Work with me - where complexity meets humanity
Facilitation
Where questions that matter meet relational practice
My facilitation supports teams and organisations in making real progress on the issues that matter while strengthening trust, collaboration, and the dynamics that shape their work. Strategic and operational questions are always intertwined with how people relate, communicate, and decide. I create spaces where both the work itself and the way of working can be addressed together, enabling real progress on the content and effective outcomes, and personal and collective growth at the same time.
Formats
Strategy workshops and offsites
Leadership and team offsites
Multi-stakeholder processes within and across organisations
Conferences and large-group workshops
System-wide engagement and sense-making workshops and programmes
Leadership development programmes
Top Team Coaching
Strengthening leaders, their relationships, and the team as a system
Team coaching creates space for leadership teams to step back and look at the deeper dynamics beneath the surface, how their relationships, interactions and communication patterns shape the team, and what each individual contributes to those dynamics. It invites attention to what is said and unsaid, to roles and unspoken expectations, to sources of tension and resources for growth. Through this increased awareness, teams can strengthen trust, take shared responsibility, and lead the organisation with greater coherence and integrity.
How it works
Often a single session already brings a lot of clarity. After getting to know each other, we usually begin with me observing a real leadership meeting and then reflecting together on what became visible — the dynamics, patterns, the strengths and the points of tension. From there, the team identifies which patterns to shift and what to strengthen in their collaboration.
Some teams choose to continue with regular or occasional sessions, while others simply take the insights from the initial session and move forward on their own.
When team coaching may be useful
Newly formed or restructured leadership teams
Strong teams wanting to grow from good to excellent
Teams navigating transformation, pressure or uncertainty
Teams with tension, conflict, or unspoken dynamics
Teams wanting better communication and decision-making
Teams seeking clearer shared awareness and alignment
Executive & Individual Coaching
A space to think, feel, and lead with greater authenticity and wholeness
Coaching offers leaders a grounded space to slow down, sense themselves and their context more clearly, and work with the inner, relational and embodied patterns that shape how they lead. Together we explore what truly matters and where you want to go, and what supports and constrains your agency — from the stories you hold and how you work with emotion, to the way you approach leadership, relationships and uncertainty. The work is practical and holistic: engaging mind, heart, and body to see what is happening, make sense of it, and take the next steps with greater clarity, presence, and integrity.
Keynotes & Workshops
I offer keynotes and workshops at the intersection of complexity, leadership, what it means to be human, and the systems we live in. Topics include understanding and navigating complexity, leading in uncertainty and systems, strengthening resilience and emotional maturity, working with team dynamics and organisational culture, making sense of challenges collectively, and exploring the role of business in supporting democratic life. Each session is shaped to the needs of the audience.
Where Business meets Democracy
Democracies around the world are under pressure — polarisation is rising, trust is eroding, and our collective ability to address shared problems feels weaker than before. This is not only a societal issue; it affects organisations directly. Businesses operate within democratic systems, depend on their stability, and help shape the cultural norms and expectations that either strengthen or undermine them.
The competencies democracy requires are, in essence, leadership competencies. The ability to hold multiple perspectives without collapsing into simplicity, to navigate ambiguity and uncertainty without losing direction, to negotiate conflict and compromise without abandoning what matters, to stay in relationship even when tensions rise — these are the same capacities leaders need to guide organisations in a complex world.
Supporting democratic life is therefore not an add-on to leadership, but an expansion of it. It calls on leaders and organisations to cultivate cultures that can tolerate difference, work with ambiguity, and make room for meaningful disagreement. And it calls on seeing business decisions for what they always are: a blend of performance metrics and profit and risk considerations, and a debate about the societies we want to create and live in. This is not about bringing party politics into organisations, but about strengthening the pluralistic, honest negotiation of our shared future. Recognising and naming these wider questions allows leaders to bring themselves more fully to the table, have clearer conversations, and make better decisions, while enabling organisations to become everyday democratic spaces.
From the structural and cultural aspects of corporate political responsibility to the individual competencies needed to act wisely in complexity, there are many dimensions to this work. We can explore together what is most relevant for your context.
My approach
Working with what is alive
My work is grounded in a simple belief: when people can show up as themselves, relate with trust and honesty, and see their dynamics clearly, things begin to move. I don’t arrive with predefined answers or frameworks. I work with what is alive in the room — the relationships, the patterns, the tensions, the questions already shaping the system.
Clarity through presence
Whether I’m facilitating, coaching, or supporting a team, my approach comes down to presence, care, and staying with what is actually happening rather than what we wish were happening. I create spaces where leaders and teams can slow down enough to see clearly, speak to what matters, work with emerging insight, and take the next step with more alignment and integrity.
A systemic, human practice
My work is relational and systemic. We are complex beings, and we are part of complex systems — our inner worlds, our relationships, teams and organisations, and the wider world we operate in. I help people notice the deeper dynamics in and around them, make sense of complexity without oversimplifying it, and navigate uncertainty in ways that strengthen trust, responsibility, and connection.
Strengthening agency in complexity
In a complex world, outcomes are inherently beyond our control, yet influenced by how we show up and what we contribute. Navigating complexity hence calls for discernment, focus on what truly matters, and the courage to stand for what we believe in even in the midst of uncertainty. This is a practice — and strengthening that practice is central to my work.
Get in touch
If this speaks to you and you’d like to explore whether we might work together, I’m happy to set up an introductory conversation.
What other people say
“Katharina helped us define clear goals which are in alignment with our vision and mission, derive ambitious yet realistic initiatives and implement them with success.”
– CEO, Social Startup
„I felt deeply seen. Your gift for truly seeing and touching people is what made it possible for me to open up so much in our workshop. Very special. Thank you.“
– CMO, NGO
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I am based in Munich, Germany, and happy to travel to your team’s or offsite’s location. Coaching can also be offered virtually.
Where helpful, I draw on a small network of trusted collaborators to support projects that benefit from additional perspectives or capacity.