Build and realign teams
Clarify team composition, roles, purpose, values and ways of working so the team can act effectively together.
Team launch · Role clarity · Working agreements
Team & Organizational Development · Munich
As a full-time Team & Organizational Development Coach at Lumea Technologies, I support startup teams, executive boards, leaders, and product teams with team building, challenging collaboration, and change—using facilitation, systemic coaching, and my experience in tech, product, and leadership. My goal is to help ensure that sustainable decisions are made, responsibilities are clearly defined, and projects move forward reliably.
External consulting, workshops, and longer-term engagements are part of my role at Lumea and are commissioned directly through the company · on-site and remote.
Profile
I work where collaboration, structure and human dynamics need to come together.
My career began in software development and architecture. I built digital products and teams from the ground up, led people and technical work, and later shifted my focus to team development, facilitation and coaching.
This means I know organizations from the inside—not just as an outside observer. I understand what it means to make decisions under pressure, distribute responsibility, navigate tension, and keep delivery on track at the same time.
Method follows situation – not the other way around.
Services
My work combines systemic coaching, structured facilitation, and experience in agile product and organizational development. The situation and the desired outcome determine the approach—not a fixed set of methods.
Clarify team composition, roles, purpose, values and ways of working so the team can act effectively together.
Team launch · Role clarity · Working agreements
Make patterns visible and tensions easier to discuss, creating sustainable agreements among teams, leaders, and stakeholders.
Team dynamics · Conflict · Stakeholders
Design workshops, offsites and retrospectives so conversations lead to decisions and decisions become reliable practice.
Offsites · Retrospectives · Knowledge transfer
Support leaders and startup teams with team-related questions, hiring decisions, and difficult situations through clear, experience-based sparring.
Leadership sparring · Recruiting · Role development
Approach
Not a rigid process, but a consistent logic.
Clarify the assignment, context and perspectives.
Make patterns, roles and friction visible.
Enable conversations, decisions and agreements.
Bring ownership and routines into everyday practice.
Possible formats
Scope and design are tailored to the issue, the people involved, and the desired outcome.
For a clearly defined topic. The result is an agreed next step.
For issues that require deeper exploration. The result is shared decisions and concrete agreements.
For change in day-to-day work. New ways of working are tested, reflected on and embedded.
Typical situations
A new team struggles to become effective quickly enough.
Related insight: A shared beginningRoles, responsibilities or the team’s purpose remain unclear.
Tension is avoided or discussions keep going in circles.
Related insight: Addressing conflictWorkshops and offsites produce too few binding decisions.
Related insight: Embedding workshop outcomesAgile routines become an end in themselves and barely improve delivery.
Related insight: Reviewing routines for impactGrowth and handovers create knowledge gaps or dependencies.
Related insight: Making knowledge visibleSelected work
Examples from consulting, product organizations, and early-stage company building.
Cross-team collaboration · multi-day workshop
A cross-functional team developed a shared vision and a roadmap. Knowledge gaps that were openly discussed were translated into concrete actions, and workflows were modified collaboratively. Numerous next steps were assigned to specific individuals, along with binding deadlines. The first positive effects are already evident: The teams involved are communicating more directly with one another and addressing even difficult topics more openly.
Outcome Roadmap · changed workflows · clear ownership · better communication
Team building · early-stage technology environment
Support with team building, personnel management, and candidate assessment, as well as the planning of a two-day team offsite. Followed by support with the handover and knowledge transfer within the development team.
Focus Roles · Collaboration · Values · Work processes
Communications provider · 2024–2026
Made communication patterns, roles, and obstacles visible and facilitated workshops on collaboration, self-organization, and constructive conflict.
DevOps product development · 2025
Clarified the team’s purpose and product goals with management and stakeholders, established shared routines, and coached individual team members.
Tech & venture building · many years of experience
Started as the first developer, built and led teams, and connected product, design and development through a shared way of working.
Insights
Similar questions come up repeatedly in my work and in conversations with leaders. I distilll these patterns into practical insights without revealing confidential situations or the people involved.
View all insightsBackground
The combination of technical practice, leadership and coaching continues to shape my perspective.
Team and organizational development with startup and product teams; coaching and sparring for teams and leaders; design and facilitation of workshops, retrospectives, offsites, and learning formats.
Consulting, workshop facilitation, agile coaching and Scrum Mastering.
Head of Mobile Development as well as Agile Coach, Scrum Master and engineer in product organizations.
Built digital products and development teams from the ground up; combined technical leadership with Scrum Master responsibility.
Software architecture, embedded and mobile development, technical roadmaps, recruiting and technical leadership.
Qualifications
Foundation
Contact
Send me a brief note about the situation you are facing. In a no-obligation initial conversation of around 30 minutes, we will explore your situation and determine whether there is a useful next step.
I will work with you personally in my role at Lumea Technologies. Lumea is the contracting party for external consulting, workshops, and longer-term engagements.