Why am I actually doing this?
Why is it a passion for me to help people?
Why do I develop new techniques from the things I have learned?
Who am I?

I came into this world in 1967 as a twin. The start was a bit difficult. Premature birth with a lack of oxygen caused restrictions and poor forecasts for the future. I also had hearing loss, spasticity, squinting. I was lucky! My parents believed in me, encouraged me but didn't make a big fuss about me. So I was physically inferior to my friends of the same age, but I did everything "normally". Also kindergarten and school.

Even as a child, I was allowed to practice a lot and every day. Walking straight ahead, body coordination exercises, etc. That brought a lot and after school I was lucky enough to support my enthusiasm for computers with an education on the mainframe. Solving puzzles has always fascinated me. Writing programs is similar to solving puzzles. Making program systems work is fascinating. And so I was drawn to Frankfurt to the big banks. It started out classically. You start as a small programmer, establish yourself in the field, and are credited with competence. Then quit, change companies, explore new worlds, build up new skills. Changing companies again. Suddenly you are supposed to lead teams, then departments. Manage projects. First small, then bigger and bigger, then a really big one. The career path seemed to be drawn. Until I...

… I thought that I could deepen my knowledge of dealing with employees, i.e. people, and learn more here than in the "normal" management training. So I went to the distance learning university to improve my communication skills. I found that you learn how change works. When you communicate, you want the message to reach the other person and something to change. I had ended up in a two-year training course to become a "Systemic Executive Coach". Somehow it was easy for me. Put yourself in the shoes of others, take the perspectives of others. I knew that from my childhood. If you're pretty much the weakest physically, it's smart to be able to adjust well to others.

Systemic thinking was also something normal for me as a computer specialist! So I was able to keep up very well in my training at the distance learning university. Instead of working with computers with people, that was what fascinated. The variety of problems. A smile on the other person's face if you can help.

As a coach, if you manage to convert the negative emotions bound in the coachee into good feelings, good energies are released and also inspire me, the coach. This kind of work is exhausting! But this satisfaction at the end of a successful coaching intervention is not generated by a computer, no matter how big and powerful it may be!

Change work fascinates me, so I haven't stopped learning new things since my first training in this discipline. Go to the originals and learn from them. Learn from people who are living their mission and have discovered and developed significant opportunities. There is so much to discover and I moved and continue to move around the world to experience methods myself, so that I can experience them for others...

The big difference in working with people instead of computers is the emotions.

I realized that I have an important guiding principle that guides me in my life. I found it in a Christmas story by Günther Fischer and fits very well for me. It reads:

Everything is possible if you believe in it – and no one robs the other of their faith in it!