Andrea Griesinger

As a consultant, I prefer to work on large change projects that have extensive and profound effects on the entire organization. I am interested in sorting and solving tricky and apparently difficult situations. I like to make things "work", both by designing a viable transformation architecture and by pragmatically implementing measures to improve collaboration. Here and there, my preference for what is feasible and my strong solution orientation come in very handy.

My many years of experience in international project management have led me to successively work on improving the interaction and learning of globally distributed, virtual teams. The special demands on managers in this situation are therefore well known to me both from my own management experience and from my consulting practice.

As a personal coach, I support specialists and executives in “sorting” and reorienting themselves in difficult and conflict-ridden change situations.

In addition to my consulting work, I am committed to diversity in companies, especially women in management positions, as well as to the compatibility of career and family, in the networks Working Moms and net4tec .

my foundation

After studying business administration at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, I completed the international trainee program of a mechanical and plant engineering group.

After founding an internal start-up for e-business consulting, I switched to an international technology consultancy, where I held various specialist and management positions for several years. As a trained process consultant (CMMI, ITIL), project manager (according to PMI) and business coach (DCV), I was most recently responsible for change management consulting for major customers in Central & Eastern Europe.

I have been a partner at Upgrade since 2014.