Born in 1970, I studied Process Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Bergedorf, fascinated by the possibility of improving the world through technology.
A pivotal experience occurred when a professor there explained that it is not the technologies, but rather the "lawyers" and "business administrators" who decide what happens in the world.
As a result, I promptly switched to studying Applied Cultural Sciences at the University of Lüneburg, where I successfully combined natural sciences with business, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. Topics included, among others, logic and the management of complexity—human versus machine. Yes, I dealt with artificial intelligence more than 30 years ago.
During my studies, as part of the research group for Cybernetic Corporate Management, I developed the KNOW-WHY wave as an iconographic representation of an event space to illustrate the necessary duality of integration and further development.
I worked in agriculture and forestry, as well as in various departments of a large company—from human resources and development to production. I also completed a six-month internship in mechanical engineering.
While still a student, I became self-employed, offering IT training and software development. I developed several intelligent database solutions, including a revolutionary Enterprise Information System. This was followed by work in adult education (including communication training, motivation, business formation, negotiation management, and leadership).
Since 1998, I have been conducting workshops on systems thinking and the KNOW-WHY approach. I developed my own software, "ilsa-SEB," for qualitative cause-and-effect modeling.
I established connections with the international research project "Decision Support" and Franc Grimm, leading to the joint spin-off of Consideo GmbH.
I have been responsible for software development, which today is known as iMODELER. Prior to this, I worked on projects involving the integration of SAP, OLAP/BI, the Traveling Salesman Problem, Theory of Constraints, intellectual capital reporting, and more.
As a moderator and consultant with Consideo, I have worked with numerous small and large clients on a wide range of topics—from product development and team culture to strategy development and process optimization. Clients have included banks, the automotive and chemical industries, the German Federal Armed Forces, the European Patent Office, and many others.
I have served as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Lübeck (Systems Thinking), authored books, spoken at events, and taught in school projects.
As a scientist, I have focused on sustainability topics: transformation, renewable energies, mobility, agriculture and forestry, resources, climate change, welfare, bioeconomy, and politics.
I have participated in various international projects and appearances in Europe (including for the EEA), the USA (including GWU), and Africa (ZEF).
I am networked through the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of International Development, the German Society for System Dynamics, as an Elsevier reviewer, and via brainGuide, CompetenceSite, and others.
Future: A good mix of consulting and research, workshops and international projects and encounters. A few more book topics, online courses, and also some additional concepts for the iMODELER.
A pivotal experience occurred when a professor there explained that it is not the technologies, but rather the "lawyers" and "business administrators" who decide what happens in the world.
As a result, I promptly switched to studying Applied Cultural Sciences at the University of Lüneburg, where I successfully combined natural sciences with business, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. Topics included, among others, logic and the management of complexity—human versus machine. Yes, I dealt with artificial intelligence more than 30 years ago.
During my studies, as part of the research group for Cybernetic Corporate Management, I developed the KNOW-WHY wave as an iconographic representation of an event space to illustrate the necessary duality of integration and further development.
I worked in agriculture and forestry, as well as in various departments of a large company—from human resources and development to production. I also completed a six-month internship in mechanical engineering.
While still a student, I became self-employed, offering IT training and software development. I developed several intelligent database solutions, including a revolutionary Enterprise Information System. This was followed by work in adult education (including communication training, motivation, business formation, negotiation management, and leadership).
Since 1998, I have been conducting workshops on systems thinking and the KNOW-WHY approach. I developed my own software, "ilsa-SEB," for qualitative cause-and-effect modeling.
I established connections with the international research project "Decision Support" and Franc Grimm, leading to the joint spin-off of Consideo GmbH.
I have been responsible for software development, which today is known as iMODELER. Prior to this, I worked on projects involving the integration of SAP, OLAP/BI, the Traveling Salesman Problem, Theory of Constraints, intellectual capital reporting, and more.
As a moderator and consultant with Consideo, I have worked with numerous small and large clients on a wide range of topics—from product development and team culture to strategy development and process optimization. Clients have included banks, the automotive and chemical industries, the German Federal Armed Forces, the European Patent Office, and many others.
I have served as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Lübeck (Systems Thinking), authored books, spoken at events, and taught in school projects.
As a scientist, I have focused on sustainability topics: transformation, renewable energies, mobility, agriculture and forestry, resources, climate change, welfare, bioeconomy, and politics.
I have participated in various international projects and appearances in Europe (including for the EEA), the USA (including GWU), and Africa (ZEF).
I am networked through the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of International Development, the German Society for System Dynamics, as an Elsevier reviewer, and via brainGuide, CompetenceSite, and others.
Future: A good mix of consulting and research, workshops and international projects and encounters. A few more book topics, online courses, and also some additional concepts for the iMODELER.
North Germans supposedly don’t talk much (about themselves). However, my annual Holistic Integration and Development Plan (GIEP) with the KNOW-WHY-Thenking and -Methodology naturally enables high satisfaction, regardless of the fact that I also have bad luck, but am even luckier not to have greater misfortune!
Without being wealthy by the standards of my environment and, of course, often doing things that aren’t fun for me, I can still look forward to a certain, planned happiness, emancipated from the influences/values of my surroundings. My doing, having, and being, and my social environment, mean abundant felt integration and further development each year.
If only it weren’t for the chronic lack of time and the gray season in Germany.
“Do good and talk about it,” whereby we can really still improve everything and still have too much:
and most recently there’s casa ilsa, our “bio-apartment” in Portugal: www.casa-ilsa.com
With this, we have an answer to the gray winter in Germany, but we’re enlarging our footprint again. At least we consistently compensate and combine the trips with the train
... and we’re happy to rent to people who also want to pay attention to their footprint :-)
Without being wealthy by the standards of my environment and, of course, often doing things that aren’t fun for me, I can still look forward to a certain, planned happiness, emancipated from the influences/values of my surroundings. My doing, having, and being, and my social environment, mean abundant felt integration and further development each year.
If only it weren’t for the chronic lack of time and the gray season in Germany.
“Do good and talk about it,” whereby we can really still improve everything and still have too much:
- we practice climate gardening (Terra Preta, etc.)
- vegan, with only vegetarian exceptions
- only one electric car now, ...
- ... otherwise train and bicycle (with large trailer)
- energy-efficiently renovated old house with natural building materials
- solar thermal, water-carrying wood stove, heat pump coming soon
- PV system with large storage in the basement
- fair-trade organic clothing
- organic food, much from the region, but still much unnecessarily packaged
- repair and build a lot ourselves
- my better half makes food (juices, spreads, bread, ice cream, etc.) herself
- ecological investments (great returns!)
- club/association work
- neighborhood assistance
- sustainable donations (Plan, Greenpeace, Campact, etc.)
- vacation mostly sailing on our own keel (so hardly any long-distance travel anymore) with electric drive, biocide-free underwater coating, composting toilet, drinking water filter, solar
- ...
and most recently there’s casa ilsa, our “bio-apartment” in Portugal: www.casa-ilsa.com
With this, we have an answer to the gray winter in Germany, but we’re enlarging our footprint again. At least we consistently compensate and combine the trips with the train
... and we’re happy to rent to people who also want to pay attention to their footprint :-)