Leadership Facilitator · Coach · Intercultural Trainer

From transition
to transformation
to arrival.

I work with leaders, internationals, and others moving through meaningful change — through executive peer facilitation, one-to-one coaching, and intercultural training.

A three-phase approach: easing transitions, facilitating transformations, accelerating arrival.

Book a free Discovery Call → See how it works

The Approach

A three-phase approach to the work of arriving.

Every move moves through three phases. Most people get stuck between them. My work is helping you through — with the right tool for each phase.

01 · The collective

Easing

transitions

Leadership transitions don't happen alone. Peer groups, learning communities, structured dialogue — the trust infrastructure that makes change less lonely and more durable.

Leadership Facilitation →

02 · The personal

Facilitating

transformations

The inner work. Who are you now, here? What career fits this version of your life? What do you want to keep, change, become? This is where coaching does its deepest work.

Expat Coaching →

03 · The cultural

Accelerating

arrival

The codes, contexts, and unwritten rules. How meetings work here, how feedback is given, how trust is built. The literacy that turns a foreigner into someone who belongs.

Intercultural Training →

Is this you?

You're moving through something.
The arriving hasn't fully happened.

—You're stepping into a new role — and feel the weight of who you need to become to inhabit it.
—You lead a team across cultures, and the communication keeps breaking down in ways you can't quite name.
—You moved countries for the right reasons — but the career part hasn't followed the plan.
—You sit in senior conversations and miss having someone who can hold the harder questions with you.
—You've been carrying a major decision for months, and you need a few days away from the noise to see it clearly.

01 Easing transitions

Leadership
Facilitation.

Trust-based spaces where senior leaders think out loud, gain perspective, and translate insight into action. Informed by years of facilitating executive learning for leading global communities.

On request · Half- to multi-day

Leadership Workshops

Facilitated sessions for leadership teams around a defined challenge — navigating change, building trust, or working across cultures.

Designed with you beforehand
Experiential, dialogue-driven
EN, DE, or IT

Recurring · Small group (4–6)

Compass Groups

Action-learning sets for senior professionals navigating transition. A small, trusted group meets regularly to work on each member's real challenges — finding clarity, direction, and accountability together.

4–6 participants, curated for fit
Monthly sessions over 6 months
Trust-based, problem-focused dialogue

On request

Offsites & Critical Conversations

One-time facilitation for offsites, retreats, or the conversations a leadership team can't quite hold on its own.

Half-day to two-day formats
Preparation & debrief included
Neutral, trusted facilitation

Have a group that needs holding? Book a Discovery Call →

Program design

Leadership Development Programs

End-to-end design and delivery of leadership programs combining facilitation, peer learning, and individual development.

Curriculum design & sequencing
Facilitator-led sessions
Measurement & reporting

Strategic

Community Building

Designing internal leadership communities — the kind of trust infrastructure that turns individual leaders into a connected layer.

Community architecture & norms
Launch & first-year facilitation
Handover to internal stewards

On request

Off-sites & Retreats

Facilitation of leadership offsites and retreats focused on alignment, reflection, or transition through change.

Design with sponsor & team
On-site facilitation
Follow-up integration

For HR, L&D, and senior sponsors. Request a proposal →

02 Facilitating transformations

Coaching.

One-to-one coaching for the inner work of transition — for internationals rebuilding a career abroad, and for leaders stepping into roles that ask more of them. Systemic, evidence-based, multilingual.

30 minutes · Free

Discovery Call

A real conversation. We look at where you are, where you want to go, and whether we're a fit. No pitch, no pressure.

Online, in EN / DE / IT
Concrete next-step recommendation

3 sessions · 3 weeks

Clarity Intensive

For expats stuck at a decision point — accept the offer, change paths, stay or leave. Get unstuck in three weeks.

Focused, time-bound work
Between-session journaling prompts
Clear decision by week three

6 sessions · 3 months

Career Transition Program

A structured journey from "I don't know what I want" to landing the right next role. Strategy, application, interviews, negotiation.

Career mapping & positioning
CV, LinkedIn, interview prep
Negotiation & onboarding support

Ready for the deeper work? Book a Discovery Call →

3 months · pre & arrival

Assignment Launch

For leaders moving into a new country, market, or regional role. Hit the ground running — without burning out the family or the first six months.

Pre-arrival expectation setting
Stakeholder map & first-90-days plan
Partner & family integration check-in

6–12 months · in-assignment

Executive Companion

A confidential thinking partner across the assignment. Performance, politics, cultural translation, and the things you can't say in your weekly with your manager.

Bi-weekly 1:1 sessions
On-demand support between sessions
Optional sponsor check-ins with HR

3 months · transition out

Repatriation & Next

The hardest part of an assignment is often the return. We work the re-entry, the next role, and what this chapter actually changed.

Re-entry reality mapping
Capturing assignment value & learning
Next-role positioning

For HR, talent, and mobility leads. Request a proposal →

03 Accelerating arrival

Intercultural
Training.

The codes, contexts, and unwritten rules that turn cultural difference from obstacle into edge. For individuals settling in, and for teams that work across cultures every day.

Half-day intensive

Working in Germany

The unwritten rules of German professional life — meetings, hierarchy, feedback, email tone, the gap between Sie and du.

Live cases from your workplace
Practical scripts & phrases
Follow-up Q&A session

5 sessions · 5 weeks

Cultural Fluency

Build durable intercultural competence — not just for Germany, but for working across cultures wherever you go next.

Your own cultural profile
Difference as resource, not obstacle
Reflective practice toolkit

Custom

Bicultural Couples

For couples where one partner is foreign — the cultural patterns showing up in your relationship, at home, with family.

Couple-format sessions
Communication mapping
Held in EN / DE / IT

Curious which format fits? Book a Discovery Call →

1-day workshop

Team Onboarding

When an international hire joins a German team — or vice versa. Day-one cultural alignment, in both directions.

Mutual cultural orientation
Communication norms agreed
30-day follow-up

Series · 3–6 sessions

Leading Across Cultures

For managers leading internationally distributed or culturally mixed teams. The patterns, the pitfalls, the practices that work.

1:1 coaching with each manager
Group practice sessions
Team-specific case work

Strategic

Culture Audit

Where are cultural frictions costing your organisation time, talent, or trust? A diagnostic with concrete recommendations.

Interviews & observation
Findings report
Implementation roadmap

For HR, L&D, and team leaders. Request a proposal →

About

Hi, I'm Anja.
I hold space for the work that matters.

I'm a leadership facilitator, coach, and intercultural trainer based in Hamburg. I work with senior leaders, executive peer groups, and international professionals — as a thinking partner, conversation catalyst, and bridgebuilder across the transitions that matter.

For the past years I've facilitated peer learning for executive and leadership communities — including programs connected to Harvard OPM, YPO, and Endeavor Global — as a Certified Circles Guide. Before that, I led the Global Leaders Community at NetExpat, designing intercultural learning for multinational teams. Alongside this, I coach individuals in career transition — drawing on systemic coaching, the Schulz von Thun communication model, Positive Psychology, and intercultural frameworks.

The approach I bring to all of this work is the same three-phase movement — easing transitions, facilitating transformations, accelerating arrival — calibrated to where each client is, and adaptable to the format we choose together: ongoing coaching, group facilitation, intensive workshops, or — in time — retreats.

Sessions and facilitation in English, German, or Italian. Online or in person in Hamburg, with travel available.

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