I am an Executive Coach (PCC), Facilitator and Leadership Consultant focused on inner transformation, personal growth, and authentic leadership. I believe the most powerful quality we bring to any leadership role is who we are as a person. My work therefore centers on the ongoing discovery process of deepening self-awareness and cultivating presence – helping leaders bring their full, authentic Self to what they do – so they can create a positive and lasting impact.
I am known for my energetic, sincere, and warm approach. I partner with leaders to clarify their purpose and goals, recognize and release limiting patterns or blockages, and fully tap into their deeper convictions and strengths. My aim is to help clients lead with greater authenticity and pursue a path of meaningful service and inspirational leadership.
I bring more than 20 years’ experience in executive leadership, having worked with and coached CEOs, global business leaders, and emerging talent across startups, mid-sized companies, and multinational organizations. At Royal Philips, I played a key role in leading global change initiatives, including cultural transformations, M&A integrations, effective management team development, and large-scale reorganizations. My final role at Philips was SVP of Human Resources for the Precision Diagnostics and Image Guided Therapy businesses.
Next to my Coaching and Consulting practice, I am also teaching at The Hoffman Institute. The Hoffman Process is an intensive, week-long residential personal growth retreat designed to help participants identify and release unconscious negative behavioral patterns, moods, and ways of thinking rooted in childhood. I also serve as part of the faculty at Mobius Executive Leadership co-facilitating several of Mobius’ flagship Executive Leadership programs. I have been a student of Thomas Huebl and Amy Fox on Trauma informed Coaching and Consulting and am currently studying the art of facilitating collective trauma spaces with Thomas.
Education:
I hold a masters degree in econometrics (economy & mathematics) from the Technical University in Vienna. I have been trained as a professional coach by Performance Consultants International in the UK.
Having lived and worked in three countries, I coach in English, German, and Dutch. I currently live on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
My approach brings together analytical rigor, extensive leadership experience, and a deep commitment to inner development. With a master’s degree in mathematics and economics and many years of operational and strategic leadership in a fast-paced multinational environment, I understand first-hand the complexities, pressures, and opportunities that leaders and organizations face.
Alongside my professional journey, more than 30 years of dedicated inner work and exploration have profoundly shaped the way I work. My practice draws on both ancient traditions of consciousness and self-awareness and contemporary approaches to mindfulness, trauma-informed group facilitation and personal growth.
At the heart of my work are genuine curiosity, compassion, and a whole-system perspective. I help clients deepen their self-awareness, uncover new insights, and see themselves and the systems they are part of from new perspectives.
Together, we explore learned patterns and habits, bring unconscious beliefs and assumptions into awareness, and unlock energy that may have become constrained or unavailable. This creates space for greater aliveness, authenticity, creativity, and choice — opening up new possibilities for how we lead, relate, and show up in the world.
I bring this approach to my work with individual executives, groups, leadership teams, and organizations as a whole.
Teachers & Inspirations
I want to give credit to some of my teachers who have significantly inspired my work and shaped my perspectives on life.
(click on the image to learn more about each one of them)
John’s teaching’s draw upon many decades of practice in various styles of meditation, T’ai Chi, Qiqong, shamanic practices, and extensive personal vision questing. His training is also informed by direct teachings from many of the world’s outstanding spiritual teachers and lineages. From this comprehensive background, John has created and essentialized a path of key principles and disciplines that flow from Universal Source. He calls this path the Way of Nature. From this path, John has developed the John P. Milton
Thomas Hübl is a modern mystic, a spiritual teacher whose work integrates the core insights of the great wisdom traditions with the discoveries of contemporary science, illuminating both with his profound understanding.
Thomas’s teachings offer a unique approach for living as a mystic in the “marketplace” of human activity. His work combines somatic awareness practices, advanced meditative practices, a sophisticated analysis of cultural architecture, and transformational processes that address trauma and shadow issues. His teachings aim to guide practitioners toward a deeper level of self-awareness—from an ego-centered worldview to a life of authentic expression, service, and alignment.
Thomas has taught me in simple terms the essence of trauma and its consequences in disconnection leading to numbness and restlessness as well as the tools which enable re-connection and a path to wholeness.
