month careerbuilding program Innovation Lab 2020 – today
- Start-up Coach Helmholtz Field Study Fellowships with Crop Insurance, VSF Loop & Scinergy 2021 – today
- Advisor on remote cocreation Forum Open Education 2020-2021
- Instructor for the topics Uncovering bias and Ethical Ideation for unlock cohort und Köln International School of Design 2021
- Facilitator of our discover-complexity workshop format with a team of SPACE 10 2021
- Designer and Facilitator of a 6-week Design Sprint titled “Diversity im Unternehmen” gsub 2021
- Lead coach for the 3-week summer school climate-KIC The Journey
- Coach project strategy & team development with Follow the Vote 2021
- Trained coordinators of the EU program EIP-Agri how to run effective team retrospectives 2022
- Facilitator of yearly strategy conventions at Bündnis Freie Bildung, Conpolicy und gsub.
- Design Thinking coach at HPI Academy for numerous executive workshops 2012-2022
- Moderation Ideenkonferenz der TU Berlin Dialog-Platform 2018 & 2020
- Advisor open-source-based product-service bundles and business models opin.me 2017
- Advisor fair & sustainable business models in the art sector flaneur magazine 2017
- Instructor Using Design Thinking to uncover a problem that is worth solving YouLead Summit 2017
- Plus a few hidden behind non-disclosure agreements
Texte
- Book chapter on how to use prototyping and reframing in service design This is service design doing 2018
- Book chapter on how we used lean & agile approaches to develop Mobisol’s business model for Decentralized Energy – a global game changer 2020
- Article about three tactics to help root service design in an engineering-driven organisation Touchpoint Journal 2015
- Artikel mit konkreten Hinweisen um das Beste aus virtuellen Meetings herauszuholen bpb 2021
- Article on how to make virtual meetings more engaging for UNLOCK 2021
- Visual poesy for romka magazine 2015
- Research article on how to design for multilingual user groups Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014
- Research article on issues of microfinance in the off-grid energy sector UMM Thematic Paper 2013
- Academic paper summarizing my field research on bad-quality solar installations in Tanzania MPDES Conference 2011
Vorträge
- How we used service design at Mobisol Service Experience Camp 2015
- Mindful and ethical product design in the context of Global South Discover Complexity 2021
- Why and how to become an entrepreneur in science for Helmholtz AI 2022
- The difference between agency-driven and in-house service design Designing the Organisation 2019
Interviews
- Über the interplay of service design and business strategy for The Future of Service Design 2020
- Über threats and opportunities of entrepreneurship and decentralized approaches in the energy sector for the ESMT podcast Campus 10178 2020
- Über Mobisols Geschäftsmodell und warum Probleme nicht immer mit Technologie gelöst werden sollten für Germanwatch 2018
- Über the adoption of service design in the Global South for 5by5 2017
- Über die erste Zeit des Gründens für LaunchX 2022
- Über die Relevanz von Diversity im Design Thinking für Volkswagen 2017
- Über Mobisol’s Design Thinking genesis for This is Design Thinking 2015