Kerstin Brandes
Specialization & offer
- Team development & moderation
- Management development
- Leadership & executive coaching
- Resilience & stress management
- Intercultural & expat coaching
- In-house training
Languages: German, English
About me
My concern for over 20 years: To strengthen people in their ability to act, by enabling them to experience that even small steps can have a big impact by consciously influencing their own scope for action.
Many people find themselves to their limits in times of constant change and growing uncertainty familiar routines no longer work, excessive demands become widespread – with consequences for their motivation, performance and mental health.
As a coach, I create the necessary space to pause. I open up new perspectives and opportunities for action with targeted reflection, especially in the dynamic everyday life of managers and teams. It’s often aha moments like this – “I’ve never thought about that before” – that trigger lasting change.
As a former manager, I know from my own experience how crucial clear communication, competence, empathy and appreciation for a trusting and successful collaboration. This knowledge flows into my work as a coach and trainer today.
- Managers I support them in gaining orientation and security in their (new) role and developing into confident leaders who remain authentic at the same time.
- teams I support teams in creating a sustainable and trusting culture – despite or precisely because of differing expectations, conflicts, changes in the company or market environment.
Resilience is the keyto remain capable of acting, focused and healthy even under pressure. This topic close to my heart is a focal point of my coaching sessions:
- Prevention & regenerationconsciously manage your own energy balance and anchor mindfulness in everyday life.
- Strengthening self-management: practical tools for structure, clarity and prioritization.
- Recognize stress-reinforcing patternsIdentify obstructive patterns of thought and action and replace them with effective alternatives.
As a result people gain more inner stabilitysustainable performance and greater satisfaction.
Coaching experience
- Executive coaching and employee coaching
Role clarification, leadership style and communication, employee development, conflict resolution, junior managers, reintegration, etc. - Resilience coaching
Identifying stressors and stress symptoms, methods for increasing resilience and adaptability, coping strategies for crises, dealing with uncertainty, sustainably maintaining or restoring health - Team development in companies
Team coaching (also intercultural/virtual): Improving collaboration, communication and feedback culture, clarifying roles and processes, understanding leadership, etc.
Training: intercultural competence, communication and leadership in global companies, junior management training, etc.
Workshops: Corporate culture, diversity, understanding of leadership, etc. - Intercultural coaching
Onboarding support for international specialists, managers and employees with a migration background: integration into the team/company, role clarification, management style and communication, conflict avoidance, etc. - Organizational consulting
Systemic organizational analysis, optimization of processes, interfaces & structures, value and cultural work; workshop conception & moderation, training, team and management coaching - Personal and career coaching and advice
Professional reorientation/reorientation, potential analysis, goal and decision making, job application advice, personality development, work-life balance, conflict resolution, etc. - Expat Coaching
Professional, personal and cultural orientation for expats in Germany, career coaching and counseling, coaching and counseling for expat partners, repatriation and reintegration, etc.
Qualification
- Systemic Business & Personal Coach – Coaching Akademie Berlin (380h)European Coaching Association (ECA) certified
- Resilience coach (Institute for Educational Coaching)
- Certified Facilitator of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
- Organisational development (Trigon & Zeitsprung)
- Intercultural Trainer (International University Bremen)
- Live Online Trainer (The Consultants-e/UK) –
- e-Moderator/e-Learning Trainer (The Consultants-e/UK)
- Scrum Master PSM1 (scrum.org)
- Suggestopedic Trainer (DGSL)
- Graduate Business and Language Expert (Justus Liebig University Gießen)
Short biography
- Independent coach & trainer since 2003
- 5 years Team leader& Lecturer (European University of Applied Sciences in Neuss)
- 13 years international sales (customer service & sales management)
- Industries: IT, mechanical engineering, automotive, print & paper, textiles
- International: North and South America, Southern Europe, UK
Memberships
- ICF (International Coaching Federation)
- UTE Meeting Network of female entrepreneurs Erftstadt
Others about me
As a coach, Mrs. Brandes lends me a sense of security during the restructuring process in our company. I have learned to control my emotions and focus on new tasks. In our working relationship an atmosphere of great confidence has developed, which makes the coaching process constructive. Mrs. Brandes is focused on this process and works in a sustainable results-oriented manner by applying her richly filled toolbox to the situation. I appreciate her calmness and composure and consider her many years of coaching very valuable.
Hi Kerstin, thanks again for yesterday’s coaching. I found it very exciting and I’m really surprised how helpful it is to put yourself in the shoes of other people – and especially people you’re not close to – and answer your own posed question. In part, this provides clear answers and opens up new possibilities for action. That was really impressive. Overall, the coaching provides a good guide/guide to working through his own issues. Thank you for that.
With my goal of creating a clear overview of my life and a clear perspective of my future, we started the coaching. It has become clear to me: From this moment on, I want to consciously feel, experience, shape and enjoy my life in Germany and in China; in my office and at home in Germany. Thank you Kerstin!
Dear Mrs. Brandes, just as a feedback in between: the coaching with you is good for me! The first time, the role reversal with my “advisors” gave me clues as to what else I needed to do. Now the second time around, the clear statements of what I think is important have given me a foothold.
Dear Kerstin, for me the coaching was very helpful and I have become even more aware of some things, especially in the aftermath. In that respect, it was a complete success for me!
