Today I am back with a wonderful guest, Julia Minici, Executive Director at JP Morgan Chase. Leadership for Julia is not a job title, it’s who you are! I invite you to walk with us chronologically starting with the impact that Julia’s parents had on her leadership journey, her rise from Analyst to Executive Director in the bank, the importance of feedback in successfully leading a team, why she cares so much about the people in her team and many other interesting lessons learned along her...

After a long break of one year, hello again! In today’s episode we have two special guests all the way from Costa Rica, Carolina Garcia and Karla Staton. We talk about their inspiring leadership journey and how they formed Bellelli, an out of the box educational institution for early childhood education. We speak about how their diverse personalities have translated into the success of Bellelli - that’s where the title Ying & Yang comes from - and what’s important to them when working...

Today’s guest is Isabella Phoenix who describes herself as mother, wife, friend, activist, board member and Global Head of Channel Enablement & Sustainability at Hewlett-Packard. In our conversation we speak about her leadership experience in all of those aspects of her life. You’ll hear recommendations for young leaders called “Chessboard”, “Honest John” and “Snakes&Ladders”. I like how this are such exciting cliffhangers! Just like the title I gave this episode as Isabella...

For this first episode of 2021 I have invited a very special guest – my dad! My dad has been leading teams for around 20 years at DEG, a German development bank. As a child I perceived my dad to be working long hours, spending time with his team members rather than us kids and once a year inviting his team to our home for a BBQ in the summer. But never have my dad and I really sat down to discuss about his leadership experience. During the Christmas vacation, I wanted to change that and...

Welcome to the 14th episode of Destination Leadership. Today’s guest is Anna Roizman, who is an agile coach at Porsche. She was recommended to me as someone not in a hierarchical leadership position like the other guests in this podcast, but rather as someone leading informally within a community at a large organisation. As I believe that it will be in future more and more common that young leaders gain first leadership experiences in project teams or communities across organisations, I...

Today’s guest is Nicole Wilke. Nicole is the Head of International Climate Policy within the Federal Ministry for the Environment in Germany and the German lead negotiator as well as one of three EU lead negotiators at international climate conferences, such as the Paris Climate Change Conference in 2015, which you have surely heard about. I’m really honored to have a leader in my podcast, whose personal and team actions have such a wide reach! In our interview we talk about Nicole’s first...

Today’s guest is Sohaila Ouffata from BMW iVentures. In our conversation we talk about her different leadership roles from starting off in a management consultancy leading a project team in India, to leading more than 120 developers in Tel Aviv as someone born & raised in Germany with Moroccan-born parents. We also talk about her current leadership role as an investor supporting start-ups to succeed. What I especially enjoyed was talking to Sohaila about how she puts her strengths &...

Today’s guest is from a completely different world from the ones we have had on the podcast so far – the world of politics. It’s Julian Voje, Head of Programs at the Munich Security Conference, who previously worked in the office of a German parliamentarian at the Bundestag and a political foundation. I find that our conversation shows the great positive energy & humour Julian has and at the same time his deep rooted trust and the importance for him of being approachable for the people in...

In today’s episode, 5 tips for remote leadership are shared based on Katrin Grunwald’s experience as team-and organisational development consultant and coach for first-time leaders. The tips include 1. You as a leader are the key to a good remote team 2. Create individual relationships and inspire trust 3. Take care of your team’s remote logistics 4. Take time for team time 5. Use technical tools to activate and raise engagement

In this episode Sebastian Wächter shares how at the age of 18, he had a severe accident leading to 95% of his body being paralyzed. That’s why the first team he was actually leading was a team of 24/7 caretakers at quite a young age. We further talk about the role of leadership during his active time playing and coaching wheelchair rugby and lastly about his main topic where he is a real expert and keynote speaker: change processes. I am impressed by the way Sebastian connects his personal...

Welcome to episode number 8. Today I am talking with Lisa Glassner who has been recommended to me as an inspiring leader by one of her team members. She is someone who doesn’t just talk about mindfulness, she really lives it! Both in the way that she finds habits for her own well-being in a busy working life as well as in the interaction with her team by giving them the space to go with their energy flow. In our conversation, we span the many years lasting from Lisa’s first leadership...

Welcome to the 7th episode of Destination Leadership, a very special episode as this time it’s not a leader who was recommended to me to share their leadership experience, but a communications expert who works with a lot of leaders and will share her recommendations especially for first-time leaders on the topic of communication. My guest today is Katja Schleicher, whom I met at a conference many years ago. Katja has been working in TV productions, advertising, PR, corporate communications...

Judith Sterl is the Head of Marketing and Communications of the German Accelerator. Leading her first team member 20 years ago, we talk about Judith’s leadership experience since then. For 10 years she was working for Yahoo in Europe, leading to some interesting intercultural insights! Judith was recommended to me as inspiring leader who gives her team members a lot of space & trust to drive their own ideas and at the same time has their back. Towards the end of the conversation there are...

Nicolas Deville is the founder of OfficeBots.io, a completely remote start-up. We talk about his learnings when setting up completely remote companies with employees spread around the world collaborating mainly virtually and we also talk about taking care of your team – whether there are there remote or live. Nicolas shares very specific examples of how he used for example walking meetings to find out more about what’s driving his team members. We also talk about the importance as a leader...

Johann is the Managing Director at Techstars for the BSH Future Home Accelerator in Munich. In our interview we talk about Johann’s leadership journey from leading a team of 30 people already during his university studies in France all the way to founding his own start-up in 2007 in San Francisco and now working in the Munich start-up ecosystem. Whilst Johann is a technologist at heart, early on he became aware of the importance of empathy and being kind to people as part of his leadership...

Sandra is a former consultant and works at a large DAX company in Germany. In our interview we talk about: Her leadership journey from an IT project manager motivating people in a big matrix organisation without a hierarchical responsibility to her first leadership role managing right away 25 team members spread across 3 countries. What supported her in this challenge: the importance of sponsors, peer support and how a coaching and team development workshops at the beginning helped her to...

Sarah Gevirtz is an HR director in the high tech industry in Silicon Valley. I had the pleasure to meet her this summer when I was in Northern California. She has been working for the past 20 years as HR director and in the area of organisational development. In our interview we talk about concrete activities on how to build trust with your team, how Sarah believes in empowering people to learn and grow – and how she does it. We also talk about the changes she has seen amongst requirements...

In this episode, I am interviewing Philipp Heiler, doctor & co-founder of brainboost. - Philipp’s passion about the brain, people’s quality of life and how people can achieve their goals in life - What neurofeedback is & how you can train your brain - How not following the „typical“ doctor’s path was his first act of leadership - How he sees good leadership as humble leadership: “dream arrogant, but act humble“ - How Philipp emptying out the dishwasher each morning is for him an...

In this episode, I , Katrin Grunwald share about me, my work and how the podcast was started! It takes you from me being inspired by a TED talk in 2015 all the way to the start of Destination Leadership in summer 2019.