I am Volkmar Koch and the co-founder and managing director of heart@work. I have been working as a senior executive, manager, consultant and executive coach for over 25 years. During this time, I have been a board member of two medium-sized companies, managing director and partner for digitalization in a leading management consultancy, as well as a manager in the finance department of a large corporation.

In these roles, I have led and been (co-)responsible for a great many strategic, cultural, digital and organizational transformation projects and have supported top decision-makers in key endeavours to shape the future of their companies.

I have a degree in business administration and a degree in computer science (FH, ebs) and have continuously furthered my qualifications, including coaching, as a Gestalt consultant and systemic constellation leader. In 2019, my book "Holistic Company" was published, in which I developed a vision for a sustainably successful company in the 21st century, based on a fundamental paradigm shift of its leadership.

Sabine is a passionate transformational architect and founder of the coaching and consulting company MagnoliaTree. Ever since she was twenty years old, she has known that her mission in life is to accompany people as they grow.

Sabine enjoys working with boards of directors, CEOs and investors as a trusted advisor on strategic alignment and execution of change processes as well as people strategy and virtual organizational leadership. In doing so, she is tough, fair and trustworthy, meeting everyone at eye level, unimpressed by the borrowed power of their roles. Sabine has led change processes in many countries worldwide.

Sabine is a recognized expert in Systemic Leadership and Consulting. With her holistic approach she contributes to the performance improvement and maximization of organizations - especially in times of change. During her 20-year international career in various leadership positions in finance (up to just below the board level) and through her passion for this topic, Sabine became an authority on change leadership.

Tobias is a true "business catalyst": visionary & disruptive with the necessary sense of how much depth, challenge and provocation is needed to stimulate new thinking.

Years of experience in global executive roles in strategy consulting, human resource development and coaching coupled with a passion for making things happen - also in outdoor environments - are what set him apart. Tobias is a founder and entrepreneur and also privately follows the slogan "#intensiverleben".

In previous roles he was the "Global Head of Learning & Development" of EY and before that of booz&company (Now: PWC Strategy&)

I am Isabell Haak.
I am somebody and yet I am nobody.
I see and yet I am blind.
I remove obstacles and yet I only clean up.
I bring good into the world and yet I do nothing.
I create and yet I am only a tool.
I am heart@work.

Dr. Caroline Böttiger holds a doctorate in neuroscience (Charité University Medical Center) and has been working as a coach and non-medical practitioner for psychotherapy in her practice in Berlin since 2010. She combines methods from hypnotherapy, family constellations, and bodywork with scientific findings
scientific findings, in order to not only overcome unconscious fears and blockages, but to
but also to make them understandable and explainable in depth. These experiences
she passes on this experience in various institutes as a lecturer to aspiring psychotherapists and coaches.

In 2017, she founded the Mitte Institute, where she works as a coach and trainer in companies to teach sustainable
leadership and communication. The core of essence in Caroline's way of working lies in the connection between the unconscious
and science and the constant attempt to make the unspeakable sayable and tangible. Since, only inner growth enables success on the outside.

Dieter J. Schneiderbauer has been involved as a strategy consultant for international clients for more than 30 years. For 20 years, he was a partner in two American consulting firms, during which time he led a large number of strategic transformation projects and was responsible for several internal change programs as COO and CHRO as part of his regional management responsibilities.

Since 2013, he has focused on entrepreneurial projects as managing partner of ECM Ventures and continues to work as a strategy and transformation consultant for international clients.

Yvonne Lange is a management consultant and lawyer, has been an independent interim manager for more than 10 years and was awarded "Interim Manager of the Year" in 2020. After many years in leading positions for private equity companies, she has been advising medium-sized companies as well as corporate groups in transformation and change processes since 2011 and also assumes management functions on an interim basis.

Her main focus is on human resources and legal issues. She has accompanied well-known companies in restructuring processes and, as a specialist for cooperation with works council committees and trade unions, she not only takes on strategic planning, but also implementation and negotiation management.

The responsibility for and implementation of change processes round off her profile, and internal and external communications are also her hobbyhorse.

Yvonne Lange is a fully qualified lawyer (University of Frankfurt am Main), as well as a trained editor and TV producer. She works internationally and lives near Frankfurt am Main.

Prof. Olaf Bach is an adjunct professor of organizational design at the University of St. Gallen and honorary professor of business design at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, where he co-initiated the design-in-tech accelerator DesignFarm Berlin.

In addition to his more than 15 years of experience in strategy consulting, Olaf Bach is the founder of Management Kits an online platform for strategy and organization design and has extensive experience in introducing innovative organizational concepts such as Holocracy.

Gabriele Schwarz has 35 years of professional experience as a manager, trainer and coach. In organizations, she has accompanied people in finding their very own path to self-efficacy with integrity in the area of tension between role, organization and themselves.

She has worked in a wide variety of leadership roles in corporations and medium-sized businesses in the areas of technology, materials management, logistics, IT services, production and services - both nationally and internationally. Since 2014, she has been self-employed as an organizational developer and coach.

Sebastian Kutscha is the founder and former CEO of the IT consultancy Xenium AG. His work focuses on the management of crisis projects, agile transformation and digitalization.

Accompanying people and organizations on their development path is a special concern of his. For many years, he has been involved with Eastern wisdom teachings and actively practices Zen.

Katrin has over 20 years of experience in senior management roles and as an executive coach. In her trainings, coachings and workshop facilitations, she emphasizes quick and sustainable results, where participants can stay true to themselves instead of being trained to behave in a way that is inappropriate for them. In her very open-hearted but also direct manner, she succeeds in making unconscious thought and behavior patterns as well as strengths in individuals and teams conscious and in raising potentials in a targeted manner. She is convinced that successful leadership can only come about when the brakes on success and obstructive beliefs - one's own and those of others - are recognized, dissolved and accepted.

Katrin holds a degree in business administration, is a systemic-constructivist coach (EBS), certified NLP Master, Wingwave® coach and Mimikresonanz® trainer. She has published several successful books.