I have 20+ years of experience in entrepreneurship and leadership in the manufacturing industries (i.e., turbines, paper machines, robots, battery, and road marking systems, etc.). I coach in synergy with leadership, HR, teams, and workshop staff mostly in culturally diverse environments.
My vision is to coach for connection between all stakeholders. The goal is to encourage systems-collaborative thinking, which is the key to organizational thriving beyond individual growth. In addition, I place my practice on evidence base through my own engagement in research. I am aware that we need deep understanding of what works for clients’ eco-systems beyond some flights of fancy.
Recently, I started running my ICF accredited coach training ‘integrative presence’ focusing on ‘presence’ as the most important coaching competence at mastery level. Furthermore, I have been appointed by the UN to supervise their internal coach pool covering both individual and systemic team coaching skills.
I hold a PhD in Business and Organizational Management, an Ashridge Master’s in Executive Coaching, a Master’s in Translation and Simultaneous Interpreting, and a Bachelor’s in Law. I am an Ashridge accredited Executive Coach, an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) and a Senior Practitioner with EMCC. Apart from being an avid conference speaker, I lecture at HEC in Paris, supervise MSc students at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and publish articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and professional coaching magazines (German and English). I have authored two books to date. Most recently, I am producing a documentary on coaching ‘The Light and Shadow of Coaching – In and Beyond Organizations’. It is a non-for-profit project to collect money and fund a coach training program for the charity Mama Organization in Kenya starting 2022.