Stefan Waschatz

Areas of focus

• Understand and apply (generative) artificial intelligence in a legally compliant way
• Legal advice on employment law and works constitution law
• Transformations and restructuring
• Improving HR management

Target audience

• Managing directors
• Heads of department
• Heads of HR
• HR teams

Professional background

Education

• Law studies in Freiburg, First State Examination 2004
• Legal clerkship in Karlsruhe, Second State Examination 2010
• Admission to the bar 2010
• Doctorate, Bucerius Law School Hamburg 2014

Career history

• Since 2024: Self-employed lawyer and consultant (HR, Transformation, AI)
• 2010–2024: Various roles in a corporate group, including Head of HR, Head of Processes & Organisation, Head of Transformation Management
• 1997–2010: Journalistic work for various media, including a traineeship at the German Press Agency (dpa) and positions at RTL Nord, SWR, ZDF, Badische Zeitung Freiburg, Aller-Zeitung Gifhorn, PA news agency & Hartlepool Mail England

Training and qualifications

• Artificial Intelligence: 'Generative AI', 'Product Owner AI', 'Ethical AI' (Udacity Nanodegrees), Natural Language Processing Specialist (DFKI/SGD), AI Privacy Expert (GDD)
• Various management programmes, including at Harvard Business School and Wharton Executive Education
• Process optimisation: Porsche Consulting Akademie, Train-the-KVP-Manager (2012)

AI Navigator

Guiding change on the path to an AI-powered future.

Fully qualified lawyer admitted to the bar, honorary judge at the labour court, experienced HR manager (including a long tenure as Head of HR), journalist.

Contact details

• Email: stefan.waschatz@plan-a-consulting.de