I help leaders and teams have the difficult conversations they need to handle growth, conflict, and change.
Special focus on Series A/B teams.
remote | on-site | hybrid
I support your team and your organisation with
I help teams diagnose what's actually blocking performance: Silent conflicts, unclear decision-making, misalignment; and move forward with clarity. Works for fast-growing startups, restructuring organisations, and leadership teams.
I facilitate the conversations that move organisations forward: Strategy sessions, change implementation, multi-stakeholder alignment. So you execute with clarity and buy-in.
I help organisations build teams, cultures, and processes that prevent misconduct. Protecting your reputation, your employees, and your mission.
Some of my clients
“Martin has done a tremendous job facilitating an incubator program with us, where film distribution professionals entered as strangers and left as teams, even founding businesses together. His analytical skills, adaptability, deep understanding of personality dynamics and team interactions as well as a remarkable ability to bring order to chaos make him a truly exceptional facilitator - one we hope to collaborate with many more times.”
“I greatly appreciated working with Martin; he’s not only easy to work with, he has exceptional people and facilitation skills, really takes in what his client is trying to achieve and draws upon a great toolbox of ideas to design innovative and interesting workshop programs.”
“Never before have I been so relaxed during such a challenging workshop. With Martin, I simply knew everything was in the best hands.”
“Martin’s structured manner combined with his ability to respond very flexibly to workshop dynamics really impressed me. It was exactly what we needed and ultimately made the workshop a success.”
“A big thank you to Martin and his support in this challenging team workshop. The facilitation was tennis at its finest!”
Who I am
I help teams and organisations connect and work better. By understanding the systems underneath.
Over 24 years, I have worked in and with teams across 30 countries. From 5-person startups growing rapidly to international organisations where I've facilitated complex stakeholder processes with UN leadership, ambassadors, and generals. I've seen what breaks teams and processes at every stage and what fixes them.Today, I focus on three core areas:
1. Team Dynamics & Leadership Development
I help teams navigate invisible challenges: silent conflicts, unclear decision-making, misalignment. Whether you're a startup scaling rapidly, a team restructuring, leading distributed workers, or navigating leadership transitions, I diagnose what's actually happening with my Team Check-Up, then support change through coaching, workshops, and facilitation.2. Strategy & Transformation Facilitation
Facilitating the complex conversations that move organisations forward: strategy sessions, organisational change, multi-stakeholder alignment. I've facilitated everything from UN policy processes to C-level strategy offsites to 300-person hybrid conferences.3. Corruption Resilient Organisations
I help organisations build teams, cultures, and processes where transparency and accountability are stronger than temptation. I work with NGOs, international organisations, government agencies, and regulated companies to make corruption prevention practical, not bureaucratic.Why this works: I combine systemic organisational thinking with agile methods and nervous-system-based facilitation. I use interactive methods, not lectures. And I bring genuine understanding of how teams and organisations actually work, having worked in 30 countries across multiple sectors.
My clients value: My structured, results-based approach. The fact that I understand their specific context quickly. My ability to work trustfully with very different kinds of people: from founders to ministers. And that I deliver actual change, not just recommendations.
Where I have worked on-site
Armenia
Benin
Burkina-Faso
Cameroon
Democratic Republic of Congo
Ethiopia
France
Germany
Kenya
Kosovo
India
Madagascar
Malawi
Morocco
Myanmar
Nigeria
Indonesia
Ivory Coast
The Philippines
Portugal
Rwanda
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Somalia
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
USA
Zambia
Je travaille en français. I work in English. Und auf Deutsch.
In which sectors and contexts you can find me working
Start-up
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Film & Creative
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Digital
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Pharma
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Military
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Police
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Agriculture
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Infrastructure
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Health
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Governance
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Education
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Energy
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Metrology
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Climate
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Economic Promotion
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Start-up 〰️ Film & Creative 〰️ Digital 〰️ Pharma 〰️ Military 〰️ Police 〰️ Agriculture 〰️ Infrastructure 〰️ Health 〰️ Governance 〰️ Education 〰️ Energy 〰️ Metrology 〰️ Climate 〰️ Economic Promotion 〰️
What defines my work
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I use the systemic approach primarily for analytical purposes. It helps to ‘read’ organisations and their change dynamics and enables me to gain an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of the organisation and its dynamics. The systemic view helps to grasp the big picture and to explore the interplay between the various players and factors. Based on this analysis, I make decisions about how I design my consulting interventions.
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In the second step, the Gestalt approach specifically helps me to facilitate and support change in my client organisations. In doing so, I rely primarily on the ‘Cycle of Change’ of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. Creating an awareness of change, mobilising the energy for change and dealing with resistance in an appropriate way pave the way for innovative changes off the beaten track, with the aim of achieving the highest possible, concrete added value for my clients that can withstand the daily challenges.
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When implementing specific measures, I take elements from agile project management, such as short feedback cycles, continuous learning, flexible control and readjustment in change processes, high customer orientation and transparency in decisions and processes. I embrace the agile principles and am familiar with SCRUM and Design Thinking.
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Especially when it comes to creating strong connections between team members or resolving conflict in a team, I add nervous system-based approaches to my work. I also use elements of the Polyvagal Theory to give virtual and hybrid meetings a much more humane and natural atmosphere.
This leads me to adopt a consulting approach and work style characterised by the following:
Process Facilitation - Enabling and Moderating: Mobilising the existing knowledge and skills within organisations and empowering them to develop appropriate goals, structures, processes, and a cohesive collaborative environment on their own.
Consideration of "Hard" and "Soft" Factors: In addition to focusing on organisational structure and processes, giving equal attention to the people, leadership issues, and teamwork.
Participatory, Transparent, and Interactive: Engaging and involving professionals and leaders in the process on an equal footing, thereby ensuring the sustainability of change processes.
What is Facilitation?
No matter which of my services you are going to request: Facilitating conversations, meetings, workshops, or entire processes will be a key component of what I am doing.
In case you’re unfamiliar with the concept of facilitation, enjoy this short video and discover where and how it makes a huge difference for your work.
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