Berlin, Berlin, Germany
At the core of every thriving organization lies a simple truth: engaged, productive, and healthy employees drive success. My career is dedicated to building workplace cultures that inspire, empower, and support individuals to excel while driving this organizational success. Operating at the intersection of people, culture, and technology, I rethink how we approach work to balance high performance with individual wellbeing — whether in-office, hybrid, or remote. From designing hybrid work strategies, innovative learning experiences and engagement initiatives to driving transformative cultural shifts, I specialize in creating systems that empower people, inspire growth and build resilience. In addition, I bring deep expertise in people experience, leadership development, talent management, organizational development, change management, and strengths-based development. These skills enable me to shape workplace strategies that not only deliver lasting transformation but also measurable improvements in productivity and employee satisfaction. For today’s digital workplace, I provide strategies to cultivate focused work environments that reduce distractions, streamline communication, and ensure productivity and mental health go hand in hand. I also offer a forward-thinking perspective on integrating AI into the workplace, focusing on how this transformative technology can enhance employees’ potential and productivity in their daily tasks. Recently, I’ve expanded my focus to corporate health and wellbeing strategies, leveraging science-backed stress management techniques — such as sound therapy — to enhance resilience and adaptability in fast-paced environments. These programs reduce burnout, increase engagement, and create sustainable environments that support both physical and mental health. I believe in balancing high performance with individual wellbeing. When your goal is to create and sustain a productive, engaging, and healthy workplace culture, I am the partner you are looking for.
Seeding the future – since 1856 KWS sows the future. Our high-yield seeds and extensive knowledge make us a trusted partner of farmers - and we have been for generations. In this way, we contribute to solutions for the nutrition of a steadily growing world population. We are constantly improving genetic potential through excellent research and breeding programs. As an Expert Employee Experience, I am responsible for shaping and continuously evolving the overall employee experience at KWS, with a strong focus on data-driven insights, strategic touchpoint optimization, and leadership enablement. A key element of my role is leading the global Employee Engagement Survey as a core instrument to measure, understand, and improve employee experience across the organization. - Driving the creation of a holistic Employee Experience strategy and optimizing key touchpoints across the entire employee lifecycle - Designing and implementing an internal survey landscape to ensure continuous employee feedback - Managing and optimizing the global employee engagement survey process - Analyzing survey data and deriving actionable insights - Advising HRBP, leaders and teams on interpreting and acting on survey results - Creating impactful workshop materials for local action planning - Conceptualizing and facilitating leadership workshops to support engagement strategies My work focuses on transforming data into meaningful action – enhancing employee experience through measurable, people-centered initiatives, closely working with AI on a daily basis.
In a world of increasing complexity, digital acceleration, and rising mental overload, I consciously dedicated this transition period to upskilling in areas I see as essential for the future of work: AI fluency, individual and workplace well-being. During this time, I completed certifications and deep dives in: - Generative AI and Agentic AI applications - Microsoft AI Learning Tracks - EU AI Act – exploring its implications for responsible and human-centric AI use in organizations - Chief Well-being Officer Certification (World Happiness Foundation), integrating science-backed well-being strategies in organizations - Advanced sound healing techniques to support stress resilience and nervous system regulation in fast-paced environments This intentional investment period was a curated mix of science, strategy, and somatics, enabling me to synthesize my deep people expertise with cutting-edge AI capabilities and evidence-based wellbeing strategies. It allowed me to reimagine what future-ready workplaces can look like: where performance, resilience, and human dignity coexist. With the aim to becoming the kind of professional tomorrow’s work cultures demand: clear-headed, creative, and grounded in both data and empathy, positioned at the intersection of technology and human potential.
International Consumer Banking (ICB) is JPMorgan Chase’s consumer retail business outside of the United States, and includes the recently launched digital retail bank, Chase UK. ICB’s EU operation is based in Berlin. In my role as VP People & Engagement Lead at JPMorgan Chase, I oversaw the following aspects to foster a positive work environment, create an inspiring culture and drive employee growth and development: - People Experience (Well-Being, Listening/Belonging, Recognition, Feedback, Volunteering) - People Projects (Talent Management, Performance Management, Leadership Development) - Learning & Development Strategy and Initiatives - Workplace Culture (Meeting Culture, DEI, Appreciative Communication) - Internal Communication - Co-Chair "Women on the Move" Berlin (Business Resource Group)
All around the world, the name Ottobock stands for high-quality and technologically outstanding products and services in HealthCare. The goal of helping to restore mobility for people - or protect what mobility they have - stands behind each and every Ottobock product like prothesis, orthesis and wheelchairs. Ottobock operates through sales and service companies in more than 50 countries with a dedicated team of more than 7,000 employees worldwide. Culture is not something you have – culture is something you do. My aim at Ottobock was to enable the people and by that the organization to master current and upcoming challenges in times of constant transformation. By co-creating approaches like the guiding principles for leadership and collaboration. By establishing self-learning opportunities. By providing impulses regarding new work and new learning. By cultivating internal and external networks. By fostering a learning and sharing mindset. By strengthening collaboration online/offline and accompanying virtual communities. By enhancing the digital fitness to use digital tools. By supporting teams and projects to handle change in order to be successful in the VUCA world. By forming alliances to reach dedicated goals together. Special projects 2021/2022: - Maximizing Attention @Ottobock = a 10-weeks self-learning journey to establish Deep Work - Global Employee Engagement Survey - Global Leadership Barcamp via MS Teams - Talent Management: Virtual Learning Expedition with internal and external speakers - Psychological Safety learning initiative - IT Adoption Change Management & Change Communication (implementation MS Teams) - New Work Project / Hybrid Work Playbook - Content curation for and set up of self-learning paths - Enabling the company to work and collaborate digitally
As the Transformation Communication Manager, my tasks comprised guiding, coordination and alignment of CEO communication and participative change activities supporting the transformation of Ottobock into a future state. Working closely with the board, the senior leaders and the experts in HR/Learning & Development and other functions, I've build interdisciplinary bridges in order to join forces. In 2019, one of my main projects was to deal with the set up of a new leadership framework in a co-creation approach with worldwide leaders to enable Ottobock's leadership for the challenges to come.
In my role as Manager Global Learning & Development and Change, I brought my passion and expertise for Learning 2.0, acting as a trusted advisor for managers, process partners and employees in all questions of personnel development. My mission was to create valuable and exciting learning experiences for offline and online learning and to open the door to the universe of self-organized digital learning. Faced with the VUCA world of today and tomorrow I was also responsible for enabling people and the organization to cope with times of change and to acquire the appropriate skills to master the future. In 2018, one additional project was to set up a communication campaign announcing the first crowdstorming initiative at Ottobock (platform: Hype).
Freelancer for the design of innovative learning experiences