if you want to go faster, go alone. if you want to go further, go together. african proverb

My passion is to bring people further on their journey. I facilitate learning and change processes for people and organisations. 'Learning' and 'Change' are the social phenomena that I have the greatest interest in. I love working with tools that promote active participation, self-organisation and responsibility.

I facilitate change processes in organisations and communities. My approach is to care for the context, providing the conditions and set-up the structure that is needed for people to focus on their issues at heart and to enable them to build up their aims and vision, to work out and solve their problems and conflicts for a better communication and cooperation. I often work with moderation methods like open space technology, world café, future search conference and other innovative change tools that result in sustainable outcomes. As coach I assist people in finding their professional way with questions about their wishes and objectives, competences, skills and experiences, interests and values in their work life. I also offer professional coaching for groups with Life/Work-Planning seminars.

As I have focused on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in my studies and worked for a research project at university about the political, economic and social transition in CEE I offer policy consulting service for the evaluation of projects as well as for capacity building esp. trainings in social partnership roles.

At the university I give lectures about sociology, political science, Central and Eastern European transitions, scientific methods and techniques and offer coaching in professional development for students and graduates.

English

German (native language)

For my role as facilitator, coach and consultant I have continuously developed my education and professional skills with seminars and trainings on didactics, rhetoric, professional coaching and large group intervening tools, esp. open space technology, world café, future search conference, advanced meeting management, and further studies about organisational development, personal development, communication, cognitive foundations of learning (learning psychology) and group dynamics.

I graduated from Humboldt-University in Berlin, Germany and Université Robert Schuman in Strasbourg, France with a Diploma in Sociology and Political Sciences. In my studies I focused on Organisation Science, Central and Eastern European Transitions, Systems of Social Interests Representation and International Politics.

I'm currently a PhD Candidate at the Europe-University Viadrina, Frankfurt/ Oder, Germany.

Doctoral Thesis Working Title: 

ABSTRACT: The aim of my dissertation is to analyse the policy process of enterprise privatisation in Central and Eastern European countries, one of the big reforms demanded by transition. In nearly all countries privatisation has been finished so far, but has proceeded differently. A look back on the privatisation process shows several shifts in policy-making and a progression of country specific privatisation patterns. I elaborate on how these patterns evolved. I focus especially on organisational and institutional settings, on the choice of political actor's strategies in decision-making, on the trigger mechanisms and conditions for successful process-oriented adjustments in privatisation policy. The method I use is QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) from Charles Ragin. This analysis attracts my special attention because of the transitory nature of the policy field regarding the restriction by time and objective, and – resulting from that – the limited potential for policy learning.

As an expert on Central and Eastern Europe I'm highly involved with my organisation JOE-Plattform Berlin e.V. (Association of Young Experts on Eastern Europe) in Berlin, Germany. Our organisation has about 40 members which are experts on Central and Eastern European issues in different fields. I'm currently chairwoman and responsible for the coordination of working groups and projects, event organisation, fundraising and for the representation of our organisation. See more www.joe-plattform.de (in German language).