What My Coaching Is About
At its core, my coaching is about authorship, leadership, and performance.
Not being driven by urgency, history, expectations, or inherited roles — but taking ownership of direction, standards, and execution.
Coaching is not about insight alone. It is about making change happen — personally and organizationally.
The Three Pillars of My Coaching
Lived leadership experience
I have been in leadership roles myself — from senior university leadership to startups, consulting teams, and large organizations. I have managed growth, turnarounds, and new ventures. I know what leadership feels like inside the pressure, not just on slides. I have lost, learned, recalibrated — and built again. That experience informs every coaching conversation.
Deep psychological grounding — without therapy framing
My work draws from a broad range of psychological research and practice, including humanistic and cognitive approaches, adult development, and change theory. This is not about pathologizing or endless excavation. It is about understanding how people actually change, where resistance comes from, and how to work with it intelligently.
Academic rigor and systems thinking
As a professor of leadership and strategy, I am deeply familiar with the research on leadership, decision-making, execution, and organizational dynamics. I bring that rigor into coaching — translated into usable models, clear language, and concrete action.
How the Coaching Works
We start with sharpening your problem definition, why you are here and what success would look like. How would you know you have arrived? There is usually a challenge, a tension, or a sense that something important is not moving.
From there, the work unfolds — often in unexpected ways. What you think the issue is at the beginning is not always what we end up working on.
There is no predefined path, no fixed package, no year-long commitment upfront. We work pragmatically, typically scheduling two or three sessions at a time, reassess, and continue only if it makes sense. The goal is not ongoing coaching — the goal is real movement.
Investment
€350 per 60-minute session
Offered selectively and on a limited basis.
Is This the Right Fit?
This coaching is for leaders, founders, and professionals who:
It is not motivational theater. It is high-level work for people who want results.
Speaking That Energizes —
and Holds
My talks weave engaging storytelling, scientific grounding, and decades of lived leadership experience into keynotes that resonate without drifting into abstraction.
A great keynote creates lift — intellectual, emotional, and energetic — and leaves people clearer, more awake, and ready to move. They do three things at once:
Inspire
High presence, clarity, humor, and rhythm that keeps the audience engaged.
Orient
Clear thinking and language that helps people make sense of what they are experiencing.
Mobilize
Momentum that survives the return to reality. Engagement translated into action.
Core Speaking Topics
Peak Performance Under Real Conditions
What high performance actually requires — once pressure, complexity, and competing demands enter the picture. This talk looks at how people and organizations perform sustainably when things are messy, stakes are real, and motivation alone is not enough. It explores why effort so often fails to translate into results, how busyness replaces effectiveness, and what actually makes execution hold when energy drops. No hype. No hacks. Just clear principles and practical shifts that increase performance where it matters: in real life.
Authorship: Taking Ownership of Direction and Results
A surprising number of capable people are busy, committed, and outwardly successful — yet not moving toward what actually matters to them. This talk examines the difference between being driven by urgency and choosing direction. It shows why goals collapse under daily pressure, how identity and decision-making quietly shape execution, and what changes when people move from reacting to authoring their direction and results. The focus is not self-reflection for its own sake — but ownership that translates into action.
Leadership in Times of Upheaval and Relentless Change
Leadership is about creating direction, structure, and coherence — so effort is not wasted, resilience is not accidental, and adaptability does not depend on heroics. This talk examines why motivation- or inspiration-focused leadership fails under pressure, how ambidexterity actually functions in real organizations, why culture is often blamed for structural problems, and what truly builds credibility and followership when uncertainty is the norm.
Making Change Work
Change does not fail because people don’t understand it. It fails because it asks for personal change without creating the conditions for it. This talk exposes why most change programs stall, how personal and organizational change are inseparably linked, and why an overreliance on metrics often destroys the very behavior change leaders are trying to create. It focuses on what makes change workable under real conditions — not in theory, not on slides, but in everyday behavior, decisions, and execution.
Formats & Customization
- Keynotes (45–75 mins)
- Executive Sessions
- Leadership Offsites
- Conference Talks
Let's Discuss Your Needs
Whether you are looking for executive coaching or an inspiring keynote speaker, let's connect to see how we can work together.