Nina Schacht
Focus
Nina has been a qualitative researcher for over a decade. Hunting for Insights for global FMCG players is part of her DNA. Her hours with face-to-face interaction with consumers in group discussions, interviews and in-home visits worldwide are innumerable. Though certainly, her work does not end there. Nina is experienced in taking these golden nuggets further and uses them in various creative workshop settings to ensure consumer-centric product- , service- and process developments for her clients.
Background
As a psychologist, Nina’s passion is to understand the real depths of human needs and desires. She studied psychology and communication sciences in Erfurt with a short stop-over in Canada to peek into journalism.
Nina developed and refined her qualitative research skills while working for some of the most well-known global research agencies Research International, TNS Infratest and Point-Blank International.
Personal
Nina grew up in Germany and is a travel-addict. Ask her to sneak a peak into her wallet. She carries around bills from the most exotic countries she has visited to remind her of the places she has been to.
Fabian Behnke
Focus
Fabian is a passionate advocate of the user perspective, consulting companies and training employees to consequently focus on their customers throughout the innovation cycle.
Background
Early during his studies in Media, Psychology and Politics, he specialised on the user perspective, working in UX and Usability studies. His passion eventually led him to study at the School of Design Thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam where he now teaches himself. It almost goes without saying, Fabian is all about profound user research within the DT process.
Personal
Fabian, one oft those rare original Berliners, is a real online and media enthusiast - who counters his connectivity addiction by going trekking in the middle of nowhere for weeks and weeks.
Javier Gomez
Focus
Javier gives management and economy lectures at several German universities since 2011. Having held more than 24 different courses, he has a holistic perspective of organizations and their micro and macroeconomic environment. Furthermore, he supports students during their thesis writing process at a Bachelor and Master level. Currently, he is dovetailing management perspectives with the design thinking principles and methods.
Background
Javier obtained an MBA degree and a PhD in economic science at the HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management with a focus on strategic management in Latin America. He acquired Design Thinking knowledge in 2010 and 2011 in the School of Design Thinking at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI) in Potsdam. He is very well versed in applying management, economic, and creative know-how in practice, since he has experience in analytical and creative consulting projects.
Personal
Javier was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. He enjoys memorizing the names of all his students and everything dealing with Ludwig van Beethoven.
Joe Murphy
Focus
Joe guides teams, companies and organizations in the development of innovative products and services. He takes experience from the private sector, the academic world, from research and start-ups, and uses methods from Design Thinking and Agile to lead teams to their goals in a creative, efficient and user-centered way.
Background
Born in Ireland, Joe studied Industrial Design, Transportation Design and Design Thinking in Germany and Spain. Prior to becoming a freelance design consultant, Joe founded a startup, co-developed the Biothinking Program at the Charité and expanded and led MEDS Workshop as its international director for 3 years.
Personal
Joe loves to travel, often with the excuse of experiencing design and architecture .. but really it’s all about the food.
Brittany Arthur
Focus
Brittany’s passion is connecting people, particularly in bridging western and eastern cultures. Therefore, her focus is to guide you and your international team in maximizing the natural diversity and achieving results.
Background
Brittany is a business graduate of three international universities (Swinburne Universität Melbourne, Kansai Gaidai Osaka, Hasso-Plattner Institut Potsdam) with merit scholarships from the Rotary Foundation and the Japanese Ministry of Education. In 2012, she studied Design Thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam where business finally met people.
Personal
Brittany is originally from Australia and after 4 years in Japan and 6 years in Germany, she now has pleasure to also call these countries home. After 3 languages, countries and degrees she can assure you we have more in common than we think.
Moritz Gekeler
Focus
Moritz is a consultant and trainer for our international clients in design thinking and creative collaboration.
Background
In the past 12 years, Moritz has gained a lot of experience in the field of creative collaboration, strategic foresight and co-innovation. Since 2015 he is consulting clients with his own company Dolaborate GmbH and has since then also worked closely with launchlabs. Before that he lead design projects as a senior design strategist in the Design and Co-Innovation Center at SAP, taught students and executives as a program manager and teacher at the HPI School of Design Thinking and looked into the future as a researcher in the foresight department of Daimler AG. He studied Comparative Literature, Italian Studies and Dramatics in Munich and holds a PhD in design and media theory from HfG Karlsruhe.
Personal
Moritz lives in Berlin and New Delhi, where he walks his dog Leyla even in 48º Celsius in May as well as 1599 on the AQI in November.
Nadja Büttner
Focus
Nadja supports organizations on their path to the future by applying Design Thinking, Service Design und Agile Innovation methods, always striving to provide those precious aha-moments in the solutions process.
Background
During her university journey from psychology to marketing and innovation & technology management, she found herself vividly applying Design Thinking at the HPI Design Thinking School in Potsdam. After some years at a digital consultancy juggling innovation projects and data-driven marketing strategies, Nadja now consults, crafts and coaches human-centered innovation concepts and workshops.
Personal
Nadja has a fondness for everything delicate, beautiful, and loves exploring the new. And surely: Taking the next good photograph.