About Tobi
I coach people facing transitions in their career and also support them through organisational change.
I act as your thinking-partner to create more clarity about the role you want to play and together we turn those insights into action that allows you to achieve your goals.
I do all of this with empathy as I've been there myself.
As a senior engineering leader in startups and scaleups, I faced many of the challenges that come with fast growth and the pressures it puts on teams and yourself.
I've also had to face and overcome personal health issues which taught me a lot about how to take care of myself so I can take care of others.
I'm now embracing the wealth of my life experiences and use them to help others on their journey.
Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn where you can find out much more about my work experience.
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My Life Experiences
As a student, I studied and worked abroad in places like Egypt, South Africa and Ireland. I experienced that there are many ways to live our life and realised that culture is shaped by society and in turn it also shapes us.
My degree was in archaeology and I was particularly interested in what makes us human. How does human behaviour emerge and how have our brains developed over time? I realised that people haven't really changed much - what drives us today has driven us for millennia.
I discovered cognitive science and how cutting edge research is gradually revealing how the brain works. This offers us radically new ways we can understand and re-invent ourselves. I realised that we create models of our world, predict our reality and shape our surroundings accordingly.
As a leader in startups and scaleups, I learned first-hand what it means to grow as a person and at the same time support others in their growth. Being exposed to an environment full of extreme experiences had a big impact on myself. I discovered that building self-awareness around our thoughts and feelings is essential for our growth journey.
I decided to train as a coach to help people with this. I found that creating self-awareness and changing our habits is hard, but also that it is possible and necessary for our success. I realised that new habits require us to incorporate all of our current needs.
My perspective on life has also been shaped by my own health journey. When I was 28, I had open heart surgery to fix a faulty heart valve. Twelve years later I needed a kidney transplant and as recently as 2024, I needed surgery to remove bowel cancer.
My biggest learning from these events is that life is beautiful and precious. I intend to explore how I can contribute to making life as interesting and exciting as possible for myself and others around me.