Team
Kathrin Gass
What do I bring to the table?
As an empathetic person, I bring extensive experience in various areas of business. Specifically, I am responsible for large international projects with seven-figure budgets. I also manage a team of more than twenty people.
After completing my bachelor’s degree at the Cooperative State University in Heidenheim in cooperation with a global pharmaceutical company, I earned an MBA from the University of Applied Sciences in Neu-Ulm. As an experienced manager with further training in agile leadership, I help people and teams adapt to a constantly changing environment and develop further.
I am also passionate about my work as a mentor in the Bavarian Mentoring Program and in the proTHU initiative at Ulm University of Technology. Here, I support young talents in achieving their professional and personal goals. In addition, I am a lecturer at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences in the field of personality and team development.
What do I contribute?
Due to my current leadership role, I am available to top management personalities for comprehensive 360° coaching. Thanks to my diverse experience, I have the expertise and empathy to accompany people in their personal and professional development. I support people in fully developing their potential, gaining clarity about their professional and personal goals, and coaching them effectively on their way to achieving them, including in my own company, GK3 Consulting.
My focus is on personality-related key qualifications and entrepreneurial skills, in particular coaching, self-management, mindfulness, mental health, team development, leadership, conflict management, and communication.
My thematic focus is on the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.
Lucia Steinbach
What do I bring to the table?
After training as a primary and secondary school teacher, I completed my training as a federally certified art therapist. In my role as school ward manager in a psychiatric clinic school, I applied both professions for many years. Later, I added further training in the areas of organizational development (CAS Organizational Development, FHNW) and resilience (MAS Resilience and Positive Psychology, Academy for Mindfulness). Since 2020, I have been the managing director of Authentis GmbH, which offers further training in the field of personality development and also supports teams and companies in their transformation processes. I completed further training as a certified project manager (Hermes Foundation) in 2024. I am also a certified auditor for system accreditations.
What do I bring to the table?
I apply my qualities and skills as a lecturer and course director in adult education at various institutes and academies (FHNW, Academy for Mindfulness, Academy for Art Therapy, International Academy of Transformative Leadership). The central topics here are personality development, leadership, human resources management, and project management. Furthermore, I accompany individuals and teams in companies in their development and transformation processes, which are developed in a resource-oriented and resilience-based manner.
Dr. Georg Michalik
What do I bring to the table?
As an experienced organizational psychologist, I bring extensive expertise in leadership development, coaching & consulting, and organizational development. I have over 30 years of corporate and consulting experience. My expertise includes supporting executives through coaching, consulting, and training, as well as designing and moderating leadership workshops.
After graduating with a degree in psychology from the University of Mannheim and completing my doctorate at the University of Zurich, I gained extensive know-how in various companies, including positions such as Head of Corporate Learning at Endress+Hauser and Head of Human Resources Development at Axpo AG. As the founder of cocreation.com and author of books on co-creation, I develop transformation processes for and with companies, with cultural change being a central theme. I am a people person with a great deal of pragmatism and connect people through empathy and passion.
What do I contribute?
Thanks to my expertise, I am available to executives and companies for transformation processes. Through the co-creation approach I have developed, I support organizations in realizing their potential. My focus is on attitude and cultural issues, which I accompany through practical implementation. I support individuals and teams in developing their full potential. I offer executive coaching for senior management and accompany team and organizational development processes.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Schrenk
What do I bring to the table?
After studying social pedagogy and educational sciences in Freiburg and Koblenz, I worked in youth welfare as a state-certified educator. For almost thirty years, I worked in various residential facilities in every conceivable role and position. Most recently, I spent fifteen years as the director of a facility for young men aged 12-20. Before graduating from school and/or starting vocational training at this facility, these young people had already been through a lot and brought with them a wealth of experience and behaviors. There were also two intensive groups for young sex offenders. During this time, I learned a great deal about antisocial behavior, boundary violations, and various forms of violence, and how educational and conceptual responses to these issues can be developed and designed. Fixed conceptual building blocks included Positive Peer Culture (PPC), Peer Group Counseling (PGC), and a highly participatory and resource-oriented educational program from the Recognized UNESCO Project School (UPS), which we developed for the facility.
Following this work, I spent several years training social workers as a professor at the SRH University in Heidelberg, focusing on leadership, organization, and management. Since my time at the university, I have been working intensively on institutional violence protection in addition to leadership issues and have developed Schutzkonzept Reloaded, a digitally supported program to support and accompany institutions and organizations in all care contexts in the development, introduction, and implementation of their organization-specific protection concepts.
What do I contribute?
I accompany and support institutions in an innovative and highly effective way to develop, introduce, and implement institutional concepts for protection against violence in the broadest sense. The focus here is on the participation of all members of the organization, i.e., all employees and clients. In this way, concepts are supported jointly and can develop sustainable effectiveness.
Prof. Dr. Volker Schulte
What do I bring to the table?
I have a doctorate in political science and am involved in research and publication projects at various universities. I studied law, social sciences, history, and education at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Ruhr University Bochum, and Georg August University of Göttingen. I also studied at New York University on a Fulbright scholarship. Later, I completed a Master of Arts in Theology at Paris Lodron University in Salzburg. I obtained a diploma in non-profit management from the Association Management Institute (VMI) at the University of Fribourg/Ütl. Professionally, I was a member of the management board of Health Promotion Switzerland for many years and worked in the WHO’s Department of Health Education in Geneva. Prior to that, I worked in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the Federal Department of Home Affairs on health programs. I am the author of numerous articles and books on mindful leadership, health management, and resilience.
What do I bring to the table?
I specialize in health management and innovation in the healthcare industry, leadership coaching, training in positive psychology, individual resilience, resilience in organizations, and, with my theological background, spiritual leadership. I help companies implement positive psychology as a basis for meaningful action. At the traf Academy, I am the contact person for curriculum development and QM for CAS, DAS, and MAS programs.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Steinebach
What do I bring to the table?
I am a German developmental psychologist who has been working as a researcher at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences since 2007. I studied psychology at the University of Trier (Dipl.-Psych.) and the University of Konstanz (Dr. rer. soc.). I initially worked as a psychologist at a social pediatric center and was the director of a counseling center for children with developmental disorders in Konstanz. From 1995, I worked as a professor of rehabilitation education at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Freiburg, where I headed the Institute for Applied Research, Development, and Continuing Education. Later, I served as rector of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg and was president of the Rectors‘ Conference of Church Universities in Germany. I completed a wide range of further education and training courses, including in psychological psychotherapy, supervision, and organizational consulting.
I am a licensed psychological psychotherapist in Germany and a federally recognized psychotherapist. I have been working at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences since 2007. As director, I headed the Department of Applied Psychology and the Institute for Applied Psychology until 2024. Since 2013, I have also been working as an adjunct professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, CA. I am the author of numerous publications.
What do I offer?
I offer leadership coaching, accompany scientific and practice-oriented projects, train teams in mindful leadership and resilience, and advise on strategic management. In selected cases, I am also available for individual 360° coaching.