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Katinka's Executive Coach Profile

KATINKA ACKERMANN

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With more than 25 years of experience in executive leadership in banking and finance, as a senior management advisor, and an executive coach at C-level, Katinka has gained valuable insights into the invisible unfolding in the high-performance business environment. Her TAKING THE FEMALE LEAD methodology evolved from extensive research catalyzed by her real-life practical experience as a woman executive navigating masculine structures. 

Katinka's strength as an executive coach is co-designing individual strategies to help women executives and young potentials reveal and overcome their fears, discovering the power of ancient female power in constellations with men, and unleashing female leaders’ full performance in business - while enjoying and thriving in their private lives as successful women, strong wives, and loving mothers.  

  • Professional CTI Co-active Coach (PCC), Global Leaders of the Future (MG SCC / cert.), Own Your Own Engagement (cert.), Global Leadership Coach (GCG, cert.), Stakeholder-centered Coaching by Marshall Goldsmith (cert.),

  • Creator and author of TAKING THE FEMALE LEAD

  • 20+ years of leadership experience in global banking & international corporate strategy, business development, organizational growth, leadership development

  • 10 years at Deutsche Bank AG (VP Multinational Corporations & HR Strategy / Business Development / Leadership Development / Post-merger Integration), 4 years at State Street Corporation (VP Corporate Communications Europe), 2 years at Computer Science Corporation, Chicago (Corporate Consultant)

  • International expertise in leadership- and organizational development, with a focus performance diagnostics and transition into high-performance cultures

  • Keynote speeches and academic publications

  • 10 years' tenure as advisory board member of Opportunity International (the world's leading organization for microfinance for disadvantaged women worldwide)