Kerstin Brandes
Specialization & offer
- Team development & moderation
- Management development
- Management coaching
- Resilience & stress management
- Intercultural & expat coaching
- In-house training
Languages: German, English
About me
My mission for over 20 years: Strengthening people’s 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 reach their limits in times of constant change and growing uncertainty: Familiar routines no longer work, excessive demands are spreading – with consequences for 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 are for trusting and successful collaboration. Today, this knowledge flows into my work in executive coaching and training.
- I support managers in gaining orientation and security in their (new) role and developing into confident leaders – authentically and effectively.
- I support teams in creating a sustainable and trusting culture – despite or precisely because of differing expectations, conflicts and changes in the company or market environment.
Resilience is the key to remaining capable of acting, focused and healthy even under pressure. This topic close to my heart is a focal point of my coaching sessions:
- Prevention & regeneration: consciously managing your own energy levels and anchoring mindfulness in everyday life
- Strengthening self-management: practical tools for structure, clarity and prioritization
- Recognize stress-reinforcing patterns: Identify obstructive thought and action patterns and replace them with effective alternatives
As a result, people gain more inner stability, sustainable performance and greater satisfaction.
Coaching experience
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Executive coaching & development
Role clarification, leadership style, demeanor, communication & feedback, self-management, employee development, conflict resolution, team development, junior managers, personal development -
Resilience coaching & training
Strengthening health through targeted prevention & regeneration
Practical tools to improve self-management
Coping strategies for overload & stress -
Team development
Team coaching (also intercultural/virtual): Improvement of cooperation, communication and feedback culture, clarification of roles and processes, development of a team culture -
Intercultural coaching
Onboarding support for international specialists and managers and their teams
Intercultural management coaching
Sensitization for managers & employees -
Expat Coaching
Professional, personal and cultural orientation for expats in Germany, career coaching and advice, coaching & advice for expat partners, reintegration for returnees
Qualification
- Systemic Business & Personal Coach – Coaching Academy Berlin (380h), certified by the European Coaching Association (ECA)
- 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 Neuss)
- 13 years in international sales (customer service & sales management)
- Industries: IT, mechanical engineering, automotive, print & paper, textiles
- Internationally active: North and South America, Southern Europe, UK
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!
