You are actually my focus.
However, as you will want to know whether the chemistry is good, you will also find information about my personality and my strengths in addition to my career as a coach.
Who am I – and if so, how many?
Curious, versatile and always on the lookout for the core of things – that’s me. As a coach, I combine my experience from different spheres of life to support you in finding your own answers. Whether as an IT manager, physicist, mother of two hearing-impaired daughters or sportswoman – each of these roles shapes my perspective and helps me to quickly grasp people and issues.
Structure and system are my tools, empathy and genuine interest my motivation. I am there to listen, filter out the essentials and provide impulses that help people move forward – always at eye level, always with the aim of making the potential and the answers that are already there visible.
What drives me is my enthusiasm for change and the quiet, decisive moments that initiate it. As a coach, I support people in finding new perspectives and growing – authentically, clearly and directly.
For a deeper insight into my professional and private life, please take a look at my detailed curriculum vitae
Because nobody likes to buy a pig in a poke and texts don’t tell the whole story, the best way to get a picture of me is to get to know me free of charge.
Snapshots of my personality – not only as a coach
In coaching, I often work with personality profiles of my clients. As long as you don’t think in pigeonholes, they provide helpful initial indications of possible causes of the matter. It is therefore only fair that I also reveal a little about myself with a few snapshots in common systems of personality profiles – even if the focus is actually on you:
- Graves Value System: Expression yellow and green, Resistance red and orange
- LIFO: Supportive 28, Determining 20, Preserving 23, Adaptive 19
- Linc Personality Profiler:
- Big Five: Conscientiousness, Cooperation, Sensitivity, Introversion, Openness
- Motives: Independence, Creativity
- Competencies: Planning, sense of responsibility, holistic & independent thinking, self-discipline
- mynds: Maestro – Power & Prestige/Excellence
- Strength Finder: Strategy, Performance Orientation, Analytical, Idea Collector, Imagination
- Meyers-Briggs: ENTJ, (Extraversion, Intuition, Thinking, Judgment)
How it all began
From the successful leader to the systemic coach –
After years of leading and supporting international teams in an agile way, a restructuring brought us into a classic command & control environment. The constant conflict between values and guidelines led to enormous stress in the team and resulted in an inability to act and resignations – ultimately the team and the project broke up. I also felt how much energy it cost me to work in an environment that was so out of step with my own values.
This experience made me realize how crucial it is that the way you work matches your own values – and that sometimes you need support to find your way back.
So I decided to become a self-employed coach and leadership trainer to support people and teams in their leadership culture transformation: Away from dominance, power (games) and ego trips, towards appreciation, empowerment and participation – for a successful, future-proof but human working world.
How it continued
– From classic coach to coach with horse –
From my own experience, I know how often we find ourselves in situations that cause inner stress – be it due to conflicts of values, dealing with certain people or defending our own needs. In most cases, mere reflection is of little help in understanding the actual triggers of inner resistance and reducing the stress.
For such cases, I have learned body-centered emotional work and Brainlog®. Brainlog® is based on neuro-scientific findings and combines proven approaches from EMDR, WingWave and Brainspotting, which were originally used in trauma therapy and have been further developed specifically for coaching.
I also wanted to integrate horses into coaching. These are particularly useful for managers and when it comes to setting boundaries, as they promote:
- Confident demeanor
- Reading body language and facial expressions
- Authenticity and congruence
- Situationally adapted actions
- Convincing without dominance
Through targeted further training, I now combine systemic and equine coaching elements on request in order to provide even faster and more sustainable support.
My Coaching Background
My publications in the media
Would you still like to know more about me and my approach to leadership topics? Then have fun with my publications in the media.
Press article about women in leadership positions
Since the age of assembly line work with repetitive processes, our working world has changed dramatically. Back then, only inventors needed creativity, inventiveness and initiative. Everyone else carried out what was required in prescribed processes.
Many of the classic management methods originate from this time, but in our modern, fast-moving and complex working world, other leadership qualities are required.
You can find out why this is an opportunity for women in leadership positions in this article by me in SHE Works!
Podcast about modern leadership
Command & Control is Dead –
The mindset leaders need now
That was the topic I was invited to talk about with Dominik Becker and Manuel Rau from mana HR Toolbox in their podcast “Connecting HR & Talent”.
Our topics this time were:
- What do horses have to do with innovative leadership?
- Why does command & control no longer work today?
- What comes after Command & Control?
- What impact do remote work, agile working et al. have on leaders?
And, of course, I revealed a few of my favorite hacks for innovative leaders.
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