Thomas Knappe

I have been self-employed with the Coaching Colleg Berlin since 2001 as a consultant and coach for executives in middle and senior management. The target group is in particular managers of distributed (virtual) teams (distance leadership).

Special focus and expertise: Leading from a distance (distance leadership, leading distributed teams), leadership in (or towards) an agile environment, taking on new positions/responsibilities, setting up and developing new areas and high-performance teams, leadership (strategy development, process design etc.), , self-leadership as a manager (self-leadership, positioning/external impact), "First 100 days", repositioning at 50+

Education

• Bank clerk IHK Berlin/Deutsche Bank Berlin AG (1986 — 1988)
• Freie Universität Berlin (1981 — 1986)
• Coach DVNLP (SHB) Steinbeis-Hochschule-Berlin

Companies

• Coach and lecturer (personality development and leadership) Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (2009)
• Managing Director CoachingColleg Berlin (2001)
• Independent entrepreneur CoachingColleg Berlin Stuttgart (2002 — 2005)
• Head of Credit Management Deutsche Bank AG (1986 — 2000)