Patrick Ruether

Driving Organizational Transformation in Complex Programs | Program Leadership | Operating Model Design | Business-IT Alignment | Life Sciences & Regulated Environments

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About

My role as Senior Change & Transformation Consultant and Agile Coach centers around driving digital change, with a strong emphasis on multistakeholder engagement and fostering synergies across business and IT. My approach integrates strategic planning, communication excellence, and team coaching to master agile product delivery within regulatory environments. Drawing from my extensive experience in management and strategy development, I now apply my expertise in Agile Leadership and IT Project Management to facilitate seamless transitions and promote an ecosystem where collaboration thrives. Our team's success is rooted in a shared mission to empower individuals, mitigate fear of uncertainty, and pave the way for transformative solutions.

Experience

  • Senior Change & Transformation Consultant at BridgingIT GmbH
    Feb 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

    Driving Digital Change and Transformation as Release Train Engineer and Agile Coach. Strong focus on multistakeholder management, communication and coaching: fostering collaboration between business and IT, strategy and operations, users and developers. Currently mastering agile product delivery in a GxP/CSV regulatory environment.

  • Innovation Coach - Project Manager at Freelance
    May 2020 - Jan 2021 · 9 mos

  • Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (10 yrs 2 mos)
    • Country Representative for India, Head of Office
      Jul 2017 - Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Legal representative of FES in India. Responsibile for: Strategic positioning, planning, budgeting and monitoring of all India activities; HR management and team leadership; strategy and content development; key account managment and government relations In charge of key portfolios: Digitalisation and Future of Work; Transformative Feminism, International Cooperation.

    • Program Lead & Deputy Representative
      Jun 2015 - Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Strategic positioning, planning, budgeting and monitoring of 2 key programs; team lead; ideation and content delivery for regional and global projects; agile coaching, training and process steering for strategy development for and with mutliple clients. In charge of the portfolios: Labour & Industrial Relations/Trade Unions and Gender & Social Justice,

    • Coordinator and Program Manager for the FES business network
      Oct 2011 - May 2015 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Facilitation of network meetings in Berlin and across Germany. Co-hosting and steering of working groups on the Digital Economy, Energy, and Finance. Follow-up and liasing with policymakers. Design and implementation of "Industry 4.0"- workshop series. Co-Editing of "Social Innovation Policy for Industry 4.0" (Prof. Daniel Buhr, 2015/17).

  • Assistant for Activity Based Management at European Commission
    Sep 2009 - Feb 2010 · 6 mos