Meet The Partners

Lumen is a collective of experienced partners who have garnered a wealth of experience as entrepreneurs and investors in various scenes ranging from Co-working Spaces to Social Business to Creativity and Design, HR and Strategy Consulting.

Marlin Watling – Strategy & HR

With over 15 years of experience in Strategy and Personnel Management, Marlin has worked with large corporations across the expanse of diverse fields ranging from IT and Software, Services, Financial Investment, Construction, Pharma to Supply Chain and Medtech.

He has to his credit an incredible estimate of 10,000 hours of consulting in the field of Change Management, Mindset, Transformation, Strategy, Skills, Staffing, Structure and New Work.

Dominik HofmanN – ENTREPRENEURSHIP

More than half a decade as a founder, community builder and entrepreneur, Dominik established the Coworking Space Heimathafen Wiesbaden, a hub for the innovation community in the Rhein-Main region. He is an ardent supporter of startups, corporations and communities, setting up conducive eco-systems for the advancement of innovation and entrepreneurship.

He also serves as a college lecturer, teaching on the subject “Strategies for Future Markets”.

Klaus Motoki Tonn – FOUNDER

Serving as a senior lead at the Landeskirche Hannovers and sh|ft, Motoki is laden with the desire to be a pioneer on many fronts.
He has gone ahead to found Lumen Design and Lumen Partners alongside many other agencies, organisations and initiatives that remain fully in operation till date.

Although he may seem younger in appearance, he has gained more than 20 years of experience in strategic communication, innovation design and entrepreneurship. The first half of his professional life, he worked as a corporate lawyer for large corporations in the fields of M&A, IT and Investor Relations. He is currently writing his PhD project in the field of Digitalization Strategies and is in a publishing deal with Springer Gabler on a publication on Mindset.