In this Talent Tales episode, talent.imperative Founder Nicole Dessain had the honor to interview Maike Kueper, an Agile Culture Development Coach at Dr. Oetker.

Maike’s superpower is curating evidence-based HR approaches which in her mind provide a better way of designing HR programs and processes rather than using a “we’ve always done it this way” approach. An example she shares is how there is research that supports the fact that if performance management only focuses on using extrinsic motivators it can discourage those employees who are mainly motivated intrinsically.

Maike has a humanities background which affords her with a unique point of view around culture and organizational development in her role as Agile coach.

Maike’s focus is on fostering a human-centered and agile mindset at Dr. Oetker rather than just following rigid methods. One way that manifests is in a relentless focus on defining the problem space well before jumping to solutions and iterating small experiments.