Birgit Hickstein

Associate Director Employee Listening Together, we can create a culture that celebrates every voice

Ingelheim am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

About

Combining technical & PM (standard & agile) knowledge as well as high leadership qualities I'm highly motivated and passionate about agile mindset, agile transformation and agile faciltation methods and tools. I appreciate to apply this mindset and tools, develop ideas and concepts for mindset and organizational change. I'm also well experienced in standard, waterfall project management tools, monitoring and reporting. I'm looking for the best of all from the different approaches with the goal to generate the perfect symbiosis . I'm looking for inspiring contacts, knowledge exchange and best practice sharing with regard to agile mindest and methodologies as well standard project management and leadership in pharmaceutical, chemical or technical sectors. I have a very structured working approach and I'm working very solution oriented. I'm highly motivated to learn and experience new things, develop and coach teams and groups as a servant leader.

Experience

  • Boehringer Ingelheim (17 yrs 4 mos)
    • Associate Director Employee Listening
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    • Associate Director Culture & DEI
      Feb 2025 - Sep 2025 · 8 mos

      Advancing our company culture, diversity, equity and inclusion, deepening our understanding of employees’ perspectives and experiences

    • Senior Project Excellence Manager
      Jul 2021 - Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Master of strategic guidance and cultural guardrails ... Guardian of best practices ... Facilitator of communities ... ... within the context of Corporate Asset Teams.

  • Promotion at Uni Clausthal
    Jan 2006 - Jan 2009 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Magnetic beads for bioseparation processes – Synthesis and application properties Partikelsynthese & Charakterisierung, Sprühtrocknung, Polymerisation, Fällung, Partikel- und Proteinanalytik

  • Laborleiter at CUTEC Institut
    Jan 2004 - Dec 2005 · 2 yrs

    UPLC-MS, UV-VIS, FT-IR, Umweltanalytik, Mikrobiologie