About Pierre Christoph Poyault
Throughout my 14-year career, I have been and am privileged to coach and inspire numerous colleagues and leaders. I have led a multitude of interactive training sessions and workshops for a diverse range of organizations, from start-ups and scale-ups to large corporations. I was Senior Manager, Head of Product Operations, Lead Agile Coach, and Lean Delivery Agent.
My strength is activating teams to become high-performing and achieve better outcomes while avoiding burnout. I excel at facilitating complex discussions, ensuring group commitment, and uniting diverse groups toward a common goal. I brighten up your work environment and love sustainably enabling and inspiring teams and individuals.
I completed a one-year coaching training accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF) in 2015 and a train-the-trainer training in 2014.
My Strengths & How I Work
Activator, …
I am an activator who makes things happen by turning thoughts into action. I rally people to get unified around an idea and help them feel that they can move forward.
Strategist, …
I am a thematic, quick and strategic thinker. I provide clarity on the why. My ability to see how all the pieces fit together allows me to tie all the individuals into one whole.
Leader.
I am decisive, direct, clear, logical, persuasive and present. I bring emotional clarity to a team to be realistic and honest. I’m an open book and build trust and clarity with it.
Leading with Heart
Early in my career, I craved a leader who could not only manage but support, inspire, and motivate me.
This desire ignited a lifelong commitment to seek and embody humane leadership.
It meant a set of qualities like leading by example, envisioning the future, compassion, individual support, fostering group goals, intellectual stimulation, and high-performance expectations.
In my professional journey, I’ve been blessed with great mentors who shared my passion for humane leadership.
They aligned my work with my strengths and interests and inspired me to learn and grow.
This journey has reinforced my belief that leadership is not merely a role but a profound responsibility to uplift and inspire others.
Great leaders impact not only careers but also relationships, individuals, and society.
They are the catalysts for positive change, the heart of every great endeavor. Outstanding leaders touch hearts and change the world.
Roles in Life
- Coach & Trainer: holistic, transformational, non-judgmental.
- Human being: curious, communicative, dynamic.
- Product Operations Leader: structured, mediating, agile.
- Father of three children: dedicated, family-oriented, balanced.
- Husband: loving, persistent, supportive.
- Friend: warm, direct, positive.
I’ve lived in Berlin since 2010. I’m an active father of three. I love learning new things and developing myself. Exercise, physical, mental, and emotional, is vital to me, so I practice yoga regularly and play drums. I enjoy experiencing nature and value climate protection.
2024
Solopreneur Product & Leadership Coach & Trainer
I am a transformer, activator and motivator.
- I facilitate strategy and transformation processes to create more viable products or services through customer, evidence, and results orientation.
- I activate leaders to confidently empower and inspire their product creation teams to achieve the best possible outcomes without burning out.
- I develop high-performing leadership teams that build deep trust, master conflict, achieve commitment, and focus on creating viable products.
2020 – 2023
Product Operations Manager & Leader
My values for more strategic work, as well as more customer proximity, led me to product management. Because “nothing is quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” (Peter F. Drucker)
Product Operations empowers product organizations to collectively, effectively and efficiently drive the most meaningful outcomes for customers. In three ScaleUps and one corporation, I have taught, introduced and improved strategic and customer-centric methods for product strategies, success indicators, product planning, user research and product communication.
In 2023 I co-authored the Product Operations Manifesto.
2012 – 2019
Lean & Agile Coach
The focus of my work has always been to make the working world more human and productive at the same time. Operationally, I have used proven lean and agile methodologies to achieve this.
In 2015, I completed coaching training accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF) at the Coaching Center Berlin. After all, change starts with the individual. That same year, I started my family.
With drive and energy, I activated teams to self-define and purposefully develop their ways of working to improve their collaboration, efficiency and effectiveness.
2006 – 2011
Cultural Studies, Knowledge Management & Logistics Studies
In my studies, I learned to analyze the design of organizations and their leadership, products, culture and network to uncover and address potential for improvement.
Systems theory literature informed my belief that what is created by people can also be changed, improved, or made more human.
In searching for employers who value people and their productive collaboration, I became a team coach in digital product development.
Education
2014 – 2015 Integral Business Coach Education – Coaching Center Berlin; 201 approved coach-specific training hours of International Coach Federation (ICF)
2014 Train-the-Trainer Training – skill E sense
2006 – 2011 Bachelor of Arts, first honours degree – Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg;
Cultural Studies, Knowledge Management, Logistics
2009 – 2010 University Pablo De Olavide, Seville, Spain: Strategic Management, International Strategy, HR Management
