My path to coaching
The beginning…
My first encounter with professional coaching was in 2014 in preparation for a longer stay abroad.
At that time, I felt that I needed support in various aspects of my life.
Especially with regard to the potential inter-cultural challenges and impact this move would have on my career and family life.
Working with a coach was the best decision I could make. We worked together for more than 8 months, during which we covered the preparation phase (still in Germany), the relocation period and the settling-in period on site, including the job search in Dubai.
What coaching did to me…
Working with a coach gave me a neutral sparring partner. Someone who doesn’t judge, but observes and reflects and challenges.
Someone who believed in my abilities (even if I didn’t at the time) and helped me to make the best of the situation.
Having a coach who offered different perspectives and challenged my beliefs. This helped me to recognize and overcome my inner barriers and encouraged me to take risks that I would otherwise not have considered.
Looking back, I can particularly emphasize the following benefits that I gained from coaching and which later motivated me to become a professional coach myself:
To get clarity, to better prioritize the tasks at hand.
Focus only on things I can influence.
Reflect my career goals and develop a career strategy.
My self-confidence and go into the future with an optimistic view.
See challenges as opportunities and not as threats.
The way to become a Professional Certified Coach…
In 2015, my new role and my employer in Dubai brought me closer to professional coaching. Having found my own coaching experience so valuable and successful, I decided to learn this skill of “working like a coach” myself. To this end, I decided to take part in the Holistic Life, Career & Executive Coach Training™ at the Goal Imagery Coaching Academy.
In this training I experienced coaching from the coach and client perspective and learned about ICF ethics and core competencies for coaching practice. Completing the Holistic Life, Career and; Executive Coach Training™ in 2016 and the advanced course (ACTP certificate/now Level 2) with the Goal Imagery Coaching Academy in 2017, reinforced the added value that coaching brings and based on this, I decided to become an ICF certified professional coach.
Coaching is my passion and I believe that everyone deserves to experience the benefits of coaching. That’s why I finally opened my own coaching & consulting company in Germany in November 2017, which focuses on executive, leadership and career coaching for corporate and private clients.
In 2020, I was selected by Marianna Lead, MCC (Founder/Executive Director of the Institute) to represent the Goal Imagery Coaching Academy in Germany and serve as an instructor of the ICF accredited Holistic Life, Career & Executive Coach Training™.