I am an experienced consultant, facilitator and coach for organisational and team development, leadership and collaboration. I have a passion for creating conditions in which people come together to build something useful and good. I studied logistics at bachelor's level and later IT management at master's level, and bring over ten years of experience from start-ups, consulting and leadership.
After my bachelor's degree I spent several years in shipping start-ups, taking on various roles and experiencing every conceivable phase – from founding and growth through stabilisation and spin-offs to crises, mergers and even insolvency. That time, and in particular the failure, taught me a great deal about leadership, entrepreneurship and myself.
I then spent over seven years at CGI, a global IT and consulting company. There I accompanied complex business and IT transformation projects in retail, e-commerce and international shipping, often in environments marked by conflict and tension – as agile coach, facilitator, project lead and as a leader responsible for an interdisciplinary team of 15 consultants. In 2018 I gained my first deep academic insight into agile ways of working and complex IT organisations, and have carried a particular enthusiasm for organisational development ever since.
I work in a strongly values-based way. I am shaped by a variety of practices and perspectives – from systemic organisational development, coaching, agile frameworks and lean, to values-based leadership philosophies and the ideas of evolutionary organisations as described by Laloux, complemented by various mindfulness practices. This combination allows me to quickly grasp complex environments, bring structure and become effective early.
Alongside these influences, purpose and sustainability are central to my work. My master's thesis explored the Creating Shared Value concept in the ICT sector, and I have been experimenting with it ever since. Since 2020 I have worked closely with the ReDI School of Digital Integration as mentor, trainer, facilitator and community builder – and in December 2025 I had the opportunity to give a TEDx talk in Berlin.
I live and work in Hamburg-Altona. I love the diversity and the life here – the green spaces, the winding streets and the proximity to the Elbe. My life moves between sociability and quiet, city life and nature. I am easily enthused, enjoy trying new things and am good at bringing others along. At the same time I love stillness. Time with family and friends, reading, hiking, bouldering, cycling and an intensive mindfulness practice of yoga and meditation are among the things that matter most in my daily life. The mindfulness practice in particular is for me an essential exercise in presence and attitude – and plays an important role in my work.
Many of the great challenges of our time are, in my view, connected to how we face complexity, contradiction and uncertainty. Lacking capabilities, linear thinking and the tendency to oversimplify cause us to polarise where connection would be possible, and paralyse us from making decisions where action is needed. For me, the way forward is not withdrawal – but adopting an active stance and shaping things from within. In our everyday lives and in organisations, in the way we lead, decide and work together.
Complexity requires distributed systems and self-organisation. Classical hierarchies are built on linear thinking and simplification. To genuinely meet complexity, we need decentralised structures that place responsibility where the necessary knowledge exists.
Self-organisation needs more leadership, not less. Better leadership, grounded in values, clarity and structure. Leaders need to be equipped to lead self-organised structures and both empower and enable people to take responsibility.
In self-organised structures, everyone leads: in projects, meetings and processes. Tolerance for ambiguity, decision-making, communication, the ability to handle conflict, self-reflection – these are classically seen as leadership skills, and need to be accessible to a broad majority to enable responsibility-taking in distributed systems.
Performance and sustainability are not opposites; they are mutually dependent. Regenerativity is not a constraint but a prerequisite for lasting performance and the foundation of a contemporary culture of achievement. Professional action and societal impact are not separate. How we act in business directly shapes our relationship with the environment.
This leads not only to better decisions in organisations, but strengthens us as a society.
How I work concretely → View servicesAchieving this requires both small, intentional actions and systemic change where individual actions reach their limits. I believe in collaboration and co-creation and that a central key lies in the right conditions for working together within and between organisations, politics and civil society.
Through my work, with consulting, coaching and dialogue formats, I want to help shape these conditions and create spaces in which people connect authentically, develop the necessary capabilities together and work towards a shared sense of purpose.
I look forward
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If you would like to find out more about how I can support you concretely, take a look at my services or write to me directly. I welcome specific enquiries just as much as initial exploratory conversations.
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