"Kerstin's professional experience, empathy, teaching methods and structure are unique."
Dr. Kerstin Foell
Leadership Coach | Business Trainer | Author
Kerstin holds a doctorate in economics, is a leadership coach, business trainer and author, and lives in Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg.
She guides ambitious people in overcoming their mental blocks and unlocking their potential. Her super power Strength: to quickly identify hindering thought, feeling and behavior patterns and to work out pragmatic solutions together with their clients – both in individual leadership coaching and in team development.
In her coaching practice, Kerstin has developed a unique System which makes it possible to identify both inner resources and mental blocks and to strengthen or permanently overcome them with a specific training program.
As As a brand strategist und Strategic Planner beriet Kerstin 15 Jahre lang internationale Top-Marken in Branchen von A wie Automobil über K wie Kultur bis Z wie Zeitungsverlage. Als Consumer Insight-Expertin beschäftigte sie sich intensiv mit der Erforschung der Motive, Wünsche und Bedürfnisse von Menschen im Marketingkontext. Als Führungskraft baute sie Strategieabteilungen auf und leitete viele Teams. In unzähligen Strategieworkshops schärfte sie mit Geschäftsleitungen und C-Level-Führungskräften deren Unternehmens-, Service- und Produktmarken.
Followed by a five-year time-outKerstin and her husband traveled the world on a sailboat. Adventure with many highs and lows, with nightmarish scenes in the middle of the Atlantic and countless storms, including emotional ones.
This time opened up many new perspectives on life and work for Kerstin - and set her on a new course. Kerstin dared to take the professional New beginning and a fundamental reorientation: focusing on people. Various training and further education courses followed, including certified leadership coach and business trainer, in positive psychology and motivational interviewing.
Kerstin's Mission: Menschen dabei unterstützen, glücklich und erfüllt zu leben und zu arbeiten.
As author Kerstin has published two books to date:
- “PUR: Life is a journey, not a destination. Ten insights from a stormy time-out“, with Robert Stolle, Verlag Hermann Schmidt 2019
- “Consumer Insight - Emotion-psychological foundation and practical guide to communication development”, Deutscher Universitätsverlag 2007 (published doctoral thesis)
At the moment, Kerstin is working on her new book about her unique coaching system, which has been developed in practice and proven many times over.
My mission. My coaching approach.
What motivates me:
To support people in living happily and fulfilling (work) lives.
Prerequisites for this and the start of each coaching session:
Taking personal responsibility and raising awareness.
Taking personal responsibility means taking control. Your behavior is not derived from external conditions, but from your own - conscious and unconscious - decisions. Happiness is a decision. And so is success.
We can only change what we are aware of.
The vast majority of our thoughts, feelings, and actions are controlled by unconscious patterns—beliefs and programming that often originate in early childhood. We are predominantly in autopilot mode. It is essential to identify hindering patterns and mental obstacles that are blocking your own path and preventing you from reaching your full potential.
My understanding of coaching is based on the systemic approach. Coaching is simply not possible any other way, because as dynamic beings, we humans are constantly interacting with our environment.
My coaching approach is this Positive Coaching.
Positive Coaching is a science-based, client-centered, and strengths-focused approach that applies theories and methods from Positive Psychology. The goal is to foster the personal growth of my clients beyond the process of developing concrete solutions. With each step toward a solution, you get closer to your potential and can surpass your current limitations.
I am convinced that all the resources we need for a happy and fulfilling life, are already within us.They simply need to be uncovered. Professional coaching support can help with this.