I am a Business Coach and a Project Manager with a passion to structure, simplify and visualize the processes, projects and leadership tools and methods.

By leadership I mean in this context both leading people and managing the things. In my mind, leading people is heavily based on the willingness to understand oneself and having a genuine interest for the other people and their thoughts.

I also strongly believe in clear communication and especially in the power of listening – to be able to embrace new things and implement changes in ourselves and in our environment, we need to have a possibility to stop and think, to open up our thinking to other person in a way that creates new thinking models and paths. To be able to support each other with this, we need to leave our egos on side for a moment, and to learn to listen and ask questions which support speaker’s own thinking process.

Managing the things is related to planning ahead, organizing and coordination – all of which aim to ensure that all the parties involved know the common target and their own roles related to the target. Securing that the tasks and the activities proceed smoothly, processes support the doing and that people can focus their effort in the most essential part of their work – which hopefully, gives them also energy, excitement and relevance.

I think this quote from Lao Tzu captures the essence of the leadership – and the biggest challenge – nicely: empowering the others. A leader gets already quite far in empowering the others when she / he shows appreciation and respect for her / his team members and listens to them. Enabling empowering also requires that the leader ensures that she / he is not creating any obstacles for the team.

I have 20 years of experience from operative and project leadership roles in international companies in the areas of Supply Chain Management, Finance and Information System Management. I have worked in many different organizations and the teams, the common theme for all of them has been the development and the change.

I have been a Project Manager in reporting and measurement projects, in change projects related to organization and operative models, in process development projects and in product cost projects. My operative leadership background is from Finance area, covering the budgeting, forecasting, investment management and of course reporting and follow up. Additionally, the development of the teams and their collaboration has always been close to my heart.

With my background, I feel like a home between Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance and Informations Systems. In my work, I combine logical, “engineer-like” thinking (M.Sc. in Industrial Management) with the coaching approach (accredited coach, ICF ACC).