Credentials, Certifications
Professional Coach (ICF), Professional Team-Coach (ICF), Professional Mediator (HSA Bern), Begleitung in Krisen (SySt Institut). Process Facilitator, Trainer, University Lecturer, Speaker, Writer; PhD in Peace and Conflict Research; M.A. Political Science
Specialized in Leadership, Team-Development, Team Culture, Mediation
20+ years of international experience in coaching and facilitation, with a focus on leadership, personal responsibilities, expatriate coaching, team dynamics and development, mediation, communication. Experienced facilitator for project development across multiple countries in the context of international cooperation. Strong background in gender mainstreaming and inclusive strategies. Affiliated with CoachingExpats since 2019
10+ years of international professional experience in scientific research, project development, peacebuilding programs and university-level lecturing. Author of numerous science-based articles and a best-selling publication.
Cordula designs and delivers coaching programs, team workshops and leadership trainings for international and local female professionals in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America.
She is experienced in a variety of methodologies and process design for organizations involved in change. She facilitates large and small group discussions, multi-stakeholder roundtables, seminars and workshops in intercultural and international contexts.
Focus and specialization:
- Life-, Business- and Executive Coaching
- Conflict Management
- Team Building, including Teams in Crisis and Conflict Regions
- Institutional Development
- Expertise in addressing Transgenerational Trauma and Gender Dynamics
- Languages: German, English
- Regional Expertise: Europe, South America, South Asia, Africa, Middle East
Inspired by Chinese proverb «Don’t push the river. It flows by itself.»
Professional and Personal Background
Cordula coaches individuals and teams during phases of conflict and growth. She oversees change processes of national and international organizations worldwide and promotes conflict and trauma sensitivity during planning and implementation of organizational processes. She advises professionals including managers on the use of gender competence and gender mainstreaming in organizations. She coaches, teaches and publishes on topics dealing with aloneness, loneliness, otherness and transgenerational trauma.
Methodologically, Cordula uses solution- and resource-based communication techniques and proven tools for managing conflict and team dynamics. This includes creative methods from theater of the oppressed, body work and systemic structural constellations.
Personal Statement
“With more than twenty years of work experience in the field of conflict transformation, I thrive on making individual and social change possible – be it in individuals, organizations or projects and programs. With a solution-oriented focus, deep interest in psychology, spirituality and geopolitics, and a sense of humor for the tragedies and complexities of life, I embrace and truly believe in analytical openness and out-of-box thinking to appreciate different perspectives to a complex problem and conflict. I am convinced that forms of genuine and strategic cooperation make our work more sustainable, successful, credible and more fun. With a mover and shaker personality, I believe in and deeply enjoy facilitating groups’ dynamics to make a bigger and smaller change possible.
I like people, their contradictions and their stories – especially people from cultural backgrounds different from my own. They have helped me to find myself and to better understand my values and needs. The self-work I did to process and transform personally in these areas guide me as a facilitator, and I bring this, together with a broad knowledge of psychological and spiritual topics, to coaching, workshops and retreats.”
Author of “The paradox of solitude and loneliness: Personal and social-critical reflections”, 2020