Gdańsk, Pomorskie, Poland
Founder | Entrepreneur & Strategic Communicator | Executive Coach | German–New Zealand | Author I’m German–New Zealand, shaped by Europe’s fault lines and the Pacific’s long view, and I work across cultures and markets—helping leaders make sense of complexity and communicate with clarity. My work sits at the intersection of leadership, narrative, and the systems we build—business, politics, and culture. I studied Geography and Education, drawn early to how environments shape people—and how people shape environments in return. I’ve always been interested in the dynamics of relationships: between individuals and institutions, center and periphery, public language and private truth. Born in the Cold War, politics was never “somewhere else” for me; it was the background noise of daily life, and it taught me to pay attention to power, incentives, and the stories societies tell themselves. Over the past three decades, I’ve worked in communication, brand, and advisory roles where words are never “just words.” I’ve led marketing and corporate communications in international environments, built and repositioned brands, and supported leadership teams through transformation—when strategy has to become a story people can trust. My focus is clarity under pressure: aligning stakeholders across borders, shaping messaging that holds when the room gets tense, and turning complexity into direction. Since 2010, I’ve been based largely in New Zealand, where I founded and lead ECOWINDOWS in Hamilton—building a business around performance, trust, and consultative problem-solving. Entrepreneurship keeps me honest: it turns ideas into delivery, and narrative into measurable outcomes. Today I’m also based in Gdańsk, Poland—learning, in real time, what it means to navigate a different European culture and its very current pressures and contradictions. And being from Cologne, I carry a certain default setting: open, curious, tolerant, liberal—more interested in conversation than certainty. As a writer, I work in fiction and non-fiction about politics, life, and personal experience—especially the moments when private lives collide with larger forces, and when the stories we tell begin to shape what becomes possible.
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