{"id":247232,"date":"2025-04-28T12:28:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T10:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.socius.de\/?page_id=247232"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:18:03","slug":"yi-cong-lu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.socius.de\/en\/team\/yi-cong-lu\/","title":{"rendered":"Yi-Cong Lu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3>\u00bb<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bringing people into contact with their inner world and with others is the key to successful cooperation and social co-determination.<\/span><\/i>\u00ab<\/h3>\n<p>Yi-Cong Lu<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_1 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module teasertext\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was born in 1982 and have been working as an innovation coach, facilitator, organisational developer and conflict mediator since 2016. After studying design, I discovered my passion for helping people realise their creative potential and grow as a result. Today, I support teams and organisations in developing innovation-friendly, vibrant and human cultures and processes. I help them to redesign both their collaboration and their value creation. I draw on my experience from various areas such as New Work, conflict mediation, design thinking and mindfulness and teach these topics at various universities (including Witten\/Herdecke University, Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam and SMI Steinbeis).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One focus of my work is the implementation of participatory design processes in which different people and organisations are brought together and empowered to solve problems together and create something new.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is particularly important to me to create spaces that promote encounters - with oneself and with others - and thus pave the way for sustainable change and meaningful collaboration.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_2 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_2 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_image_0 et_pb_image et_pb_module et_block_module nierenform\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.socius.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024_oe-Tag_SOCIUS_ConstanzeFlamme_073-min.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.socius.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024_oe-Tag_SOCIUS_ConstanzeFlamme_073-min.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/staging.socius.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024_oe-Tag_SOCIUS_ConstanzeFlamme_073-min-980x654.jpg 980w, https:\/\/staging.socius.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024_oe-Tag_SOCIUS_ConstanzeFlamme_073-min-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1000px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-225274\" title=\"2024_oe-Tag_SOCIUS_ConstanzeFlamme_073-min\" alt=\"Yi-Cong Lu\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_4 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_3 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module list-blue team\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3>Areas of work<br \/>and research<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_text_4 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module list-blue team\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Innovation management and co-design processes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conflict mediation and team development in organisations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction of New Work structures as an agile coach<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Promoting mindfulness and self-leadership in team and leadership contexts<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_column_5 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_5 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module list-blue team\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3>Selected<br \/>Training programmes<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_text_6 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module list-blue team\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201eTransformation gestalten - Organisationsentwicklung\u201c (Universit\u00e4t Witten\/Herdecke, seit 2024)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201eTrain the Trainer - Mindful Leadership\u201c (Witten\/Herdecke University, 2021-2024)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201eConflict Management &amp; Business Mediation\u201c (University of Salzburg, 2022-2023)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201eCollective leadership\u201c (Leadershiphoch3, 2019-2020)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dipl. Des. Industrial Design (University of Arts and Design, Halle Saale, 2003-2010)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_section_2 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_5 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_6 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_7 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3>More from Cong<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_6 et_pb_row et_pb_equal_columns et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_7 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_3 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_column_8 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_3 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_cta_1 et_pb_promo et_pb_bg_layout_dark et_clickable et_pb_module et_block_module teasertext\"><div class=\"et_pb_promo_description\"><div class=\"et_pb_promo_content\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-249144 alignnone size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.socius.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Youtbe-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Methods for collaboration<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_button_wrapper\"><a class=\"et_pb_button et_pb_promo_button\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YmfFkH0OYNA%20\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Watch video<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_column_9 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_3 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":31064,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247232","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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