HPI Academy: Strategic Design Thinking For Every Day - Fall 2022

Annie Kerguenne is leading Design Thinking Strategist and Master Coach at Hasso Plattner Intstitute. She joined the HPI in 2013 to further develop the Design Thinking offer with formats for executives who want to implement the agile methodology in their working culture. Annie actively contributes to the evolution of Strategic Design Thinking as a leadership strategy for managing cultural change. Since more than a decade, she is also mentoring Startups in the area of identity building. She is contributing author in “Design Thinking Live” and co-author of “Design Thinking - the Agile Innovation Method”. Her Background: Interdisciplinary studies in business economics, psychology and sociolinguistics have been Annie’s stepping stone into the creative business management where she worked as an Executive Managing Director, Creative Director and Strategic Planner in global networks as well as in independent innovation- & creative agencies for more than two decades.

As Workshop Manager at the HPI Academy, Mara Meisel facilitates online and offline workshops for executives, designing educational concepts for implementing Design Thinking in a corporate environment. Before joining the HPI Academy, she taught innovation management and entrepreneurship as a research associate at the University of Potsdam. She has a background in business administration with a focus on managing innovation and marketing and started her own Design Thinking journey during her training at HPI School of Design Thinking.

The HPI Academy is the continuing education arm of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI) at the University of Potsdam. HPI was established by Hasso Plattner to realize his vision of a university for the future. HPI teaches and conducts research in IT systems engineering, digital health, entrepreneurship, and Design Thinking. The HPI Academy makes this knowledge available to professionals already in the workplace. HPI Academy clients benefit from an unmistakable combination of research and teaching on future-oriented topics and practical experience from a wealth of corporate projects. HPI Academy's offerings range from workshops on various aspects of Design Thinking, agile methods, and digital transformation, accompanying innovation and change processes, and digital product development.
You can find more information on our services here: https://hpi-academy.de/en/index.html

As project manager at HPI Academy, Julia Oberhofer is the first point of contact for our customers. She advises on different workshop formats and helps companies and individuals to take the first steps on their Design Thinking Journey. Before starting at HPI Academy and supporting HPI’s COO since 2013, Julia was involved in developing a study program at a private university in Berlin. Her background is in Political Science. While working on an international research project, giving lectures at university and at the same time writing on her doctoral dissertation, she learned all about the challenges of managing complexity at first hand.
For more information on the online course please contact Julia at Julia.Oberhofer@hpi-academy.de