I’m Katja Kaiser – executive coach, breathing specialist and HR expert. I help leaders and organisations stay effective under intense pressure, make clear decisions and lead in a way that keeps them well.
With 20 years of HR experience, body-based nervous system regulation and a coaching approach that really goes deep – practical and fit for business.
For twenty years I have worked in HR management – as an HR business partner and as a specialist in leadership development. I have advised hundreds of leaders on strategy, supported them along their career paths and commissioned resilience programmes from external providers. I know the theory and the HR perspective – and as a former leader, I also know the hot seat my clients sit in. I have seen the feedback forms. I have heard what people said three months later.
And at some point I realised: the problem isn’t the people. And it isn’t the content. Convincing in the seminar room. Not in everyday life afterwards.
Classic resilience training works on thoughts. It doesn’t change the nervous system. And that – the nervous system – is what decides in the moment when it really counts.
This realisation has fundamentally changed my own work. I no longer design programmes that only work in the seminar room. I use methods that hold up in an escalation meeting. In the board meeting. At 11 pm, when the decision can’t wait.
That is exactly what I aim for. And it’s why I combine the Buteyko Method, nervous-system-oriented coaching and in-depth systemic work – with practical knowledge of what real leadership situations demand.
My training is the foundation of an approach that has earned its credibility – not through marketing, but through method.
I am a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). What counts here isn’t only what you know about coaching: alongside ICF-recognised training, documented coaching practice, mentor coaching and a written exam, trained assessors evaluate real, recorded coaching sessions.
It also means a commitment to the ICF Code of Ethics: confidentiality, clear roles and honest statements about what coaching can achieve. Every three years I renew the credential through continuing professional development.
Buteyko Clinic InternationalCertified Buteyko Instructor · breathing regulation as a craft
FitmediCertified resilience educator · certified training in resilience education
Person-centred systemic coach (GwG)Coaching training based on humanistic principles · coaching since 2012
20+ years of HR experienceLeadership development, learning & development, HR business partner, leading a team of my own
Oxygen Advantage for CorporateFunctional breathing for performance and recovery in a corporate setting
The best thing about my approach isn’t the method. It’s what I see in my work: it holds up in situations where knowledge alone is no longer enough.
I work with leaders who already know a great deal. Who have been coached before. Who have read the books. And who still notice: in the moment when it really counts, something that should be there isn’t.
That “something” isn’t more knowledge. It’s biological stability under pressure. That can be trained. It’s what I do with my clients.
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