“Go with the Flow!” Turning Resources into Potentials for Personal and Organisational Development
Klaus Haasis Creative Coach – Collaboration Architect – Innovation Trainer
Profile: Klaus Haasis, Dipl. Ing. Dipl. Journalist, Systemic Coach DBVC, Personcentred Counsellor GWG, CEO MFG Public Innovation Agency Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart (until 12/2013) CEO Combine Innovation GmbH, Stuttgart Klaus Haasis is committed to support senior executives, junior talents, entrepreneurs, companies, teams, networks and clusters in business, culture, politics, and academia. He combines in an unique way leadership experience, person-centred counselling skills, hypno-systemic coaching expertise and management know-how. Key themes include change management, conflict management, fostering innovation, successful cooperative culture and beneficial communication architecture.
Experience Klaus Haasis is recognized as one of Europe´s most experienced designers and managers of cluster initiatives, collaboration processes and innovation systems. Since 18 years he has successfully built companies and agencies (mfg-innovation.de), business clusters (bwcon.de), networks (Open Source Business Alliance OSBA), educational strategies and master courses (University of Media HdM, popakademie.de). Since 2007, he has served as honorary Director and Secretary of TCI - The Global Clusters and Innovation Practitioners Network in Barcelona (tcinetwork.org). He is constantly involved in a variety of international projects to promote innovation (European Creative Industries Alliance), technology transfer (European Forum on Clusters in Emerging Industries), start-ups and entrepreneurships, commercialization (CyberOne, bwcon Coaching Group, FAME Financing Network, @diversity) and internationalization (European Cluster Group). He has over 30 years of experience as an executive, managing director and CEO in small and medium-sized companies (Modern Video GmbH), major corporations (Hoechst AG, SAT.1) and the public sector (State of Baden-Württemberg, Public Broadcaster SWR), as a member on supervisory boards (August Koehler AG), university councils (Stuttgart Media University), selection committees and juries (the Karl Steinbuch scholarship). He is author of numerous publications, university lecturer, and keynote speaker. For many years now he has supported entrepreneurs, executives, groups and teams as a coach and consultant, and engaged as a business angel through his company Combine Innovation GmbH. Since 2013 he is a founding board member of the German Initiative on Future Leadership IZF.