Since 2004Self employed, having founded four companies since
Since 2017Managing Director of BGM3 GmbH
2020 to 2023Various coaching certifications, NLP Practitioner, NLP Master and NLP HypnoCoach
Since 2020Coach and mentor for leaders from start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs
2022Master Coach, Emerge Education, London and remote
2023Managing Director of the CoA Leadership Academy
Ongoing1:1 and group coaching with international participants
About me
The evening my legs gave out.
There was a time when, on the outside, I was exactly what a managing director is supposed
to be. Resilient, decisive, always one step ahead. I was convinced that strength meant
never questioning yourself. I held on to a difficult business relationship long after it
had quietly worn me down. I did not know back then that I was acting against my own values.
I did not even know them consciously. I simply functioned.
The price for that did not arrive as a clear thought. It arrived as mental exhaustion, and
eventually as a physical symptom. I explained the warning signs away, again and again,
because I believed a good managing director simply pushes through.
The moment that changed everything did not happen in a meeting. It happened on the way to
my child's bedroom, on an entirely ordinary evening. My legs gave out under me. Not because
of an illness. Because of a business relationship and a role that no longer matched who I
wanted to be.
I ended the business relationship and stepped down as managing director and shareholder of
the company. By the next day, every symptom was gone. I felt free, clear and safe, for the
first time in a long while.
A little later I started a coaching certification and learned a method for identifying and
prioritizing my own values. Only then did it become fully clear to me why I had felt the way
I felt during that time. My values had been my compass the entire time, and I simply had not
been reading it.
When we decide against our own values, the body eventually pays the bill that the mind
chose to ignore for a long time.
Today I work with leaders and decision makers exactly at this point, before their legs
actually give out. Not over months, but in a few focused hours, in which we make visible
what has been there in them all along. Their own values, clearly prioritized, as a compass
for every decision still to come.
When I am not coaching, I spend time with my family and our two Australian Shepherds.
Travel, sport and photography give me balance.
