Tatjana Wittig

CEO

Cologne, Germany23 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in responsible AI and governance.
  • Proven track record in building high-performing teams.
  • Keynote speaker on emotional intelligence and leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Responsible AI and Human-Centered Technology.

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About

Human centered agile innovation leader. Proved track record of setting up and leading high performing teams. Emotional intelligence activist. Speaker and trainer on topics around emotional intelligence. Search Inside Yourself certified teacher. Mother of 4 teenagers — my favorite long-term leadership lab. I lead human-centered, responsible AI from strategy to shipped outcomes. In my role at Deutsche Telekom, I build alignment across business, engineering, data, legal/compliance and leadership to deliver AI with measurable value — and with the right ethical and governance foundations. What I’m known for: • Turning ambiguity into clear strategies, roadmaps and decisions • Building high-trust, high-performance teams and communities • Making AI understandable — through communication, storytelling and executive-ready formats • Putting the human at the center: responsible AI, adoption, culture and leadership Focus areas: Responsible AI & AI governance • AI portfolio • AI product leadership Human-centered technology • AI communication & thought leadership • Leadership development (EI) Speaking / teaching: Human-centered AI, Responsible AI in practice, leadership & emotional intelligence. Leadership profile (CliftonStrengths Top 5): Ideation • Learner • Individualization • Positivity • Developer If you’re caring about the future we create — let’s connect.

Experience

Deutsche telekom

10 roles

Director/Chapter lead AI

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos

Executive lead for AICC GUIDE

Promoted

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • AICC is the AI competence center within Deutsche Telekom. GUIDE is responsible for group wide AI thought leadership, AI ethics, AI communication, close colaboration with group strategy, compliance, regulation, HCT community.
  • Drive AI based innovation, but safe for our customers. Drive AI ethics discussions with DT, but also outside DT.

Executive product lead - digital family - group innovation

Jan 2022Sep 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • We are aiming to help families to lead a happier life. Technology is there to stay. We want that technology serves the togetherness of the families and not drives fights around media and device consumption. For concious technology use. As as a tool, as smart enabler.
  • Some examples? Imagine chores in your households would be turn to a game were all could collect points and trade favors. Imagine, technology could help you to lead a more sustainable life by making transparent how each of your daily choices have contributed to your CO2 footprint. Imagine, we would give you tools to outsmart your smartphone, so you get back the controll of your decisions and can effectivly work against internet/social media addiction. Imagine, technology would help you to bring all your family members to the table for dinner on time and ready for a great conversation.

Domain lead - HomeOS program - Group Innovation

Jan 2021Dec 2021 · 11 mos

  • Bringing emotional intelligence into real business life focussing on stakeholder management and team development

Lead for emotional intelligence skill development within IHUB (innovation hub @DT)

Oct 2020Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • IHUB is innovation hub within Deutsche Telekom and home to more than 300 people developing innovations for DT. Those people have an IHUB curriculum for continous development. I'm responsible for currucilum items around emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligence activist and inner development advocate

Promoted

Apr 2019Present · 6 yrs 11 mos

  • Creating high performing teams over the past years in the innovation area of Deutsche Telekom, deepening my own emotional intelligence journey by attending lots of workshops, reading lots of books, becoming a SIY ("Search Inside Yourself") teacher and mental fitness coach, I feel strong drive to bring this competence to my co-workers and further teams at DT. To enable individuals and teams to discover and unfold their full potential. In the last years I have given workshops, key notes, trainings on the topics above to over 7.000 people. From top leaders to young talents. I have co-founded grass-roots movement "Mindfulness Pioniers", I have rolled out SIY globally (as my hobby), I have co-founded Human-centred technology community in 2022. Since 2024 I'm driving Telekoms partnership with InnerDevelopmentGoals.

Tribe Lead - Artificial Intelligence - Group Innovation

Sep 2017Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Setting up and leading a high performing international team of 50. Ramping up a new AI innovation topics for DT and creating significant benefits just after 2 years. Focus of the products: leverage AI power to create benefits across DT. Numerous MVPs delivered and handed over to the customers: e.g. AI@REM, AI@credit scoring, AI@time series, AI@foot fall analytics, AI driven hyperpersonalization. Pioneering growth mindset & feedback culture in the tribe.

Product Owner - HotSpotDrive (B2B2C - InCar WiFi) - Group Innovation M2M

Sep 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr

  • Leading high performing international team of 15. Responsible for operations in 10 live countries and roll-out to further 6 countries. Customer ramp-up of x10. Further product development incl design, deployment, testing.

Senior Manager Corporate Development

Apr 2013Aug 2016 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Leading diverse projects, e.g. content responsible for DT board strategy offsite, innovation strategy, fixed-mobile convergence strategy and implementation, pricing strategy

Senior Manager Group Strategy and Transformation

Sep 2011Mar 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Strategic planning and execution.

Search inside yourself leadership institute (siyli)

Search Inside Yourseld certified teacher

Oct 2020Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

  • Born at google and based on neuroscience SIY training enables individuals to develop emotional intelligence.

Self-employed

Speaker & trainer on topics around emotional intelligence, e.g. mindset, mindfulness, purpose

Jan 2020Present · 6 yrs 2 mos · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland

  • Key note speaker and trainer on topics around emotional intelligence, e.g. mindfulness (why we need it and how it works), outsmart your brain to fulfill your full potential, empathy (why we need it and how it works), resilience, purpose, feedback culture, feed forward. growth mindset, inner agility etc

T-mobile nederland

Capex Planning

Jun 2010Aug 2010 · 2 mos · Den Hague und Umgebung, Niederlande

My family

Mother of 4 teens

Oct 2005Present · 20 yrs 5 mos · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland

  • Key responsibilities:
  • Crisis management (from vanishing hoodies, moral panic over 3-second Snap replies to spontanous dinner prep for 10 people)
  • Resilience black belt – with zero buffer time and unpredictable plot twists and sleep deprivation
  • Strategic conflict resolution between highly opinionated in-house stakeholders
  • Long-term talent development: independence, (screen) time management & recognizing the laundry basket and finding the way to the dish washer
  • Supply chain logistics: snacks, sneakers, emotions, mobile phones with mobile data, horse riding and swimming classes and many more

Deutsche telekom

3 roles

Manager Corporate Development

Dec 2003Nov 2006 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Senior Manager Group Development

Promoted

Aug 2002Aug 2011 · 9 yrs

  • M&A strategy

Assistent der Bereichsleitung Konzernstrategie

Aug 2002Nov 2003 · 1 yr 3 mos

Mckinsey & company

Summer fellow

Jun 2000Sep 2000 · 3 mos

Education

Stanford University

Product Management

Nov 2022Mar 2023

https://www.positiveintelligence.com/

internationally certified coach for positive intelligence

Jan 2021Feb 2023

University of California, Berkeley

Science of well being

Jan 2021Jan 2021

https://www.siyglobal.com/

internationally certified SIY teacher

Jan 2019Jan 2020

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Dipl.-Wirtschaftsingenieur

Jan 1996Jan 2002

London Business School

Essence of Leadership

Jan 2011Jan 2011

Ryerson University

Organizational behaivior science

Jan 1999Jan 2000

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