Who coaching is for
Business coaching fits three situations:
- You’re an R&D leader facing a decision you can’t delegate. Before you commit, you want to think it through with someone who isn’t part of your organization.
- Your unit is going through a change – agile adoption, AI integration, reorganization. You want clarity about your role and the next steps.
- You’re preparing decisions where methods, organization, and AI strategy come together – with a counterpart who knows this practice firsthand.
Confidential and open-ended: you keep every decision, and you get no ready-made recipes from me unless you ask for them. A friend who runs an R&D unit knows your day-to-day, but not the coaching craft; a classic coach knows the craft, but not your day-to-day. With me you get both – as a fixed appointment, not a favor between friends.
Coach — consultant or trainer on request
Pure coaching means: I ask questions, you find your answers. Often that’s enough. If at some point you want my professional assessment or concrete methods knowledge, I switch roles, name that switch transparently, and afterwards return to coaching with you. You decide if and when.
- As a coach (the default): I ask questions, you decide. Confidential and open-ended.
- As a consultant: experience from 18 years of R&D leadership and ongoing industry projects.
- As a trainer: methods knowledge (Scrum, Kanban, Portfolio-Kanban, AI workflows), taught directly.
Packages
10-Hour Coaching Package
Ten sessions, one clearly scoped topic.
Pure coaching, without consulting or training elements. Suited to a well-defined strategy or leadership block: preparing a reorganization, clarifying a role during a restructuring, or a phase full of hard decisions.
What you'll have afterwards:
- A decision you make and can justify – instead of pushing it ahead of you.
- An ordered view of what comes next.
- A clear picture of how your leadership behavior affects the team.
Leadership and Role Coaching
For your own role as a leader.
1:1 coaching for leaders and emerging talent, away from concrete methods questions. For stepping into a new leadership role, taking stock of where you stand, or a phase where your results fall short of your own standards. Pure coaching.
What you'll have afterwards:
- Clarity about your role and your next step.
- A realistic picture of your strengths and motivation.
- More confidence in situations that have challenged you so far.
Three Roles, One Mandate
Coaching, consulting, and training combined – depending on the phase.
For tasks that need more than pure coaching. The three roles are combined as needed: coaching for clarity, consulting for the methodical approach, training for the tools. I announce upfront which role I'm taking at any given moment.
Typical focus areas:
- Strategy process: Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Design, hypothesis and market validation.
- AI transition in R&D: AI workflows, Kanban to steer the work, integration into existing processes, AI Act.
- Agile transformation: Scrum, Kanban, and Portfolio-Kanban in your organization.
My coaching qualifications
Certified Business Coach at MBCI (Munich Business Coaching Institute). Working to ICF and MBCI standards. Ongoing coaching engagements in R&D contexts; three cohorts as a mentor in the Cross Mentoring program of the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region, plus three years in the Mind2Mind mentoring program. Cooperation with MBCI on the “AI in Coaching” format.
Certified Business CoachMBCI
Kanban Coaching Professional“This was great. I made a lot of progress towards my goal of a different balance of work activities and I have a structure for making more changes over time.”
How your coaching starts: 45 min, free
Coaching starts with a free 45-minute intro call. Together we’ll clarify whether coaching is the right format for your situation or whether a blend with training and consulting is a better fit.