unleashed consulting

Hi, I'm Max Moldmann, a Software Engineering Executive with over 20 years of hands-on experience transforming engineering organizations at three Fortune 500 companies. I've consistently delivered $10M+ in efficiencies at each, and now I'm launching Unleashed Consulting to bring that same game-changing Unleashed Management impact directly to companies like yours. Whether you're in manufacturing, tech, or any other sector — the frameworks and culture shifts I deploy drive results in any industry.

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20+
Years Experience
3
Fortune 500
Transformations
$10M+
Efficiencies
Per Company
10X
Throughput
Increase
5X
Defect
Reduction
1.8%
Annualized
Turnover (U.S.)

Unleashing organizational and engineering potential. Accelerating velocity, creating fast agile feedback loops, optimizing employee and developer experience, and building collaborative, high-performing teams that deliver real business results.

Transformations

delivering results at scale

Emerson — 10X Throughput in One Year (before AI)

As Global Software Engineering Director, led a distributed worldwide team of over 50 engineers to achieve a 10-fold increase in throughput within just one year. Defects reduced by 5X, cycle times cut dramatically, and the team helped launching a $100M+ annual product on-time that had previously been delayed for 1.5 years.

Emerson — Cultural Transformation

Built an inclusive, self-organizing team with exceptionally low turnover — U.S. annualized at just 1.8% since 2022. In India, two engineers who had left actually asked to return because of the positive environment. Achieved by adopting best-in-class practices, turning SW Testers into Developers, fostering ownership and self-service, and introducing modern tools and workflows.

John Deere — Architecture & Productivity

Successfully lobbied from VP to C-suite levels to fix a flawed software architecture strategy, unlocking 2X to 4X productivity for half of the company's software teams. Built Deerepedia, a massive knowledge platform that became the largest at John Deere, slashing knowledge retrieval time by 50%+ for 10,000 users.

Bosch — Agile & Tooling Pioneer

Helped initiate the Agile Transformation across 400,000 employees, pioneered Git in 2009 (well before it was mainstream), and slashed build times by up to 16X through an innovative incremental parallel build system.

"I've been writing software professionally since 1984. And I've never before witnessed firsthand such an amazing software development team transformation. A transformation where teammates are now enthusiastic and engaged. A transformation where teammates are now eager to start the workday. A transformation where teammates are now communicating and are happy and productive."
— Senior Engineer, 30+ years professional experience

Offerings

what unleashed management can do for you

Unleashed Mindset

Effectively change people's mindset — likely the most powerful change managers can impact. As explored in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, the right environment and support unlock extraordinary performance. Learn how to create that environment for your teams.

Unleashed Management

My team rated my management with a 95% approval rating. Most companies suffer from bad Glassdoor ratings, with root causes in management seen as incompetent, irrational, or ignoring employee needs. Learn how to deliver the change necessary to transform how your people perceive their leadership.

Unleashed Efficiency

Introduce a scalable AI-powered company operating system that streamlines workflows, automates bottlenecks, and surfaces insights your current systems miss entirely.

Unleashed AI

Introduce or improve Agentic Coding, AI Skills, and AI Agents — harness the power of modern AI to multiply your engineering output and accelerate delivery timelines. Optimize token usage and code quality at the same time.

Unleashed Knowledge

Improve personal and company-wide Knowledge Management — capture, organize, and surface institutional knowledge so your teams spend less time searching and more time building.

Unleashed Collaboration

Learn how to best communicate, learn from each other, and break down silos inside your company. Build cross-functional teams that actually talk to each other.

Unleashed Delivery

Learn new ways to manage portfolios & company goals, unleash bottlenecks, and stop doing what the mainstream is doing. Identify what really works much better for your specific context.

Unleashed Problem Solving

I go to Gemba with you — right to where your problems live. You will be astounded to learn what you have never considered to try, unlocking solutions hiding in plain sight.

Core Passion

what drives me

My core passion is unleashing organizational and engineering potential: optimizing employee and developer experience, modern Agentic coding harnesses and all things AI, modernizing SDLC and DevOps, and building collaborative, high-performing teams that deliver real business results. One thing you will notice quickly — I have solution ideas that you have never thought of.

Let's unleash what's possible.

If your organization is struggling with slow delivery, high defects, disengaged teams, delayed projects, or untapped productivity — let's talk. I'm ready to consult, partner, and drive measurable transformation for you.

Get in Touch

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