The ChangeLab Consulting Team

We are a team of certified coaches and consultants with more than 10 years of consulting and coaching
expierience. Many of our clients are start-ups, owner-managed companies,
Projekt- und Matrixorganisationen sowie öffentliche Einrichtungen. Als Team vereinen wir langjährige Führungserfahrung mit ausgewiesener Expertise in Systemtheorie und Organisationssoziologie, Personalentwicklung und moderne Führungstheorien.

Portrait von Dr. Arlena Jung

Dr. Arlena Jung

Consultant & Leadership Coach
Organisational Sociologist
& Systems Theorist

Dr. Arlena Jung

Navigating complexity, becoming the architect of your own world
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Leadership Coaching

Stephan Blässing

Consultant & C-Level Coach
former Managing Director

Stephan Blässing

Overcoming limitations, developing innovative solutions
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Das Wesentliche fokussieren

Stefan Lockwandt

Team Development & Agility
former Agil Coach

Stefan Lockwandt

Navigating change with a clear sense of priorities
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Business Coach

Michael Stein

Team Development & Coach
former HR-Director

Michael Stein

Understanding patterns, realizing your potential
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Portrait von Dr. Arlena Jung

Dr. Arlena Jung

For over 10 years, I have been supporting managers, teams and entire organizations in the successful implementation of their change projects.

As a systems theorist and organizational sociologist, I have many years of practice in understanding organisational complexities. As a consultant, I am equally motivated and fascinated by the effectiveness of targeted change measures.

Together, we develop innovative solutions, implementing them with a constructive mindest and, if necessary, a pinch of perseverance.

I founded ChangeLab Organizational Consulting in 2022. My goal and motivation: To provide ChangeLab clients with both the organizational expertise and the change and leadership expertise they need to deal effectivily with the complexity of real change processes as a well-coordinated team of highly qualified team of consultants.

What motivates and drives me: We live in an increasingly volatile and complex working world. I want to help my clients live as the architect of their own world instead of being a prisoner of existing dynamics. To this end, I accompany you in all phases of your change process - as a consultant, trusted sparring partner, as a solution-oriented coach and process facilitator.

What defines and distinguishes me: My analytical approach, my constructive mindset and my willingness to go the extra mile for my clients.

 

Consulting Areas
  • University Education
    • PhD in systems theory, communication science and organisational sociology, Bielefeld University
 (Scholarship, Grade: Summa Cum Laude)
    • Scholarship student at the George-Washington-University, Washington D.C., Sociology
    • Political Science and History at the Friedrich-Alexander Universtiy Erlangen-Nürnberg
    • Sociology and History, Charls University Prague
  • Scientific studies on organisational change processes
  • University lecturer for "Leaderhip and Healthy Leadership", "Organisational Behaviour", "Intercultural Competence" and "Organisational Development"
  • Leadership Experience
    • 6 years of experience as department head
      (SignumBerlin Business & DEKRA Hochschule Berlin)
    • 5 years of experience as a team leader and in project management 
  • Head of the ChangeLab Academy for Systemic Development 
    • Training Program for Systemic Coaching, certified by the European Coaching Association
    • Training Program for Systemic Organisational Development
  • Specialized Qualifications
    • Process and embodiment focussed psychology® (PEP 1), certified by the medical council of lower saxony
    • Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
    • Coaching Instructor, ECA certified
    • Sytemic Business Coach, isiBerlin, SG certified
    • Systemic Organization Consultancy, artop – Institut an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
  • Academic High School Diploma, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Change Management - 100 page course script for the Euporean University of Innovation and Perspectives, 2021

    Trust-based Leadership - necessity or hype?
    Zeitschrift: Wissensmanagement > Ausgabe 2/2021

    Remote Leadership - Principals, Tools and Practices of Successful Virtual Collaboration
    Collaboration
    Ratgeber bei EXPERTEmagazin, 2021

    Employee retention - tools and strategies in an increasingly heterogenous world „STAY – Die Konferenz für Mitarbeiterbindung“ der Quadriga Media GmbH, Berlin 12.02.2020


    Strategic management in project and expert organisation - dilemmas and success strategies, business psychology, regional group, Berlin-Brandenburg, guest speaker, 13.03.2017

    Systemic Organisational Development: Theoretical foundations and methodological principals, guest speaker, Erfurt University, December 2016

    Teaching and learning culture - a question of group dynamics, in: Die Neue Hochschule, October Edition, 2016 Die Neue Hochschule, Oktober Heft, 2016

    Successfully managing change in expert and project organisations, in: „wissensmanagement – Das Magazin für Führungskräfte, 03/2016

    Private Universities: Organisationl characterstics, strategic development and university politics, in: Die Neue Hochschule, Dezember Heft, 2015

    The Multiple Regimes of Scientific Advisory Agencies, European Group for Organisational Studies, Montreal 2014.

