Let’s get your ideas
off the ground!
Hey there 👋,
my name is Jochen and I am a Facilitator, Design Thinking Coach and Tech Host based in 📍 Europe with a passion for working better together: With more compassion, creativity, intelligence, inclusion and fun!
I design and facilitate workshops, trainings and interactive online events that invite people to come together and work on the difficult challenges of our time.
At the HPI School of Design Thinking (aka D-School) in Potsdam I coach and guide multidisciplinary student teams through Design Thinking projects to tackle complex challenges in close collaboration with corporations, startups, NGOs or political institutions.
At Forum ViA I design and facilitate learning programs to empower the youth and young changemakers to act towards climate action.
You’re looking for someone who helps you and your team to get your ideas of the ground?
👉 You can hire me through Forum ViA
Services
Workshop Facilitation – Navigation through complexity
Facilitation means leading a group to a goal.
As a faciliator I guide you, your team or organization through participatory workshops. You’ll gain more clarity by understanding the challenges you’re currently facing and I’ll empower all participants to develop meaningful solutions.
I design and facilitate workshop experiences that work online or face-to-face on location.
Example topics:
- Design Thinking Sprints
- Innovation Projects
- Co-Design / Co-Creation Workshops
- Purpose, Value & Strategy, Vision, Mission
- Team Building & Development
- Team Retreats
- Retrospectives & Process Reflection
- Participatory Events
Trainings – Tools for Transformation
I run introductory workshops and in-depth trainings in Design Thinking and agile work approaches.
I’ll guide you through trainings where you learn and experience Design Thinking with hands-on projects.
I design and run my trainings online or face-to-face on location.
Example topics:
- Introduction to Design Thinking (Human-Centered Design / Life-Centered Design)
- Brainstorming Techniques
- Boosting creative confidence & innovation capacity
- Applied User Research
- Advanced Prototyping Techniques
- Digital Prototyping
- Introduction to Remote Collaboration
Tech Hosting (aka Co-Hosting or Zoom Production)
Want to have engaging and interactive virtual meetings, workshops or events with less stress on your part?
As a Facilitator & Trainer I know first hand the value of an experienced and reliable technical support team, that is magically running everything behind-the-scenes, so you can focus on what you’re best at: Presenting your content, presentating an engaging speech, running your workshop, interviewing your guests or interacting with your participants.
Whatever it is, I got your back and help you to setup and manage all the technical details, so you can run your virtual experience more smoothly, more relaxed and with presence for other people.
I can help with:
- Consulting for virtual workshop & event design, pre-production & planning
- Setting up Zoom (or other conferencing tools)
- Setting up video & audio streams
- Sharing & playback of presentation slides, pictures, videos, sound effects, music and whatever is needed to make your event more engaging
- Managing breakout rooms / waiting rooms
- Welcoming guests
- Chat support
- Sharing polls & quizes
- Technical onboarding & support for participants
- Running virtual warm-ups & energizer with participants to keep them engaged
- Creating multimedia elements like virtual backgrounds, teaser / intro videos or animations in close collaboration with professional media & video producers
References
“Jochen supported us professionally and sympathetically at our annual TFF day: From the analysis of what we want and need, to the implementation in a suitable agenda, to the moderation of the day itself. Many thanks!”
Anna Schwanhäußer, Executive Board, Together for Future e.V., (January 2022)
“Many thanks for the great collaboration, Julia, Hannah, Jochen and Norman! A delightful, educational workshop on founding start-ups and entrepreneurship for our young, motivated project groups from all over East Asia. Sophisticated design, creative execution – entertaining and rich in content. (…)”
Heidi Storandt, Teaching Expert, Goethe-Institut Korea, (October 2021)
“Jochen’s workshop was full of energy and life. It was a very practical, hands-on introduction to design thinking for us. We had a lot of fun in a professionally led workshop and were able to explore further questions on the topic with Jochen afterwards. The two hours flew by and the participants are now equipped with a lot of practical experience on the Design Thinking process. We would like to recommend Jochen wholeheartedly!”
Maike Voß & Ariane Schulz, dasJungeTraining, (June 2021)
“Jochen offered our NGO‘s team already several facilitation, coaching and training sessions on- and offline and I can only look back with extreme gratitude. (…) From getting our whole team on board regarding our vision, mission and year planning to using digital tools like Mural and Trello to keep the motivation and workflow high for our remote collaboration, Jochen‘s support made a tremendous difference for our work! In fact, without Jochen, our NGO‘s work would not be as efficient and fun as it is. (…) I highly recommend him to any other organisation who would like to boost their work and (remote/digital) collaboration!“
Valentina Aversano-Dearborn, Co-Founder & Director, ViA – The Forum for Sustainable Visions in Action, (January 2020)
