Our Team

Markus Draeger

Markus has 20 years of cross-functional and cross-cultural leadership experience and has facilitated several organizational and cultural transformations. Among others, he led a group wide “Digital Customer Experience Program” and developed and implemented a Sales Coaching Program covering a 3000 strong sales force worldwide as well as a performance coaching program for global leadership teams.

Markus has a successful track record coaching C–Suite, senior executives and “high potentials” on day to day matters as well as in strategic and personal growth opportunities. He is equally passionate about working with management teams bringing his insights from the world of sport psychology into the corporate leadership space. Markus breaks with the traditional way of “managing” performance. Instead, his coaching methods enable healthy and continuous performance development that delivers sustainable results

Having led global teams in Marketing, Consulting and HR and having been a member of various global management teams, Markus is able to “connect the dots”. He is driven to understand the big picture while focusing on small steps and simple things that make individuals and teams moving towards their committed objectives. Markus enriches traditional ways of coaching with know-how from neuroscience and sport psychology.

Markus holds an Executive Master in Consulting and Coaching for Change (Oxford Universities/ Said Business School), is a certified sport psychological expert (asp curriculum) and in his capacity as Executive Coach has been accredited by the Association for Coaching. Markus is the author of the book "Leading Beyond Results".

Kirsten Mikkelsen

Empathy. Expertise. Human Centered. Dr. Kirsten Mikkelsen combines 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship, education, and science in her work. Starting out as a founder, she found her way back to university in 2009 and has since established herself as an architect of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. In this context, she earned her doctorate in entrepreneurship and culture in 2017. She was and is responsible for the strategic management of various stakeholders and the institutionalization of activities related to the mutual transfer of science and business. Over the past 15 years, Kirsten has accompanied and coached numerous founders and young companies. In addition, she has designed new teaching concepts for future-oriented and creative talents in international contexts. Her great passion lies in supporting individuals and teams to identify and act on their potential. Whether they want to start their own business or be creative leaders and business developers within a company. Kirsten designs learning spaces that enable innovation and solution orientation. Talents, teams, and companies are supported in developing a mindset and attitude that promotes resilience and values the diversity of the stakeholders involved. She does that by combining methods from entrepreneurship and innovation with design and systemic coaching.

“Let’s design your sustainable and healthy company of tomorrow.”

Kirsten is an expert for Innovation & Growth Mindsets. She has a Master in Economics and Modern Languages, holds a PhD in Economics and is Experience Designer (Kaospilot). Additionally, she is an ECA certified Systemic Life & Business Coach (Coaching Akademie Berlin)

Christian Hungerecker

Christian Hungerecker likes to switch sides in his professional life and therefore describes himself as a ‘scientist practitioner’. After serving in the navy and studying sports and health sciences, his path as a level-4-coach of the DOSB (German Olympic Sports Confederation) for team handball led him through various positions to the first division and the elite school of sports in Hanover.

The decision to focus on his family led to his departure from the sports coaching business and enabled him to complete a Master (M.Sc.) in Sports Science during parental leave. With further specialisations as a sports psychology expert (asp) and coach mentor (DOSB), Christian now works as a coach developer.

After being responsible for scientific coordination and sports psychology in a top association for Olympic winter sports, he returned to the academic world, now as a researcher at the Kiel University. In his current research, he examines the phenomena of competition coaching in a self-reflective manner, so to speak, and is particularly interested in the effects of the coach-athlete relationship on the development and performance of athletes.

Christian is also certified by the German Association for Transactional Analysis as a coach (DGTA) and supervisor (DGTA). He is an honorary member of the Safe Sport Commission of the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB).