A new standard for leadership: kind, clear, and genuinely effective.
You want to build a workplace people don’t have to recover from. But right now, pace, politics, and constant urgency are draining the life out of the work — yours included.
I help senior leaders build the inner capacity and the outer conditions for humane, high-performing teams.
If this is you, you’re not alone.
- You’re leading all day, but it still feels strangely ineffective.
- You’re carrying too much — decisions, tension, culture.
- You’re doing “the right things” and still losing energy, agency, and joy.
- Your team is full of smart people… and the same issues repeat.
- You want warmth and backbone — and you don’t want to become harder just to survive the job.
The work: inner stance + outer system.
A lot of leadership support only works on one side.
Coaching without the system can become private coping.
Organizational work without the inner work becomes a reshuffle of boxes.
Real change takes both: the leader’s stance and the culture around them.
Ground / Own / Choose / Build
This is the method behind all my work — and what you learn to use without me.
It’s simple on purpose. It has to work on a Tuesday.
Get clear on what’s true. Regulate enough to think.
See your part with honesty. Step out of over-functioning and blame.
Decide what you want, and how you want to lead.
Make it real in the system: conversations, roles, agreements, decision rules.
Get clear on what’s true. Regulate enough to think.
See your part with honesty. Step out of over-functioning and blame.
Decide what you want, and how you want to lead.
Make it real in the system: conversations, roles, agreements, decision rules.
It’s simple on purpose. It has to work on a Tuesday.
Hi, I'm Elli.
I spent seventeen years inside organizations — nine as an economist in German employer policy, five as an organizational development consultant, three leading leadership development at DAX-listed company across every level from new team leads to the board.
Now I coach leaders and (leadership) teams independently. This is what I have come to believe about this work:
When you are responsible for an organization or a team, your personal coping mechanisms and anxieties are projected onto your organization.
Stepping into true leadership maturity requires moving past standard management tactics and committing to deepening your self-knowledge.
Two ways to work with me
1:1 Coaching
For senior leaders who need a confidential space to slow down, see what’s actually happening, and regain freedom of movement. We work on you and the system you lead in.
Team Coaching
For leadership teams where conversations go in circles, decisions stall, or the real tension lives in the corridor instead of in the room. We change patterns — and we change structures — so the team can perform without grinding itself down.
"As a Director of Product navigating constant change and high expectations, I came into coaching looking for tools, but what I found was far more powerful: clarity, confidence, and a renewed sense of integrity in my leadership."
"I developed a stronger understanding of roles and responsibilities, sharpened my communication, and increased my effectiveness in leading leaders as well as in advancing organizational development"
"I learned how to coach myself in order to coach and lead others, how to stay grounded, and how to navigate difficult leadership situations with clarity and confidence."
"I have learned to be more relaxed, bring in more clarity, and to be more confident about my leadership values."
Corporations
- Scout24 / ImmoScout24
- DKB Deutsche Kreditbank
- Mercedes-Benz
- TeamViewer
- ARDIAN
- DCMN
- CodeFactory
- e-pixler
Industry associations
- Handelsverband Deutschland (HDE)
- Verband Öffentlicher Banken (VÖB)
- Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken (BVR)
Public sector & politics
- BVG Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
- Stromnetz Berlin
- FDP Niedersachsen
Civil society
- Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
- Berliner Stadtmission
- Neue deutsche Medienmacher*innen
- Impact Hub Berlin
Start with a conversation.
The first session is free. It's sixty minutes of real work on a real challenge — so you can feel whether this fits before committing.
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