Why coaching?

Coaching is the most powerful, focused, and flexible learning approach for you as an executive leader. Leaders use coaching to discuss current and future challenges in a professional setting to leverage their full potential and effectiveness.

• Reflect your decisions and strategies with an experienced observer of organizational, team, and market dynamics.
• Get valuable feedback and discuss interesting questions in a relaxed and confidential setting.
• Achieve your goals and success criteria using up to date self assessment and learning tools covering all important topics for your personal success.

Who for?

All leaders strongly benefit from coaching. Successful leaders learn fast starting with cutting edge personal development enabling them to also facilitate the learning and development of others. The higher your position the more important honest and impartial personal feedback becomes. Open exchange with an experienced coach who understands you and your role is a fundamental success factor that saves you time, leverages your power and influence and helps you achieve your goals better.

How does it work?

There are different ways of doing coaching depending on the situation which could be

• to reflect important decisions or changes
• take stock and plan a professional reorientation
• prepare for a new role
• implementing a personal development plan
• enable regular personal self reflection and feedback
• navigate through crisis or conflict
• leadership training in a personal setting
• facilitating team development
• and more

Thus, coaching can be anything from a one-off session, to a multi-step process of several months to a regular and ongoing sparring partner structure - to enhance and focus your learning and self reflection. Typically, a coaching session lasts around 1 hour. If bundled it can be up to 6 hours at once depending on the goals. Our free first meeting is there to define which process steps are right for you and to define goals and conditions between coach and coachee.

What to discuss?

Leaders typically discuss these questions with their coach:

1. Executive / GM level leaders

GMs leading organizations, a business unit, region or central function, aiming to enable strategic and organizational change and development.

• reflect the role as a GM: person-organization-culture fit

• change and global market trends 

• review business & market trends

• people management,

• managing

• self assessment, feedback

• widen own leadership style

2. Experienced leaders of leaders 

Leaders of leaders with several years of experience aiming to reflect their practices and prepare for more.

• strategy, change and culture in a complex organization

• widen leadership style 

• reflection and awareness of own impact on the organization and stakeholders

• people management, agility

• self assessment, feedback

3. Leaders of leaders new to their job role

Managers recently promoted to the level of leading leaders aiming to reflect their leadership practice.

• transition from leading teams to leading leaders

• enabling and developing leaders to perform (coaching, mentoring) 

• developing high performance leadership teams

• manage complex organizations

• people management

• implementing strategies

• agile change 

• culture of trust & commitment

4. Experienced team leaders 

Managers having a few years of experience in their position aiming to reflect and widen leadership skills

• social awareness and communication skills

• own leadership style 

• relationships with stakeholders, team members and colleagues

• lead myself efficiently 

• manage complexity 

• agile leadership 

• international cooperation

• team diversity (culture, gender, generation and more)

5. First time leaders 

new to their leadership role

• transition from expert to leader

• motivate team members

• delegate and give feedback

• manage conflicts

• develop the team

• use of key communication and management tools 

Coach Credentials Gerald

"Gerald is of combination of sharp to the point feedback style with a matured sensitivity to people's feeling and level of acceptance. A good consultant who carries the charming competence to keep coachees open in their minds which is the basis particularly with cross cultural differences." - Joy Zhou Yue, GM & Board Member VW Financial Services Beijing, China

“ ... a highly individual training style that is tailored specifically to the needs of the different managers which is brilliant support.” - Kerstin Gessler, GM at Rolls Royce Ltd, Germany

"…a unique professional, who understands and appreciates both Western and Asian cultures, connects people from different backgrounds smoothly and helps them work together to achieve the company’s targets" - Weiming Zhang, Head of R&D and Sales, Heraeus US/China

"... a humoristic easygoing coach with an accurate and deep understanding of each trainees personal needs" - Simon Noome, Head of Customer Service, Liebherr Component Technologies AG, Straßbourg, France

"I’ve had the chance to attend the IDP course last year. And the experience has been extremely formative and interesting. Gerald combines years of experience in leadership coaching, vision of the future (what futures leaders will need to succeed) and deep knowledge of the character behavior. This allows him to grasp every nuance of the attendants, shaping the better suggestions for everyone. Moreover, the diversity of topics, the way the course is structured, the participation of colleagues with different experiences, makes it very attractive. Last but not least, Gerald is a very nice person, with many sides that are a pleasure to discover little by little. Highly recommended." - Vittorio Blasi, Senior Project Manager, MTU, Germany

 “… one of the most influential and inspiring people I’ve met. His leadership coaching style is unique and precious. A powerful coach and trainer for executives in strategy and change.” - Marc Tran, GM Asia Sales at Woodward, China

"I’m happy to know Gerald as co-designer and co-facilitator of the General Manager-Program 'Corporate Entrepreneurship in China', a great coaching and learning journey I joined in 2019/20. Laurenz and Gerald, the coaches, give you great ideas and guidance how to improve yourself and your organization. You also get real business life insights from other leaders facing similar challenges. Since it is spread over one year the program provides ample opportunities for practical application of tools and approaches and progress review with coaches and peers. I can only highly recommend this program. It has helped me and my company a lot when it came to successfully navigating through the COVID-19 crisis." - Andreas Hornfischer, General Manager, E.G.O. Components, Taicang, China

"... is a unique Executive Coach with extremely extensive experience as a coach and trainer in Germany, the USA and Asia. I have worked with him very successfully and often and can highly recommend his program." - Georg Remmers, Global Head of People & Organizational Development, Heraeus

 “... triggers un-dogmatic thinking which is especially helpful with senior management.‘ - Andreas Liebheit, President and Head of global BU Chemicals, Precious Metal Pastes, Frankfurt, Germany

"I’ve always enjoyed working with Gerald because of his rich experience in Change Management both theoretical & practical, his openness for learning & adapting to customer needs, and his kind personality to connect with participants. A great and stable performance in years of cooperation." – Alex Ying Xie Volkswagen Group China HR, Academy Beijing, China

“Great to see you continue the excellent coaching and team development we have come to experience with you!” - Pete Horan, Senior VP Global Operations at Heraeus and at Bucknell University Singapore

Coaching Education

•1994 - change from engineering to change agent, consultant and facilitator at Daimler, responsible for driving change in Daimler‘s engine development unit with 2000 employees •‚systemic coaching‘ - TA based coaching education at Professio Institute Stuttgart / Weil der Stadt with Dr. Hans Jellouschek and Rolf Balling (1998) •‚systemic consulting / the learning organization‘ education at Daimler AG Stuttgart with Dr. Wolfgang Looss (founder of Germany‘s coaching community) and Richard Timel (co - founder of ÖGGO - Austrias leading association for group dynamics coaches and trainers) (1997/1998) •‚group dynamics‘ with Mechthild Beucke Galm and Richard Timel (2005) •‚group and organizational dynamics‘ with David Kantor PhD (Boston 1998) •‚organizational dynamics and the primary risk concept‘ with Larry Hirschhorn (1999) •‚systems dynamics and systems constellations‘ with Matthias Varga von Kibed and Insa Sparrer (Munich and Budapest 2005) •DISC / STAB certified with LaLoSta Darmstadt 2001 •HOGAN certified with Relevant Management Consulting (Düsseldorf 2018)