Dr. Talke Hoppmann-Walton

With AI we can be fast and incredibly speedy individually but in order to move organizations & teams forward co-creation is essential.
To increase: alignment, shared meaning, reduced complexity, joint goals, trust and to feel like you're working together with purpose.
Facilitating joint productivity is crucial and Design/Product frameworks and ways of working can add tremendous business value here.

I don't have one particular topic - the overall theme is:
Working together, across disciplines to solve the most complex and pressing problems well. Curiosity, empathy and user-focus (ie. a product mindset) are what I see as the most impactful tools to solving the right problems and not just solving the problem right.

In short
+ PhD in Communication Science
+ 3 years in Digital agency in London
+ 11+ years in various Product Design roles in PayPal EMEA and Global, as both IC and Manager
+ 3 years as a Product Design & Innovation consultant
+ Hyper Island “AI for Business” graduate
+ Accredited Lego©️ Serious Play©️ facilitator
+ Always learning and never without a project

I usually work with international and globally dispersed teams to build customer-centric products and ways of working across silos - so your customer experience is not impacted by your internal org structured.
I live in Hamburg, with my British husband and three kids.

Professional background
01/22 - now - UX, MY DEAR, Senior Consultant & Facilitator
Product Strategy & Design Operations LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator. Employee Journey Mapping & Solver of diverse challenges for various clients

11/22 -11/23 - Interim Product & Design Leader at CDP
Working with CDP teams on their reporting platform and Scope 3 dashboards, evangelizing a product mindset, leading requirements gathering workshops cross-org and leading an interdisciplinary pilot team. Building a product strategy based on user segments and organizing data products into product trees.

2023 - Coach in the Creative Business Academy
organised by Hamburger Kreativgesellschaft

08/20-01/22 - PayPal Global, Design Operations Lead
Creating a standardised Design to Dev Hand-off. Supporting the global migration to Figma; establishing best practices and templates to facilitate standards for delivery.

2017-2020 - CEO @ The Walton family
Responsible for 3 young kids, raising them, dealing with logistics and life full-time.

02/16 - 09/16 - PayPal Global, Sr Manager International Credit
Managing 3 cross-disciplinary design teams across Europe, responsible for all credit design experiences outside the US – e.g. buy now, pay later products, rate pay, revolving lines.

VARIOUS EMEA-WIDE DESIGN ROLES

12/10 - 09/16 - PayPal Europe, London
Leading teams in Berlin, Paris, London focusing on merchants and white-label/out-of-the-box solutions for checkout. Prior to that designing the first European PP credit solutions.

UX CONSULTING & RESEARCH

Various Digital Agencies, London
08/2010 - 12/2010 - Team lead @Possible UK (formerly Fortune Cookie), clients included e.g. NetJets, Aviva

01/2009-08/2010 - Deputy Head of User Experience @Cimex Media Ltd, clients included e.g. BBC Comedy, London Olympics