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Volker Jacobs

Volker Jacobs

Transformative change and frictionless work in the AI era

Hamburg, Hamburg, GermanyManagement Consulting
Company
TI People
Title
Ceo and Founder
Seniority
Founder
Department
C Suite
Location
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Industry
Management Consulting

About

I work with CHROs and senior HR executives on one practical question: How do we redesign HR so AI creates measurable business impact—without losing adoption, governance, or trust? I’m CEO & Founder of TI People. We support global enterprises in HR transformation by addressing the friction that slows down services and digital change—then redesigning workflows, roles, and operating mechanics so improvements actually land in daily work. What we do (in plain terms): 1. HR Operating Model design for the AI era: translating AI’s uneven impact across roles into clear choices on structure, decision rights, governance, and service ownership. 2. AI Impact Assessment (AIIA): a co-creative, human+AI approach that makes AI priorities decision-ready at role and activity level—so leaders can compare trade-offs instead of debating opinions. 3. Product-oriented HR delivery: moving from “projects and pilots” to an operating rhythm (service owner → backlog → releases → adoption instrumentation). 4. Adopt…

Experience

Ceo and Founder

TI People · Hamburg

Present

At TI People we help companies continuously improve work productivity, experiences, ad engagement by quantifying & removing friction in enterprise services, day-to-day work and in digital transformations.

Angel Investor

Atrya · Germany

Present

Board Member

FOUNT · Hamburg, Germany

Present

Employee listening focused on Work - FOUNT examines daily work activities to find friction points, helping tool and process owners boost productivity and drive business transformations.

Non Executive Director

Insight222 · London, United Kingdom

Present

Insight222® aims to put People Analytics -- as a discipline -- at the centre of business. We do this by helping HR build the capability and skills of their People Analytics function through learning, networking and consulting. Our B2C channel, myHRfuture.com, provides training for all HR professionals in future skills like analytics, digital and workforce planning.

Member of the Supervisory Board

Pentos · Munich

Present

At Pentos, we optimize and transform the digitization of your HR and GRC processes with our best-practice approach. Our focus on GRC and HR allows us to perfectly combine expertise and technology to provide you with excellent support in the implementation of your digitization strategy and in everyday operations.

Member of the Board of Advisors

Hitch Works, Inc.

Hitch is the Internal Talent Mobility Platform for the enterprise that accelerates productivity and performance with its existing talent. Hitch seamlessly matches the right internal talent and skills to the right work, whether project-based or full-time. This internal talent marketplace creates a culture of inclusion, mobility, learning, growth, and engagement where people feel valued, and the organization achieves higher productivity and performance while retaining its most valuable talent. For more information, visit www.Hitch.Works

Managing Director

CEB · Hamburg Area, Germany

Managing the region Germany / Austria / Switzerland and the global product line "CEB HR Consulting"

Ceo and Founder

on.valco

Building a business to develop and sell a web-based B2B benchmarking service for the HR function, media industry, utilities industry, trade associations and strategy consulting firms

Managing Partner

Baumgartner & Partner

Managing the HR strategy, HR transformation, HR operational excellence and HR benchmarking business.

Senior Consultant

Accenture · Hamburg

Benchmarking, process re-design and strategic consulting in the utilities industry.

Education

Berlin University of Applied Sciences Berlin (BHT)

Micro Economics and Information Science

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