Leadership · Innovation · EngineeringLeadership · Innovation · Engineering
Build an organization that can adapt, innovate, and deliver.
I help you develop leaders, improve collaboration, and turn ideas into practice. We can start in one team or work across your organization.I help you develop leaders, improve collaboration, and turn ideas into practice. We work on what needs to change, whether that starts in one department or spans countries and cultures.
Developer, founder, coach, and facilitator.I've built software and companies, and worked with leaders and teams in Silicon Valley, Europe, and Asia.
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What could become possible
Faster delivery
Help decisions and delivery move closer to the people doing the work, so simple features stop taking forever and the team keeps improving.
Explore faster deliveryIdeas customers want
Turn more ideas into products customers ask for, by testing early and building the capability to keep experimenting.
Become more innovativeKeep good leaders
Develop leaders who stay, grow others, and help the organization keep improving instead of losing the people who just became valuable.
Retain talentWorking with Matthias
Develop your people. Improve how work gets done.
I advise leadership groups, facilitate workshops, and work alongside the people making the change.
Leadership development & collaboration
Build stronger leadership and collaboration.
Develop leaders who help people make decisions, speak openly, and work through disagreements. I work with you to improve cooperation across teams, departments, and cultures, so good people can contribute more.
Innovation, product & engineering
Turn ideas into products customers want.
Test promising ideas with customers and help teams build and release better products. I bring experience as a developer and founder, from early experiments to test-driven development, more frequent releases, and fewer handoffs.
Sometimes you need both.
A team can learn to test ideas quickly and still be held back if every experiment needs a promise of success. When that happens, I work with the team and the leaders who can change those expectations.
Whether you know where to start or need help figuring it out, we can decide on a useful first step together.
Choose a first step
Keynotes & speaking
Give people something worth talking about after the event.
Stories from building companies and working with people, on leadership, innovation, and learning from mistakes. Sometimes with music.
Coaching & courses
You don't have to work through every difficult situation alone.
Bring the team conflict, difficult conversation, or workshop you're preparing. Get a second perspective and practical ideas for what to try next.
Live courses
Build practical skills in leadership, Scrum, conflict, product, or technical work.
See coursesTools you can use
Something useful for your next workshop.
Guides, posters, books, and facilitation materials to help you prepare and try something with your team.
Writing from experience
A closer look at why work gets difficult.
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What would you like to make possible?
Tell me what you want to achieve, or what's making it difficult. You don't need a finished brief or know which kind of help to ask for.
