Welcome.
I offer personality and
potential development as part of leadership and personality
development programs for selected target groups in companies
and for individual clients. I use outstanding high-impact
approaches that facilite, accelerate and deepen personal
development, enabling relational skills, self-leading skills,
awareness, and authenticity.
Since 2008 I work as a
freelancer within two professional disciplines: organisational
development and personal development.
These two disciplines
inspire each other:
As a change consultant and
organisational developer I dive deep into organisational
cultures, structures, strategies, and the processes of their
transformation.
As a personality developer,
coach, developmental companion I support individuals to develop
mindsets, skillsets, approaches and strategies to find their
own unique ways and their coherent definition of their role –
viable, 'functioning', and yet authentic and personally
integer.
In case you are interested in organisational development, you will find my offers here.
This website introduces you
to my work as personality developer.
You want to grow.
You want to change the way you find yourself in (professional,
maybe also private) relations. You want to
expand your relational abilities - being able to connect, being
able to confront and set boundaries, to express and engage
yourself, to precisely sense and effectively communicate, to
cooperate and trust. Maybe there is a specific relation you
want to proceed with. Possibly you want these relational skills
as a foundation for your professional role, being it in a
leadership position, a management or project
management position, an expert position interacting with
people, or a promotion path leading to one of those
positions.
You want to change the way you find yourself in your
professional (or maybe also private) role. You
want the skills you need for it, and beyond, you want to feel
yourself integer, genuine and authentic in your role - you want
your personal essence to shine through in the way you put your
role into action, you want to encounter yourself there, you
want the way you live your role to be connected with your
self.
You want to change the way you find yourself with
yourself. You want to cope well with your
emotions, the subtle and the intense ones. You want to find
your way to soothe the effects of excitement and stress on your
thoughts, your behaviour, maybe even your body. You want to
change the way you treat yourself - may it be hypercritical or
neglecting or aimlessly. You want to gain awareness and
understanding of the patterns you notice yourself repeating,
and explore new ways.
You are about to make significant decisions -
and you want to conclude your decision making process in
clarity.
You feel the urge to be what
you can be - you feel it is time that certain
potentials of yours unfold.
You want your people to
grow.
You are responsible for your company's people
(as business owner, as manager, as HR officer). You want to
enable your people to grow, not only regarding their
expertise: You want
to ensure that your leaders and managers, your
experts and performers, or your
talents and high potentials feature solid
social skills, relational skills, personal reflection and
awareness.
You want to enable them to
perform up to their potential.
You want them to know about
their personal patterns and their effects on relations – be it
collaborative or leadership relations.
You want them to find their individually 'fitting' yet
performancewise effective definition of their roles.
You want them to be the backbone of your company's
sophisticated, humane and functional
culture.
You know that what you want is more than a 'training' can
accomplish.
If this is what you want, my offer is for you.
Personal development is
about unfolding a person's potentials regarding their possible
relations, behavior, emotions, perceptions, abilities.
In any case, the person is seen in
their uniqueness and entireness and the development of
e.g. leadership skills, relational skills, self-leading skills,
decision-making, interpretation of roles, development of
learning paths etc. is always connected to the entire person,
their capabilities, their individuality, their integrity and
authenticity.
In my work I focus on four connected levels:
The settings I offer to work on these topics consist of both 1-on-1 individual sessions and of group settings that allow several persons to grow and learn together. The combination of both settings allows the most intense experiences and processes to happen.
Companies I work for range
from global corporations with 300.000+ employes via
family-owned SMB's to start-ups.
I work with various sectors
(automotive, chemistry, engineering & solutions,
healthcare, finance, IT, raw materials, logistics, marketing)
and departments (operations, r&d, sales, IT, headquarters,
...).
Individual clients I work with appreciate the holistic approach, being seen in their wholeness. I am experienced working with clients from ceo- to expert-level. Not depending on their position in their organisation, my clients benefit from our work mostly through a personal attitude: a willingness to perceive, engage and 'truely get oneself in'.
If you would like to get
into dialogue with some of my alumni to get an impression at
first hand, I'll gladly put you in touch with
them.
Since 2008 I deliver Leadership & Personality as well as Talent Circle & High Potential Development Programs, and work with individual clients.
Leadership & Personality Development Programs
To enable and accelerate the
personal growth of a company's key persons I offer
Developmental Programs: consecutive group sessions (workshops
of 2 or 3 days; 2-4 sessions per year; over the time period of
ca. 1,5 - 2 years), ideally combined with individual 1-on-1
sessions between the group workshops.
