Our team

Each of us brings our own unique skills and experience to the table. This makes us strong and versatile. All team members have a unique personality – with humor, heart, edges and corners. We are all united in our passion for transformation and development.

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Michaela Sauerwein

Founder, business coach and consultant

Michaela has found her true passion. Known as the “go-to person for difficult cases,” she thrives on tackling complex challenges with our clients. Her focus lies in analysing issues in depth and developing creative, tailor-made solutions that truly fit.

With over 20 years of hands-on experience as an entrepreneur and leader, Michaela brings extensive expertise as a strategy, organisational development and change management consultant, as well as a business coach, mentor and trainer. She shares her knowledge as a speaker and lecturer at universities and universities of applied sciences, particularly on topics such as strategy, organisational development, leadership, change management and project management—and, of course, as a trainer in the COX Leadership Development Programme.

Michaela recharges her energy through morning walks in the forest with her Irish Setter Lotti, skiing and mountaineering with her family, and exploring new culinary destinations.

Flora Otahal

Senior Trainer and Business Coach

Flora Otahal supports leaders, teams and organisations in sustainable development and change processes. She believes that effective leadership requires conscious self-reflection and intentional action, which is why she works hands-on through leadership trainings, team workshops and business coaching. Her approach is grounded in systemic thinking and a clear focus on the psychology of change.

In coaching, Flora primarily works with top talent and mid-level leaders, with a particular emphasis on mindfulness-based self-leadership and the conscious shaping of one’s leadership role. She is known for empathic listening, integrating diverse perspectives and working collaboratively to create clarity in complex situations.

Her experience as a trainer, coach and university lecturer in career and personal development directly informs her work. Beyond her professional role, Flora enjoys immersing herself in books, continuously broadening her perspective on leadership, learning and what it means to be human.

Magdalena Reiter

Trainer and Coach

With a wealth of experience in learning & development, Magdalena guides organizations through development processes – across industries and always with an eye for the essentials: the power of good leadership and effective collaboration. Her professional journey has taken her through the tech and EdTech industry, the hotel industry and HR development – both at home and abroad, where she lived and worked for several years.

As a trainer, Magdalena supports teams and managers in their further development. She brings sound didactic expertise, combining structure with empathy, theory with practice, and ambition with humanity. Her passion for playful learning is reflected in the design and implementation of training programs and workshops.

With her open, warm manner and curiosity for languages and cultures, she creates spaces for genuine interaction – characterized by lightness, depth and clarity.

As a nature-loving Waldviertel native and Salzburg resident by choice, she finds her energy outdoors – swimming, running or hiking. Music is her creative source of strength and provides a balance to everyday life.

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Sabrina Stipp

Business coach, alternative practitioner for psychotherapy

‘I am fascinated by what moves, motivates and inspires people – and sometimes also hinders them’

As an ICF-certified, systemic business coach (PCC), Sabrina has been combining the world of coaching with counselling therapy approaches since 2017. This means she can also support clients who are under a lot of pressure. The business graduate (University of Cologne) specialises in leadership coaching, management development, supporting change and decision-making processes, personal development and mental health.

After seven years in China with three children and the establishment of an agency with 100 employees, Sabrina is no longer easily rattled. From 2004 to 2011, she was Head of Strategy and HR at Avantgarde Gesellschaft für Kommunikation in Shanghai. Before that (1995-2004), she provided strategic advice to the communications and media industry.

Mag. Astrid Maria Harner

Trainer and business coach

‘I love to contribute to the development of a new generation of leaders – I am convinced that coaching makes life easier in everyday leadership!’

Astrid, a qualified mental trainer and business coach, combines her deep understanding of mental strength with innovative coaching techniques to accompany managers on their path to sustainable success. She provides sensitive support in business coaching sessions on the way to individual solutions. A strong thirst for knowledge meets empathy and communication skills. Astrid’s dream is to conduct coaching sessions on the mountain, because that is her favourite place.

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Sandra Julia Diller

Professor of Organisational Psychology, expert in coaching, leadership & change

‘I am inspired by the vision of shaping positive change through responsible and value-orientated leadership.’

Sandra is a university-certified coach, social skills trainer and PSI consultant. She has been coaching and training managers and teams since 2011 and has been teaching and researching these topics since 2016 (e.g. leading MBA coaching & article ‘Ethics in digital and AI coaching’). In her leadership training courses, she wants to emphasise the relevance of self-leadership and leadership as a role model. As a mother in a leadership role, she has also dealt extensively with the various role expectations (see her Springer book ‘Familie, Führung & Ich’).

With her training in systemic behavioural psychology and positive psychology, Sandra brings an integrative and individual needs-oriented perspective to coaching. Due to her additional training as a yoga teacher and research on the subject of mindfulness, she enjoys dealing with topics relating to mental health.

Mag.(FH) Nicole Schieferer-Rabara, MTD

Business trainer, business coach & consultant

‘It is my passion to support young talents and established leaders alike in gaining their inner clarity and realising their full potential.’

Nicole, a master’s graduate in training and development and an expert in change management, combines her deep understanding of leadership with a holistic approach to supporting leaders.

With her experience as a young executive who experienced a corporate merger, she offers valuable insights into transformation processes. Leadership, change management and the promotion of a healthy corporate culture are her favourite topics.

Her studies in health management emphasise the importance of mental health and mindfulness.

As a business trainer and business coach, she inspires people to define their personal vision.

Mag. Sabine Gebetsroither

Systemic coach, trainer for teams & communication, team developer

‘I am passionate about inspiring people and organisations for their positive development and their true potential.’

Development is possible. As an academically certified coach, communication expert and organisational developer, she accompanies companies and people on their individual development path with heart, competence and humour. Sabine is a hostess and moderator at eye and heart level and with the approaches from positive psychology and her systemic solution-orientated way of working, she designs coaching, training and workshops for sustainable and positive experiences of success.

Sabine loves nature as a valuable resource and the Salzkammergut region, values mindfulness and is committed to mental health. As a yoga and meditation teacher and seminar leader, Sabine imparts Far Eastern wisdom and techniques for mindful (self-)leadership and a successful life.