Our team

Each of us brings our own unique skills and experience to the table. This makes us strong and versatile. All team members have a unique personality – with humor, heart, edges and corners. We are all united in our passion for transformation and development.

All Coaches Consultants Trainers

Michaela Sauerwein

Founder, business coach and consultant

“I support people and organizations in change processes”

Michaela has found her passion. She is passionate about working on complex challenges with our customers. Her focus is on analyzing problems and creatively developing solutions that really work. Clarity that works, and cooperation always at eye level! She gets her energy from a daily morning walk in the Bluntau with Leo (her Irish Setter), skiing and mountain climbing.

Flora Otahal

Trainer, business coach in training

“I am inspired by the joy of lifelong learning and the belief in the impact of good leadership!”

Loves development. Flora provides support in the design and implementation of leadership training, team development and organizational development processes. Known internally as the sustainability and gender officer, she is optimistic about what is important to her. Because she is driven to constantly learn and because she believes in the impact of good leadership, Flora tends to be found immersed in books.

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Sabrina Stipp

Business coach, alternative practitioner for psychotherapy

‘I am fascinated by what moves, motivates and inspires people – and sometimes also hinders them’

As an ICF-certified, systemic business coach (PCC), Sabrina has been combining the world of coaching with counselling therapy approaches since 2017. This means she can also support clients who are under a lot of pressure. The business graduate (University of Cologne) specialises in leadership coaching, management development, supporting change and decision-making processes, personal development and mental health.

After seven years in China with three children and the establishment of an agency with 100 employees, Sabrina is no longer easily rattled. From 2004 to 2011, she was Head of Strategy and HR at Avantgarde Gesellschaft für Kommunikation in Shanghai. Before that (1995-2004), she provided strategic advice to the communications and media industry.

Mag. Astrid Maria Harner

Trainer and business coach

‘I love to contribute to the development of a new generation of leaders – I am convinced that coaching makes life easier in everyday leadership!’

Astrid, a qualified mental trainer and business coach, combines her deep understanding of mental strength with innovative coaching techniques to accompany managers on their path to sustainable success. She provides sensitive support in business coaching sessions on the way to individual solutions. A strong thirst for knowledge meets empathy and communication skills. Astrid’s dream is to conduct coaching sessions on the mountain, because that is her favourite place.

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Sandra Julia Diller

Professor of Organisational Psychology, expert in coaching, leadership & change

‘I am inspired by the vision of shaping positive change through responsible and value-orientated leadership.’

Sandra is a university-certified coach, social skills trainer and PSI consultant. She has been coaching and training managers and teams since 2011 and has been teaching and researching these topics since 2016 (e.g. leading MBA coaching & article ‘Ethics in digital and AI coaching’). In her leadership training courses, she wants to emphasise the relevance of self-leadership and leadership as a role model. As a mother in a leadership role, she has also dealt extensively with the various role expectations (see her Springer book ‘Familie, Führung & Ich’).

With her training in systemic behavioural psychology and positive psychology, Sandra brings an integrative and individual needs-oriented perspective to coaching. Due to her additional training as a yoga teacher and research on the subject of mindfulness, she enjoys dealing with topics relating to mental health.

Mag.(FH) Nicole Schieferer-Rabara, MTD

Business trainer, business coach & consultant

‘It is my passion to support young talents and established leaders alike in gaining their inner clarity and realising their full potential.’

Nicole, a master’s graduate in training and development and an expert in change management, combines her deep understanding of leadership with a holistic approach to supporting leaders.

With her experience as a young executive who experienced a corporate merger, she offers valuable insights into transformation processes. Leadership, change management and the promotion of a healthy corporate culture are her favourite topics.

Her studies in health management emphasise the importance of mental health and mindfulness.

As a business trainer and business coach, she inspires people to define their personal vision.

Mag. Sabine Gebetsroither

Systemic coach, trainer for teams & communication, team developer

‘I am passionate about inspiring people and organisations for their positive development and their true potential.’

Development is possible. As an academically certified coach, communication expert and organisational developer, she accompanies companies and people on their individual development path with heart, competence and humour. Sabine is a hostess and moderator at eye and heart level and with the approaches from positive psychology and her systemic solution-orientated way of working, she designs coaching, training and workshops for sustainable and positive experiences of success.

Sabine loves nature as a valuable resource and the Salzkammergut region, values mindfulness and is committed to mental health. As a yoga and meditation teacher and seminar leader, Sabine imparts Far Eastern wisdom and techniques for mindful (self-)leadership and a successful life.