Hi, I’m Stephanie, 33 years old, living in Northern Germany after spending a lot of years in, what feels like a second home for me, Cambridge. I also worked and lived in the US, India, Turkey and the UK, and travelled a few more.

During my career as an employee I used to work for almost every kind of company, like startups, big corporate, SMEs, always been very ambitious and did great stuff. I think, I  knew I wanted to be a coach since I was 19. But it took me a while to get there – but here we are now!

But before getting to this point, I took me a few learnings to embrace this path:

• I always went over the edge.
• I thought my career needed to look a certain way to be successful.
• Sometimes, even led to lose-lose situations: I told people what I thought they wanted to hear, so of course, they couldn’t give me what I really wanted.
• It’s not always easy and flowing but you can get from a push to a pull. Something, I’ve learned in lean management.

My first change started when I choose Cambridge over Harvard (listening to my gut feeling over rationale and lots of other people). Second was starting my coaching business.

Because I have learned: Don’t do things because you “should”, it burns you out.

You always got to take care of yourself: as a an employee, as the CEO, as an entrepreneur, as a partner, as a human being.

We don’t learn that but we should: