Hi, I'm Stefanie. My mission is to empower companies to innovate from within.
As an innovation management consultant and certified mediator based in Berlin, I help organizations in knowledge-intensive, high-tech industries to develop idiosynchratic innovation systems and leverage the power of intrapreneurship.
I believe in the power of people and technology and I love to see progress happen.
I therefore dedicate my time and energy to organizations and people who want to change for the better. If we make innovation work, I believe we can make big change happen. I am passionate about facilitating this change in organizations and in people's minds. Because all great things were once just a spark in someone's mind.
I founded the ONWARD 2 Academy to facilitate and accelerate innovation in organizations.
As an economist with experience in private equity, the start-up and the corporate world, I understand not only the investor's perspective but also the operational realities that researchers, managers and executives cope with everyday. A variety of insights along my professional journey showed me that the human factor is one of most underutilized, yet most powerful levers for companies to effectively innovate.
My strongest conviction is that sustainable change happens from within ourselves...
...and from within our organizations. As a certified mediator I learned to master the language of friction and conflict - an inherent element in all change and innovation processes. But the way is not around conflict - the only way is through. Only by actively exploring our problems, facing our challenges and being honest to ourselves, can we catalyze real, lasting change. And that is what I stand for.