Criss Graf DE

Work with me

Talks, workshops, advisory, writing

For organisations that take people and systems equally seriously.

I know both sides: large systems from the inside – more than 15 years in IT, about six of them in German federal IT – and the people who either break or grow inside such systems. That is what my work draws on – and why it goes beyond the surface.

Portrait of Criss Graf

Teams Leadership Conferences

Talks & workshops

Keynotes and workshops for teams, leaders, conferences and professional events. Clearly structured, evidence-based, with a point of view – and with room for the questions nobody else asks.

Stage experience includes talks at the IT-Tage conference and former work as federal press spokesperson; on neurodiversity, also board work at the association Team ADHS. In German or English, online or on site.

Topics

  • Not wrong – just not a fit for every system. Neurodiversity at work: what autistic people and people with ADHD need, why it benefits everyone, and how teams can put it into practice without turning it into special treatment.
  • Psychological safety that holds. Trust culture beyond the buzzword: how to recognise it, what breaks it, and how to build it so it lasts.
  • Digital government that brings people along. Governance, decision-making and change in large public IT organisations – from practice in federal IT, not from the textbook.

Formats

  • Keynote or short talk, 30–60 minutes.
  • Workshop, half or full day, online or on site.
  • Facilitation of expert and strategy sessions.

Public authorities Organisations

Governance advisory

For public authorities, public-sector IT providers and organisations in transition. Booked by the day, as a sparring partner or for an independent review – focused where an outside view adds the most.

Background: modernisation and governance programmes in German federal IT, operations of a central software development platform, product ownership for a hybrid cloud transformation in retail.

Focus areas

  • Governance and operating models – who decides what, on which basis, and how that becomes visible to everyone involved.
  • Review of transformation programmes – an independent look at programmes, roadmaps and decision papers before it gets expensive.
  • Platform and cloud governance – thought through from operations and product ownership.
  • Stakeholder and decision processes – when many voices are involved and something still needs to get built.

Media Associations

Writing

Articles, guest contributions and columns – clear, evidence-based and readable, with political edge where wanted.

Topics

  • Neurodiversity in work, education and society.
  • Trust and psychological safety in organisations.
  • Digital government and governance.

For

  • Trade media and magazines, associations, company blogs.

For organisers and editors

Short bio for programmes and articles:

Criss Graf, based in Vienna, is founder, CEO and CTO of Emotional Trust. More than 15 years in IT, digitalisation and governance, about six of them in German federal IT; plus cloud and platform transformation in the private sector. Former federal press spokesperson and political group leader in Berlin-Mitte, board member of the association Team ADHS, speaker at the IT-Tage conference among others. Topics: neurodiversity at work, psychological safety and digital government.

How I work

Contact

A short email is enough – I’ll reply with a concrete proposal.

Email
info@crissgraf.com
Phone
+43 664 35 00 242
LinkedIn
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