Born and raised in Germany, I started tutoring for other students very early, at 13. The term "coaching" wasn't really around those days, but I knew I liked to help others succeed.

 

Having been interested in many different career opportunities, I obtained a degree in business (the German equivalent to a master's degree) with a focus on marketing, international management and business education. For a long time I had been convinced that I would want to go in marketing after that, I one day realized that all the student jobs I very much enjoyed - working as a promotional model, on trade shows and field sales - were actually more in the field of sales than in marketing.

 

I went on to several jobs a sales manager and found I actually really liked it, even the dreaded initial contact. 

Through reading and learning more about myself, I came across the newly building art of coaching and realized that this was what I needed to do. Through university and after, I had already worked as a foreign language trainer and coach and thereby built and developed teching techniques that worked for me. In my second job as a sales manager, I started doing trainings for our clients. I loved doing them and the results were outstanding.

 

I like to explore life's opportunities to the fullest and hate to be restricted by dogma and social expectations.