Rodrigo is a facilitator, organizational designer and partner at Target Teal. He has worked professionally as an engineer and manager, and worked for over 10 years creating and leading programs that use experiential education for team and individual development. For the past 6 years he has been helping organizations fundamentally change the way they operate. He is one of the creators of the O2 social technology used by companies of all branches to adopt self-management practices.
Karin Loibl has been working for Welser Profile for almost 16 years. Her activities have always been very diverse and colourful, which also corresponds to her nature. From travel management to the support and implementation of various projects to the introduction of lean administration. She discovered her passion for change management and thus for supporting people in change processes. Karin has therefore supported the Welser transformation journey from the very beginning - initially as a workshop moderator and change agent. Now she acts as a circle lead for change projects and change communication to create framework conditions and tools, which strengthen trust-based, mutual design and make the added value of the transformation tangible in the organization. In her private life, Karin seeks balance with her animals and in nature, where she also likes to enjoy the peace and quiet.
For more than five years, Kerstin Potthoff-Koß has been instrumental in shaping and developing the ”Homeport” of Global IT at Dräger with her ideas and impulses. The focus of her work is the development and establishment of a new operating model in IT in which agility and self-organization are the basis for cross-divisional collaboration. Her tasks also include designing the new "Heimathafen", a new working environment based on desk sharing and activity-based working, as well as organizing the Evolution Festival for the approximately 15,000 Dräger employees worldwide, which focuses on the transformation of the working world. The economics graduate, trained change manager, team and business coach worked in IT and organizational projects at various consulting companies before joining Dräger in 2008.
Maxime started his career at Partena Professional eight years ago as Payroll Consultant, then as internal Trainer and e-learning expert in payroll and labor law. When the Board of Directors felt the need to transform their pyramidal structure into an autonomous and collaborative organization, a team of ten employees from the business was set up to dream of the company of tomorrow and to steer the transformation. Maxime was one of them, mainly focusing on internal communication and project coordination. Today, he leads a circle accountable for governance, PMO and change management, ensuring an impactful continuous transformation. He also has a complementary freelance activity, creating and organizing murder mystery parties for individuals and companies.
Rico Travella is a member of the Executive Board of Alternative Bank Switzerland. He is responsible for marketing and communication, sustainability as well as strategy development and controlling, among other things. Rico Travella is 56 years old. He studied at the University of St. Gallen and earned his doctorate with a dissertation in marketing. Professional stations were: deputy executive director of an NGO, strategy and organisation consultant in a medium-sized consulting company and as entrepreneur partner in an agency for fundraising, marketing and communication with a focus on NGOs and SMEs.
Michael Haberfellner started his career at Welser Profile as a Construction Engineer and Technical Feasibility Engineer for punching tools and dies ten years ago. After his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Operations Management he returned in 2019 and stepped in as a Business Development Manager responsible for the setup of the new production site in America and the 1PLUS transformation – Our way to transform the organization into a more agile and flexible one to adapt for future challenges and to create opportunities even over next generations of our family owned business. Michael is part of the transformation steering team and focuses on managing projects and work packages to ensure an impactful continuous transformation. Since January 2022 he works as an internal trainer and leads our Sustainability circle.
Sarah Wietermann started her career at Welser Profiles five years ago as an executive assistant to the managing director of sales. Due to her skills in networking and working with people, she has accompanied the transformation process from the beginning and helped shape the change in corporate culture. Through her work as a sales controller, she was involved right from the start of the implementation of the cell structure within the company. Having lived abroad for several years, she was offered the opportunity last year to start the transformation process in our newly acquired American subsidiary. Today, Sarah works as an internal trainer to promote the roll-out of the self- governance and to make change tangible in all parts of the organization.
Christiane is a seasoned entrepreneur, international coach, consultant, speaker, author, andnpassionate self-organization specialist. She is among the people who pioneered Holacracy in Europe and is co-founder of encode.org llc and Evolution at Work – two enterprises that emerged from evolutionary insights after the game changed. Christiane has recently published her book “New Stories of Love, Power, and Purpose; A Global Invitation to Experiment With the Unknown”, in which she takes her readers on an insightful journey of the full depth and meaningful personal transformation of the shift into self-organization.
Patrick is founding partner at Xpreneurs.co. He has been coaching leaders and their organisations in building full-scale, effective and purpose-driven self-management practices for the last 7 years and worked as an Agile Coach and organizational development consultant for 10+ years before that. He is particularly interested in helping companies build effective, sustainable and resilient self-management practices, beyond hype, performances and make-belief. He’s a certified Holacracy Coach and Trainer.
Anna De Rose started her career at Welser Profile 21 years ago as a controller, then as a team leader in Controlling and, after returning from parental leave, in several roles in- and outside of the accounting department. In 2021, when management recognized the need to build a cell structure organization, Anna pioneered the transformation as a team member of Group Finance. She was actively involved in the transformation as a core team member. Today, in her role as a trainer, she guides departments and people into the cell structure organization and ensures an effective and continuous transformation.
I am responsible for holacracy implementation at Hypoport SE and all its subsidiaries. About half of the companies work purely holacratic (about 1200MA). Furthermore I am working as an Agile and Personal Coach. Everything I do is about how people can work together successfully. Previous stations were: Executive, Managing Director, Consultant, Self-employed, Software Developer.
