About Me

Systemic Coach & Mediator – guiding you through times of change

From the corporate world to the individual – and back again.

The Moment That Changed Everything

One morning, I drove out of a tunnel — and suddenly no longer knew who I was.

The surroundings were familiar. I was able to keep driving. But something inside me had stopped working, as if with a single click. I had become a bystander in my own life.

This was not a gradual process.

It was a break.

And it changed my direction completely.

Who I Am — and Where I Come From

I worked in HR for 27 years, many of them in management roles within national and international companies across the DACH region. I understand responsibility, performance pressure, targets and the dynamics of organisations. I know how systems work.

And I have also come to know their darker side — not as an observer, but through personal experience.

Burnout. Inner conflict. The feeling of losing yourself within all the roles you carry — as a leader, colleague, partner and father.

With the support of valuable people around me, I began to engage more deeply with my own personal development. I learned not to see crises as failure, but as necessary stages of growth.

In 2009/2011, I completed my training as a systemic coach. In 2012, I founded m|i|v — menschen in veränderung. In 2023, I completed my training as a certified systemic mediator.

The Question That Drives Me

Not: “How can people function better?”

But: “How can people live and work within systems without losing themselves?”

My Professional Background

Commercial training
MD in German and English studies as well as Philosophy
27 years of experience in human resources
22 years in HR management within national and international companies
19 years as a voluntary judge at the Employment Tribunal
Training as a systemic coach
Training as a systemic mediator
Certified forest bathing (Shinrin Yoku) seminar leader

This background enables me to look at conflict and processes of change from a wide range of perspectives – structurally, systemically and humanly.

Personal Development

For me, change is not an unwelcome departure from familiar habits, but an ongoing and enriching process. Some of the most formative paths in my own development include:

Systemic (family) constellations
Inner child work
Initiatory-phenomenological men’s work
Burnout recovery work
Structural tapping acupressure
Somatic Experiencing (SE)
Yoga (for more than 15 years)
Qi Gong
Daily meditation
The provocative approach in coaching
Forest bathing (Shinrin Yoku)

All of these experiences inform my work not as a toolbox of techniques, but as an inner attitude and way of being.

Who I Work With

I support people

who are going through professional transitions
who, as leaders, are navigating the tension between humanity and performance targets
who are experiencing conflict within teams or relationships
who sense that there must be more to life than simply functioning
who find themselves in mental dead ends or difficult phases

I also work with organisations — but only where genuine transformation is aspired and people are not regarded as mere resources, but as individuals

What Working with Me Means

You will find my work not based on theory and checklists but on the insights of two different worlds — the fast-paced world of organisations with all their structures and strategies, and the quieter world of inner transformation.

Someone who understands that true change often means leaving old baggage behind.

Insight rarely arrives in neatly structured statements. It emerges through dialogue, through silence — and through honest human connection.