We are at a turning point. Artificial intelligence is changing how we work, how we make decisions, and how we collaborate. As it becomes part of our teams, it raises fundamental questions about our understanding of leadership.

Many leaders sense that familiar models are no longer sufficient. Not because the technology is difficult to grasp, but because traditional leadership logic reaches its limits when humans and AI begin to act together. In practice, very few projects fail because of the technology itself. They fail because leadership was not considered.

AI can structure, analyse, and prepare. It supports leadership, but it does not replace it. It cannot sense tension in a room, hold difficult conversations, or make decisions based on experience, intuition, and contextual understanding. This is precisely why the human foundations of leadership are gaining importance: offering orientation, building trust, managing conflict, taking responsibility, and staying present, especially when much remains uncertain.

I work with leaders and teams who want to strengthen these capacities. At the Munich Center for Digital Sciences and AI, I explore how collaboration between humans and agentic AI systems can succeed, and what social, cultural, and structural conditions are necessary to support it. Successful implementation is not just a question of technology. It requires shifts in thinking, communication, and organisational culture.

My work is grounded in everyday practice and shaped by the questions that arise in real working contexts. It brings together clarity and depth, and is designed to support reflection and decision-making in complex environments.

This is why I work as a trust-centered partner for AI piloting and implementation. I accompany leaders and teams not only on the strategic level, but especially on the change and trust side. The goal is clear: to ensure that when AI systems are piloted and scaled, the necessary shifts in thinking, communication, and culture happen alongside the technology, not after it. This requires leadership that is both visionary and grounded, and change support that addresses both the rational and the human dimensions of transformation.

This conviction guides me: technology unfolds its potential only when people apply it with thoughtful intent. What matters is collaboration rather than control, leadership that empowers, and work that becomes more human as a result.

Leadership isn’t something you learn from slides. You learn it when decisions have no blueprint and uncertainty becomes the norm. This has shaped my work, because I’ve been an entrepreneur for over twenty years. I’ve founded several start-ups and led teams through phases of building, growing, and navigating uncertainty. I know what responsibility feels like when everything is in motion; and how much clarity, pace, and sound judgment matter in the midst of it. I’m a practitioner with an academic grounding, and I firmly believe that strong leadership emerges when both come together.

I work with leaders and teams who want to stay capable in times of change, growth, and complexity. What interests me is not the perfect model, but what actually works in daily practice. My approach combines insights from behavioural science with hands-on experience from business and innovation.

At the Munich Center for Digital Sciences and AI at Munich University of Applied Sciences, I teach and research the intersection of leadership and Human-Agent Teams. My work brings research into practice. I support organisations in transition and co-develop leadership approaches that begin where real change starts: in how we think, how we talk, and how we make decisions.

My perspective is systemic. I don’t see leadership in isolation, but embedded in cultural, structural, and social realities. Sustainable transformation can only succeed when we take into account structures, power dynamics, expectations, and the lived organisational culture. This is where I work: at the intersection of individuals, organisations, and technology.

Through my Human-AI Leadership approach, I help organisations rethink leadership in the context of intelligent systems. Not through recipes, but through shared exploration. How do we take responsibility when decisions are distributed? How does trust emerge when systems begin to shape outcomes? And how do we keep leadership human when technology starts to think alongside us?

When organisations pilot and implement AI systems, I work as a trust-centered partner. My focus is on the change and trust side because this is where most projects stumble. I accompany leaders and teams to ensure that the necessary shifts in thinking, communication, and culture happen alongside the technology. This parallel work of building leadership capability and organisational readiness at the same time as the AI system is what makes the difference between implementation that sticks and implementation that fails.

In this work, I draw on the AIDE model, a systemic framework for AI implementation that highlights technological maturity, psychological safety, ethical orientation, and organisational learning as key success factors. My research explores how human-AI collaboration can remain grounded, capable, and responsible in a world becoming increasingly technical. With clarity. With competence. And with a thoughtful stance.

Leadership is daily work:
Clarify. Connect and Align.

Many organizations invest in technology, yet the real bottleneck lies in leadership and in empowering employees to act effectively in collaboration with AI. AI tools and initial multi-agent systems are in use, many use cases have been collected, and processes have been described, at least in principle. And yet, collaboration often remains unclear, responsibilities blur, and the hoped-for impact fails to materialize. Employees are left behind. Not because of a lack of willingness, but because orientation is missing and their role in the interplay with AI has not been sufficiently clarified.

My Human-AI Leadership Approach addresses exactly this. It is aimed at companies that not only want to introduce or scale AI, but also want to rethink their understanding of leadership in the process, in the sense of a collaboration that sustains. At the center is the question: How do we shape the structural, cultural, and social conditions so that humans and AI can be effective together? All formats emerged from our work in transformation processes and from research into what constitutes good leadership in complex, technologized systems today.

Together with partners from practice and research, I combine well-founded knowledge, practice-proven methods, and pragmatic implementation, tailored to your goals, your culture, and your everyday business.

Our Programs

Executive Intelligence: A Strategic Briefing for Your Top Management.
An exclusive in-house program for your board or C-level team, co-created with Dr. Gudrun Socher. We create a shared, well-founded understanding of agent systems and their strategic implications; the indispensable basis for any far-reaching future decision.

Own Your KI: Shaping Your Leadership Team’s Stance on the AI Transformation.
Building on a shared understanding, in this in-house workshop, co-created with Kirsten Heller, CEO and board member of VI AG, you develop the shared stance and strategic guardrails for the AI transition. It is the step from „knowing“ to „willing“ and „guiding.“

Leading Organizational Transformation: Turn Your Leaders into Shapers of the AI Transition.
An in-house program for your HR and L&D department. Together with you, we develop a tailor-made leadership program for your leaders that enables them to effectively guide their teams through the AI transformation. Concrete, applicable, and tailored to your corporate culture.

Leading High-Performance Teams: Lead Your Own Team When AI Co-Decides.
A practical in-house program for leaders and their teams in the innovation and product area. Learn how to concretely shape the collaboration in your human-AI team, redefine decision-making processes, and sustainably increase your team’s performance.

Trust Accelerator: Laying the Foundation for Collaboration with AI.
An in-house program for your team to overcome the invisible barriers to AI adoption. Together, we create the psychological safety and fundamental trust necessary for your team not just to have AI tools, but to use them actively and productively.

I speak about leadership at a time when humans and intelligent systems are shaping decisions together. My keynotes bring together research, insights from pilot projects, philosophical perspectives, and strategic foresight. They are shaped by my work with leadership teams, AI pioneer projects, and the first generation of AI natives. I explore what defines good leadership today; and what kind of mindset we need to rethink responsibility in collaboration with AI.

Topics I speak on:

Leading in the in-between – when systems shape decisions
How humans and AI learn, decide, and act together. Between new possibilities and the risk of losing control.

Trust is no coincidence – rethinking “human in the loop”
Why relationships, clarity, and ethics matter more than technology when AI becomes part of the team.

AI unplugged – what I’ve learned about leadership from AI natives
A generation growing up with AI is challenging how we think about leadership.

Knowing what you don’t know – future skills for a new era
Skills beyond tools: on judgement, resonance, and the courage to navigate uncertainty.

Recent appearances: 

Podcasts and interviews, Conversations on leadership, trust, and responsibility in the age of AI.