Services
Four connected lines of work, all built on the same foundation: real experience running HR from inside the senior executive team, plus real governance experience from statutory board seats.
Executive Coaching
For senior leaders and high-potential successors navigating a transition, a stretch role, major organisational change, or a leadership dynamic that's hard to see clearly from inside it.
You get clarity and confidence when you're navigating significant change: stepping into a bigger role, steering your organisation through major transformation, rebuilding and aligning your team, or finding your way as the context around you evolves. Often it's change you can't fully talk through with the people around you, and that's where an independent, experienced coaching partner makes the difference. I'm an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC), hold an Advanced Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching (AoEC, ICF accredited), and am a Hogan Certified Coach.
"Steph has an incredible ability to create a space where you feel genuinely heard while gently challenging you to see what's possible. At a time when I was rebuilding both my confidence and my career after a major life transition, she helped me rediscover my strengths, be kinder to myself, and believe in a future I couldn't yet imagine. Looking back, I would never have predicted the fulfilling career I have today in deep tech. Steph wasn't just my coach—she was a trusted thinking partner, and I'm incredibly grateful for the role she played in helping me find my way."
Lizzy Harmstorf, Senior Program Manager, Impossible Founders (Hamburg)
Advisory & Consultancy
For CEOs, boards, and HR leaders who need experienced, senior HR thinking on a specific question or project, without hiring a full-time executive.
A senior, experienced perspective on your hardest people questions — project and retainer-based advisory on organisation design, leadership transitions, talent strategy, HR operating model, M&A people integration, and culture and change. This isn't advice from the outside: I've negotiated directly with employee representative bodies to land change inside fast-moving, tightly regulated environments; led the people side of major M&A integrations; built operating models so organisations have the structures and ways of working to achieve their goals; and driven culture change at scale inside some of Europe's biggest businesses.
"Steph effortlessly bridges high-level business strategy with genuine human connection. Her business acumen and strategic instincts made her an indispensable advisor across the entire executive team."
James Rothwell, SVP Marketing, Zalando
Leadership Team Work
For leadership teams heading into a change process, a strategy reset, or a moment where the team dynamic itself has become the bottleneck.
Helping leadership teams face their toughest challenges together, build the deep trust it takes to navigate the complexity of leading in a fast-moving world, and perform as one — not just a group of strong individuals working in parallel. Facilitation for executive teams and leadership offsites, including team-effectiveness diagnostics and alignment work.
"With her deep understanding of how effective leadership teams operate, she has made the difference to many teams and individuals along her career — leadership teams who have grown under her guidance to be more collaborative, more complementary and more impactful."
Nicola Lafrentz, CHRO, Beiersdorf
Supervisory & Non-Executive Board Work
For boards and nomination committees who want a member who has actually run a major HR function at scale.
A board member who adds genuine expertise on people, culture, change and business transformation alongside governance and finance perspectives, built from actually running HR teams at scale — supervisory board and non-executive director mandates, including remuneration and people/HR committee membership. Statutory Board Member, Beiersdorf UK & Northern Europe, and I've taken multi-million euro transformation and AI-adoption programmes to supervisory board level for approval.
"Any organisation bringing Steph in today — as coach, advisor or board member — is getting someone who combines strategic rigour with a genuine gift for developing people and leaders."
Thomas Ingelfinger, Chairman, Tengelmann Group