Jörg Bakschas

About me

• Workspace specialist, agile coach and speaker
• >30 years of experience working with international teams in various industries, in Europe and the USA.
• Worked in leading management positions in the office furniture industry
• Owner of Headroom-Consult since 2009
• >15 years of active participation in the Fraunhofer IAO joint research project “Office-21”.
• Standardization expert for the Office & Working World Industry Association (iba) at DIN, CEN and ISO level
• Examiner for Quality Office certifications.
• Dipl. Business Economist (FH)
• Certified ergonomics consultant
• Certified coach in business
• Certified Change Professional

  
  

  Experience
  

  • 60 employees
  • EUR 10 million development and marketing budget
  • Support and implementation of several transformation processes as a member of the management team
  • Responsibility for European teams
  • Metal and furniture manufacturing
  • Keynote speaker
  • Trainer & Change Coach
  • Corporate culture & brand design
  
  

  
  

  Services

  
  

  Sales and marketing strategy development

  • Development of alternative/complementary sales strategies (markets, people, processes)
  • Training and coaching of the people involved (internal/external)
  • Conception of internal and external marketing and communication measures
  • Analysis and design of corporate culture
  • Support/coaching of operational implementation
  
  

  Organizational development

  • Critical examination of existing organizational formats and processes
  • Adaptation of the organizational structure to corporate strategic goals and needs
  • Implementation of New Work in conjunction with agile forms of work and office strategy
  • Change management, support of the change processes
  
  

  Product development

  • Determination of customer benefits and product portfolio strategy
  • Implementation of agile methods (design thinking)
  • Design control in an international environment
  • Support in developing a sustainability strategy
  
  

  internationality

  • Ten years of work in the German subsidiary of an American company as a member of the management team
  • Foreign projects in Europe, Switzerland, the UK and the USA
  • Standardization expert at DIN, CEN and ISO level
  
  

  Industry sectors

  • Banks (5 years)
  • Plastics processing (2 years)
  • Office furniture (>20 years)
  • Ergonomic services (>10 years)
  • Training, coaching, speaker (>10 years)
  
  

  credentials (Abstract)

  Strategy development, product development and marketing

  • Haworth GmbH
  • Schiffer GmbH
  • Polschröder GmbH
  
  

  Organizational development/workspace strategy

  • BASF, Ludwigshafen
  • Audi, Ingolstadt
  • Adapt Europe, Willich
  
  

  Ergonomics advice

  • United Nations, Bonn
  • EPO European Patent Office, Munich
  • Ergosquad, Willich/Denver
  
  

  Speaker/Trainer

  • Lufthansa
  • DGUV
  • German railway
  • Nowy Style Group

  
  

  Keynote speaker

  • Lufthansa
  • German Lighting Technology Society
  • Trilux
  • German railway
  • DGUV
  • Etc.

  
  

  

  
  

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