UnExpected
My job is actually quite simple: I help my customers to meet themselves with open eyes.
Because if they manage to do that – uncover their blind spots – then they again have the power to make conscious authentic decisions. Pressure can become curiosity and stress can become passion again.
Since 2012 I have been dealing intensively with the psyche, its scars and functioning. This has resulted in a broad base of experience and expertise in the fields of psychology, system and behavior design, trauma, group and power dynamics, which is the basis of my work.
My clients include LBBW, Deutsche Bank, Carlsen, Audi, Signal Iduna, N26, CLAAS, Deutsche Telekom, Nürnberger Versicherung and many more.
How did I become an executive coach?
You could say "I have over 500 hours of education and training" if this answer didn't sound so trite and meaningless.
Ich lade dich daher ein, hinter den kalten Lebenslauf zu blicken und einen kleinen Teil meiner Geschichte zu erfahren.
Real
This story is unadorned and, one could say, "typically German". She is my answer to questions like “Why are you doing this?” “How did you become an executive coach?”
I was a typical child of the southern German middle class. Pocket money was only available for good grades. Hard work and performance meant security. I spent the weekends at the age of 7, serving beer in my parents' restaurants. And my mother's favorite sentence was, "Pull yourself together."
My childhood taught me: you have to be tough. You don't get anything for free. Working because it's fun? Feeling secure and valued without having done anything in return? The idea was unthinkable - at least for my parents. But I didn't want to settle for that.
There had to be another way than through sacrifice, excessive demands and stress.
But how?
I was driven by this question - so much so that I wrote my Master's thesis on the connection between work and happiness - so much so that New Work became my topic for a few years and I became a jury member for the Xing NEW WORK Award, among other things.
From the outside, all of it looked like change - but the voices in my head, fears and old beliefs continued to haunt me. And so it came as it had to: at the age of 35, I was at the end of my tether.
Too much work. Too much stress. What I wanted to get away from had caught up with me.
The message was: Tina, explore your own blind spots first! And that's what I did and I still do. I'll be honest: This often really hurts, but in the end it's always the right decision.
In the many years of my own experience and professional training, my sense of unconscious dynamics has been refined - until I was asked for "coaching" more and more often. So there was never the one moment in which I said: I will be an executive coach. What I am and do today has grown organically and is constantly evolving.
And if you don't just want to know "Why?", but also "What for?" I do this work:
Because there is nothing more impressive than accompanying a person in discovering themselves in depth and seeing how they experience the power that comes with it.
Shall I go on?
Macht vs Hierarchie
Warum sollte ich an meinen Blind Spots arbeiten?
