Prof. Dr. Kathrin Koester Email & Phone Number

The Joy Academy is a modern network organization, a community of people dedicated towards leading themselves towards inner clarity and joy. With our unique approach of inner dialogue, we empower people to activate their inner team, the Formies, and manage themselves in the same way they lead a team. The process itself provides joy: to connect with the mind, the body and the heart, lovely comic figures. With strengthened self-awareness, people learn how to identify and remove inner mental and emotional barriers in order to gain access to all their inner resources, including intuition. The Formies-Approach is a viable vehicle for effective self-leadership. It helps to develop the CORAFA-qualities courage, open-mindedness, resilience, appreciation, focus and action-orientation. The Joy Academy offers coaching, workshops and an intense training program to become a Certified Formies Coach.

Heilbronn Area, Germany

K+P is a group of experts that help teams and organizations to climb the mountain of transformation towards a purpose-driven agile organism at their own pace, in their own way. The K+P compass is the Twelve Alignments that provide orientation to choose the right transformational tracks. The framework provides the big picture and keeps all stakeholders in line. Transformational journeys comprise of • design of the transformation process• inspirational talks to encourage organizational transformation • co-creation workshops for establishing common purpose, a trust-based culture and smart communication behavior• retrospectives for learning from experience and continuous recalibration• individual and group coaching to develop an agile mind-set

Vienna, Austria

• Academic lead of leadership program ‘Pioneers of the 21st century’ based on the Twelve Alignments methodology• Co-designer of online course ‘Agile Leadership’ • Workshops and modules on Organizational Transformation, Agile Leadership, Effective Communication and Purpose-driven Leadership Target groups: • International executives with strong interests in change and transformation• Leaders across industries and organizations who are determined to have a positive impact on society Empowerment targets:• Enhancing effective communication• Improving decision-making power• Fostering an attitude of self-reflectiveness and compassion• Strengthening mindfulness

Heilbronn Area, Germany

Teaching philosophy:In times of digitization, knowledge is readily available. But what to do with it? Teaching is an endeavour to make people aware of what it means to be a human being and to enable them to apply their insights and skills to an organizational environment. All courses are based on awareness building. Main courses:• Change Management• Transformation Management • Global Leadership • Leveraging Diversity • International Management and Business Development Research fields:• Effective methods for unfolding the individual’s full potential• Field research on the Formies approach • Individual Social Responsibility (ISR) as the new leadership paradigm of the 21st century

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Economics, Japanese Studies And Chinese Studies