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Your Executive Coaches 

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)

STEFAN ACKERMANN

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From his more than 25 years of military leadership experience in peacetime and combat situations, Stefan Ackermann has valuable insights into the invisible dynamics unfolding in a leadership situation under pressure, or in crisis situations.

Stefan coaches executive women who lead men and closely collaborate within male-structured teams - to effectively influence and direct them with confidence and ease. Commanding authority using specific female strengths - and taking the female lead.

High-responsibility female executives and young leading women can rely on Stefan’s dynamic neurology-based repertoire of effective strategies and his fully committed, truthful, and personally tailored support to overcome their leadership reluctance, secure a male teams’ engaged following, and unlock their performance potential by assuming full ownership of their professional leadership charge.

Highlights: 25+ years of military leadership experience with a focus on
> leading effectively in crisis situations and under severe pressure
> overcoming leadership obstacles, misalignments, and reluctance
> using unconventional leadership strength to unlock a teams’ high performance
> Creating Engaged Ownership (CEO) leadership transformation

  • Professional CTI Co-active Coach and Executive Leadership Coach specialized in the integrated application of leadership, planning, and execution tactics with special regard for brain-based behavior change under pressure and in crisis situations

  • International expertise in training leaders (Head of Training & Head Instructor at the German Military Leadership)

  • Effective leadership experience as Company Commander and Platoon Commander in various war zone deployments with the KSK (Kommando Spezialkräfte - Special Forces)

  • Keynote speeches and contributing expert at executive (crisis) leadership panels