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Andrea Katharina Ingrisch

Senior Executive Coach
Goodstone Group LLC
Munich, Germany
Email:  an****@************ch.com
Phone:  +44 7595 002111 (mobile)

Education, Certifications and Professional Affiliations
  • MBA, INSEAD, Fontainebleau/Singapore
  • Diploma, Psychology, University of Munich, with focus on work and organizational psychology
  • CPCC, Coaching training and certification with the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) in London
  • ACC, ICF Accreditation
  • Certified in a range of contemporary assessment and typing tools including HBDI, MBTI (9/2011), LSI instruments
  • Coach Training Assistant, CTI, UK

Professional Experience

Andrea provides professional support for leaders during periods of transition, development and transformation.

Her coaching aims to increase her clients’ impact, effectiveness and awareness as leaders in their professional and private lives. Key levers include generating an understanding of the underlying behavior patterns, assessing the client’s position within the context of the organization, as well as defining clear objectives, reviewing old and new ways forward and identifying obstacles.  Based on that, coaching helps the individual ultimately follow through a chosen path and achieve his or her goals.

Andrea’s clients are individuals who want to develop professionally and personally and who want to improve their ability to perform, their impact, fulfillment and contentment. She works with international senior executives and candidates with high potential, both in corporate and private settings.

Andrea has designed and delivered one-on-one executive coaching engagements for senior executives across a broad sector of industries, particularly in the professional services and investment banking sectors.  Additional industries include:  media/internet, industrial goods/transportation, pharma/health care, telecommunications, and creative industries. She’s facilitated team coaching and leadership development programs for a variety of clients, including a top strategy consulting company and a leading consumer goods company.  Andrea provides coaching in German and English languages.

Recent Coaching Experience

  • VP at leading investment bank to improve influencing skills with peers and senior executives
  • Senior Vice President and Head of Public Sector Practice at Leading Accounting firm to develop effective and authentic leadership style as well as influencing and relationship building skills with internal and external clients
  • Partner Level City Lawyer in London to develop a clear professional and leadership vision for herself and to align her day-to-day management with teams and clients
  • VP in Private Equity to formulate and support next career step based on strength and experience review and objective formulation
  • Head of Strategy Management for a Consumer Goods Company to strengthen influencing skills towards the top management and improve leadership impact across the organization
  • SVP of global Advertising and Communications agency to improve relationships with key internal and external stakeholders by improving communications skills and strategies, empathy, self-awareness and confidence
  • Senior Principal of strategy consultancy to improve presence and impact in one-on-one as well as medium to large group settings

Career History

Senior Executive Coach / Consultant (2008-Present)
One-on-one Coaching, Leadership Development, Team Development

Eden McCallum, Manager, Business Team, London, UK (2008-2010)

  • Drove client and business development; managed project acquisition and scoping with clients, selected project resources and coached project execution by independent consultants
  • Responsible for selection of independent consultants for talent pool, composition of project teams, and company communications and management of virtual networks

AOL Europe, Director, Head of Operations Performance, London, UK (2007-2008)

  • Led team of 6+ ex-consultants to shape strategic agenda and deliver company-wide strategic and operational programs for AOL Europe as direct support for CEO
  • Key role within overall transformation of the European organization towards new business model: responsible for managing design and implementation of new sales organization on European and local level including centralization, organizational setup, role and process definition, tool/system selection and implementation, capability development, incentive scheme alignment, and off-shoring; change management with focus on maintaining and improving employee engagement across the organization
  • Responsible for alignment across all major business functions in close cooperation with key members of the European and International Executive Team
  • Role with global focus: working closely with key European organization as well as the US and India; establishing and managing key relationships across those organizations

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH, Project Leader, Berlin/Germany (2000-2007)

  • Formulated business strategies based on in-depth market, competitor and company analysis: Corporate and business strategy for large Swiss Pharmaceutical and Chemical company; B2B-e-commerce strategy for major European insurance company
  • Redesigned Corporate Development and Strategy unit of major global high-tech-conglomerate: defined lean, effective corporate centre functions in close collaboration with top management; coached and managed structural, process, cultural and capability changes to ensure alignment and high performance in new structure
  • Managed major values based cultural change at power generation division of leading industrial group: developed values and vision for high-performance and high-quality culture in very close cooperation with top management and key employees based on cultural assessment; developed implementation roadmap and supported implementation of its numerous (soft/hard) measures; change management
  • Managed reorganization to turn around large distressed financial services institution: developed new organizational structure with top management; successfully managed negotiations with unions concerning staff reduction by 40 percent including preparation of mass lay-offs; change management
  • Developed and implemented people-oriented value management systems for leading telecommunications and transportation companies: identified business, company and employee specific value drivers and successfully integrated value management in the companies’ strategic planning, controlling and management processes; created link to organizational and HR measures
  • Developed performance management concept to support human capital contribution to EVA, e.g. set up employee surveys and drove out recommended change options as results; designed and implemented evaluation system for 10000 employees including training and incentive systems