Facilitate workshops. Resolve conflicts. Pass on knowledge.

I facilitate strategy workshops for leadership teams and groups of owners. Topics range from purpose, mission and vision to formulating ambitious goals, all the way to the question of how an organisation finds a shared direction when two cultures need to grow together.

At Lichtvision, the company I co-founded in 1997, I deliberately engaged an external facilitator – because a founder cannot be participant and facilitator inside their own organisation at the same time. That experience shapes my standard: I facilitate workshops in organisations I am not part of, with the necessary distance and an understanding for what lies beneath the surface.

→ Start with Why: Purpose workshop at Lichtvision

→ The courage to name the big number: strategy workshop

→ Purpose as an anchor in the BANI world

Conflicts in leadership teams and partnerships are rarely about facts. Beneath the surface lie needs, hurts and fears that nobody names. I work with the Thomas-Kilmann model and the iceberg model to make these deeper layers visible.

The decisive moment is not the solution. It is the moment when both sides understand why the other side acts the way it does. After that, the solution is often the easy part.

→ When partners can no longer work together

→ Nonviolent communication and the triple buffer

Lecturer at the International School of Management (ISM) and Bremen University – City University of Applied Sciences. Trained trainer with experience designing and delivering leadership trainings, team workshops and interactive teaching formats.

In conversation with Handelsblatt Solutions, Dr. Thomas Knoop discusses the psychological challenges of the modern workplace and how leaders stay composed in transformation. (Interview in German.)

The tensions raised in the interview run through my coaching practice: from conflict coaching with the Thomas-Kilmann model to the harbour master principle for prioritisation under pressure.