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Anja Pohlmann
Favourite topics
- Complex change processes
- Excecutive Coaching
- Purpose Coaching
- Team Development
- Leadership Development
- Cultural development processes
- Conception and implementation of HR tools (competency models, performance management systems)
Specialised knowledge
I have found my calling in accompanying others on their journey to becoming the best possible version of themselves: respectfully, curiously, warmly and challengingly. Accompanying people and organisations in times of transition – experiencing how solutions arise from problems – gives me a deep sense of satisfaction of doing something meaningful. Another matter close to my heart is to bring my experience into companies in order to help shape a corporate culture of humanity and togetherness. In doing so, I pay particular attention to managers, as they are the most important multipliers. Dealing with complexity appeals to me. I approach it with a combination of intellect and intuition. The following qualifications help me in this:
- Graduate business psychologist at the Ruhr University Bochum
- Hypno-Systemic Coach (Milton Ericson Institute Heidelberg/ Gunter Schmid, DBVC)
- Professional Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation, ICF)
- Systemic team and organisational developer (isb Wiesloch, Bernd Schmid, dvct)
- Change Management Coach (Neuwaldegg, Vienna)
- Agile organisational facilitator (workshop for collegial leadership, Hamburg)
- Licensed for: XLNC©- Leadership Profile; sysTelios© Transfer Coach (Systelios Klinik für Psychosomatik); LeadIAM (Leadership Profile)
My superpower
I often hear from my customers: ‘You ask good questions’ or ‘We hadn’t thought about it that way before’. With this systemic approach, I quickly succeed in reducing complexity and getting those involved to start shaping the process. The ‘people side of change’, i.e. dealing constructively with emotions, plays a crucial role in this.
Professional focal points
Trainee & HR Manager
at Coca-Cola Deutschland GmbH in Essen and Berlin: getting to know/familiarisation with all operational and strategic HR functions; consultant for the entire employee life cycle and manager of personnel development
Head of Human Resources Germany
at Loreàl Germany in Düsseldorf: Operational HR management of the German headquarters and the sales force (600 employees)
Global HR Business Partner & Direct Global Talent, Rewards & Transfer Management
at Cognis GmbH in Monheim: development and management of the strategic HR Service Centre for the entire group (approx. 9,000 employees at 20 sites); support during the due diligence process through to the strategic sale to BASF
Post-Merger Integration and European HR Business Partner
at BASF SE in Düsseldorf: project manager for the global change process as part of the integration of Cognis GmbH; HR business partner and member of the management team of a European business unit
Founder / Managing Partner
the management consultancy Change und Wandersmann in Bochum: change management, strategy development, leadership development, team development, cultural development, design and implementation of HR tools (competency models, performance management systems); coaching and management diagnostics
Favourite projects
- Post-merger integration (IT industry)
- Shadowing and advising an interdisciplinary project team (economic development)
- International management development programme (energy industry)
