Professional business coaching
Confidential one-to-one work through heycoach.ch — clarity of direction, decision-making under pressure, and sustainable performance.
Bern, Switzerland · CPCC · ORSC · ICF-ACC
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Transforming products and teams in organizations.
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About
Building organizations people love to work in.
As an Agile & Innovation Coach at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, I combine 15+ years in product development, design thinking and human-centered leadership to build joyful, impactful solutions — and to help organizations become places people love to work.
I guide companies through wicked problem spaces with Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile frameworks, and I work one-to-one with the people carrying those changes. Certified at the highest levels — CPCC (Co-Active), ORSC-trained and ICF-ACC — I'm further elevating the coaching field as President-elect of ICF Switzerland.
I thrive in human-driven organizations, especially in life sciences, technology, the public sector and education.
- 15+
- Years in product & transformation
- 150h+
- Professional coaching delivered
- 300+
- Trainings designed & taught
Voices
What colleagues say.
Leadership and business agility are not a toolkit Hardy reaches for. They are simply how he works. He never switches into transformation mode. He shows up as a modern leader by default, and that presence quietly reshapes every room he is in.
Hartmuth creates a truly trusting and psychologically safe environment, where it feels easy to open up about both personal and career challenges. Every coaching session leaves you feeling recharged, energized, empowered, and inspired.
For high-achieving professionals
One-to-one coaching for people carrying the change.
Co-Active coaching for leaders, product owners and specialists who want to move with clarity rather than force.
Leadership mentoring
Support for colleagues navigating career growth and role transitions with confidence, drawn from years as an active leadership mentor.
Unlocking potential
Co-founder of Takeda's first self-organized Coaching Community in Zurich, offering coaching to 1,200 employees and mentoring other coaches.
For organizations
Transformation that changes how the work actually works.
Enterprise coaching for leadership teams, product organizations and communities of practice — from strategy down to the daily loop.
Enterprise agile transformation
Strategic consulting on practices, structures and operating models, from CEO staff to delivery teams at Takeda, Swiss Post and Swisscom.
Innovation & human-centered design
Design Thinking, Lean Innovation and trend foresighting embedded into how teams frame problems and test their way forward.
Alignment with OKRs
Objectives and Key Results rolled out as organizational alignment, alongside agile PPM structures and Cost-of-Delay investment principles.
Training & capability building
Tailored programmes for leaders, product owners and teams, plus maturity models and assessment tools that make progress visible.
Approach
Five practices, one continuous loop.
01
Frame with Design Thinking
Human-centered design to understand the problem space before committing to a solution.
02
Test with Lean Startup
Small, fast experiments that turn assumptions into evidence instead of opinion.
03
Deliver with Agile & OKRs
Iterative delivery, incremental financing and alignment that survives contact with reality.
04
Coach Co-Actively & with ORSC
Work with individuals and with the relationship systems they belong to, not just the process.
05
Facilitate the room
Design and hold spaces where C-levels, partners and teams reach decisions together.
In practice
How the work lands.
Hardy brings a deep, thoughtful approach to organizational and team coaching — one that goes beyond frameworks or tools and focuses on the living system of how people relate, make decisions, and work together. In times of transformation, he helps ensure change is not just implemented — but integrated, sustained, and truly human-centered.
Hartmuth is expert on Scaled Agile. He is not forcing the process into the solution; rather, he tunes the process to develop and deliver the solution. He is always looking at the challenge, separating and focusing on the root cause without getting drowned in conflicting and misleading symptoms.
Signature work
Outcomes, not slideware.
PostFinance
An entire e-banking platform in nine months
Lead BA and Agile Coach on a rapid redesign of PostFinance's e-banking product — delivered above quality expectations and reclaiming the #1 position in Swiss e-banking.
Swiss Post
Eight business concepts in two days
Designed and facilitated a blockchain forecasting workshop that produced eight new business concepts, part of 100+ innovation workshops with C-levels, partners and political stakeholders.
Swiss Post
300+ trainings, 30+ intrapreneurs
Servant leader for the Agile Community of Practice and Programme Manager of the Lean Innovation Factory, coaching 30+ intrapreneurs toward high-profile innovations.
Takeda
A coaching culture for 1,200 people
Co-founded the first self-organized Coaching Community in Zurich, delivered 150+ hours of professional coaching and mentored coaches into coaching-centric leadership.
Swisscom
Human-centered design at scale
Head of Human Centered Design for IT, Network & Infrastructure — leading a consultant team and building up 20 agile coaches for the SAFe transformation.
Credentials & teaching
Certified, and still teaching.
Certifications
- Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)
- ORSC-trained
- ICF-ACC
- Holacracy Practitioner
- Lean Change
- Goal Setting: OKRs
- DesignKit: Human-Centered Design
Teaching
- Guest Lecturer, Organizational Change & Transformation Management, FHNW (since 2017)
- CAS Digital Business Development, Olten & Basel
- Lead trainer, Swiss Post
Education & languages
- MA Educational Media, University of Duisburg-Essen
- MSc Business Information Systems, FHNW
- AI Programming with Python Nanodegree, Udacity
- German (native) · English (full professional) · French (limited working)
Contact
Let's talk about the change you're carrying.
If you're building the next generation of purpose-led, people-first teams — and want them to deliver functional, delightful products fast — get in touch.
Hartmuth Gieldanowski · Bern, Switzerland