Hello — I’m Flo­ri­an. I’m a run­ner and an ambas­sador for Spot the Dot, help­ing raise aware­ness of melanoma and oth­er forms of skin can­cer. I’m also drawn to the small things that make life feel rich: the diver­si­ty of spe­cial­ty cof­fee, the stub­born silence of long bike rides, and those flash­es of cre­ativ­i­ty you find in fash­ion and design.

Pro­fes­sion­al­ly, I’ve spent the past two decades lead­ing teams, shap­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and help­ing orga­ni­za­tions nav­i­gate change. I’m cur­rent­ly in a peri­od of pro­fes­sion­al tran­si­tion — using it delib­er­ate­ly to deep­en my think­ing around orga­ni­za­tion­al psy­chol­o­gy, AI adop­tion, and the human side of trans­for­ma­tion. It has become an oppor­tu­ni­ty to ques­tion assump­tions, con­nect ideas across dis­ci­plines, and devel­op per­spec­tives I hope to bring into my next lead­er­ship role.

Every now and then, you’ll also find me behind the bar at Ben­son Cof­fee in Cologne. It’s a dif­fer­ent kind of work, but one that reminds me every week that pre­ci­sion, curios­i­ty and gen­uine human inter­ac­tion mat­ter just as much as strategy.

Skillset / Mindset / Toolset

Today 

• 2026 — current

• Career Tran­si­tion
• Orga­ni­za­tion­al Devel­op­ment, AI Adop­tion & Strate­gic Projects
• Delib­er­ate­ly using this peri­od to refine ideas, expand my exper­tise and devel­op new per­spec­tives on orga­ni­za­tion­al devel­op­ment, AI adop­tion and trans­for­ma­tion. Prepar­ing for the next lead­er­ship role while remain­ing active­ly engaged with cur­rent devel­op­ments across the field.

• 2025 — current

• Ben­son Cof­fee, Cologne
• Barista
• Mak­ing peo­ple hap­py, one cup at a time. Work­ing as a barista at Ben­son Cof­fee — a Cologne-based roast­ery obsessed with qual­i­ty. It’s about pre­ci­sion and patience: weigh­ing, tim­ing, extract­ing — and all the details that turn roast­ed beans into a drink that feels sim­ple but isn’t.

Education 

• 2021 — 2024

• FOM Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences, Cologne
• Mas­ter of Sci­ence: Busi­ness Psychology
• Extra-occu­pa­tion­al master’s degree in busi­ness psy­chol­o­gy with a focus on orga­ni­za­tion­al cul­ture, lead­er­ship, and the impact of data-dri­ven technologies.

• 1998 — 2006

• Rhen­ish Friedrich Wil­helm Uni­ver­si­ty of Bonn
• Mag­is­ter Artium: Art History
• Stud­ied art his­to­ry and Ger­man philol­o­gy with a focus on con­cep­tu­al art, body art, and medieval illu­mi­nat­ed man­u­scripts. Grad­u­at­ed with a the­sis on con­cep­tu­al artist Elke Krystufek.

Work History 

• 2019 — 2026

• S‑Communication Ser­vices, Düs­sel­dorf
• Com­pe­tence Lead
• At S‑Communication Ser­vices with­in the Ger­man Sav­ings Banks Finance Group, I led and devel­oped a cen­tral dig­i­tal orga­ni­za­tion­al unit in a high­ly reg­u­lat­ed, tech­nol­o­gy-dri­ven envi­ron­ment. The role was about gov­er­nance and deci­sion struc­tures, cross-func­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tion, AI-sup­port­ed process­es, agile ways of work­ing, and the orga­ni­za­tion­al con­di­tions that make tech­no­log­i­cal change usable in every­day work.

• 2020 — 2025

• Macro­me­dia Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences, Cologne
• Lec­tur­er
• Teach­ing dig­i­tal busi­ness mod­els, mon­e­ti­za­tion, and the orga­ni­za­tion­al impact of dig­i­tal media development.

• 2016 — 2019

• pris­ma, Düs­sel­dorf
• Edi­tor in Chief
• Led the strate­gic and orga­ni­za­tion­al devel­op­ment of one of Germany’s high­est-cir­cu­la­tion media brands dur­ing a phase of dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion — with a focus on dig­i­tal for­mats, clear­er process­es, cross-func­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tion, and new partnerships.

• 2013 — 2016

• t3n Mag­a­zine, Han­nover
• Man­ag­ing Editor
• Respon­si­ble for the orga­ni­za­tion­al and oper­a­tional devel­op­ment of dig­i­tal edi­to­r­i­al work: clear­er tar­gets, bet­ter struc­tures and work­flows, new for­mats, and the growth of t3n’s dig­i­tal reach.

• 2011 — 2013

• Lehm­bruck Muse­um, Duis­burg
• Head of Press and Pub­lic Relations
• Respon­si­ble for press and pub­lic rela­tions at an inter­na­tion­al­ly renowned muse­um for mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art, trans­lat­ing com­plex cul­tur­al con­tent for dif­fer­ent audi­ences and stakeholders.

• 2010 — 2011

• result, Cologne
• PR / Social Media Editor
• Worked at the inter­sec­tion of PR, dig­i­tal com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and social media in an ear­ly phase of dig­i­tal plat­form and com­mu­ni­ca­tion development.

• 2008 — 2010

• news.de, Leipzig
• Edi­tor, Man­ag­ing Edi­tor, Head of Busi­ness and Media Department
• Part of the found­ing team of news.de in an ear­ly phase of dig­i­tal plat­form and prod­uct devel­op­ment, build­ing edi­to­r­i­al and orga­ni­za­tion­al struc­tures and work­ing close­ly with prod­uct and devel­op­ment teams.

• 2006 — 2008

• Leipziger Volk­szeitung
• Trainee
• News­room train­ing with a focus on report­ing, edit­ing, research, and day-to-day edi­to­r­i­al work.

• 2001 — 2006

• Deutsche Welle / Stadt­magazin Schnüss / Gen­er­al-Anzeiger Bonn / JS-Magazin
• Free­lance Journalist
• Free­lance jour­nal­ism on arts, the­atre, and music — build­ing ear­ly expe­ri­ence across cul­tur­al report­ing, research, and edi­to­r­i­al work.

• 1997 — 2006

• Velofix, Bonn
• Bike Mes­sen­ger & Dispatcher
• A crash course in speed, coor­di­na­tion, street-lev­el logis­tics, and get­ting things done under pressure.