Get to know the Team
In a time like this, marked by uncertainty, upheaval, and global crises, cultivating inner and interpersonal skills is exactly what we need most urgently. We must reconnect with resources that are often forgotten in the hectic everyday life: the connection to ourselves, to our fellow human beings, and to nature.
As a business and leadership trainer, I have supported executives, teams, and individuals for many years in improving their social skills to act more effectively in their companies and achieve better results. When I started my training as an experiential body psychotherapist in 2012, I realized that there is more to life than quarterly figures and KPIs. We need to go deeper to question our attitudes, values, and behaviors sustainably and change them for the benefit of all living beings. And above all: That we can do it. Every day we have the choice of how we want to live.
Since then, my perspective has changed – on myself, my professional work, and the projects I support. When I later learned about the framework of Inner Development Goals, I knew that a comprehensible language had been developed. This enables all of us – especially in a business context – to talk about inner growth and ask groundbreaking questions. Nowadays, more than ever, we need an inner focus and calmness, critical and far-sighted thinking as well as positive visions. We also need compassion for ourselves and others. We need innovation to find new creative solutions together and the courage to stand up for human-friendly values. And we must embody these values in our actions. Together we can become learners and support each other in developing these qualities.
Therefore, I dedicate my actions and my being precisely to this vision: I want to enable many people to tap into their own power through inner development, connect with others, and drive change together
It is clear that the world’s environmental crises require urgent and meaningful action. That’s why at the heart of everything I do is supporting life’s ability to thrive. Our lives, the life of our organizations and communities and life within the more- than-human community.
My passion for personal, organizational, and societal transformation is rooted in my upbringing in New Zealand and Finland, where I developed a profound connection to nature and a reverence for its beauty and power. Through my life, I have gained knowledge and insight from Pacific indigenous elders, Nordic innovators, and cutting-edge researchers in consciousness, human development and whole systems transformation.
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As a steward for life, entrepreneur, and change agent I am co-leading a small global team translating cutting edge science and indigenous wisdom into applicable practices and tools for helping individuals and organizations come together in service of a greater purpose, fostering ongoing leadership and learning, promoting collaboration and new possibilities, and empowering them to create significant and positive change.
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At the core of my philosophy, I recognize that for the world to undergo essential transformative changes, both inner and external actions are crucial. That’s why I established the Inner Development Goal Vienna Community Hub, where we focus on nurturing personal growth for reaching the SDGs.
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I strongly believe that each one of us possesses unique gifts that can contribute to solving the biggest challenges of our time. It is our responsibility to stand together, as individuals and organizations, for the greater good.
What do we stand for? What is our contribution? Where are we heading? How can we help shape change?
These are central questions that guide me and orient my inner compass. The most beautiful ideas and the most profound transformations, for me, emerge where people truly meet – with openness, presence, and the will to create something together. I love to connect and build bridges between people, perspectives, and sometimes even opposites, to contribute to something greater as a whole.
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In my field, I draw from successes, mistakes, and experiences gathered through my many roles, both personal and professional. I have worked for many years as a pathfinder for impactful collaboration within public and international institutions, where I gained valuable insights into strategy and organizational development. My academic background includes international business, cultural and social anthropology, and a master’s program in mindfulness in counseling, education, and healthcare. After positions at the radio station Ö1, the European Parliament, and the UN, I spent many years as an expert in international coordination and communication at Statistics Austria, working with EU, UN, and OECD committees as well as national stakeholders.
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However, what has shaped me most are encounters with people, experiences in nature, and the sense of connection and community. With this mindset, I now work as a trainer and organizational consultant, passionately accompanying transformation processes. My work spans diverse fields – from promoting democracy in education, to developing curricula for regenerative transformation at a university, to conducting sustainability trainings in companies. On these paths, we move from the inside out – from individual awareness to collective, systemic change.
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For me, vibrant communities and collective design processes are essential for a viable society and a livable future. Wherever spaces arise that are grounded in trust – where people truly listen to one another, where diversity is experienced as a strength, and where vulnerability and courage can coexist – solutions emerge that are more than the sum of their parts. Or something entirely new can come into being.
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Upheavals and new beginnings run like a red thread through my biography. After graduating from high school in Vienna, I studied history and literature in Vienna and Santiago de Chile, worked for decades as a journalist for ORF, among others, before becoming a professional pilot in the cockpit of private jets and flying around the world for 15 years. The view from above of this beautiful, blue planet, which is our home, also made me realize how fragile this balance is. During the pandemic, I therefore decided to take responsibility for my actions, resigned as a pilot and flight instructor and have since been as committed to preserving the biosphere as I am to inner work. Tomorrow's managers will not be able to manage without them, partly because the boundaries between professional and private life are becoming increasingly permeable.
In addition to founding and co-founding two companies, one of which deals with professional reorientation and the other with relationships, I became a scholarship holder of the Ashoka Visionary Program and accompany people through difficult phases of personal change that I have experienced myself. For example, doubts and fears, tensions in the family and financial worries, but also the elation that sets in as soon as we start to really live our own lives. I also regularly report on this as an author, e.g. for the daily newspaper "Der Standard" or the German "brand eins" magazine. In my private life, I have been a couple with my wife Tiba for 28 years and we have two grown-up daughters.
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