I live a patchwork career: While still studying at the Medical University of Hannover; I worked as a journalist before I started to develop digital business for the record company Sony Music. This took me to Switzerland, where I was leading a global team for the telecom supplier Ericsson. Still accompanying the diversification strategy of Swisscom, I got interested in the hidden patterns of success in interpersonal relationships. In 2008, I started my own business as an Executive Coach & Organizational Consultant.
I am a certified coach and facilitator (NLP Master, Systemic Coach, Hypno-Coach, Systemic Constellation Work and Organisational Development). I have published on the subject brain research, leadership and cultural change (Campus Verlag, Süddeutsche Zeitung, HR Today Switzerland, Executive magazine Deutsche Leasing).
Through my friendship with the Göttingen neurobiologist Prof. Dr. Gerald Hüther I began to successfully combine the findings of modern brain research with the knowledge of management training. Together we founded the non-profit initiative The Culture Change Code in 2010.
Together with my Advisory Group for Organisational Change we work, worldwide, with enterprises that want to implement a culture to unfold hidden potentials. I also give lectures in which I teach findings of modern brain research and its applicability for industry executives and entrepreneurs. Twice a year, individuals can participate in my open training for “Unfolding potential and communication”.
Important people and ideas that have influenced me: (click)
- Systemic Work/Systemic Constellations in organizations I learned from Insa Sparrer and Prof. Dr. Matthias Varga von Kibéd – a man I will always appreciate for his excellent speech precision.
- Hypnosystemic Approaches provided by the humorous Gunther Schmidt. More hypnotic- and trance work I was able to learn from Stephen Gilligan, over several years, whose inner attitude lastingly impressed and influenced me.
- Nonviolent Communication I learned directly from Marshall B. Rosenberg in a workshop in the middle of the Swiss mountains.
- My NLP Master I was taught by Robert Dilts, who has just now lifted this method to its next level. Therefore, he became one of the key figures of the new generation of NLP for me.
- Systemic Organizational Development, I have learned with Prof. Dr. Eckard König and the wonderfully pragmatic Dr. Gerda Volmer König.
- Bernd Isert was my instructor on my journey as a Systemic Trainer. With his unconventional way, he set the necessary basis for the combination of many methods very early on in my development.
- Bruce Kumar Frantzis taught me Taoist Energy work in a rather unusual way. One of those things was that I was not allowed to ask him any questions for any number of days. Therefore, the learning process had to happen on another level.
- The impulses of brain research came and are still coming from Gerald Hüther as well as many other exceptional researchers such as Dan Siegel, Sara Lazar or science journalist Sharon Begley.