Dr. Katrin Hinzdorf (1974) Psychologyst & Coach Offices: Bernburg (DE) Kingston upon Thames (UK) katrin.hinzdorf@sophus.de DE: +49 331 2883420 UK: +44 793 2677410 www.sophus.de

What are the themes I can help you with?  

1. Support board members and senior management in developing their corporate vision and management strategy
   
   
2. Providing the leadership team with strategy implementation support, including
   • Introducing new organisational design and team structures
   • Development of decision-making and communication processes within and between teams
   • Implementation of feedback, guidance and assessment systems
     
     
3. Support of the Leadership and Senior Manager teams in the development of leadership skills through individual and team coaching
   • Coaching Leadership and Management Teams
   • Coaching of potential Leaders
   • Coaching of Senior Managers and their teams

My Coaching Philosophy:

Is to provide individuals and organisations the platform for personal growth via individual, group or team coaching services. I coach the individual or teams that cater for the complexities of modern life providing the individual the growth platform that fulfils their need in the role, for the organisation and in their personal life. I always reference the key question:‘’What does the situation, the person and the team need next?’’ Coaching is primarily about the goals of the coachee and how to achieve them. Ownership and control over their personal advancements through a personalised and dedicated framework lead to the best chance for success – for the individual as well as the organisation. All that ensures the coachee develops new ways of thinking and creates new behavior patterns that form the basis of the development process while also taking on process-and solution-oriented methods for problem solving.

Qualification

Studied organizational and clinical psychology in the Universities of Leipzig, Johannesburg, Dresden and Oxford. PhD completed at the University of Munich,  with the thesis focused on The Evaluation of Management Trainings. Gained industrial experience in a number of consulting firms across Germany. In 2001, founding member of Sophus GmbH a Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt spin off, Author of several articles in professional journals, Honorary lecturer at Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munic, Completing the four year training programme in individual and team coaching at the Center for Systemic Therapy (ZiS) in Aarau, Switzerland – qualified as an individual and team coach, Studying ‘’Appreciative Inquiry", a method of organizational development through large-group processes (Dr. David Cooperrider) and systemic interventions (Alain Cardon, meta-systems)