We empower people and people empower companies.
Connecting Humans increases the social fitness of your employees, teams and the organization.
Three heads. One team. One goal.
Our management team does many things differently. With in-depth knowledge and many years of experience in the areas of transformation support , team development , new work facilitation , strategy , design , innovation and business psychology, we bring in a variety of perspectives. This mix enables us to understand and actively address the needs of companies, managers and employees more holistically. Together we will shape change in the world of work with you.
Our motto: Own your ME to strengthen the WE. Are you in?
What we offer
Social fitness is the basis for effective cooperation in the modern world of work. Both require targeted measures at different levels. At Connecting Humans in addition to offers for personal development also rely on team and organizational development in order to achieve sustainable and continuous change.
Personal development
We support you with measures to promote, qualify and further develop employees, managers and junior managers.
Team development
We support you in team design and development by ensuring that the individual strengths of each team member are optimally utilized and effective collaboration is promoted.
Organizational
development
We support you in implementing changes and active cultural development in your company in order to increase efficiency, adaptability and innovation.
Together we will find the right solution for you and your company.
Social fitness as a prerequisite for effective collaboration and therefore the basis of every productive company.
At its core, social fitness and effective collaboration are about the 4Cs:
Real connections ( CONNECT ) between people, to ensure clear and direct communication ( COMMUNICATE ) on and across all levels, cross-functional, interdisciplinary and multi-perspective, to care ( CARE ) in self- and people-management and to shape the future together ( COCREATE ).
Connecting Humans On Air!
Katha & Jens were recently guests of Gabriel Rath and on his podcast New Work Chat. In episode 242, the two talk about the new start with Connecting Humans and you will find out what adventure playgrounds have to do with the new working world. 😉 It's also about how we work together more effectively as a trio and support others to do the same.
Listen now: Spotify | Apple Podcasts
There is no shame in not knowing anything, but there is shame in not wanting to learn anything.
Plato
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"We were so happy that Katharina was part of our International Women's Week where she held a session about “Female Networking & Empowerment”. I can say that she is an outstanding speaker who truly captivates her audience. Her presentation was not only informative and engaging , but also thought-provoking and inspiring. She was able to connect with the audience and help them better understand the power of networks and their benefits through many examples. The feedback from the audience was extremely positive highlighting Katharina's experience, valuable insights and vulnerability. "
Ana Cupen , Digital Project and Transformation Specialist at Mercedes Benz AG
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"As a designer at heart, Jens' ability to use his creative talents to craft impelling stories is one of his strongest suits – on many occasions his skills have enabled us to better influence and create impact for our clients, plus the outputs look awesome! Beyond this more explicit skillset, Jens' strategic perspective has been critical to the continued success of our work. Our work demands constant iteration and rapid prototyping, meaning that we can often lose sight of where we are going - this is not the case with Jens .He continuously challenges the team to ensure we are solving for our core user needs and focusing on the key strategic challenge at play."
Peter May , Former Head of Global Expansion, Trella
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"If you want to initiate and/or change topics or projects, you should work with Sophie. I got to know and appreciate Sophie as a committed and very professional employee and colleague. She is multi-talented. Thanks to her curiosity and creativity, she is not only very broad in terms of expertise But beyond that, she always finds opportunities to reinvent and develop herself and her projects. Sophie's drive is engaging and inspiring. It's fun to work with her - in a team, as a customer, as a colleague or directly superiors."
Nadine Przybylski , Unit Director Zächel AG
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"We experienced Katharina's power 💪🏼 at an event and then hired her for our project. From the conception, to implementation, to the follow-up to the digital workshop with a focus on digital networking 👩💻 and WOL, everything was top 👏. We were able to feel their passion and esprit in all phases of the collaboration 🚀 . We are looking forward to further exciting encounters." 👋🏻🤩
Dr. Melanie Seiden Glanz , project manager for the labor market and education at the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region
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"A rare combination of big picture strategy and getting his hands dirty, Jens can visualize a vision within a workshop and committed to a feasible yet thoughtful result. He is a passionate designer who has a playful attitude towards new topics and tasks and understands the importance of storytelling to communicate effectively and humane. I enjoy(ed) many heated conversations on serious professional layers, thoughts of change and am glad to be able to ping-pong ideas with him."
Britta Frahm , Senior Creative Digital, former frog
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"Sophie gave us an excellent introduction to the basics of LinkedIn in a 2-hour workshop. Exciting, very well prepared and interactive. I can only recommend her!"
