Jörg Malang

At the intersection of artistic thinking, executive leadership, and scientific research, Leadership Artist helps organizations discover transformative approaches to complex business challenges. Drawing on 20+ years of C-level experience combined with classical music training and doctoral research, I work with leaders seeking to develop cognitive capabilities that classical music training uniquely provides: pattern recognition, structural awareness, and temporal mastery.

- Development of product strategy. - Coaching/mentoring the Chief Product Officer and the Product Managers. - Further improvement of agile ways of working.

Actively pursued the go-to-market of a blockchain startup in the retail loyalty space and almost closed cooperation with a leading telco provider.

• Achieved increased perception of the value contribution from product management. “Jörg is a first-class operator and has done an amazing job in shaping our new platform.” • Rolled out the innovative ID-verification technology to multiple countries for a variety of ID cards before handing over to the permanent CPO.

• Achieved refinement of scaled agile ways of working on a corporate level (some 500-600 engineers and some 50 product managers). • Strong multi-brand and multi-market roll-out of the Sportsbook product (increased NPS and improvement of commercial KPIs). • Established a company backlog including a ”deal flow” process on executive level. • Left Betsson due to a CEO change.

• Built & launched a new technical booking platform in the cloud. • Successfully reorganized Product & Tech Teams to improve effectiveness and efficiency (some 10 Product Managers responsible for some 40 engineers). • Improved booking conversion rates in a mature market. • Fruitfully negotiated with the worker’s council and terminated operations and integrated HOTEL DE into mother company HRS Group without negatively impacting revenue & profit.

• Successfully launched the first version of the ”TUI Digital Assistant (TDA)” - a mobile app for increasing customer lifetime value. • Bootstrapped a world-class Product Delivery Team. • Smooth hand-over of the product to the permanent organization.

• Significantly improved the effectiveness of the Product Delivery Team (some 25 Product Managers responsible for some 200-300 engineers). • Aligned the organization behind a new product vision/strategy. • Co-owned XING AG revenue (some 70 million € p.a.) and improved revenue/gross margin. • Gained the full trust of CEO Stefan Gross-Selbeck and left XING AG with him stepping down.

• Successful alignment of onsite & remote Product Delivery Team(s) (some 40 employees incl. US). • Launch of maps.ovi.com (desktop version of Nokia’s mobile maps) and bootstrapped product operations for future scaling of revenue.

• Reporting to the Group CEO. Bootstrapped German company on behalf of the mother company. • Rewarding go-to-market in Germany. • Full P&L responsibility for Kelkoo Germany GmbH. • Achieved break-even within the first six months. • Grew revenue from scratch to >10mio € p.a. • Left one year after the acquisition of Kelkoo by Yahoo! in 2004.

Research focus: Cognitive transfer mechanisms from artistic training to executive leadership effectiveness—examining pattern recognition, temporal mastery, and structural awareness.