Founding members

Renate Siebert

Renate Siebert is the founder of the HR Competence Center and initiator of the Positive Leadership Forum. She connects people and organizations that want to create a positive, value-oriented leadership culture. Her focus is on combining science and practice – in particular the findings of positive psychology and their implementation in leadership, cultural development and HR work.

Janine Steinhagen

In my psychological work, I aim to integrate the findings of positive neuroscience into coaching and workshop concepts in order to promote long-term mental health on a scientifically sound basis. The focus is on transferring research findings into everyday life, enabling people to activate their own resources in a targeted manner, strengthen their resilience and thus improve their health in the long term.

Manola Kraus

I have been supporting people and organizations in personnel and organizational development for over 30 years – 22 years with vision + support, since 2023 withbloomingUP Positive Female Leadership. As an expert in positive leadership, I combine scientific approaches with entrepreneurial practice and focus on flourishing: enabling well-being and success, developing strengths and purpose, developing identity and strengthening resilience. With Positive Leadership Crafting, I support the utilization of potential and the creation of cultures that serve the well-being of all.

Angela Barzen

Angela Barzen is an entrepreneur, speaker and leadership coach. She combines 25+ years of business with positive psychology and modern rhetoric. With PEAK-Leadership (Positivity, Empathy, Activity, Clarity) she strengthens attitude, communication and focus on results. Known as “Plakativ” (giant poster) and the 42-meter ship Seven7Seas! Keynotes and programs: The Lion Tactic, Inspiring People, Together to the Big Picture. For young people “Wellengleiter- Erfolgreich durch jede Prüfung”. With “Stage Ready” she strengthens camera presence. Board member of the umbrella organization DACH-PP. Motto: Lead with the image that others like to follow.

Monika Owczarek

Monika Owczarek is a psychologist, coach and researcher with a background in cognitive neuroscience. She holds a PhD in Applied Positive Psychology and researches how principles of Positive Psychology can foster innovation, technology and design. As the founder of Good but Better and the children’s book publisher Bloomy Books, she combines science, entrepreneurship and coaching to strengthen well-being, creativity and sustainable development in organizations and society.

Carolina Conti

Carolina Conti is a passionate lecturer in the field of educational science and positive psychology. She develops holistic concepts for school development – from positive school leadership to positive education and vocational training – taking into account the Inner Development Goals, education for sustainable development and inclusion. Her particular focus is on the neuroscientific foundations of learning: How does learning really succeed? This question accompanies her in her work every day – with enthusiasm and commitment to future-oriented, people-centered education.

Nicola Schröder

Nicola Schröder has over 25 years of experience in the corporate world and combines this with her passion for positive psychology. With Positive You, she helps people to develop their potential and lead with joy, purpose and humanity. She stands for a leadership culture in which well-being and effectiveness go hand in hand – and for a future in which we shape the great challenges of our time together, courageously and with confidence.

Nicole Blom

Nicole Blom is a supervisor, coach and consultant with over 20 years of practical experience in the health and social care sector. She is passionate about applied health sciences and the question: How is positive development possible in organizations and how does it contribute to the mental health of employees? With upblomen – Supervision & Organizational Development, she accompanies people and organizations with a focus on resonance and in a language that combines science and practice. Upblomen stands for the blossoming of professionals – and thus for a health-promoting working environment.

Uli Funke

Uli Funke is founder and director of the Academy for Applied Neuroscience A|F|A|N, speaker and coach, study director, lecturer and specialist journalist. 
Since 2018, he has been supporting people in leadership roles in their transformation towards more impact, greater efficiency and better performance. He also teaches people the basics of neuroscience in training, consulting and coaching so that they can incorporate them into their work.
In addition to a media library, his academy offers the BRAIN FOR BUSINESS® and NEURO IMPACT COACH® training courses.

Doris Herrmann

Doris Herrmann has more than 25 years of project and management experience in logistics. Her focus is on people-centered leadership & organizational development – driven by her passion for positive psychology, coaching and the development of individual potential. As a business coach, PERMA lead and MBSP trainer, she uses her signature strengths of love of learning, leadership, humor and critical thinking to create spaces in which development is easy, effective and sustainable – for greater well-being, meaning and connection in the world of work.

