About

I work with founders, executives, and leadership teams on two questions that usually get separate advisors: what the strategy should be, and what it asks of the people who have to lead it. Underneath both is the question my work keeps returning to: what does it take to lead well in a world that no longer fits inside any single perspective?

I trained as a lawyer in Bonn and took an MBA in entrepreneurship in Berlin. I founded my first company in 2009, co-founded an analytics startup that was sold after a year, and built a startup accelerator for ImmobilienScout24 from scratch.

Then I spent six years at Kearney, in Berlin, Munich, and Zurich, working with leading European retailers and consumer goods manufacturers on digital strategy, new business models, and M&A. I watched capable leaders execute flawlessly on strategies that were already obsolete. The bottleneck was rarely the analysis. It was the leader’s capacity to hold complexity, and the absence of a kind of dialogue able to meet it.

That observation became a thesis, and the thesis became a practice. I worked with teams through organizational transformation, trained as a transformational facilitator and coach, and opened my coaching practice in 2020. Today I’m certified by the European Coaching Association, and I co-facilitate the certification training for transformational business coaches at the Institute for Transformational Leadership in Berlin.

My training runs through Systemic Business Coaching, Systemic Constellations, Polyvagal Theory, Internal Family Systems, Integral Theory, Spiral Dynamics, and dialectical practices. I host Warm Data Labs, certified by the International Bateson Institute.

Alongside the work I have studied dialectical and integral thought, systems theory, and deep ecology, and spent time with plant medicine and indigenous wisdom traditions; I have organized a retreat in Colombia every year since 2021. For two years I took a nonprofit sabbatical on São Miguel in the Azores, exploring regenerative land stewardship: restoring native laurel forest, practicing syntropic agriculture, and asking what a regenerative village could become. These are not side interests. They are where I learned to pay attention to the deeper motions of an ecology of life, and that attention is what I bring into a boardroom.

In 2020 I founded the Institute for Collective Dialogue, a personal development project built around one move: turning polarization into growth. It is resting for now.

Alongside the practice I’m building BYO Studio, my AI software studio in Berlin, now in formation. Its first products are native apps that people buy once and own, running on their own AI keys. BYO Studio is its own brand and not part of my practice. But building is where my understanding of AI comes from. I can advise on what AI does to a business model because I use it to build.