I’m a product leadership sidekick for organizations in transformation.
And I’m ready to help you with your product leadership challenges.

I can help as a product organization consultant…

… if you want to build, professionalize or re-structure your product organization.

… if you want to strengthen effective product practices in your organization.

… if you want continuous product innovation instead of project work.

… if you want to strengthen your organization’s product culture.

… if you need help curating systematic up-skilling of your product team.

I can help as a fractional or interim product leader…

… if you need to cover a gap in your product leadership and hire & onboard the right permanent candidate.

… if you prioritize experience of your product leader over weekly hours.

… if you need to stay flexible but don’t want to compromise on quality.

I can help as a product leadership coach…

… if you are new in a product leadership role and would like an experienced practitioner to coach you while you grow into the role.

… if you need help finding the right approach to essential product leadership responsibilities such as product vision & strategy, setting goals or enabling your team’s individual and collective growth.

… if you are the only experienced product person in your org and lack constructive exchange in your product leadership role.

… if you are a CEO or founder who wants to create the clarity & culture that good product teams need to apply their full potential.

My background

Yes, I know: Product Leadership is challenging.

I’ve done it for many years.

I've been actively building and leading product organizations for over 12 years in different contexts.

As a people manager I have directly managed almost a hundred individual product managers, product leaders and experts in adjacent fields such as UX, Data, Editorial, Product Ops & Product Marketing and helped them grow in their roles and beyond.

As a product leader I provided direction through product visions, strategies & objectives as well as by shaping the ways of working and encouraging positive collaboration. These guardrails empowered my teams to make best use of their individual and collective expertise and pull in the same direction.

As a departmental leader I established fruitful partnerships with my tech & design counterparts, enabled commercial organizations and represented the product perspective in the top management.

Together we succesfully shaped and marketed products used by over 20 millions of registered users in B2C and 20M of ARR in B2B.

Since 25 years I am involved in building digital products, services & communication solutions in B2B, B2C and B2B2C contexts and domains such as social networks, martech, SaaS, digital publishing, collaboration, events, marketplaces, e-commerce and FMCG.

Feel free to have a look on my LinkedIn profile for more details.

Through my passionate community engagement as a former meetup-host and now proud co-founder of Product at Heart, I enjoy the constant exchange with thought leaders and practitioners in our industry. My active network also allows me to complement my own offering with additional specialists.

Personal notes

I live in Hamburg Eimsbüttel with my wife Lotta and our two kids Frieda (19) and Oskar (17). I am very proud of them!

In my free time I enjoy doing sports (running, swimming, fitness), I play bass with my friends in Pau and I start reading too many non-fiction books (the good ones I also finish).

I enjoy travelling, most often to France (Finisterre, Minervois) and Portugal (Porto) where we lived for a year while I helped to ramp up a development hub for XING.
But I’m also always keen to explore new places & new cuisines.

I’m a strong believer in curiosity as one of the most important personality traits for product people. So it’s no coincidence that the company I have with Petra to run Product at Heart is called Cultivate Curiosity.