Sarah M.Helga Nowak , Vice President People & Culture
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"I have worked with Katharina for several years on the topics of Enterprise 2.0, social collaboration, enterprise social networking and the vision of the networked collaborative company - and would like to emphasize: 'worked together'. There was no contractor/client relationship between us; Works out, shares and designs things together. Hardly anyone takes the topic of open, transparent, participatory, networked collaboration as seriously as Katharina and demonstrates this. Why does this have to be emphasized? It is by no means a given that colleagues in the working world also live these values and are also absolutely reliable."
Alexander Kluge, Managing Director at clever+konoren GmbH
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"Jens is one of the brightest people I ever met with a strong getting things done mentality. He's comfy in ambiguous topics and projects to take over ownership and lead the team to success. Due to his relentless enthusiasm he can rally people behind himself to deliver outstanding results."
Jan Gohlke, UX Design Lead, Google
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"Sophie has been supporting me with my content strategy including design and creation for more than a year. Together we have brought my Instagram channel forward. It's great to work with Sophie. She has a lot of know-how, works very quickly and goal-oriented. Through Her fine feeling for people allows her to bring personality and marketing together so that it is reflected in the design. Sophie always has a creative idea and is incredibly inspiring. Thanks to you, I found my “content path”. . I recommend this Sophie's work continues from the heart."t Item
Mirja Grüter , business psychologist, trainer and coach
Learning programs that we offer around social fitness and effective collaboration
Working out loud®
The Working Out Loud ® (WOL) programs are social learning & social fitness methods to acquire new skills, network and work on your own attitude. They are self-organized and are primarily aimed at companies that WANT to provide employees and entire teams with self-determined further training.
Corporate Influencer+
This program is specifically designed for companies that have already reached a certain level of maturity in the area of corporate influencing. The goal is to empower you beyond the basics and promote real personal responsibility. Together we will support you in building a successful and sustainable community.
#FrauenStärken - Leadership Edition
The #FrauenStärken programs are self-organized social learning & social fitness programs aimed at companies. They focus on empowering women, which for us means that people strengthen their strengths, women in particular support each other, and men and of course non-binary people also continue to develop their strengths, which are often considered feminine.
#FrauenStärken - Networking Compact
This #FrauenStärken program is a virtual online compact course with a focus on strategic networking. It shows the 1x1 of networking in short units: How good relationships are created, how strategic networking works online and offline, how we increase our own visibility and become more self-EFFECTIVE through networks.
Founders Diary - Our monthly newsletter
Entering in our founding reality. We would like to share challenges, thoughts and experiences with you that we (have to) face to make a company Connecting Humans Unborn, honest and directly, we write three every month what moves us, what we have learned, which brings us on. Subscribe to us.
Excellent! Our work is also publicly recognized!
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HR Top Influencer 2023 Silver Personio
Top 10 HR Influencers 2023 Factorial
Top 10 HR Influencers 2022
Haufe personnel magazine
Katharina Krentz is the face of Working Out Loud (WOL) in Germany and has received several awards for her activities. She built up the WOL topic at Bosch, grew the German WOL community and recently founded Connecting Humans with two friends. She repeatedly shows her role as a WOL coach in her social media presence. Whether #FrauenStärken or #WOLforTeams – for her it’s always about mutual support. The goal: recognize personal strengths and expand your own skills and mindset.
Haufe personal magazine 5/2022
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If you scroll through the Twitter timeline these days, you'll see lots of happy female faces. They're the participants of #WOL, Working Out Loud, #FrauenStärken (empowering women). Katharina Krentz came up with the idea for this gigantic initiative, in which over 3000 women (and a few men) work together in more than 600 circles over 12 weeks. This woman is a powerhouse. At Bosch, she is part of the Corporate Human Resources Transformation Team & Collaboration Crew, but she also founded her own consultancy "Connecting Humans" and, coming full circle, became a certified "Working Out Loud" coach. [...]
femaleonezero, 3/2021
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Katharina Krentz wins the Digital Female Leader Award 2019 in the New Work category. But that's not all: With Bosch's "Working Out Loud" initiative, she and her team also won first prize in the "Teams" category at the New Work Award 2019. [...]
Global Digital Women, 12/2019
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With Bosch’s “Working Out Loud” initiative, Katharina Krentz and her team won first prize in the “Teams” category at Xing’s New Work Award 2019 at the New Work Experience.
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HR Excellence Award 2017 - Category 16 (Group) Employee Engagement & Collaboration
The HR Excellence Awards honor innovative lighthouse projects in human resources management. We are looking for your creative ideas that bring a breath of fresh air into human resources work.
AUDI, BMW, Bosch, Continental, Daimler, Deutsche Bank, Telekom, Siemens win the HR Excellence Award 2017 as a network for their self-organized, cross-company “Working Out Loud” Community of Practice
Get Connected! We look forward to getting to know each other.
Use the contact form, book an appointment with us directly or write us an email to info@connecting-humans.de