I help you to make your organization sustainably innovative

With my expertise I …

• sup­port com­pa­nies in devel­op­ing and exe­cut­ing their dig­i­tal strat­e­gy.
• devel­op inno­v­a­tive prod­ucts or ser­vices with and for (media) orga­ni­za­tions.
• imple­ment process­es in com­pa­nies hat enable sus­tain­able inno­va­tion work.
• work with orga­ni­za­tions to advance their dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion process.
• help assess inno­va­tion poten­tial and iden­ti­fy areas for improve­ment.

With my connection between NYC and Europe I …

• cre­ate reports on the lat­est and most rel­e­vant trends in the media indus­try.
• do cus­tomized research on rel­e­vant inno­va­tion top­ics on your behalf.
• arrange tai­lor-made tours and con­nect you with the most impor­tant rep­re­sen­ta­tives of your indus­try in New York City and the US.
• can act as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of your busi­ness in NYC and the US.
• pro­vide knowl­edge of the euro­pean media scene and con­nect US media com­pa­nies to the euro­pean media indus­try.

How I work

• User cen­tric — I explore cus­tomer and mar­ket needs using state-of-the-art meth­ods such as User Cen­tered Design, Pro­to­type Test­ing or the Jobs-to-Be-Done approach.
• Sus­tain­able — I empow­er you and your teams to car­ry out inno­va­tion process­es autonomous­ly and suc­cess­ful­ly in the future.
• Effi­cient — I am fast, prag­mat­ic and use your exist­ing resources and exper­tise.
• Tai­lor-made — I ana­lyze and eval­u­ate the inno­va­tion poten­tial of your com­pa­ny and the require­ments of the mar­ket envi­ron­ment. I do not apply a “one size fits all” approach.
• Con­crete — I devel­op mar­ketable prod­ucts and effec­tive process­es with you and for you, instead of build­ing cas­tles in the sky.
• Goal-ori­ent­ed — I work with mea­sur­able tar­gets and KPI to eval­u­ate suc­cess and progress of our projects.
• Glob­al net­work — I work with an inter­na­tion­al net­work of experts to pro­vide you with the best pos­si­ble ser­vice and knowl­edge.

Who I am

After many years in var­i­ous man­age­ment posi­tions at Austria’s lead­ing media plat­form Standard.at, which I co-found­ed in 1995, I set up my own inno­va­tion con­sul­tan­cy “The Engage­ment Lab” in 2013. The agency sup­ports com­pa­nies in the devel­op­ment of dig­i­tal strate­gies and inno­v­a­tive prod­ucts as well as in the intro­duc­tion of user-cen­tered inno­va­tion process­es.

With more than thir­ty projects rang­ing from com­mu­ni­ca­tion, media, con­sumer brands to the tech­nol­o­gy sec­tor and my exten­sive net­work, I am an expe­ri­enced inno­va­tion expert work­ing main­ly in Europe and the USA.

I deep­ened my exper­tise in the field of dig­i­tal inno­va­tion in 2011/2012 dur­ing a research and work stay as a Knight Fel­low­ship Affil­i­ate at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. In addi­tion to inno­va­tion man­age­ment and process­es, I focused on dig­i­tal busi­ness strate­gies and user cen­tered prod­uct devel­op­ment in the heart of Sil­i­con Val­ley.

After sev­er­al years in Vien­na, Palo Alto, Ham­burg, Zurich and Oxford, I will be based in New York City start­ing Jan­u­ary 2019.