... and completed a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in Munich before she permanently relocated to the US.

She became a personal development and leadership nerd during her postdoctoral training, initially to increase her competitiveness and later because she realized that she could use these strategies and tools to create a happier, balanced life AND increase her levels of success.

She started her independent research program in 2016, built a thriving research team, and brought in more than $6M in funding during her first two years on the tenure track. She meanwhile earned tenure and moved institutions to take her research and institutional leadership to the next level.

Stefanie started Team Leadership In Research in 2019 leveraging her life coaching skills and the experience she had gained as head coach in another business. Team Leadership In Research systematizes leadership knowledge and management approaches specifically for research teams to help team leaders achieve success and fulfillment.

Her big mission is to change the academic culture from negativity and chronic stress to one where people express their unique brilliance AND live a fun, joyful, happy life by bringing leadership training along with positivity to her community. 

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He completed a master’s degree in mathematics in Berlin and Barcelona before he became a Human Resources professional while at PWC, one of the “Big Four” accounting firms. During this career stage he got insights to the structure of multi-national blue-chip corporations, as well as small and medium sized companies. He gained understanding of why some companies are more successful than others. Spoiler alert: It has to do with leadership and management strategies.

Based on this expertise, he became an executive at a big energy supply corporation in Germany. There he was nominated to be a project lead of “New Way of Working”, a full company transformation program further diving into different organizational set-ups and learning how a holistic approach to leadership, operational excellence and End2End-process management drives performance, success, and satisfaction of employees.

To back his practical experiences up with theoretical insight, Robert has become  a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, an Agile coach, a certified Professional Scrum master and Scrum Product owner as well as a PRINCE2- project manager. 

Robert believes that excellence in leadership and self-organizing teams are two different words for the same thing. The concept of servant leadership in Scrum, i.e., a great leader’s role is to support team members to perform at their best. Robert teaches leaders how to do exactly that.