Jochen Gürtler
Focus
Jochen enjoys working with people to find suitable solutions for people. He enjoys inspiring new ideas, perspectives and approaches off the beaten track. And he motivates to concrete and also unfinished and preliminary results or first steps and prototypes, which in his opinion are always more powerful than just discussed or even just imagined possibilities.
Jochen is particularly interested in the question of what change needs in order to happen. Both in a personal context and in terms of a team or organization. The usage of Design Thinking in companies is a wonderful tool for him to invest – in addition to the work on innovative products and services – in the personal development of each individual as well as in team and organisational development towards more people-oriented, creative and agile work.
In his workshops, projects and training sessions with launchlabs clients, Jochen wants to facilitate real encounters at eye level and create safe spaces for participants to work and learn together in the best sense of the word.
Background
Jochen Gürtler is a computer scientist, design therapist and design thinker with passion. In the last 10 years he has been working as a Design Thinking Coach, Expert and Trainer (almost) all over the world in various teams and organizations. In addition, he has worked for more than 23 years within SAP in development, research and consulting as a developer, software architect, team leader, product owner and strategic design consultant.
Personal
In addition to his work in the office, in his practice or directly on site with his clients, Jochen prefers to spend his time with his family, his two grown-up children and his friends. With telling stories and listening. With concerts in his living room. With trips to near and far and more and more often hiking and pilgrimages. With listening to music and playing the trumpet. With dancing and enjoying life. With trying out, challenging himself and being creative. And more and more often also with moments of silence and meditation.
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Martina Schuh
Focus
Companies are facing challenges such as digital transformation, increasing globalization, and a fundamental shift towards "New Work". The corona crisis has increased pressure in all areas and in the post-corona era, it is more important than ever to master the "New Normal" and develop the ability to respond to change with confidence and creativity.
It is Martinas mission to raise curiosity about the positive aspects of change and to convey the skills needed to react with creative approaches. She believes that with people at the center of our attention, it is possible to develop concepts that will shape not only ours but also our grandchildren's future.
Background
Martina is an innovation catalyst with broad experience as a Design Thinking pioneer and coach, and project and team lead, product manager, technical writer, biologist and computer scientist. She spent 23+ years in the IT industry in various roles, 21 years of which she worked at SAP in international contexts and in virtual teams. Martina has 15 years of experience with Design Thinking and related agile methods. She is particularly interested in the adaptation of the methodology to different teaching (10 years as guest teacher at HPI) and business contexts, and the development of comprehensive Design Thinking training programs. Martina led a multidisciplinary, virtual innovation team of designers, software developers and product experts over 7 years and is the co-author of the OpenSAP course "Be Visual! Sketching Basic for IT Business".
Personal
Martina is a curious adventurer and discoverer, both professionally and privately. She loves everything new, and her research trips have already taken her to all continents of the world. Her years as a researcher in Jamaica and her social sabbatical at Impact Hub Accra in Ghana have had a particularly lasting effect.
She is an enthusiastic craftswoman and cook and enjoys spending as much time as possible outdoors. Hiking with her husband, family and friends has become a passion of hers in recent years.
She also enjoys going to live concerts, riding her motorcycle and exploring the world with her husband in their VW bus.
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martina.schuh@launchlabs.de
Matthias Harbusch
Focus
Humans should be at the forefront of everything that needs to be done. Accordingly, an active involvement of people in processes, especially change processes, is of the highest priority for Matthias. This is the only way to ensure that problems are recognized, ideas are developed, and solutions are found and sustainably integrated.
Matthias is convinced that transformation and digitalization are both companions and solution at the same time. But without creating added value, change will not be accepted.
Matthias' focus is, on the one hand, on operative project management, i.e. guiding projects through the phases of change using appropriate creative methods, but also on strategic consulting to establish innovation techniques in a corporate culture in the long run.
Background
Matthias is a graduate business economist, industrial business management assistant, user interface designer, design thinking coach, project manager and speaker. With 23 years SAP experience (Technical Editor, user interface designer, Senior Manager User Interface Designer, Project manager of design projects, Workshop Leadership), he has worked in countless international transformation and optimization projects. He was also involved in the design process of new cloud applications.
Matthias enjoys analyzing business processes and making them visible and tangible through Design Thinking methods. His emphasis is on the in-depth understanding of business processes and their representation in IT landscapes.
Personal
After very nice and fulfilling years at SAP SE, Matthias wants to pass on his experience and knowledge to as many interested people as possible. He would like to develop ideas and share his passion for creative work with as many people as possible.
Travelling with his partner and future wife, as well as with his children, is at the top of his list. But also handicraft work suits him very well. This was probably inherited from his father, who was a self-employed painter and who is still working as a craftsman in his old age. Matthias loves building wooden huts.
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Michael Kögel
Focus
As a partner at launchlabs, Michael's goal is to actively involve corporate citizens in shaping the digital transformation so that they can fully develop their potential and see digitalization as an opportunity for the future.
His main focus is on strategy development with the executive board or management level, followed by the agile implementation of the identified projects with all people involved (business departments, IT, management).
Background
Michael is a Design Thinking Coach, User Experience Designer, computer scientist, Startup enthusiast, speaker and systemic organization-developer in training. With more than 20 years in the IT industry - 17 of them with SAP - as a software architect, consultant, Design Thinking Coach, and agile project manager, Michael is able to quickly grasp and overview his customer's business and processes and identify improvement potentials. In his 10 years of applying Design Thinking in digital transformation projects, he has been involved and has coached teams in the creation of digital products. Michael has 6 years of experience as head of user experience projects with international customers.
To Michael, communication at eye level with all levels of the company from developer to Board members, is important to him. Thus, he uses his experience with diverse industries to build bridges between business, IT, and design.
Personal
Michael is the father of two grown-up kids which gives him the freedom and independence to constantly try new things. As a Palatine, he loves hiking in the region with his wife, but also in great places all over the world. Yoga and meditation provide him, as a rather introverted person, with the necessary balance to his life as a consultant.
Besides his work for launchlabs, Michael is a mentor for startups and is involved in the Impact Week providing design thinking and entrepreneurship training for students in developing countries.
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