About me I am what I've been missing.
Looking back at my journey, I don't see a straight line. I see curves, breaks, falls, and a person who has put themselves back together time and again.
For a long time, I was a woman who believed she had to be strong, who functioned, and who believed that love and belonging were tied to performance. Ambitious, fast, precise – and successful for years in a system that rewarded exactly that.
Yet through a deeply human, spiritual encounter with a superior, I began to understand leadership – and self-leadership – differently: with greater awareness, less control and inner clarity.
And today? Every morning, I am in the New Garden in Potsdam – a sparring partner with heart and soul, and on the path towards coming home to myself
What I Stand For
I believe that values evolve
...and that a path doesn't have to be straight – but brimming with life. This is mine.
As the first woman under 30 in KPMG Frankfurt's management – a trained auditor – I learned early on what it means to assert oneself in a male-dominated environment. Recognition meant above-average performance, and I gave my all.
Performance, control, and absolute discipline were my driving forces. Marathons helped me persevere and feel myself, while simultaneously enabling me to run away from myself.
When the Body Calls
In 2010, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Fortunately, I recognized the warning signs early, had everything medically treated – and continued to work.
I discreetly entered the appointments into my calendar; no one was to notice my true condition. I was used to being strong; I had never learned to be weak. So, I kept moving.
But internally, something began to crumble.
The illness was a loud and unmistakable call from my system: "Look closely. This cannot continue."
In 2012, the final collapse came: burnout.
In retrospect, this period marked the beginning of a profound reorientation and the foundation for what I convey today in my work with leaders: inner regulation, clarity and responsibility for one's own energy.
I left KPMG after 23 years, and with it, an identity that had long been solely defined by performance. I went from being an auditor to shaping the organisation from within.
Reorientation in Business
I learned that external individuals often received more attention than those from within the system – regardless of competence or experience. That was new and not always easy.
At Fraport, I then met a superior who, like me, had a spiritual perspective. For the first time, I felt that responsibility and humanity, numbers and meaning, could be connected.
This realization changed me. I began to lead differently, from trust instead of control. I came to understand that leadership is, above all, an inner process.
By the way, what do I mean by spirituality? Simply, understanding life and its inner principle.
All of these experiences have fundamentally reshaped my approach to (self-)leadership, responsibility and humanity.
New Spaces, New Impact
At the end of 2022, I moved to Potsdam. Even now, I don't feel completely settled. Perhaps because my next chapter is not yet fully written.
Already in 2021, I began to intensively engage with coaching and epigenetic effects. I trained as a coach and started to understand myself more deeply – with all that had been.
I learned that I am not wrong when I am gentle. And that clarity is not an opposite to compassion, but its prerequisite. This very attitude informs my work with leaders today.
Continuing the Journey.
What I Know Today:
I have lived through much that hurts. None of it was in vain.
I have a deep instinct for holding space in which people can show themselves – without fear.
I know what it is to look strong while collapsing inside.
And I know that this is precisely where my strength lies.
Today, I work with people who carry significant responsibility.
I hold the kind of space I once longed for myself.
I ask the questions no one else asks – with loving clarity.
What my work is about: orientation. It's about perceiving and sorting burdens, clarifying priorities, and refocusing on one's own health. It's about rediscovering identity and meaning as internal reference points – as a basis for decisions, (self-)leadership, and a coherent life. Ultimately, it's about establishing one's own effectiveness on a stable inner foundation.
I believe that one can make new decisions every day.
That nothing has to remain as it is.
And that it's never too late to rediscover oneself.