I support leaders and teams in decision making, to reflect on decisions and to implement them successfully. 

Many of us either think too high or too low of themselves – both views hinder people from making use of their full potential and their full power for professional decision making. Our decision making is influenced by several factors known as cognitive biases – this often times leads to a situation in which for example some decision makers have to deal with over self-confidence and others have to deal with fear of loses. With the right support both groups can improve their professional decision making.

Knowing that these cognitive biases exist is by far not enough to master professional decision making. As a person in a leadership position, it's crucial to understand how the individual biases work for oneself and within one’s team. It's about finding ways to deal with them. Forget the idea of fighting cognitive biases. Instead, make these biases your ally by actively working with them for your personal development and growth. This way you can significantly improve your professional decision making skills and the decision making of your team.

Professional decision making on a large scale is what ultimately determines the success of an organization. If everyone is able to increase his or her professional decision making skills, this increases the functionality, the effectiveness, the performance and the innovation potential of the entire organization.
Corporations can achieve a higher company value through better decision making of their leadership teams.
You personally can make the most of your opportunities and thrive at personal development.

As part of our normal development, every person is by default beaufituflly equipped with a well-functioning decision making capability. Therefore no need has been identified yet to teach professional decision making principles on a broad scale in schools or in higher education.
The situation can get ugly when an ignorance for psychological biases meets a critical, high impact decision. In organizations such decisions take place on a daily basis. Reflecting upon ones own (professional) decision making is not often the case, especially compared to blaming and justifications. This is also due to the fact that the ability to reflect upon decisions is not seen as a necessary skill to have. In many organizations it's still all about the image of the infallible decision maker.

I am convinced that better decision making principles offer a valuable key to solutions for many problems – for every leader, every team and for every level of the hierarchy.
Furthermore, working on one’s own decision principles is an important step in the process of improving ones own professional decision making and for ones own personal development.

home in the world and at home in Cologne, Germany. When it comes to self introduction I like to keep it short and simple. Simple is often authentic and authentic the first A of my slogan.

The second A stands for analytical - after several years on a Consultant & Manager level at two highly successful management consultancies I was able to sharpen this "A" a lot. As a next step I was interested to experiment if and how well-founded systemic Coaching approaches, tried & tested consulting approaches and interactive training concepts can be put together to develop new tools and methods that intend to boost development. The tools and methods that I use – whether Best Practice or New Practice – are only those that are most applicable to my client's unique environment and situation.

This is grounded in my basic principle that only what is applied by my client offers a value-add – and value-add has to be  the aspiration of each professional service offering.
With this in mind I wish you lots of great decisions ahead!

ps: If you feel like we should get to know each other for your personal development or the development of your team, just drop me an e-mail!