Be real.
Make direction. Move forward.

Coaching and hands-on partnerships for people with an executive mindset.
In tech, business and life.

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What becomes possible when
the conversation can go where it needs to?

People who take charge don’t have the luxury of neatly defined boundaries and clean scopes. They go for it and deal with what comes up along the way.

When we work together, you can bring what you’re facing without first deciding what kind of help it calls for. Together, we find where attention is needed to bring your full personal energy into the situation. From that reality we create direction and effective movement for you!

Touch your reality and see what’s beyond performing.

Learning to rewrite my own part

For the longest time I was seeing my life built into what I dreamed it to be. So it was bewildering when I realized: I feel stuck in a relationship that has so many beautiful sides. I have a successful career that gives me a great deal—and sometimes I feel like it is having me, rather than me having it.

It took some real wtf moments to see that had not only built toward what I wanted. I had helped create things I didn’t want. How had I missed my own part?

It wasn’t one big epiphany. In small situations of daily life, I began to see things I had missed: How me avoiding upsetting people kept me from speaking honestly. Or how my desire for greatness kept me from growing here and now.

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After the seeing I began to feel stuck. Because it seemed impossible to change anything about it. How to actually change how I participate in my life was something completely different. The best and most scary thing that ever happened to me. And I realized that all of life - friends and family, career and business, partnerships and sex life, everything that matters to us - is the material for our self-discovery.

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You have the chance to get a life that matters to you. It’s not fully yours to decide what’s the path there. But you will find it as long as you keep moving in a way that’s yours. I am here to help you keep moving.

Find your way forward in what matters to you.

What matters is up to you. What works is up to your situation. I’m here to help you move things forward. Here are some of the situations and ambitions we can work on together.

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  • You are in one of those rare phases of your life where you have the chance to really change your life’s course. With all the opportunities ahead, you find yourself hesitant. Will you be more happy in another career? Is it really about being more independent? Will I be just rebuilding a life that I left? Together we will look at the different parts, the ones that pull your forward and the ones who inspire doubt. We work to get you clarity for making a decision and to change your patterns so that the new life doesn’t turn out to be the old one in disguise. We work toward decisions you can stand behind without needing certainty that you are right, and priorities that can guide you as circumstances change.oes here

  • You’re responsible for outcomes you cannot produce by yourself. Progress depends on what other people understand, decide, and do. Together, we examine how you use your power: how you give direction, make decisions, entrust responsibility, and participate beyond your formal role. Situation by situation, we will remove entanglements that do no longer serve you and develop clarity for what really matters to you and the business. We work toward shaping the conditions that allow you and others to accomplish more while actually doing less.

  • You have substantial expertise and experience, yet changes around you can make it unclear where and how to contribute. Again, you find yourself under pressure to adapt. At the same time, you know that this is also a cycle: What everyone is excited about today, will be normal 2 years from now. Together, we look at what the situation needs, what you bring, and what you want to stand for in your work. We work toward a personal stance that incorporates all of you, including the foresight around trends and cycles. When you allow all of yourself to contribute you’ll naturally engage more fully, with greater clarity and confidence.

  • A technical solution can work and still fall short of the difference it was meant to make. I help connect the technical work with the business needs and the people whose participation turns it into results. This can involve shaping the project, translating between functions, or owning the change work around a rollout. The aim is to align decisions, collaboration, and resources around the outcomes that matter. Traditionally described as stakeholder and change management, my approach is tuned to the complex nature of such initiatives and more pragmatic. Keep all relevant parties involved, reduce wasting resources, make meaningful progress and ensure real outcomes.

  • When tensions rise or events demand a response, communication becomes consequential and difficult. Our organizations and ourselves tend to handle this in known ways, leading to known results. Some fall into interventionism. Some are solution oriented. Some avoid. Some wait.
    What we do in those phases has consequences well beyond: What will be decided will often persist until the next crisis. How we handle ourselves and the situation will be a clear signal to everyone for what to expect when things become difficult.
    I will help you to see the immense potential of those moments and make moves that will leave a positive imprint on everyone involved. I facilitate conversations and mediate between people, helping bring concerns, differences, and what is at stake into view. We work toward a way forward that addresses the situation while avoiding unnecessary damage to relationships and business

About me

I enjoy making things happen that make a meaningful difference: bringing structure to complex situations, taking ownership, and working with others to move things forward.

While I’m passionate about tech, what matters to me is what it makes possible for people and businesses. As an AI consultant, I became a project lead within months and went on to become the firm’s youngest partner.

As my responsibilities grew, one thing became increasingly clear: we work in formal roles, but we bring our whole selves to them. Moving things forward effectively meant working with the people and the systems they were part of. And as a mentor, coach, mediator and leader, I saw how much depended on how people handled uncertainty, responsibility and each other.

PhD in technical mathematics, >6 yrs AI and cloud development, from individual tooling over early-stage startup to enterprise-scale projects

Partner in a medium-sized AI consultancy, developing & owning business and client relations, lead cross-company teams, organizational development and change management.

Coaching, mentoring, mediation, moderation in professional and private contexts. Intervention design and workshops.

Influences/trainings: non-violent communication, radical honesty, mindfulness, mankind project, embodiment coaching, western tantra, Art-of-Accomplishment-style coaching, developmental psychology as in Haltung Entscheidet and Thomas Binder’s I-E-Profil

How do we work together?

I help people move forward where it feels difficult. In business and in life. Working with me means making room for the conversation we need to have right now. We look at what matters in the situation and how you’re involved in it. From there, we can find a clearer, more realistic way forward for us.

Coaching is the foundation of my work. Hands-on partnerships can grow from that relationship.

  • Through coaching, we develop perspective, clarify decisions, and strengthen your ability to act. Coaching is centered on enabling people to go forward, individual or team. I make room for the person within their roles: emotions, assumptions, ambitions, and inner contradictions. As a coach and thinking partner, I explore how these shape the possibilities we see and the actions we take. Stepping into the personal with honesty, opens up new horizons for yourself, your business and your community.

  • Through hands-on partnerships, I bring my capabilities into work where I can contribute directly to an outcome. This might mean owning the change side of an organizational AI initiative, designing roll-outs and coordinating internal communications. I take on these partnerships where I also have a coaching relationship with the person sponsoring the work. In consulting, I’ve seen how easily a project’s activity can become disconnected from the progress its sponsor actually needs. Starting from coaching helps us understand what matters to you and where my involvement could make a difference. We agree the partnership’s scope and responsibilities separately, including how you and I stay involved throughout the work.

Let’s talk

We start with a first coaching session of 1 hour. Free and without obligations. This allows us to see if we are a match and if we want to engage in a more ongoing partnership.

  • The format: 1 hour Zoom video call.

  • My prerequisites for you:

    • Proper lighting, stable internet, good audio & video quality on your computer. No phones!

    • You are in a space where you feel safe, are interrupted and ideally alone.

    • Big plus: You’re not in a rush.

If that works for you, fill out the form below and let’s dive right in.