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  • EXECUTIVE COACHING · BOARD & C-LEVEL

Systemic Coaching for executives at board and C-level.

Leadership that drives change. Confidential. On equal footing. With the perspective that only an external party can provide.

Executive coaching for board members, managing directors and senior leaders in organisations that need to change. Confidential, at eye level, with the outside perspective only an external voice can bring.

Process Duration

3- 6 months

Intensity

6 - 12 session, every two to four weeks

Session length

90 - 12 min

First meeting

Get to know each other, listen, exchange expectations. Complimentary, no commitment.

TYPICAL TOPICS IN COACHINGS

What executive coaching actually addresses

Coaching is not the right path for every leader and every leadership question. The following four situations describe when a guided process over several months accomplishes more than individual sparring conversations or internal reflection.

01

Strategy is moving, transformation isn't

The strategy is approved, the budget is released, the project structure is in place. The organisation still won't move. When you sense that the blockage lies not in the plan but in the interplay between leadership team, organisation, and your own role: that is where coaching begins — beyond the reach of classical transformation programmes.

03

Leading under political pressure

A board that communicates separately from the executive team. A majority shareholder pulling at the strategy. A co-CEO splitting the team. When your effectiveness depends on reading political terrain rather than fighting it, coaching becomes work on your navigation in that field.

02

Role transition in senior leadership

New on the executive board. New as CEO. New at a level where formal authority matters less than positioning, timing, and the ability to read group dynamics. Coaching accompanies exactly this phase — when you still shape the role, before the role shapes you.

04

Role clarity and leadership identity

You know your style. You know where it carries you and where it overshoots. But it triggers automatically. Coaching here is not work on your personality. It is work on the moment when what you do no longer matches what the situation needs.

COLLABORATION BEWEEN COACH AND COACHEE

How the coaching works

The process has a clear frame and stays flexible. Three to six months, six to twelve sessions, in Kilchberg or by video. Pace and rhythm follow your context.

1

Initial conversation

60 minutes, complimentary, no obligation. You bring the situation, I listen and tell you at the end whether coaching fits or whether you need something different. If it fits, we agree on the broader frame.

60 min · Zürich or remote · No charge

2

Diagnostic start

The process begins with a structured assessment using the Ambiflow framework. Its six dimensions map where constraints, flow interruptions, balance questions, and leadership-system issues sit. The result is not a report but a shared working ground for the sessions that follow.

Typical: 1 to 2 sessions of 90 minutes each

3

Regular coaching sessions

Every two to four weeks, depending on the intensity of the current phase. Content alternates between current leadership situations, role reflection, and concrete intervention preparation. Between sessions, reachable by phone or email — for acute questions that cannot wait.

Typically every 2–4 weeks · 90–120 min

4

Closing with a final assessment

At the end, a structured review of starting point, work, and change. Often this is where we decide whether the process continues at reduced rhythm as a retainer or closes cleanly.

WHAT SETS TRANSFORMIND APART

Systemic Coaching+ 

Many executive coaching offerings follow a standard model: assessment, goals, action plan. That works – when the problem is clear. When the real challenge lies in the dynamics, something different is needed. If the real challenge lies in a mix of structural or methodological challenges and dynamics, something else is needed.

Conventional coaching

x   Focus on behavioural patterns and techniques

x   Structured programmes with fixed steps

x   Coach as advisor or sparring partner without systemic view

x   Linear problem-solving: problem → solution → implementation

x   Focus on the leader in isolation

TRANSFORMIND 

✓   Systemic perception: dynamics, not just behaviour

✓   No template – pace and form follow the situation

✓   Bernhard Nitz: his own executive experience, not just academic coaching

✓   Circular thinking: interdependencies between person, team and system

✓   The leader in context – environment and relationship system included

How this work actually looks

A coaching process with transformind has three recurring qualities. They shape what happens in the sessions and what you take away.

First quality

The work doesn't stop with you as a person.

Most coaching approaches treat the executive in isolation: your patterns, your reactions, your personality. At transformind, the central question is not "Who are you?" but "What makes you effective or ineffective in this particular constellation?" That means we work on your interplay with the leadership team, with the organisation, with your role. Not just on you.

Second quality

The process has structure, but no script.

At the start, an assessment using the Ambiflow framework. From this emerges a shared map on which constraints become visible and priorities take shape. After that, sessions do not follow a programme — they follow what is currently urgent: a board meeting next week, an unspoken conflict in the leadership team, a decision that cannot be resolved rationally.

Third quality

You work with someone who knows both sides.

Most executive coaches are exclusively coaches. That has its strengths but reaches limits at one specific point: transformation questions that cannot be resolved from the person alone, because the blockage also sits in strategy, structure, or leadership system. Bernhard Nitz has worked on both sides for years. As a consultant in organisational transformations, and as a coach to the people who lead them. In a single session, both dimensions can surface without switching between roles.

Partner, Königswieser & Network

Bernhard Nitz is a partner at Königswieser & Network – one of the leading systemic consulting schools in the German-speaking world. This affiliation ensures conceptual depth and intellectual exchange that reaches beyond any individual case.

SPARRING WITHOUT A COACHING PROCESS
Sometimes one conversation is enough.
Not every situation calls for an ongoing coaching process. Sometimes the question is too specific for a longer engagement – and too complex for an internal conversation.
For those moments, there is a simpler format: a single sparring session. No preparation, no follow-up, no agenda but yours. You bring the situation – I bring an outside perspective.
TYPICAL SPARRING-SITUATIONS
  • An important people decision that doesn't feel right

  • A negotiation or confrontation – clarifying your position before the conversation

  • A strategic decision point with too many open variables

  • Conflict in the management team

  • A situation you can't – or don't want to – discuss internally

 60 Min

Zurich or remote

Single session, no commitment

Führungskraft versteht worauf es ankommt und hat die richtigen Werkzeuge durch Cocahing und Führung
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
"The tailored leadership development and coaching helped me understand what matters in leadership and gave me the tools to know myself better and stay effective even in difficult situations."

Radu Stingaciu, Sales Leader for Growth at a leading technology company

Who leads the coaching

Gründer · transformind GmbH · Kilcherg · Zürich

Bernhard Nitz

Founder, transformind GmbH · Kilchberg, Zürich

Sparring works when the conversation partner has nothing to gain except a good hour. No follow-on mandates, no reports, no recommendations passed on. Just an outside perspective.

I am a leader myself, a management trainer, a consultant, an entrepreneur, and my own toughest critic. These experiences have left me with one observation: most leaders don't fail at knowledge or assertiveness, but at the lack of a space in which they can honestly acknowledge when they are in their own way. Creating and holding that space is the central work in coaching. It means listening closely, reflecting back what becomes visible, and asking the question that, in the situation itself, often goes unspoken.

More about Bernhard Nitz

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A conversation – coaching or sparring.

If something here resonated: get in touch. No form, no preparation. Whether you're looking for an ongoing engagement or a single conversation for a specific situation – we'll find out together what makes sense.

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