Overview

Course content(1st session)

• Current trends and framework conditions for companies / organizations
• Digitization / Digital Transformation
• Concept of organization Classification in business context
• Change management – definition and development over time

Course content (2nd session)

• Leadership – Differentiation between change leadership and change management
• Change Management Case Study
• Options for action for managers and change models
• Leadership theories on change (transformational/ adaptive)

Course content (3rd session)

• Simulation Digital Transformation as an example of intervention
• Reflection and practical examples
• Options for action part 2

Course content (4th session)

• Decision architecture in change
• Success factors for transformations
• Introduction Nudge Management

Course content (5th session)

• Case Studies
• Conclusion

Lecturer

Falk Bothe

Director Transformation Consulting, Volkswagen Group Services GmbH

Falk Bothe has been Director Transformation Consulting at VW Group Services GmbH since March 1, 2020 and is responsible for developing and offering consulting services related to digital transformation for customers within the brands and subsidiaries of the VW Group.

From 2017 to 2019, Falk Bothe headed the Digital Transformation Office and assumed responsibility for digitalization program management, committees and overall change management for the digital transformation in the Volkswagen Group. Previously, he was Executive Assistant to the CDO from January 2016 and responsible for the organizational set-up, recruiting, event management and organizational structure of the Volkswagen Group Future Centers California and Asia. From 2010 to 2015 he worked at Volkswagen Consulting as an organizational development consultant and was responsible for several change management projects such as Vision, Mission, Strategy and Leadership Development,Transformation as well as Business Reengineering, where he designed and supported major events for multinational customers in the Volkswagen Group at all hierarchical levels. He was responsible for the product development of business reengineering interventions, communication and corporate design of Volkswagen Change Management. Since 2014, he has been a guest lecturer for Organizational Change and Leadership Development at the TU Braunschweig, and since 2020 at the Asia Business School for Digital Transformation in Executive Programs.

Falk Bothe was born in Braunschweig on April 18, 1971. He holds a Harvard Kennedy School Executive Certificate in Public Leadership, an MIT Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership, and earned his MBA from the Harz University of Applied Sciences, Wernigerode, in 2021. He is a certified business coach, specializing in Provocative Style (DIP Munich), and works with both top managers and organizations.

He was a semi-professional competitive dancer in Rock Acrobatic for 25 years, multiple winner of national competitions, World Masters Finalist and member of the German Rock Acrobatic National Team from 2006 to 2008 and as Main Class Instructor coaches couples on an international level. Falk Bothe is married and has two children.