Barbara Mieg
Coaching powerful people

Leadership always starts with oneself.

Motivating, inspiring, and activating others.

Leadership always starts with oneself.

Motivating, inspiring, and activating others.

You want to make a difference.

Master current challenges in your job in a focused and calm manner. 

My coaching focuses on your personal growth and developing mindful leadership.

Be[come] the leader you would follow

What I do

I am with you through all the ups and downs of your everyday professional life. Opening your eyes to different fields of development for yourself and your teams. Sorting out your priorities with you, raising your awareness for sustainable relationship building, resilience, and self-care, and encouraging you ‘to walk your talk’.

I listen attentively. I am your consultant, sparring partner and sounding board. As peers we discuss your topics, also the sensitive ones. Developing your solutions together.

I spark your awareness. I provoke your thinking. I walk by your side.

If this is what you are looking for, you have come to the right place.

Let's talk

I coach

  • Young leaders in their first major role
  • Experienced leaders who want to evolve their leadership style, while navigating the  many new challenges of virtual/hybrid working and increasingly diverse teams
  • People who want to create more clarity and authenticity in their current role
  • People who want to reinvent themselves professionally and would like support in finding  direction

You gain

  • Improved self-perception and perception of others
  • Clarity about your own goals, values, strengths and challenges
  • Important leadership qualities such as decision-making, empathy and emotional intelligence
  • Conscious and sustainable relationship building
  • Mastering conflict
  • Personal resilience strategies
  • Your authentic leadership style
"Barbara is an outstanding coach. She is a very empathetic, intuitive person who can listen intently and identify the issues right away. Her questions are spot on and provide ample food for thought."
Claudia Kraaz
Verwaltungsrätin, Switzerland

How we work together

I work with individuals and teams, coaching in German and English.

We can meet for a face-to-face conversation at a location of your choice, remotely via Zoom, or in the great outdoors – my favourite place to work! There, in motion, free from digital distraction and office routine, body and mind relax, creativity is stimulated, thoughts flow and completely new perspectives emerge.

How we work together

I work with individuals and teams, coaching in German and English.

We can meet for a face-to-face conversation at a location of your choice, remotely via Zoom, or in the great outdoors – my favourite place to work! There, in motion, free from digital distraction and office routine, body and mind relax, creativity is stimulated, thoughts flow and completely new perspectives emerge.

"I’ve had the privilege to know Barbara as a supervisor for coaching and consulting. She is not only great at understanding my position as consultant and coach but equally brilliant in leveraging the sentiment of my work conditions. This “thought work” from Barbara is done with a high level of integrity and honesty. As a result of our conversations, I have significantly expanded my capability to progress and grow in my profession."
Martin Jensen
Business Consultant, Sweden

About

From an early age I was fascinated by what makes people tick: what inspires, drives or  blocks them and how they reinvent themselves again and again. For me, coaching means  being able to bring out the best in people so that they can make a positive difference for  themselves and in the wider world.  

As a coach, I have consciously chosen leadership development – the inner and the outer.  Through my own experiences I know what difference good leadership makes for  individuals and organisations. As a committed idealist, I believe in positive change  through the power of human innovation and cooperation. 

Personally, I have been meditating for more than 25 years in a buddhist tradition. I practice looking compassionately at life in all its shades and colors, and try not to take myself too seriously.

I like to move and be in motion. With my husband, three children and our lovable dog Chip, I live in a lively patchwork family in the canton of Zurich.

Professional background

With a diploma in political science and many years of management experience in communications and public relations, I worked for more than ten years as a freelance communications consultant in Switzerland. Since 2012, I have worked independently as a leadership coach for individuals and organisations.

Qualifications

  • Systemic Coach (2 year training at the Institute for Systemic Consulting ISB, Wiesloch)
  • Trainings in solution focused coaching, NLP and working with beliefs
  • Courses in organisational development and leading virtual teams
  • Internationally certified business mediator (Academy Anita von Hertel, Hamburg)
  • ICF Certified PPC Coach, International Coaching Federation

Previous roles

  • TV and radio presenter
  • PR project manager at the magazine STERN, Gruner und Jahr, Hamburg.
  • Head of PR cultural program German Pavilion, Expo 2000 Hannover.
  • Press spokeswoman and PR director for National Geographic Deutschland, Gruner und Jahr, Hamburg
  • Gallery Director ArteF, Fine Art Photography, Zurich
"Barbara was able to do something for me, that not many people can. In a safe way, with her support, I was able to try something new and still get the result I needed with none of the normal stress. I will be forever grateful as this is a new life skill I did not know I had the capability to execute before my coaching call with Barbara."
Kim Bendzak
GB Strategies Corporation,UK

Let's talk

  • +41 79 151 73 25
  • coaching@barbaramieg.com