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 work at the inter­sec­tion of orga­ni­za­tion­al psy­chol­o­gy, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and change. I’m inter­est­ed in how peo­ple, cul­ture, and lan­guage shape whether change actu­al­ly works in every­day prac­tice. And every now and then, you’ll also find me behind the bar at Ben­son Cof­fee in Cologne — qual­i­ty-dri­ven, proud­ly nerdy. If you’re curi­ous about my sto­ry, or you just want to grab my résumé, you’re in the right spot.

Skillset / Mindset / Toolset

Today 

• 2026 — current

• Free­lance, Cologne Bonn Region / hybrid
• Free­lance Project Lead — Trans­for­ma­tion, Peo­ple & Communication
• Sup­port­ing orga­ni­za­tions in scal­ing and change: crisp stake­hold­er com­mu­ni­ca­tion, reli­able oper­at­ing rhythms, clear deci­sion-mak­ing, strong col­lab­o­ra­tion, and prac­ti­cal lead­er­ship enable­ment. Avail­able for select­ed free­lance projects and open to the right per­ma­nent role.

• 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 (and tro­phies on the side). Here, it’s about pre­ci­sion and patience: weigh­ing, tim­ing, extract­ing — all the details that turn roast­ed beans into a drink that feels sim­ple but isn’t. And it’s about joy: watch­ing some­one take that first sip and know­ing the day just got a lit­tle better.

Education 

• 2021 — 2024

• FOM Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences, Cologne
• Mas­ter of Sci­ence: Busi­ness Psychology
• Extra-occu­pa­tion­al mas­ter course in busi­ness psy­chol­o­gy with research focus­es on orga­ni­za­tion­al cul­ture, lead­er­ship, and big data.

• 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, my role grew into more than team lead­er­ship. I was respon­si­ble for edi­to­r­i­al units in the bank­ing con­text, but just as much for the con­di­tions that make change work: hir­ing and onboard­ing well, devel­op­ing peo­ple, intro­duc­ing agile rou­tines, facil­i­tat­ing work­shops, and cre­at­ing a men­tor­ing pro­gram for man­agers. Along­side that, I con­tributed to broad­er trans­for­ma­tion efforts — from AI-relat­ed com­mit­tee work and inter­nal enable­ment to the redesign of con­tent process­es, clear­er inter­faces, and stronger gov­er­nance. Look­ing back, the role was real­ly about one thing: build­ing envi­ron­ments in which peo­ple, struc­tures, and new tech­nol­o­gy could move for­ward together.

• 2020 — 2025

• Macro­me­dia Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences, Cologne
• Lec­tur­er
• As a lec­tur­er in Jour­nal­ism, PR and Media Man­age­ment, I worked with stu­dents on dig­i­tal busi­ness mod­els, help­ing them turn con­tent-dri­ven ideas into viable prod­ucts, busi­ness plans, and sus­tain­able rev­enue models.

• 2016 — 2019

• pris­ma, Düs­sel­dorf
• Edi­tor in chief
• As Edi­tor in Chief, I helped turn one of Germany’s high­est-cir­cu­la­tion print mag­a­zines into a stronger dig­i­tal prod­uct — expand­ing chan­nels, build­ing new for­mats and part­ner­ships, and improv­ing the process­es behind the content.

• 2013 — 2016

• t3n Mag­a­zine, Han­nover
• Man­ag­ing Editor
• As Man­ag­ing Edi­tor, I was respon­si­ble not just for out­put, but for how the team worked: set­ting tar­gets, improv­ing struc­tures and work­flows, launch­ing new for­mats, and help­ing dri­ve the growth of t3n’s dig­i­tal reach.

• 2011 — 2013

• Lehm­bruck Muse­um, Duis­burg
• Head of Press and PR
• Led press and pub­lic rela­tions for exhi­bi­tions and insti­tu­tion­al com­mu­ni­ca­tions, work­ing to raise vis­i­bil­i­ty, strength­en media pres­ence, and con­nect con­tem­po­rary art with wider audiences.

• 2010 — 2011

• result, Cologne
• PR / Social Media Editor
• Worked at the inter­sec­tion of PR and social media, shap­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion strate­gies and turn­ing them into clear, con­sis­tent dig­i­tal storytelling.

• 2008 — 2010

• news.de, Leipzig
• Edi­tor, Man­ag­ing Edi­tor, Head of Busi­ness and Media Department
• As part of the found­ing team at news.de, I helped build the por­tal from an ear­ly stage — lead­ing the Busi­ness and Media sec­tion, devel­op­ing edi­to­r­i­al work­flows, and work­ing close­ly with devel­op­ers as the prod­uct evolved.

• 2006 — 2008

• Leipziger Volk­szeitung
• Trainee
• Com­plet­ed my news­room train­ing and built the edi­to­r­i­al foun­da­tion of my career through report­ing, edit­ing, and day-to-day news­room work.

• 2001 — 2006

• Deutsche Welle / Stadt­magazin Schnüss / Gen­er­al-Anzeiger Bonn / JS-Magazin
• Free­lance Journalist
• As a free­lance jour­nal­ist, I wrote on arts, the­atre, and music for sev­er­al pub­li­ca­tions, build­ing ear­ly expe­ri­ence across cul­tur­al report­ing and edi­to­r­i­al work.

• 1997 — 2006

• Velofix, Bonn
• Bike Mes­sen­ger & Dispatcher
• Worked as a bike mes­sen­ger and dis­patch­er — a crash course in speed, coor­di­na­tion, street-lev­el logis­tics, and get­ting things done under pressure.