About

Hi, I’m Lea.

Working across IT, psychology and business practice, I see the enormous potential in the technology. I also know that human cognition was never built for the digital world, and needs protecting because of it.

M.Sc. Computer Science

Leibniz University Hannover Focus on ethical AI development
B.Sc. Human-Computer Interaction

University of Hamburg Graduated top of my year
Visiting Lecturer Now

University of Hamburg Two seminars on AI skills for educators · winter term 26/27
AI Consulting

Lidl International Digitalisation champion reporting directly to the CIO
Author

heise+ & Rheinwerk Specialist articles and a book chapter
Other experience

Software engineering (Data42), theoretical computer science and teaching (University of Hamburg)

“We have to fit the technology and the culture to people, not the other way around.”
Lea Reinhart

A Background That Joins Up

Technology, people, and enterprise reality.

Since university I’ve worked across people, machines and business. Over the years that has built into a background at this intersection that’s unusually broad and deep at the same time. Three perspectives that meet in one place:

The Value

Business

In consulting I watched technically flawless projects fail on bad data, missing integration budgets and users who wouldn’t adopt them. Which is why I know AI has to be steered strictly within the business strategy, not the reverse.

AI Consulting · Lidl International
Building and strategically steering AI projects inside a global retail group, between the business and IT. Over my years at Lidl I went deep into the business processes in order to extend them sensibly with technology. That spanned many projects, from classical AI in logistics to generative AI in marketing.
Software Engineering
I started programming at 16 for myself; professionally I joined Data42 in 2019, building big data pipelines.

The People

Psychology

Through my B.Sc. in human-computer interaction and my role as digitalisation champion, I know the cognitive barriers in change management, and how user adoption has to be designed psychologically if new technology is to be taken up rather than blocked.

B.Sc. Human-Computer Interaction
Completed in Hamburg, top of my year. Psychology and computer science in equal measure, aimed at designing technology around the people who use it.
Digitalisation Champion · Lidl International
Reporting directly to the CIO, I established new ways of working and translated complex technical material precisely, for every level up to the C-suite.
Communication That Lands
In my writing I translate specialist material so that it actually reaches the audience it was written for.

The Technology

With an M.Sc. in computer science and hands-on software engineering behind me, I bring the mathematical and algorithmic depth to understand AI and data structures past the buzzwords.

M.Sc. Computer Science
From modern transformer architectures to algorithms and data structures, my degree took me deep into the technical side.
heise+ · Rheinwerk Verlag
The research behind my articles and my book chapter built an unusually solid technical foundation.
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Tutorial Group Leader, Theoretical Computer Science
Mathematical proofs were always fun for me, which is where I learned early how to convey difficult material to people for whom they were anything but.

Interdisciplinary, because that’s what works.

I bring an interdisciplinary perspective to helping people use AI productively, and keep using it well. By focusing on the people rather than on short-term technical potential, I make sure AI supports their capabilities over the long run instead of eroding them.

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