Background

Lived leadership experience meets psychology

How experience shaped my approach

And I know the side of it that's talked about less often. I was often the only woman in the room, in circles where I had to earn my place before I could take it. I found my feet again after parental leave, in a role that hadn't been waiting for me. I built a practice of my own while two children were growing up at home. And at some point I traded the security of a large company for responsibility of my own, a step that felt less like setting out than like jumping into the unknown.

These transitions taught me what I pass on today: that the real change rarely lies in the matter itself, but in how we understand ourselves and our role. That the hardest moments in leading usually have to do with relationships, with others and with ourselves. And that what's needed is often not another tool, not another framework, but someone who helps you see what gets lost in the pace of the everyday.

If any of this is familiar, the way out of it is rarely more information or another AI conversation. It's a different way of seeing what's already there.

Calm, clear, and focused on what matters

The way I see all this is psychologically trained and, at the same time, practically grounded. I'm an organisational psychologist, but I don't work academically. I bring together Western psychology and Eastern philosophy, and that too not as a concept, but because as a yoga teacher I've felt how much clarity grows out of stillness.

What the people I work with tend to describe in me is just that: calm, present, at ease in myself, and at the same time clear and challenging where it's needed.

What fulfils me in this work rests on a single conviction: that each of us acts to the best of our knowledge and conscience, out of our own world and its values. That difference fascinates me still. Things rarely turn difficult because someone is doing something wrong, but because different worlds meet, and it takes an open eye to understand the other person against the background of what they value. That is the way of seeing I want to pass on: more understanding for yourself, and through that, for others.

And I get to put the strengths I have to use for other people. I'm there as they find their way back to their own strength, gain clarity, and go on, towards themselves and towards the leader they want to be.

So I don't give you ready-made answers. I give you a space in which you can quietly see what's really going on, and act from your own clarity. What grows from that is yours, and it holds even after we've stopped working together.

What I bring

• Degree in Psychology (RWTH Aachen University)
• INSEAD Global Executive MBA (France, UAE, Singapore)
• Several coaching trainings and continuing further education
• ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
• Certified in Hogan Assessments
• Coaching training to DBVC standards
• Trained yoga teacher (BDY/EYU)
• 20+ years of leadership and development experience, from a thirty-person consultancy to a corporate group of 200,000 employees

Does This Speak to You?

How we start a conversation

If something about my approach or my work resonates with you, the easiest first step is to schedule a brief introductory conversation. I look forward to meeting you!