    Conflict Management: From Negotiation to Socialisation, European Group for Organisational Studies, Helsinki 2012.

    Packing and unpacking intercultural communication. How intercultural collaboration can work inspite of negative conflict dynamics. in: Wirtschaft Regional. Das Wirtschaftsmagazin für Führungskräfte in der Region, 9/2011, p. 16-17; 2011.

    Culture Matters – The Success Story of the Volkswagen-Skoda Venture, mit Dr. Matthias Klemm, Prof. Dr. Gert Schmidt, Vlado Simeunovic and Prof. Dr. Ilja Srubar, in: Michael Faust, Ulrich Voskamp und Volker Wittke (Hrsg.): European Industrial Restructuring in a Global Economy. Fragementation and Relocation of Valus Chains, Göttingen:

Leadership Coaching

Stephan Blässing

I have been advising and supporting middle and senior managers as a coach and management consultant since 2017. Prior to that, I worked as a project and team leader, as well as 10 years at top management level as Managing Director in two major international companies - as Managing Director of Porsche Berlin and Daimler-Benz.

What defines me as a coach and consultant: With a total of twenty years of leadership experience, I have extensive and experience-based leadership expertise. 
With this knowledge , I provide you with tools and practices that you can use immediately. Measurably increasing efficiency and optimizing processes is a key aspect of my consulting work.

What motivates and drives me: Achieving goals, developing innovative ideas and solutions with new ways of thinking, increasing leadership performance.

Consulting Areas
  • Leadership Experience
    • 10 years of leadership experience in top management (managing director of Porsche Berlin, managing director of Daimler-Benz)
    • 10 years of leadership expertise as a project manager and in middle management
  • Specialized Qualifications
    • Porsche Executive Programm
    • Daimler-Benz Senior Management Programm
    • Systemich Coach, ECA certified
    • Systemich Coach, ECA certified

After studying business intelligence and process management I worked in strategic and organisational development in tech Startup and then passed on this experience as an agile coach. I am currently responsible for 7 teams in the role of a delivery manager. In addition to my years of experience in value-based coaching (St. Gallen Coaching Modell®) as a graduate of the Hasso-Plattner Institute I bring a Design Thinking expertise and well-founded knowledge of co-creative processes to my consulting projects. 

My goal is to help create organisations in which every employee experiences himself as making a valuable contribution to the common organisational goals. And this in an atmosphere characterised by mutual appreciation, entrepreneurial clarity and team-spirit. I help make sure all relevant interests, perspectives and ideas are brought to the table, creating a robust and integrative road map for future development. I see facilitating an open and constructive mindset as a key aspect of my work as a consultant.

What defines me as a consultant: I combine an open minded approach to challenging situations with pragmatism. I see helping my clients set clear goals and focus on priorities as a key aspect of my work - both in my team development processes and in my coaching sessions. What counts are solutions that work. And the best solutions are often the simplest. In my experience success often means both the willingness to experiment with the possibilities and finding the easiest most pragmatic way of overcoming challenges: Never losing sight of priorities while working together to achieve your goals. Dealing pragmatically with obstacles as they arise.

Consulting Areas
  • University Education
    • B.Sc.Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen (Werkstoff- und Prozesstechnik)
    • M.Sc. Business Intelligence and Process Management, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
  • Research on Strategy Implementation Process in Universities and Colleges
  • Agile Team Coach and Delivery Manager at REWE digital
  • Agil Product Development
  • Specialized Qualifications
    • Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
    • Value-orientated systemic coach and consultant (St. Gallen Coaching Modell®)
    • Design Thinking @HPI
    • Strategic Management
       
Business Coach

Michael Stein

For the past 15 years I have been helping companies develop their personell and adjust their organisational designs to changing circumstances.

In my consultancy work I often focus on leadership, productivity and purpose. I bring a deep understanding of how powerful these three aspects of both individual, team and organisational development can be - based on my own experience in leadership positions and as the former head of the human resource and organisational development department at the Hertie School Berlin.

As a systemic consultant I have a differentiated understanding of contextual factors that contribute to a healthy working environment, making long-term success more than just a possibility. As a psychotherapist I help my clients understand implications of management decisions on the organisational culture, on employee motivation and employee retention.

What drives and motivates me: Developing organisations in which employees derive their motivation from getting things done and making things work. As power is an important factor in every organisation I want to help create a working environment in which it is used responsibly and productively.

Consulting Areas