Our European Core Team

Joern Bruecker - DatB Co-Founder & Chairperson

Joern Bruecker

Co-Founder
& Chairperson
Executive Member

„The best way to experience an experience is to experience it“


What are you most passionate about?

"My passion is to unleashes inventiveness and imagination to craft delightful solutions"

 


What qualities makes you unique?
"
I enable unique individuals to build capabilities and confidence to drive valuable innovation through meaningful methodologies."

 


Why is innovation important to you and why do you want to do it here at DatB?

"I believe that a culture of innovation across organizations, creates future business value and impact in society"


What is your commitment to enable DatB?

"I will bring the DatB network to live - activating our defined mission and strategy and drive growth, by motivating people (Members and non-members) and organizations to get involved, participate and take an active executing role."


Christine Wenzel - Program Lead Initiatives for Society at Design at Business

Christine Wenzel
Program Lead
Initiatives for Society

Executive Member

„Design the future with creative combinations“


What are you most passionate about?

What qualities makes you unique?

Why is innovation important to you and why do you want to do it here at DatB?

 


What is your commitment to enable DatB?

 


Wiebke Piekarowitz - Design at Business Executive Member

Wiebke Piekarowitz

Global Brand Manager
Executive Member

„Everything starts with the unique individual.“


What are you most passionate about? 

"I'm passionate about humans, personal development and user-centered problem solving." But it is also important to me to think outside the box and beyond user-centered. How do our solutions impact our communities and our environment?"


What qualities makes you unique? 

"Well, good question, I'm still trying to find out. Maybe my hands-on mentality and I like to face new challenges and to master them together with fantastic people".


Why is innovation important to you and why do you want to do it here at DatB?

"I believe that innovation itself is a basic human need. Being in this great team of like-minded people, learning from each other, co-creating and sharing experiences can help to change the culture within organisations and satisfy our need for innovation."


What is your commitment to enable DatB?

"I would like to continue to take care of our global brand. And I would like to support Christine in setting up and driving our "Initiatives for society"


Sabine Muth - Design at Business Executive Member

Sabine Muth

Collaboration Circle
Executive Member

„Stretch beyond your limits of imagination and everything is possible - and a lot more.“


What are you most passionate about?

"I am passionate about self- and organisational development, about our consciousness and how we create our realities, about what is possible in this world and about how to facilitate change and transformation and inspire and empower people and organisations to live into their greatest potential."


What qualities makes you unique?

My energy and spirit :) As well as my curiosity and courage to discover new realities and getting comfortable with not knowing the answers and maybe not even the questions."


Why is innovation important to you and why do you want to do it here at DatB?

"I love to work in the space between "what is" and "what could be" and together with the DatB community I aspire to create a space for people and organisations to thrive, learn, experience and lead the way forward."


What is your commitment to enable DatB? "

I am contributing to growing and fostering the DatB community since 2016 and this I am committed to continue doing." 


Guy van Wijmeersch

Guy Van Wijmeersch 

Executive Member 

“When you not try, you do not innovate and can not make a difference.”


What are you most passionate about?

"co-creation, sharing different perspectives and understanding dynamics and for sure moving the needle in a common view on a better planet and (professional) society."


What qualities makes you unique?

"seeing connections , building bridges"


Why is innovation important to you and why do you want to do it here at DatB?

"Innovation is also about collaboration and culture. Two things I think that can be found in the Design at Business community."


What is your commitment to enable DatB?

"diversity and inclusivity, all are part of the solution towards better outcomes, seeing and also understanding opportunities by increasing the dots we see."


Heino Schaght

Heino Schaght

Executive Member 

“Innovation is a though job, but somebody's gotta do it.”


What are you most passionate about?

"Trying to get structure into the chaos of innovation."


What qualities makes you unique?

"My sobriety :-)"


Why is innovation important to you and why do you want to do it here at DatB?

"Innovation is also about collaboration and culture. Two things I think that can be found in the Design at Business community."


What is your commitment to enable DatB?

  • Attend the meetings
  • Host an event
  • Run some proof of concepts

Eric Pretty

Eric Pretty

Active Member

“Life is an exploration journey where you go from one discovery to another. This is where innovation flourishes”


What are you most passionate about?

"Create innovative solutions that matter to people."


What qualities makes you unique?

"Developing and using Design Thinking as innovation methodology for product as well as sales."

 


Why is innovation important to you and why do you want to do it here at DatB?

"Innovation is critical to grow people and business. Learning from others is the best way to drive innovation practice to the next level of maturity"


What is your commitment to enable DatB?
“Contribute with my experience Collaborate to make Design at Business evolve and be the most relevant to the business world”