These Developmental Programs may be tailored at the specific
target groups, considering their specific topics and issues as
well as the organisations situation and challenges, and the
strategic HR developmental goals.
Developmental Programs for key players can also be a major contribution to cultural change and transformation of organisational culture. In case you are interested in these topics, please connect with me and we will specify possible arrangements.
Individual Clients
With individual clients I work on professional and private topics and their connectedness. Frequencies and overall durations will be adapted to individual needs.
The effects reach far beyond what is usually expected of a 'coaching' or 'training' etc - approaching deeper levels and using high-impact methods allows to touch and transform not only skillsets, but also dimensions that are part of the personality itself: emotional patterns, relational patterns, cognitive patterns, patterns of relating with oneself. In these dimensions, personality-focussed work accelerates, enables, deepens development - but doesn't twist the person, does not build an artificial 'masc' around a persons uniqueness; on the contrary, it keeps, explores and unfolds a person's authenticity and essence, it allows the next steps of a person's journey of becoming more and more themselves.
Depending on pre-agreed goals of collaboration, the focus is set on personal and professional topics and whose connectedness. Sometimes this means developing directly applicable strategies and skills for action, and sometimes it means focussing on deeply personal, relational, emotional topics.
Working in a group setting, I use a variety of methods that derive from both my consulting and my psychological background. In general,my group work has many characteristics of a 'laboratory' - a developmental laboratory, that allows insight, awareness, learning, growth. I follow one of two approaches:
The most important approach
is to work on very specific personal issues
individuals seek guidance for.
Individual clients choose
concrete and specific situations in which they want to proceed
or expand their abilities; I provide the methods, techniques
and my professional expertise; and together we examine the
relevant dimensions of their situations (intrapersonal,
interpersonal, organisational, role) and develop possibilities
to learn, cope, act, succeed.
This approach of working
means we invest into topics maximally relevant to my clients
and our work has a massive impact on personal learning
and development as on practical
usefulness.
Usually, in a group, we work
on ca. 4-6 issues a day. It is a reliable experience that all
group members profit intensely of the topics brought in by a
sample of them.
The alternative approach is to focus on selected and pre-defined topics. On these topics, we work by means of action and interaction, experiences and exercises, simulations and situations, dialogue and exchange, personal reflection and feedback. This way, topic-specific knowledge is personally connected and embedded in action, transforming it into applied knowledge and applicable skills.
One sub-type of Development Programs aiming at a specific target group are Talent Circles and High Potential Development Programs for ongoing, potential or young leaders. While working on specific personal issues serves all levels of seniority, working on pre-defined topics shifts the impact slightly more on 'skills' and can be a viable alternative e.g. for talent circles. Typical topics on which I work with talent circles (beyond 'mastering the basics', 'maps and toolboxes') are
Personal development happens in the 'media' of awareness and relation. Hence, my focus as a personal developer is on allowing awareness and relation.
The more awareness a person acquires about their emotional, cognitiv, relational, behavioural patterns, the more it is possible to integrate and proceed them, the more it is possible to develop them one step further towards 'what they are meant to be' and essentially are.
This processes of gaining
awareness often happens in a constructive, well-disposed
relation - thanks to feedback, contact, joint
perception, interaction.
Here, an experienced, refined, professional counterpart
and companion might make all the difference.
What enables me for my work is that I am at home in both the professional world of organisations (there my primary access is made up of change and transformation projects, that requiere and allow to 'dig deep' into the subsurface layers of organisations) and the world of personal transformation.
I am a
psychologist (Diplom-Psychologe,
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) and wrote my
Diploma about "psychological counselling in situations of
intense emotions and in organisations"; and
I am a
sociologist (M.A., Johannes
Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; former scholar of the
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and wrote my master
thesis about Norbert Elias' figurational sociology and the
interconnectedness of social, psychological and historical
processes.
I attended >300 days of advanced training, further education and supervision in a multitude of methods that qualify for my work with individuals and groups:
This multitude of methods enables me to tackle and cope with the whole scope of personal situations and conditions and, depending on the predefined goals of our collaboration, to touch my clients on 'deeper' levels normally not accessible in a typical coaching or a similar procedure. I can draw on these methods as well as on the contents and my experiences from years of leadership training and human resource development - a rare combination, ultimately.
Connect with me (by mail or
phone, see the page's bottom).
I am based in Wiesbaden (Germany) and València (Spain), and
work all over Europe.
Together we might tailor an
approach that offers the best fit to your situation and
goals.
You might get an outstanding
blend of experience, proven quality, connected and applied
learning, and state of the art approaches that take
effect.