Help your organization move forwardHelp your organization move forward
Capable teams. Too much getting in their way. Capable teams. Too much getting in their way.
Your people want to do a good job. Yet decisions take too long, releases keep slipping, or new ideas never get tried. I work with your leaders and their people to help them move forward.
Decisions take too long, releases slip, or ideas never get tried. I work with your leaders and their people to understand what needs to change and help them make it happen.
Leadership advice and hands-on support.
Practical ways to explore how people work together.
Trusted by organizations including
What could become possible
Faster delivery
Help decisions and delivery move closer to the people doing the work, so simple features stop taking forever and the team keeps improving.
Explore faster deliveryIdeas customers want
Turn more ideas into products customers ask for, by testing early and building the capability to keep experimenting.
Become more innovativeKeep good leaders
Develop leaders who stay, grow others, and help the organization keep improving instead of losing the people who just became valuable.
Retain talentWorking with Matthias
Develop your people. Improve how work gets done.
I advise leadership groups, facilitate workshops, and work alongside the people making the change.
Leadership development & collaboration
Build stronger leadership and collaboration.
Develop leaders who help people make decisions, speak openly, and work through disagreements. I work with you to improve cooperation across teams, departments, and cultures, so good people can contribute more.
Innovation, product & engineering
Turn ideas into products customers want.
Test promising ideas with customers and help teams build and release better products. I bring experience as a developer and founder, from early experiments to test-driven development, more frequent releases, and fewer handoffs.
Sometimes you need both.
A team can learn to test ideas quickly and still be held back if every experiment needs a promise of success. When that happens, I work with the team and the leaders who can change those expectations.
Whether you know where to start or need help figuring it out, we can decide on a useful first step together.
Choose a first step
Keynotes & speaking
Give people something worth talking about after the event.
Stories from building companies and working with people, on leadership, innovation, and learning from mistakes. Sometimes with music.
Coaching & courses
You don't have to work through every difficult situation alone.
Bring the team conflict, difficult conversation, or workshop you're preparing. Get a second perspective and practical ideas for what to try next.
Live courses
Build practical skills in leadership, Scrum, conflict, product, or technical work.
See coursesTools you can use
Something useful for your next workshop.
Guides, posters, books, and facilitation materials to help you prepare and try something with your team.
Writing from experience
A closer look at why work gets difficult.
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What would you like to make possible?
Tell me what you want to achieve, or what's making it difficult. You don't need a finished brief or know which kind of help to ask for.
