Reiner Kraft

Reiner Kraft

Germany

Dr. Reiner has spent 20 plus years working in tech across companies big and small. During his career he performed a variety of roles including senior software engineer, Director of Engineering assistant professor, VP of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer.

He’s earned his PhD in computer science from the University of California Santa Cruz.

And he’s also attained the title of Master Inventor due to his prolific work in inventing new technologies, having filed more than 120 patent applications over his career while working at the likes of IBM and Yahoo.

In 2003, MIT Technology Review named him one of the top 100 innovators under 30.

In 2016, Dr. Kraft who left Silicon Valley for his native home in Germany to help scale the fast growing fashion startup Zalando.

These days Dr. Kraft is based in Berlin, Germany, where he runs an executive coaching business called the mindful leader focusing on helping technical leaders deepen their skills and scale their organisations.

1. Which of the 10 declarations of The Mindful CIO Manifesto resonates the most with you?
I think #3 we promote leaders growth resonates with me a lot

2. Please elaborate on why do you identify the most with this declaration.
It starts with the leader. In my experience if they are increasing the level of present awareness (LPA) and integrating the mindfulness leadership principles into their daily life, this has a huge impact on them and their teams.

3. What is your #1 Strategy (or Ritual) for Self-Care?
Cultivating more presence in my life. It differs from day to day, but a combination of reflection, meditation, breathing exercise and being in nature

4. What does Mindful Leadership mean to you?
It is an evolved way of leadership by living the mindfulness leadership principles. I wrote about the mindful leader and what it means on my blog themindfulleader.net/blog

5. Why do you think The Mindful CIO movement is important? In other words, why have you accepted to become a Champion of this community?
We need more initiatives like this, as this is a global movement and it needs global support.

To Learn more about Reiner Kraft please visit: https://www.themindfulleader.net/