Markus Goetz

Markus Götz is the founder of NeuroCatalyst and works on a neurodiversity-adapted working environment in German-speaking countries. With a background in technology transfer and innovation consulting for SMEs, he combines organizational development, positive psychology and findings from neurodiversity research.

Together with companies, experts and those affected, he cooperatively develops practical concepts on how neurodivergent people can make better use of their strengths in everyday working life.

Susanne Dera

Susanne Dera supports people and teams in phases of change as a people & culture expert, systemic coach and experienced HR manager with many years of practical experience in companies. Using the principles of positive psychology, she strengthens what is already there: skills, resources and potential. This results in development that advances the individual, the team and the organization together – in human, economic, social and sustainable terms.

Monika Wahle

Monika Wahle is a clinical psychologist MSc and works in a private practice for children and adolescents. She combines neuroscientific findings with a respectful attitude towards the inner world of children. She accompanies children with anxiety, giftedness, high sensitivity and children who are looking for orientation. She develops advanced training courses in modern child therapy. Her aim is to help shape education and society in such a way that children are seen, allowed to grow and can develop their potential.

Sandra Collomb

Sandra Collomb is Head of Strategy, Culture & Transformation Executive and designs strategic realignment and change processes in international organizations.
As a Master of Arts in Positive Psychology & Coaching, she combines business expertise with human development, guiding leaders and organizations towards greater clarity, resilience and sustainable effectiveness.
As the founder of Sanopaz, she uses her leadership experience and psychological expertise to promote purposeful, people-centered leadership that empowers people to thrive and helps organizations succeed.

Mario Pracht

Simple. Better. Work. That’s what I stand for as a source of inspiration, designer and Inflowencer. I am committed to helping employees develop a desire to perform again, to sparking management’s enthusiasm for the success of work and to creating an environment in which more of the best – instead of more of the same – is possible.  
In the course of current developments, I see a great opportunity to tackle changes in the context of work and leadership that would have been necessary even without the many challenges of the present. To this end, I offer a creative mind and my expertise as a certified consultant and trainer in positive psychology.  

Christine Wall-Pilgenröder

Christine Wall-Pilgenröder has over 30 years of experience in managing large organizations. In her work, she has consistently focused on the strengths, motivation and well-being of employees, guided by the principles of positive psychology. Today she works with  Success in harmony People taking time out.
It creates spaces for pausing and shows how mental health can be promoted and human potential unleashed – with significance for personal development, relationships and society.

Pascal Joye

Pascal Joye has been supporting companies and managers in development and transformation processes for over 20 years and has been self-employed with the company i opener since 2018. He designs holistic transformations in which strategy, culture and people come together effectively. His work combines leadership, organizational and cultural development with positive psychology, neuroscientific findings and the PERMA-Lead® approach. As a university lecturer and practitioner, he effectively anchors these topics in organizations and in personal leadership coaching.

Theresa Lindner

Theresa Lindner is a business psychologist, freelance tutor for psychological competence and author. Her focus topics are positive psychology in working life and the search for identity – as a company, as a team, as an individual. She regularly publishes specialist articles in the context of business psychology and writes primarily on topics such as promoting personal growth through positive coaching.  

Janis Fiedler

Janis Fiedler is a psychologist (M.Sc.) with a focus on neuropsychology and systemic counseling. He works at the interface of brain research, mental health and application-oriented diagnostics.  

His work includes EEG-based analyses, neurofeedback and the development of neuropsychological training approaches for individuals and organizations. A particular focus is on stress regulation, self-control and the connection between neuroscientific evidence and practical behavior in everyday life.

Kerstin Lulei

Kerstin Lulei has been working as a teacher at a local school for many years. In 2025, she founded “The SCOOP” as a sidepreneur and has been working as a speaker, facilitator and process consultant for Systemic Positive Education ever since. She combines her many years of experience in everyday school life with scientifically sound findings from positive psychology and neuroscience and links these with systemic school and organizational development. Kerstin’s heart beats for educational institutions in which people flourish, performance and well-being work together and future skills are strengthened for the VUCA world. She is convinced that education that empowers people has an impact far beyond schools – into our society and its future.

