for leaders and coaches
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I accompany leaders, coaches, and organisations in demanding spaces of development and decision-making. My work combines a scientifically grounded perspective on work and organisational psychology with many years of practice in executive coaching, coach supervision, leadership development, and organisational consulting. At the heart of my work is the question of how people can remain capable of sound judgement, reflective thought, and human agency in complex contexts. In doing so, I work at the intersection of leadership, adult development, governance, ethics, and organisational complexity.
I am an executive coach, consultant, and coach supervisor with a particular interest in vertical development, reflective capacity, and ethical judgement in professional practice. In my work, I support leaders, teams, and coaches in understanding complexity more deeply, holding tensions with greater nuance, and making sound decisions in demanding situations.
My professional roles include faculty and programme lead positions in the fields of coaching, consulting, and coach supervision. I work in a research-informed and practice-oriented way, bringing perspectives from leadership development, governance, risk & compliance, and adult development into my work.
I am interested in how people can refine their perception, expand their thinking and scope for action, and develop inner clarity within complex systems. I enjoy working where simple answers are not enough: at the transitions between development and responsibility, between reflection and decision, between professional role and human presence.
My approach is shaped by attentiveness, a capacity for differentiation, and the conviction that development does not emerge through simplification, but through a deeper understanding of connections, tensions, and possibilities. I combine analytical rigour with warmth, and clarity with humanity.
My professional journey began with a degree in pharmaceutical engineering before I shifted my focus to work psychology. I completed a doctorate in work and organisational psychology and specialised in adult development, leadership development, and governance, risk, and compliance. In addition, I am accredited as an executive coach and coach supervisor and work with developmentally oriented approaches, particularly in the areas of vertical development, spiral dynamics, and leadership maturity.
My education and training also encompass coach-supervisory and creativity-based approaches, as well as research- and practice-oriented specialisations in coaching, supervision, and ethical decision-making.
Marcel Proust, the French writer, believed that answering this questionnaire reveals a person’s true nature. Here are my responses to these questions:
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A moment in which everything feels right.
What is your greatest fear?
That I might live past my own life — FOMO!
WHAT IS THE QUALITY YOU MOST DISLIKE IN YOURSELF?
My impatience and, at times, my unfortunately rather quick tendency to judge.
WHAT IS THE QUALITY YOU MOST DISLIKE IN OTHERS?
Self-certainty without any capacity for reflection.
Which living person do you most admire?
People who combine sound judgement with humanity.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Unscheduled time. Not that I can’t allow myself to have it — I just often can’t truly receive it.
What is your current state of mind?
Attentive, grateful, and inwardly actually quite centred.
WHICH VIRTUE DO YOU THINK IS MOST OVERRATED?
Conformity.
ON WHAT OCCASION DO YOU LIE?
When I am tempted to postpone clarity out of consideration for others.
WHAT DO YOU MOST DISLIKE ABOUT YOUR APPEARANCE?
That the body speaks more honestly about the passage of time than my inner image of myself.
WHICH LIVING PERSON DO YOU MOST DESPISE?
No one entirely. But a lack of self-awareness in positions of power unsettles me deeply.
WHAT IS THE QUALITY YOU MOST ADMIRE IN A MAN?
Inner integrity.
WHAT IS THE QUALITY YOU MOST ADMIRE IN A WOMAN?
Sovereignty without hardness.
WHAT WORDS OR PHRASES DO YOU MOST OVERUSE?
“It depends.” Probably because it usually actually does depend.
WHAT OR WHO IS THE GREATEST LOVE OF YOUR LIFE?
Everything that is alive — and of course my husband !
WHEN AND WHERE WERE YOU HAPPIEST?
Whenever I was fully present.
WHAT TALENT WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO HAVE?
To be able to listen even more deeply.
IF YOU COULD CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT YOURSELF, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
I would transform certain worries into trust sooner.
WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER YOUR GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT?
Not having stood still inwardly.
IF YOU WERE TO DIE AND COME BACK AS A PERSON OR THING, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Something that connects — or as one of our dogs.
WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO LIVE?
Wherever there is leisure, good conversation, and good food.
WHAT IS YOUR MOST TREASURED POSSESSION?
What life has taught me — the good, the bad, and the ugly.
WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE GREATEST MISERY?
A life without relationships — with oneself, with others, with the world.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE OCCUPATION?
Learning, writing, reading, moving, and eating.
WHAT IS YOUR MOST MARKED CHARACTERISTIC?
Perhaps the combination of seriousness and warmth.
WHAT DO YOU MOST VALUE IN YOUR FRIENDS?
Truthfulness, humour, and presence.
WHO ARE YOUR FAVOURITE AUTHORS?
Those who refine my perception and from whom I can learn something.
WHO IS YOUR HERO IN FICTION?
The seekers rather than the heroes.
WHICH HISTORICAL FIGURE DO YOU MOST IDENTIFY WITH?
People who have not kept thinking and conscience separate from one another.
WHO ARE YOUR HEROES IN REAL LIFE?
People who carry responsibility without making themselves feel important.
WHAT ARE YOUR FAVOURITE NAMES?
Simple ones that sound bright.
WHAT DO YOU MOST DETEST?
The confusion of success with maturity.
WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST REGRET?
Not having known sooner how much time so many things take.
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DIE?
Reconciled, without bitterness, and not alone.
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
To remain human, and simply to be true to myself.
