Design – 5W | Icebreaker

Design – 5W | Icebreaker

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Jeremias Schmitt

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Born in Berlin, he holds a degree in Communication in Social and Economic Contexts from the Berlin University of the Arts and a further qualification from the School of Design Thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. He stayed on as a research associate to support Dr. Claudia Nicolai, Prof. Uli Weinberg and Prof. Steven Ney to establishe unique academic and professional training programs, as well as contributing to the creation of international D-Schools at institutions such as the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business. In 2017 he founded his first company 5Wx new ventures GmbH together with Prof. Carl Frech serving as a boutique accelerator (service-for-equity) for early stage start-up’s and a transformation hub for SME’s and Corporates. In 2020 he integrated the company into Fuenfwerken Design AG with a focus on strategy and transformation development. Together with Helmut Ness and Rolf Mehnert he co-designed a Leadership by Design framework as well as a Brand Coherence Score. As Executive Director for Brand and Business Transformation at Fuenfwerken Design AG, he enables organizations to craft new visions and future narratives. Today he still serves in this role as an Interim position. 2023 marks the year he returns to his passion of creating the social field for individual, social and systemic transformation through awareness-based change. He started to collaborate with the IFTF - Institute of the Future and the U-School by the Presencing Institute. He devotes his personal time to bringing mindfulness to pupils and teachers in a partnership with www.thetoolboxisyou.com. EACH ONE. TEACH ONE. Geboren in Berlin, Deutschland, hat er einen Abschluss in Gesellschafts- und WirtschaftsKommunikation an der Universität der Künste Berlin und eine weitere Qualifikation von der School of Design Thinking am Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Potsdam. Als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter unterstützte er dort Dr. Claudia Nicolai, Prof. Uli Weinberg und Prof. Steven Ney bei der Etablierung einzigartiger akademischer und professioneller Trainingsprogramme. 2017 gründete er zusammen mit Prof. Carl Frech sein erstes Unternehmen 5Wx new ventures GmbH, das als Boutique-Accelerator (Service-for-Equity) für Start-ups in der Frühphase und als Transformations-Hub für KMUs und Konzerne dient. Im Jahr 2020 integrierte er das Unternehmen in die Fuenfwerken Design AG mit dem Fokus auf Strategie- und Transformationsentwicklung. Gemeinsam mit Helmut Ness und Rolf Mehnert entwickwlt er ein Leadership by Design Framework und ein Brand Coherence Score.

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