Wer sind wir
Wir sind ein Team aus festangestellten Berater:innen an den Standorten Berlin, Washington D.C. und Tel Aviv sowie freien Mitarbeiter:innen (Affiliate Consultants) weltweit.
Wir bringen vielfältige Hintergründe und Fachwissen in unsere Arbeit ein: Wir sind Coaches und Coachinnen, Pädagog:innen, Trainer:innen, Psycholog:innen, Manger:innen, Expert:innen für Lernen und Entwicklung. Wir schätzen sowohl unsere Mitarbeiter:innen als auch unsere Klienten und Klientinnen in ihrem ganzen Sein mit ihren Geschichten, ihrer Vielschichtigkeit und ihren Widersprüchen und streben nach einer diversen, inklusiven und fröhlichen Arbeitsumgebung.
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Wir nehmen Komplexität an: Wir bemühen uns um tiefgehendes und nuanciertes Verstehen und beziehen dabei verschiedene Perspektiven, Widersprüchlichkeiten und Polaritäten ein.
Wir kultivieren Gemeinschaft: Wir schaffen den Zusammenhalt und die Unterstützung, die es braucht, um fortlaufendes Lernen und Wachstum zu ermöglichen.
Wir sind Vorbild für Entwicklung: Wir wagen uns mit Freude ins Unbekannte, um uns weiterzuentwickeln und laden unsere Koll:eginnen und Klienten ein, es uns nachzutun.
TEAM
Judit Teichert | Geschäftsführung | Berlin
Judit Teichert ist Geschäftsführerin von KONU Deutschland GmbH. Sie ist Trainerin, Beraterin, Coach und Dozentin in der Ausbildung von Psychotherapeuten. Mit Überblick und Warmherzigkeit begleitet sie Menschen, Teams und Organisationen dabei komplexe Herausforderungen zu entwirren und notwendige Veränderungen nachhaltig umzusetzen.
Michael Köhler | Partner | Washington DC
Michael Köhler choreographiert gemeinsam mit seinen Klienten wirkungsvolle Leadership Development und Change Programme. Als ehemaliger Deutscher Meister im Rock'n'Roll bringt er in seine Arbeit ein Gespür für die Spannungsfelder zwischen Technik und Kreativität, Ordnung und Improvisation sowie für das passende Timing und den gelungenen Rhythmus ein.
Tim O'Brien | Partner | Boston
Tim O’Brien unterrichtet an der Harvard Kennedy School, an der er mehrfach für seine Kurse zu Führung bzw. Entwicklung im Erwachsenenalter ausgezeichnet wurde. Zudem ist er Vorsitzender des beliebten Programms “Führen im 21. Jahrhundert”. Für KONUs Klient:innen sorgt er dafür, Brücken zwischen bewährten Verfahren der Führungskräfteentwicklung und dem Alltag zu schlagen, den sie als Praktizierende erleben.
Elisabeth Heid | COO | Berlin
Elisabeth Heid is COO bei KONU. Sie begleitet Menschen und Teams in Entwicklungs- und Veränderungsprozessen als Beraterin, Trainerin und Coach. Ihre Arbeit speist insbesondere aus ihrer eigenen Erfahrung als Change Agent im Bildungssektor.
NETALY OPHIR FLINT | PARTNER | Tel AVIV
Netaly Ophir Flint loves working with individuals, executives, and organizations to help them adapt and thrive as they tackle complex challenges in a rapidly changing world. Before KONU, Netaly was the CEO of the Reut Group - a cutting edge strategy and leadership Think Tank based in Tel Aviv.
JOSHUA ALBERT | Associate Partner| Washington DC
Joshua Albert is passionate about supporting mission-driven organizations and individuals to bridge the gap between aspiration and achievement by applying adaptive and developmental practices in their work. He hopes to support KONU’s clients in exercising the creative leadership needed to discover new possibilities and latent capabilities.
Andy Cahill | Associate Partner | Boston
Andy Cahill is a transformative coach who excels at inspiring leaders and entrepreneurs to dig deep, dream big and do their greatest work. He’s spent almost twenty years working in education, public service, and human development. The programs he’s led and consulted on have reached thousands of people, from urban schools to corporate boardrooms, helping them build resilience, deepen mindfulness, and activate their full potential.
ARIANA ABADIAN-HEIFETZ | Engagement Manager | Washington DC
Ariana believes sustainable change is a collaborative adaptive process that is co-created by communities. She brings with her a social-emotional learning expertise and is a facilitator on adaptive leadership, organizational development, conflict resolution, and identity-based discrimination. Ariana is passionate about supporting individuals and organizations break cycles of constraint through redefining identities and changing our relationships to authority, uncertainty, vulnerability, and our personal hungers.
EMILY WYNER | Engagement Manager | Philadelphia
Emily is a skilled facilitator and communicator who finds joy and meaning in building capacity with and within mission-driven leaders and organizations. Her approach is grounded in frameworks from applied positive psychology, systems thinking, and organizational development and leadership. An improv school graduate, Emily believes that play can be transformative.
Michal Levy | Senior Associate | TeL AVIV
Michal’s passion is to provide the best leadership training available, even to those who do not hold positions of authority in organizations or communities, and to assist them in developing the ability to face complex challenges and drive change in the systems in which they operate, their lives, and beyond.
KRISH JAIMAN | SENIOR ASSOCIATE | Boston
Krish believes that to grow as leaders, we must be willing to confront and shape the most neglected parts of ourselves with love and intention. His work as an Equity & Inclusion Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education turned the lens in on himself, where he learned that being a leader starts with the practice of challenging one’s own assumptions, loyalties, and traumas within small and large-scale groups.
