Dr. Dagmar Woetzel

Your competitors can copy nearly everything in a short time frame, from innovative technical designs, through marketing formats to smart processes. What they cannot copy is the ability of your team to collaborate and find smart solutions to the challenges that innovation or market developments challenge your business with, or the relationships your team has built with clients and partners. The ability to constantly adapt their collaboration and relationships can be "trained" like a muscle in small ways. Then, your team can react swiftly in times of a crisis or when new opportunties show themselves.

Training the adaptive muscle is not a standard program. For me, it is very individual to this team in this market / situation right now - while a lot of the core elements repeat itself. There are core methods and approaches behind, that inspire the process, so that you can profit from a learning curve of other teams. The Art is to create a stage for the team and help them define their own path, not create a program that is executed. This is way more sustainable.

I love to get started with the Executive and their Leadership Team in an Offsite, to define the desired outcome and the approach they feel comfortable with. In a next step, we involve more people and grow the effort from there, in a co-creative and ecosystemic way. If needed, I can be on stage to design, coach or facilitate. Often, and more over time, I support the team to co-create and execute by themselves. This builds step by step the adaptive muscle they need.

For an individual or small team up to 8 people: A retreat in my small village, with undivided attention to reflect where you are, what you face, what helps you and what is in your way can take 24 to 48 hours. You will leave centered and refeshed. We can focus on you and your inner development. And amend that with a rough design of how to engage your team to bring the results into your everyday. For an individual or team of any size: we retreat to any location and reflect deeply about the situation and needs of the team and the organization. We co-create steps forward and set up structures to bring the ideas to life. This offsite is engaging and co-creative, seeding and nurturing adaptibility in the team.

A 3 day seminar in an exclusive group of max. 8 participants of Executives, Leaders and Organization Development Experts or Coaches, using the groups insights and emotional intelligence of horses to go deep, reflect and bounce back stronger. You will leave with a clear focus on your purpose after 3 days of being present and disconnected from the hectic of your everyday.

Also available as individual coaching session, e.g. as part of a 48 hour Pivot.Point Retreat.

• People Transformation Lead in Digitalization@PG.
• Member of the PG Transformation Support Office.
• Supporting the CTO in the further development of the TI department as an incubator for the division's future business.

Special achievements:

• Self organized transformation community with 2.600 members Helping the team keep healthy and motivated during layoff of more than 6.000 people of 27.000

• Faces of Transformation – self organized Siemens-wide global virtual popup week with 115 sessions and more than 5.000 participants.

• Supporting Business Excellence and Siemens Leadership Excellence as an expert for adaptive organizations.
• Key note presentations on adaptive organizations and subsequent support in building programs of transformation and digitalization.

Special achievements:

• Triggering conversations outside the usual organizational principles at all levels.

• Establishment and management of the cross-divisional R&D Project Management working group.
• Establishment and moderation of the overarching Product Management working group and management of the "Career" team.
• Development and management of group-wide PLM benchmarking to compare internal and external working methods.

Special achievements:

• By moderating and shaping the collaboration, high motivation of all participants to get involved, which led to very quickly available and generally recognized summaries and good practices that were considered relevant.

• Organization of the global steering committee as well as support and coaching of the regional PM@Siemens coordinators.
• Creation and editing of the Siemens project management handbook for customer projects in cooperation with the global community.
• Responsibility for design, development and global roll out of the Siemens LoA tool (Limits of Authority)
• Further development and support of the local implementation of the Project Manager Certification in the Siemens Group. Special achievements: • Globally understandable preparation of the requirements and anchoring in the internal control mechanisms of the Siemens Group, total circulation of the PM manual over 30,000 copies.
• Design and roll out of a learning program to share the core elements of the guide to all teams in project business with ~ 20.000 participants within 18 months globally

The logic of researched and described management and leadership theories must evolve in the age of digitalization. The original research question of “implementing strategic decisions in for profit companies efficiently” does not fit the reality of disruptive changes in the VUCA world. The thesis is brave and precious as it helps to reveal and close the gap between new developments in the business world and missing theoretical concepts in the management, leadership and organizational sciences. The first part of the thesis summarizes state of the art insights concerning strategic decision making in companies, global megatrends as framework conditions and change management as implementation support. This holistic view allows the conclusion that the research question at the start is solving a 20th century challenge, which does not provide helpful answers for the age of digitalization. This results in a development of the research question to “How can an adaptive Organization be created and nurtured?” This type of organization is designed to not only survive, but indeed benefit from the disruptive changes. These use the disruption to find new answers to continuously developing customer needs and for the internal organization. Adaptive organizations need to be reflected in 5 core dimensions, which are analyzed and developed in the main part of the thesis. All of those are in a continuous development and it is not yet clear, which methods will sustain. The last chapter provides guidance in the spirit of a holistic transformation management, how to start developing the adaptability of an organization. The thorough discussion of a wealth of concepts and approaches combined with the extensive practical experience of the author allows a more profound approach to the research question than a strictly academic research. Free download of the German thesis and English disputation slides here:

TMS is a profile to help employees understand their work preferences and help teams to align around their objectives and team members preferences to create and foster high performing teams

Siemens internal certification based on proven results created in business relevant customer projects

Focus areas: Logistics, Management Information Systems, English

De-mystify OD, identify talent and good practices, establish a frame and develop the community to support, design, share and nurture OD as a practice on all levels. From working in the system, e.g. facilitating Continuous Improvement activities in a factory, to working on the system, e.g. designing a new business model for a new market - all elements need to fit together to give their business the tailwind they need for the adaptive challenges they face. I contribute by facilitating a community of OD Experts from different Businesses, offering an "OD Practitioner Lab" for active OD Practitioners to align and calibrate their practices, to creating a learning program for all employees to de-mystify OD and help everyone to contribute in small ways and train their adaptive muscle.

After an initial workshop with the Executives and their Leadership team, I'm now supporting the majority of the Leaders in their own processes with their teams.

From Leaders not being able to sleep anymore, to adaptive challenges, the next career step, a frustration that their impact is not visible enough to Executives thinking about the next evolutionary step for their business ... the reasons Executives and Leaders engage with me around adaptive challenges, a desire to engage with their people in new ways, or re-connecting with the intuitive and emotional side of their role. The outcome is clarity, presence and a focus on their purpose, with the means to bring the insights to life in their everyday.

I help individuals at all levels of management find smart answers for the extreme changes we face. Teams and organizations achieve lasting success thanks to the innovative methodologies and practical coaching I offer, which are based on decades of real-world multinational experience and specialized research on business transformation topics.

• Motivational presentations, coaching, workshops, webinars – covering ways to make your transformation journey a success
• Share the experience of special moments that have changed a person’s or group’s views, understanding, paradigms, or outlook
• A warm heart and a quick mind, with more than 30 years of professional experience and a passion for sparking and supporting lasting change at organizations: that's me.