Brigitte Reimchen 

Brigitte Reimchen realizes the transfer between neuroscience and positive psychology based on her more than 20 years of management and HR experience in a global IT group. As a multi-certified systemic coach, positive psychology coach and consultant, she supports change processes. The central pillar of her work is the coaching process she developed and piloted: a holistic, neuroscientific approach in seven phases for body and mind, which she scientifically substantiated as part of her Master’s thesis. With her expertise and self-developed, integrative interventions from neuroscience and positive psychology, she supports people in harmonizing inner security, well-being and personal growth in a sustainable and practical way.

Christine Jung

has a degree in education and has been working as a coach and process facilitator since 2007. She works in her company:  Frei-Räume: Coaching and counseling, with a focus on professional reorientation. Her work focuses on supporting people with diverse interests, highly sensitive and highly gifted profiles. In her work, she uses the core essence game she developed and the core essence approach based on it. She lives and works in Hanover.

Gabriele Lönne

Gabriele Lönne has been working for over 35 years as a manager consultant, personal coach and special therapist in companies and as a lecturer at training institutes and universities.
She specializes in crisis communication in English, German and Italian. Mental health, mobbing, burnout and trauma are among her key topics. She is involved as a business angel and consultant for start-ups and has owned a company abroad for a long time. She is particularly interested in promoting and expanding good cooperation and harmonious coexistence in the EU.

Susanne Hauser-Braun

Susanne Hauser-Braun is an enthusiastic teacher and learning consultant with a Masters in Education and winner of the UK German Teacher Award. After many years in international teaching, she now works as a freelance teacher in her own learning studio, specializing in online German lessons for children internationally. She is convinced that positive neuroscience plays an important role in education and develops teaching methods with the aim of systematically promoting children’s learning ability, enjoyment of learning, motivation and resilience.

Lisa Dullnig

Lisa Dullnig is a certified coach and trainer as well as a former criminal investigator with more than a decade of experience. Among other things, she worked in the homicide group and in white-collar crime, where she learned to read complex human dynamics, recognize patterns and make clear, evidence-based decisions even under pressure. Years of working with the difficult and destructive gave rise to a conscious focus on what sustains people internally and enables them to act. Today, she accompanies people and teams where emotions no longer confuse, but provide orientation. Where hidden dynamics become visible and where responsibility begins – not out of guilt, but out of clarity. Her work is aimed at calm effectiveness, decisions with integrity and sustainable development.

Norbert Hüge

Norbert Hüge has been working as a systemic coach and trainer for almost 20 years. He founded MILD in 2011 and, together with his team, has been supporting people and organizations responsibly in personal, professional and structural development processes ever since. One focus is on working with men, which is a central concern for him both professionally and personally. MILD designs coaching, consulting, training and further education, including IHK-certified formats. In addition, he develops scientifically sound multimodal stress management programs based on the latest psychological findings, which are recognized by statutory health insurance companies and incorporate resilience and positive psychology.

Kriemhild Büchel-Kapeller

For over 20 years, I have been supporting communities and organizations on their path to sustainability and sustainability for grandchildren (see debates on the future and transformation). I am driven by the question of what constitutes a good, successful life – for ourselves and for communities. I am guided by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how participation, social innovation and the PERMA model of positive psychology create courage for the future and joy for the present. Growing up on Lake Constance, I draw strength from nature. In my opinion, the best is not behind us, but ahead of us – resilience instead of resignation.

Meike Leue

Meike Leue advises companies as an independent consultant on the development of effective learning, sales and management structures: three areas in which she herself has years of experience from the business world. The starting point is always the company’s goals – “You can’t improve what you can’t measure.” This is precisely why her focus is on  Effectiveness of measures. Human motivation plays a central role here, because motivation is the inner force that leads to action. And it is only through action that we achieve self-efficacy and results. What effects does it have if you know a lot but don’t use this knowledge sensibly? Activating this inner strength is a success factor for our economy, because the mere availability of opportunities does not motivate people to act.

Tabea Ebert

“What lies before us and what lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us. When we carry what lies within us out into the world, miracles happen.” (Henry David Thoreau)

Tabea Ebert is a stress manager, breathing teacher and systemic therapist. She supports people in individual and group settings. Her aim is to guide people out of survival mode and into a state in which the brain can develop creative solutions. In her coaching sessions, the focus is on resources and consciously dealing with stress in everyday life.

