Tuomas Mikkonen Email & Phone Number

Helsinki

As a Lean business coach in Connection Coaching I help people and companies to utilize Lean thinking in their work. Usual benefits that my customers have received:-Faster throughput rate – From order to delivery. Your customers will thank you for this.-Less pain from process bottlenecks – We will eliminate these flow killers!-Focus & prioritization – Stop starting and start finishing.-Improved team work & management – Visualizing values streams and daily task management will make things simpler.-Daily improvements – Coaching the mindset and giving the necessary tools for leaders to make continuous improvement a reality-And many others…I do trainings, coaching and consulting depending on the customer need. I have a very pragmatic and hands on approach so no need to worry about drowning into some mystical Lean-jargon.What my customers have deemed interesting:Lean Office – How to utilize Lean-thinking in office environmentsOKR-model – How to implement strategy more effectivelyValue stream & Process workshops – Get your core functions rocking at 100 % capacityLean Leadership – How to make improvement an everyday part of everyone´s job.And much more!

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

My job entails creating events, marketing, concept creation, publishing, game design and management duties.We have three distinct projects running at the moment:Connection: Connection events are designed to bring together local youth from rural places in Finland with local developers to create new business opportunities and help young people employ themselves. Connection events range from vision creation to actual business projects. We combine methodologies from business literature and world of theater in our vision creation workshops and lean start-up methodologies in business oriented workshops.Northern Realms:Game creation & publishing was the main reason we started NR in the first place. We enjoy designing table top RPGs so we needed a legal platform to use in this. We design, publish and market our own games as well as games from other indie designers. hELSINKIBOFFAUS:We created this spin-off to create medieval battle simulation events for bachelor parties, company events and others in need of something different and interesting to do. For more info go to: boffaus.com (Finnish only sry)

My responsibilities were as following:-Brand launch plan co-creation and execution for brands Danio, Grego and Core-Development of the Brand communication plan: Tv, Internet, packaging-Co-creation and executional responsibility on all communication materials, tvc, digital media, etc..Creating and managing the Brand's marketing plan, media plan and budget-Brief, lead and report qualititative and quantitative consumer research-Active participation on brand profitability projects; R&D rework, implementation and follow-upAnalysis on non-tv media landscape in Finland and potential benefits plus strategy for DanoneIn short:Main job: Do everything that the consumer can see, feel, touch and taste with my brandsSecond job: Product management

Teach conversational English to our customers and make sure they enjoy their lessons

Execution of everyday financial tasks such as loans and securities. Helping financial executives in their jobs.

Trainers House Growth Academy was a combination of business training from senior consultants and doing marketing for customer companies. Most marketing activities revolved around new customer acquisition. Most customer project I handled were involved in it-business.

Master Of Science, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Boomi ry, NESU-boomi hallitus 2008, BOSA ry, International tutor Majored in Marketing. Minors: Business.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Global House, Smooth steppers, Footloose tennis club Studied business, Japanese language & culture, politics.