The sweet spot: a company outgrowing its operating setup, working directly with the leadership team.
Interim COO
4 to 5 days a week, 4 to 9 months. I take operational responsibility in your leadership team and drive the change from the inside. For situations where advice alone won't close the gap.
Operational diagnostic sprint
5 to 8 working days across 2 to 3 weeks, fixed price. Interviews, a structured look at your numbers and processes, then three things on the table:
- a written assessment with prioritized causes, not just symptoms,
- a quantified 90-day plan,
- a management- or board-ready readout.
An outside look that's hard to produce internally: it takes distance from the day-to-day business and someone who has seen this stage before. Including the things everyone sees and nobody says, and what I would do about them (politics exists in a 5-person team too). Most of it never shows up in a dashboard or a prompt; collecting it is the actual work. No strings attached: if we continue into an engagement, the analysis and plan carry straight over, nothing gets done twice. In an engagement, this is week 1.
Berlin-based. On-site in Berlin, hybrid anywhere else (bundled on-site days, no permanent weekly commuting). German and English.
Where I'm the wrong guy
Pure ML engineering and data science (I bring in specialists for that), pure brand or marketing engagements, pure HR, and roles that need 5 days on-site outside Berlin. If your situation isn't a fit, I'll say so in the first call and point you to someone better.