Thomas Hübl
Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Management Sloan School and co-founder of the C. Otto Scharmer
Stanislav Grof, M.D., is a psychiatrist with over sixty years of experience in research of non-ordinary states of consciousness and one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology.
He developed, with his late wife Christina Grof, Holotropic Breathwork, an innovative form of experiential psychotherapy that is now being used worldwide.
Dr. Grof is the founder of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA).
Among his publications are over 160 articles in professional journals and the books:
The way of the Psychonaut; Beyond the Brain; LSD Psychotherapy; The Cosmic Game; Psychology of the Future; The Ultimate Journey; When the Impossible Happens; Books of the Dead; Healing Our Deepest Wounds; Modern Consciousness Research and the Understanding of Art; Beyond Death; The Stormy Search for the Self; Spiritual Emergency; and Holotropic Breathwork.
Stan has significantly increased my conceptual understanding of the evolution of consciousness and the principles of transpersonal psychology.
Stanislav Grof
Wilbert is a teacher, guide, shaman born into the community of drums, music and rituals of New Orleans. Building on the roots of his ancestors he evolved the neo-shamanic ritual of Trance Dance as spiritual techniques that have the power to induce healing and transformation. His core believe is that all roads lead to a place we refer to as the heart: ‘In my childhood this feeling came through powerfully in communal music, cultural chants and ‘second line’ ecstatic dance. Through experience I have learned that the doorway to every authentic spiritual moment I encountered invariably had a sign on the door that said “I don’t know”. Another word for “I don’t know” is mystery… and I soon understood that my biggest mystery was myself. So my journey turned inwards even more. The more I explored my heart, the more I began to trust what my heart was saying to me and so the more spiritual my life became. I continue to hold dearly the idea that the evolution of my soul lies in my own hands and my hands are not the only hands playing this drum.’
Wilbert has introduced me to the mystery and healing potential of deep spiritual connection and inspired courage in me to explore the deeper layers of my soul.
Wilbert Alix
Monika Wikman, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, astrologer and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness. A graduate of the Jung-von Franz Center for Depth Psychology, in Zurich, she is a member of the NM Society of Jungian Analysts. Interviews with Monika on topics such as the anima mundi and environmental issues of our time, archetypal phenomenon surrounding death, dreams, active imagination, and alchemy can be found at Monika Wikman
Christine is a transformational coach and founder of Your Core Lab, providing bespoke programs for transformation. Christine helps people to grapple with a world that is increasingly hard to comprehend, encouraging us to focus our minds on the essential questions we could be asking ourselves today. Christine’s work is based on neuroscience, with a key understanding of neuroplasticity. Her understanding of the neurobiology of emotion underlines the practical activities that she has designed to gain insight into the real core emotions that cause our reactions, and the ability to choose our actions. As a neurodiversity specialist, she understands that every human brain has a different way of processing information, and consequently facilitates the development of healthy compensation strategies. Her career spans over 20 years in Education, Governance, Coaching, Workshop Facilitation and Project Management in the UK, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. Christine is a winner of the International Alliance for Women (TIAW), World of Difference 100 Award 2013. This award recognises women and men whose efforts have advanced the economic empowerment of women locally, regionally or worldwide. Christine Asiko
Peter Block is an author, consultant and citizen of Cincinnati, Ohio. His work is about chosen accountability, and the reconciliation of community. Peter is the author of several best selling books. The most widely known being Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used; Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest. His book ‘The answer to How is Yes’ had a significant impact on me. The books are about ways to create workplaces and communities that work for all. They offer an alternative to the patriarchal beliefs that dominate our culture. His work is to bring change into the world through consent and connectedness rather than through mandate and force. Peter Block
Viktor Schauberger (1885 – 1958, Austria) was an Austrian forest caretaker, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, inventor and experimenter.
Viktor Schauberger was one of the most insightful pioneers in the field of water and energy research. His son Walter Schauberger translated his ideas into mathematics and geometry to provide more insight into the essence of energy creation and transformation in nature, specifically the importance of the hyperbolic cone, spirals and egg shapes in nature.
Viktor Schauberger’s work has deeply inspired me in my early years and opened up my curiosity around the principles of the transformational process in nature.