I grew up in Germany with a deep curiosity about people, cultures and the world around me. After studying biology, life took me in a different direction than I had imagined. I moved into communications, built an international career in scientific publishing and eventually made the Netherlands my home.

Over the years, I built a life I loved, grew my career, became a Marketing Director and led international teams. From the outside, things looked good. And for a long time, they were.

But somewhere along the way, I began to lose touch with myself.

Work that had once energised me started to feel different. I kept going, taking responsibility and doing what needed to be done, until my body and mind made it clear that I could not simply keep going.

That experience changed me. It forced me to slow down, look inward and ask questions I had not made enough space for before. What actually matters to me? How do I want to live? What gives me energy? And what needs to change?

There was no dramatic reinvention. It was a gradual process of understanding myself better, letting go of old patterns, making more conscious choices and reconnecting with what felt meaningful and true.

Life is not more perfect now. But it is more mine.

Today, I bring that experience, together with many years of leadership, change and working with people, into my coaching. I know how powerful it can be to reconnect with who you are, rather than simply keep becoming who you think you should be.

That is what I care deeply about: helping people find the courage to be more fully themselves and create a life, work and way of leading that genuinely feels like their own.