You found your facilitator
Senior leaders are hard rooms. They've seen everything, they're skeptical, and they didn't always choose to be there. That's exactly where I do my best work — not just moving people through the material, but making the room feel worth being in.
Based in Munich. Available internationally.
I know what you need
You have a program. You have a population. You need someone who can walk in, read the room, and make it land.
The work is serious. The room doesn't have to be. I've spent twenty years learning how to hold both — enough challenge to matter, enough warmth and humor to keep people actually present. Senior leaders have short tolerance for facilitation that feels like a chore. I take that seriously.
That means bringing the quiet ones in and working with the difficult ones. Slowing things down when the content needs to breathe. Picking up the pace when the room is ready. No hand-holding, no three briefing calls, no making the day about me.
I don't deliver slides. I hold a space where people actually think — where something shifts, and they leave with one thing they can use on Monday.
My background is in coaching as much as facilitation. That shapes everything. I'm listening the whole time — to what's said and what isn't, to where the energy goes and where the room gets careful. I work with all of it, inside your framework, in service of your outcomes.
My approach draws on adult development theory, behavioural science, and neuroscience — not as frameworks I hand out, but as the lens I use to understand what's actually happening in the room.
I taught facilitation master classes at PwC. I know how this works from the inside.
What changes because you work with me
Your program lands.
Not just gets delivered. The content connects to what your leaders are actually living — not what the slide deck assumes they're living.
Your population engages.
Senior leaders are hard rooms. They've seen everything. I know how to meet them where they are — with enough challenge to matter and enough safety to be honest.
You don't have to manage me.
I pick up context fast. I'm professional, rigorous, and I take this work seriously. You brief me. I deliver. You focus on everything else.
The learning sticks.
One thing. Practiced. Habitualized. Not a full notebook that gets left in the hotel room.
Where I’ve done this
PricewaterhouseCoopers — U.S. and Germany
Senior Manager in PwC's Facilitation & Leadership Coaching Center of Excellence. Partner Candidate Leadership Development Experience. Director and senior leader cohorts. New manager programs. Public speaking, pitch preparation, and executive presence for PwC Central and Eastern Europe partner candidates — three years running, same program, same high-stakes population. Facilitation master classes for PwC — teaching the craft, not just practicing it.
European Commission / EU Institutions: Coaching and facilitation for senior leaders inside EU institutions via PwC Germany Workforce Transformation. Complex, politically sensitive, genuinely cross-cultural. High stakes. The kind of room where getting it wrong matters.
UNC Executive Development / SmartfulWorks: Senior faculty facilitator for a multi-session executive leadership program for a global energy company across EMEA. High-potential leaders. Strategic and interpersonal development. Cross-cultural design and delivery.
The Energy Project: Certified LeaderFuel and PeopleFuel facilitator. Small-group intensives, keynote sessions, full-day workshops. Senior and executive populations across multinational organizations. This is where I've done some of my deepest work — holding containers for real conversation about what it actually takes to lead sustainably.
International School of Management, Frankfurt: Co-designed and delivered a leadership development program for DeSter International's emerging leaders — leadership styles, emotional intelligence, conflict management.
Beyond that: Healthcare system leadership cohorts. Coach training for senior leaders in Denver Public Schools. Keynote rooms of 500. Intimate groups of six. Twenty years of reps across populations, industries, and cultures.
The range
In person: EMEA · U.S. · Available internationally.
Group size: 6 to 500+. Sweet spot: senior cohorts of 10 to 40.
Formats: Full-day and half-day workshops · Multi-day intensives · Multi-day offsite cohort experiences · Year-long multimodal cohort programs combining in-person, virtual, and applied learning · Keynote facilitation · Small group coaching containers · 90-minute virtual sessions · Hybrid — in the room with distributed participants online simultaneously.
Virtual: Strong reps across Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet. Not a downgrade from in-person. A different format done well.
Cross-cultural: Real, not claimed. I'm a dual citizen — American and German — based in Munich. I slow down. I adjust my register. I read what the room needs culturally and work with it, not past it. I've facilitated for European, American, African, and mixed-nationality groups. I know what it costs when a facilitator doesn't make that adjustment.
Languages: English.
What I deliver into
Your existing program: Give me the framework. I learn it, deliver it at the level your population deserves, and make it come to life. You don't need to reinvent anything.
Something bespoke: If you know what you want to develop in your leaders but need a partner to design the experience — I work with your L&D team on the conceptual architecture. Built around your population, your internal development framework, your outcomes. You own it. I design it and deliver it. The logistics and back-end stay with your team.
Topics I work with regularly: Leadership through change and transformation · Sustainable performance and energy management · Resilience under pressure · Trust and psychological safety · Team dynamics and candor · Influence and accountability · Emotional intelligence · Coaching skills for leaders · Conflict and difficult conversations · Systems thinking · DEI and inclusive leadership · Public speaking and executive presence · Assessment integration — Hogan, HBDI, Leadership Circle, and others · Leadership for organizations navigating digital transformation, workforce upskilling, and large-scale change
Formats I deliver in: Full-day and half-day workshops · Multi-day intensives · Multi-day offsite cohort experiences · Year-long multimodal cohort programs · Keynote facilitation · Small group coaching containers · 90-minute virtual sessions · Hybrid delivery
You should call me if
Your program needs someone who can handle a senior room — and handle it well — without you managing the process.
You're running leadership development across EMEA or globally and need genuine cross-cultural range. Not someone who's read about it.
You're building something bespoke and need a thinking partner who can design and deliver — not just show up and present.
Your leaders are navigating real complexity: transformation, change, digital disruption, new roles, unfamiliar territory. They need more than skills training. They need someone who can hold the room where the real work happens.
You're tired of reviewing CVs.
Credentials
ICF PCC · Certified Team Performance Coach, Team Coaching International · Gateway to Team Coaching Certified, Global Team Coaching Institute · ORSC Trained · LeaderFuel & PeopleFuel Certified Facilitator, The Energy Project · Influencer Certified Trainer, Crucial Learning · HBDI Certified, Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument · Leadership Circle Profile 360 Certified Consultant · Hogan Assessment Certified · National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) · Positive Psychology & Wellbeing Coaching Certificate, College of Executive Coaching · Unified Mindfulness Foundations · Georgetown University Leadership Coaching Certificate