APRIL NUNES TUCKER (PHD) | SENIOR ASSOCIATE | British virgin islands
April is passionate about cultivating spaces where her clients feel supported in diving deep into challenging adaptive and developmental work. She does this through a commitment to bringing awareness to the physical body to help highlight underlying beliefs and patterns with an aim to create conditions for choice and change.
Gentry Doane | SENIOR ASSOCIATE | Berlin
Gentry liebt das wunderbare Durcheinander menschlicher Beziehungen. Mit dem Verständnis, dass wir Menschen im Kern unvollkommene Wesen sind, die nach Bedeutung und Verbindung suchen, findet Gentry Freude darin genau das mit seinen Klienten zu erkunden, um neue Optionen und Wege freizusetzen.
Elise Alexander | Associate | Berlin
Elises Leidenschaft ist Menschen und Organisationen dabei zu unterstützen, neue Fähigkeiten zu entwickeln und wirksame Veränderungen mit zu gestalten.
AFFILIATE CONSULTANTS
Affiliate Consultants sind unsere Netzwerkpartner:innen: Erfahrene Coaches und Coachinnen, Trainer:innen, Moderator:innen, die wir nach Bedarf für Projekte heranziehen und mit denen wir in einem engen fachlichen Austausch stehen.
Julian Zurek | Affiliate Consultant | Berlin
Julian Zurek begleitet als Berater, Trainer und Moderator die Entwicklung von Unternehmen und Non-Profit-Organisationen. Ein Schwerpunkt seiner Arbeit liegt in der Organisations-, Strategie- und Führungskräfteentwicklung mit Verbänden, Stiftungen und dem öffentlichen Sektor.
Dr. Dorothee Kaiser | Affiliate Consultant | Rottenburg
Dorothee Kaiser unterstützt Führungskräfte und Teams in internationalen Kontexten und arbeitet dabei in vier Sprachen (Deutsch, Englisch, Spanisch, Französisch) . Hauptmotivation für ihre Arbeit sind es, Klarheit und Selbstvertrauen für ihre Kunden zu schaffen und Brücken über Kulturen hinweg zu bauen.
Rainer Höll | Affiliate Consultant | München
Rainer Höll ist Executive Coach, berät Unternehmen zu New-Work-Organisationskultur und ist einer der Pioniere für soziales Unternehmertum in Deutschland. Er unterstützt leidenschaftlich gerne Menschen und Organisationen, die Veränderung bewirken wollen.
CANDICE A. CRAWFORD-ZAKIAN | AFFILIATE CONSULTANT | Boston
Candice A. Crawford-Zakian, Psy.D. is a psychoanalytically oriented consulting psychologist and executive coach with expertise in the convergence of leadership, social identity, and unconscious group dynamics. Her practice is interdisciplinary and draws from principles of psychology, design thinking, and the creative arts.
Rosi Greenberg | AFFILIATE CONSULTANT | Boston
Rosi is passionate about helping people make the internal and external shifts they need to lead with more clarity, creativity, and effectiveness in a changing world. Rosi is a Leadership Coach and Facilitator and has worked with groups across the US, including Bloomberg City Leadership Program mayors, female philanthropists of Women Moving Millions, fellows of Neiman Foundation for Journalism, youth activists, campaign organizers, and more. Rosi also draws on her skill as an artist to develop new visual models of Graphic Coaching and Graphic Facilitation.
KATE NEVILLE | AFFILIATE CONSULTANT | Washington DC
Kate Neville is an experienced leadership coach with expertise helping highly accomplished professionals move from thought to action, speak up effectively, and develop relationships across differences as they move into more senior roles in management and leadership of offices, departments, teams and functions.
Laura bailey | AFFILIATE Senior CONSULTANT | Washington DC
Laura is committed to unleashing the potential that lies in most teams and to supporting leaders as they untangle the obstacles in their path. Her journey in service of communities and teams seeking to move towards resilience and peace has taught her that she is most content when working at the intersection of differing perspectives, happiest when she is asked to listen, query, and hold space for conversations that may feel difficult, because her heart knows that’s where learning happens.
YOTAM SCHACHTER | AFFILIATE CONSULTANT | Boston
With keen insights and rare personal warmth, Yotam helps purpose-driven leaders and teams align their minds, hearts, and bodies around leadership qualities that will bring them success. Yotam has spent 20 years trying to understand the dynamics of human change at all scales - from how individuals develop in courage, compassion, and wisdom to the twists and turns of cultural evolution in teams, organizations, and societies – and he brings that expertise to help his clients create bigger, more powerful transformations with less effort.
Nicolás Parra-Herrera | Affiliate consultant | Boston
Nicolás is a philosopher and lawyer passionate about dialogue and jazz. He is a doctoral candidate and fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School where he is a lecturer on negotiation, mediation, and leadership. He loves to facilitate difficult conversations, teach curiosity and engage in Socratic self-examination practices to transform our relation with ourselves, others, and our surroundings.
CAROLINE KIARIE | AFFILIATE CONSULTANT | Nairobi
Caroline has a passion for supporting leaders and organizations to maximize their impact and presence. She has over 11 years’ experience leading teams and social programs in the non-profit, philanthropic and intergovernmental sectors across Africa, working most recently with the United Nations Development Program. As a leadership coach, Caroline partners with clients in a journey of self-awareness, discovery and embodiment.
NIKOLA ILIC | AFFILIATE CONSULTANT | Washington DC
Nikola is a leadership development and citizen engagement professional, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, social entrepreneur, and executive coach who has led and participated in various community-building and leadership development projects in government and private sectors worldwide. Nikola brings innovative frameworks, including Adaptive Leadership, Adult Development, Community Organizing, and Just in Time Leadership, into his practice and coaching.