Coaching programs for your leaders: external, confidential, effective.

You know your leaders need support. But internal resources are not enough, and the external market is opaque. How do you find a coach your high potentials trust and who delivers measurable results?

Cultural change cannot be decreed. It needs people who lead the way and embody new behaviours. But these very people need support during the transition.

Succession planning is more than an org chart. The question is whether the identified candidates are ready for the next level, whether they bring the right fit, and where development is needed before a wrong hire emerges.

You are looking for a coach who knows the client perspective and understands the mechanics of large organisations because they have worked in corporations themselves.

A coaching program involves three parties: you as the sponsor, the leader being coached, and me. At the outset we agree the goals together, in a short three-way conversation. From then on you receive confirmation that the sessions take place, and on request a joint review with the leader present. The content of individual sessions stays between the leader and me. This separation is what allows your leaders to work openly, and at the same time gives you the clarity you need to steer the program.

I am set up for coaching-pool work. Through CoachHub I accompany leaders inside corporate structures, several in parallel where needed, in German and English. From over twenty years of my own leadership responsibility as Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Officer, and founder, I know the organisational context your leaders operate in. Certification with the ECA, the IFS coaching training with completion planned for the end of 2027, and more than 1,000 coaching sessions serve as evidence. I am glad to name references on request.

Transformation from an HR perspective is also part of my teaching in the master's programme Management – Digitalization & Transformation at the International Graduate Center of Bremen University of Applied Sciences.

I keep notes minimal, pseudonymised and encrypted, processed in line with GDPR. For billing I use structured e-invoicing that fits into your procurement systems.

If you would like to become familiar with my background, how I work and how I think about leadership, you will find all of it in my book. “Als Mensch führen” brings together twelve principles and a dozen models from my work with leaders, along with scenes from more than twenty years of my own leadership responsibility. For HR leaders who do not think of leadership development as a catalogue of trainings, it is the toolbox my work draws on, laid out across 141 pages.

I wrote it above all for people in their first years of leadership, the group where support moves the most and where internal resources reach their limits soonest. A sample with the introduction and first chapter is available as a PDF.