For organisations & HR leaders

Your leaders are functioning. But are they really running on performance – or on reserves?

The difference between a resilience seminar that scores well on the feedback form and a programme that is still working three months later isn’t the quality of the content. It’s whether that content still holds when the pressure is on.

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The everyday reality of your high performers

Before we talk about programmes, let’s look at where the strain really shows – not on the feedback form, but in the calendar:

“On holiday? Of course I’m reachable.”Translated from German
“My status has been showing ‘available’ for months.”Translated from German
“The one person nothing works without – and nobody can stand in for.”Translated from German
“The day lasts 10 to 14 hours. Not in exceptional weeks – as standard.”Translated from German

I hear sentences like these again and again in my training work with leaders – across sectors. They don’t appear on any feedback form. But they decide how your leaders make decisions, how stable their teams remain – and how long your high performers stay.

What happens after the seminar

You know the pattern. Two days of resilience seminar. Enthusiastic feedback. Three months later: nothing has changed. Not because the participants didn’t want it. Not because the content was wrong. But because knowledge alone isn’t enough under pressure.

“Classic resilience training is convincing in the seminar room. Not in everyday life afterwards.”

The reason: classic seminars train the cognitive level. Strategies. Frameworks. Communication models. That works well – as long as there’s no real pressure. But in the moment when it really counts, the reflex is faster than the plan. And learned strategies need a moment that often isn’t there.

What this means for your organisation

What you invest: seminar fees, leaders’ time away from the business, travel costs, follow-up effort

What you get: short-term seminar satisfaction, knowledge transfer, isolated changes in behaviour

What you need: leaders who make steady decisions in a crisis, who don’t destabilise their teams through their own stress response, and fewer absences

What I offer your organisation

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Resilience training for leadership teams

Half-day or full-day format for leadership teams of six or more. Body-based nervous system regulation, practical from day one. With concrete exercises that work in everyday leadership.

Who it’s for: leadership teams, heads-of-department groups, management teams

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Leading Steady – 90-day transfer programme

The follow-on format for every training day: three compact remote sessions over 90 days, in which the intentions from the training become robust routines. With before-and-after measurement and an anonymised impact report – so you see impact rather than feedback forms.

Who it’s for: organisations that are booking or have already booked a training day

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Executive coaching programme (B2B)

Individual three-month coaching for leaders – funded by the organisation. Ideal for high potentials, new leaders or in times of organisational change.

Who it’s for: individual leaders, funded by HR/L&D

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Talk & keynote

“Why resilience training doesn’t save leaders – and what really helps.” A talk to spark new thinking at leadership conferences, HR events or company events. 45–90 minutes.

Who it’s for: leadership conferences, HR summits, company events

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Programme design & consulting

Advice on designing leadership development programmes. From analysis through to support with implementation – with the perspective of someone who knows both sides.

Who it’s for: HR leaders, L&D teams, Chief People Officers

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How we work together

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Getting to know each other (free)

A 30-minute conversation: where does your organisation stand? What has worked so far – and what hasn’t? Which specific situations should change?

2

Concept

Based on our conversation, I develop a tailored concept – with clear goals, formats, a timeline and measurable success criteria.

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Delivery

Workshops, training or ongoing support – always focused on what really counts in everyday working life. Not in the seminar room, but in the board meeting.

Katja Kaiser is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Her coaching competence has been assessed against international standards on the basis of recorded coaching sessions and a written exam, and she works according to the ICF Code of Ethics. She also brings her training as a person-centred systemic coach (GwG) – she has been coaching since 2012 –, her certification as a Certified Buteyko Instructor (Buteyko Clinic International), her qualification as a certified resilience educator (Fitmedi) and 20 years of HR experience in leadership development. Verify the PCC credential →
Classic resilience seminars train the cognitive level. Katja Kaiser’s approach starts with the biological response to stress: nervous system regulation as a trainable skill. That is the difference between knowing and doing when the pressure is on – measured not after the seminar, but three months later.
We work with measurable criteria: self-reported stress levels, quality of decisions under pressure, leadership behaviour in escalating situations – measured 3 and 6 months after the training. Not seminar satisfaction, but business impact.
I have worked with leaders and teams from industry, technology, financial services and consulting. The approach works across sectors – the nervous system’s stress responses follow the same basic patterns everywhere. Details and references on request.
Yes. For one-to-one coaching and many workshop formats, online works just as well as in person. For larger group formats I prefer to be in the room – we’ll clarify that in the introductory call.

Get to know how I work before you enquire

Would you like a sense of how I work before you enquire about a talk or a training day? The free online course “Dein Atem-Reset” (Your Breath Reset) shows you: six short breathing exercises from functional breathing work – my craft, developed further by me for everyday life under pressure. Right in your browser, in just a few minutes. That way you get a first, direct insight into how I work before we speak.

Try the breathing course yourself (in German)

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