My results oriented approach to coaching means that I will work with you as an individual but always keep in mind that you are part of larger systems: the organization you are working in, economic pressures and realities, professional codes and ethics, your role, social norms, and your personal social history.

During the coaching sessions we will systemically and systematically explore what is occurring at the interfaces between you as an individual, your role and your professional environment, always keeping in mind that you (and I as a coach) must perform with a strong focus on results and increased managerial capacity. In doing so, coaching involves discovering fresh insights about yourself, your role and the organizational context you are embedded in. It opens up vistas from which we can navigate new directions together through previously unseen pathways and thereby discover new possibilities and potentials where earlier you might only have seen thickets, dead ends or even conflicts. 

My results oriented focus in coaching is on your personal and professional success. I aim to increase your behavioral repertoire and to add tools to the toolbox that you already possess. I don't set out to entirely change you as a person but to help you be more effective and thus happier in your professional life. 

During our sessions, I reduce the noise of day-to-day business and tailor my coaching to your individual requirements, based on where you are in your career or within a current project.

In addition to this, I will:

• Provide a regular safe space to consider how you approach taking up your role, whether this is a new or a developing role;
• Enable you to develop your capacity for leadership and the exercise of authority in that role;
• Increase your capacity to lead and manage in rapidly changing and uncertain environments;
• Increase your effectiveness in your daily management tasks, based on an understanding of people as individuals and as members of groups, organizations and society at large;
• Support building your capacity to relate to the complex systems you encounter and to understand the part you play in these, that is, how what you do and say affects these systems;
• Enable you to identify further learning and development needs. 

My personal style is a mixture of directive and non-directive coaching, moving into consultancy when appropriate. The coaching process is not a strictly linear one, but one in which directions, discussions, and solutions will emerge. I draw from theories and concepts of systems dynamics, psychodynamics, and many more (Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), Gestalt, provocative therapy, attachment theory, role theory).

My work is mainly influenced by the following schools of thought and institutions:

• Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
• INSEAD
• National Training Laboratories (NTL)

The feedback that I provide is well thought out, honest and can be very direct, offering perspectives on the “unthought known.” In all that, I am a friend of your learning, but not a friend of your habits, which might be uncomfortable, at times.

Working with others also means working on my own personal development, something that I do on an ongoing basis. So far, I have visited professional development programs at the following institutions: London Business School, Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD), the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, International Institute for Management Development (IMD), and Harvard Business School, to name a few. Please visit my LinkedIn profile for further information about my educational and professional background.

Usually, my coaching covers six to eight sessions over one year, with the option to extend the coaching. It might be, that we are going to meet bi-weekly for the first two sessions and then extend the time between our sessions to 4 or up to 6 weeks, based on your individual needs. 

During the first sessions, you might experience our work like a pressure valve: We will deal with topics that are pressing and need immediate attention. After that, the topics might become more long term and strategically oriented, so that we can develop a strategy to help you reach your professional goals. Overall, you are setting the pace and defining the topics that are relevant for you. Each session will end with concrete challenges or specific thoughts you can work on and there will be a mutual evaluation of the process after each three to four sessions.

Through my experience as a senior leader reporting to board members, CFOs, CEOs, COOs, owners, and presidents, as well as an individual with experience in public organizations, I can add value when coaching in:

• If you are working directly below and for the C-Suite
• Project oriented, fast paced, international environments; 
• Bureaucratic, highly structured and political organizations; 
• Situations in which you have to cope with complex tasks;
• Stressful situations in which you have to structure “messy things”;
• Situations in which you are changing your role from a technical one into a (more) senior leadership position. 

Languages

• German (native)
• English (fluent)

 Locations

• Berlin, Germany
• Global, via Zoom, Skype, Adobe Connect or any other preferred video conferencing tool