Michael Munzel

The motto “Verifiable connections, reproducible results and transferability of the necessary skills” is an apt description of my therapeutic approach. In general, I believe that safe learning supported by positive emotions is the most important path to personal development. In general, from my perspective, connectedness, development and the ability to create are not only life goals, but also central in the therapeutic context.   As I am heavily involved in the field of psychosomatics and its disorders, a safe body experience is also important to me. Because a safe body experience ensures health and well-being and thus an individual form of resilience. I hope to be able to make a contribution to the development of therapy in the sense of positive psychology.

Janina Simone Pekrun

Business educator, qualified commercial teacher, learning coach and alternative practitioner for psychotherapy (attachment energetics). I work independently in my own practice with learners and conduct research on ‘learning well-being’ as an attachment-oriented, resource-based approach to learning processes. The focus is on the rhythm of the development of attachment and education, supported by a positively strengthening, health-oriented approach. I value the interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration with people who want to think ahead together in research, educational practice and educational innovation.

Anja Turnhöfer

Anja Turhöfer works as a communication psychologist at the interface of positive psychology, positive neuroscience and futurology. Her aim is to work with people and organizations to shape the future in terms of human, effective and sustainable development. With a positive, curious and open attitude, she aims to create spaces for inspiration, growth and meaning. Her goal is to consciously shape living and working time and not only to think about the future, but to actively shape it. In doing so, she follows a humanistic futurism: the deep conviction that we can create a future worth living for all with confidence, science and co-creation.

Eva-Maria Thurnher

Eva-Maria Thurnher is a communication psychologist with over 30 years of experience in consulting, training and coaching. As a certified trainer, she integrates findings from positive psychology and neuroscience into practice-oriented 
Coaching and workshop concepts for companies. Her focus is on leadership, motivation and personal development.  
With the PERMA-Lead® approach and as founder of the Campus Positive Psychology & Space for Regenerative Change, she pursues the vision of enabling certified and practical training in applied positive psychology to empower people to shape their “flourishing” in a self-effective way. 

Melanie Linnenschmidt

is a psychologist (M.Sc.), coach and organizational developer. With  linnenschmidtCOACHING , she supports managers and organizations in developing a healthy and positive work culture. Her work combines insights from positive psychology, modern leadership research and organizational development. She supports teams in change processes, strengthens leadership skills and is committed to mental health and sustainable performance in the world of work.

Birgit Stülten

Birgit Stülten is committed to leadership communication that is clear, effective and human in complex times. The business graduate, leadership trainer and keynote speaker has been supporting management teams since 2010. Her Leadtorik® method combines psychology and neuroscience with the aim of improving decision-making logic for collaboration and motivation. One focus of her work is the question of how leadership can succeed in the age of AI without losing the human element. She translates scientific findings into a modern practice that aims to enable real growth and healthy high performance.

Waltraud Jäger

Waltraud Jäger is a certified integral dance and expression therapist (ITA, trained by psychologist Wilfried Gürtler), songwriter and expert in relaxation, mindfulness and meditation at the HR Competence Center. She completed international training with Ana Costa in California (Anahatha Yoga & Meditation). Her work is based on scientifically sound findings on self-regulation, stress reduction and mental performance. In her work she combines therapeutic competence, creative forms of expression and mindfulness practice. Her work focuses on inner clarity, conscious self-reflection and mental and emotional stability – especially in the context of work, leadership and personal development.

Silke Aubel

Silke Aubel, MA: I am an industrial and organizational psychologist as well as a trainer and systemic coach. I completed my studies in psychology with a focus on work, industrial and organizational psychology with a master’s degree in positive psychology and coaching. I have been working independently in training, coaching and organizational development since 2012. In my work, I focus in particular on the evidence-based application of positive psychology in the context of leadership, collaboration and organizational development in different organizational contexts.

Dr. Sabine Huppertz

Dr. Sabine Huppertz is the founder of the strategy consultancy VADO, a passionate interim manager, an internationally experienced executive and a committed networker. She is driven by the question of how work can become more human, leadership more effective and organizations more sustainable.

She has been using modern leadership approaches at the interface of people, organization and the future for many years. She trained as a life design leadership expert at the University of St. Gallen in order to rethink leadership in a new and effective way.