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Team Coaching | Individual Coaching I Mentoring | Systemic Coaching

Individual Coaching, Team Coaching & Mentoring for Leaders and Process Guides

An experienced thinking partner can make all the difference in complex situations.

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Mentoring & Coaching

Ursula Hillbrand supports leaders, process guides and people in roles of responsibility as they prepare for challenging conversations, reflect on their leadership role and deepen participatory competencies. The focus is on clarity, experience and a refined sense for personal, organisational and systemic dynamics.

Coaching & Mentoring – Services

Sometimes what is needed is not another workshop, but a focussed conversation: a protected space in which questions can be sorted, situations reflected and next steps clarified.

Ursula Hillbrand offers individual coaching, team coaching, mentoring and advisory practice for people who carry responsibility in complex roles.

For leaders and decision-makers

Reflection on one’s own leadership role, preparation for important conversations, clarification of decisions and strengthening of personal effectiveness.

For facilitators and process guides

Thinking partner on process design, choice of methods, group dynamics, difficult situations and one’s own stance as a host.

For Art of Hosting practitioners

Deepening participatory competencies, reflecting on concrete application cases and further developing one’s own practice.

For politicians and people in public roles

Support in complex communication situations, strategic positioning and working with different stakeholder groups.

For teams in transformation

Advisory practice conflict reflection and support in change processes when a group format is useful.

Individual Coaching & Advisory Practice

Individual coaching offers space for personal reflection and concrete orientation. It supports people in perceiving their own role more clearly, recognising possible courses of action and making more conscious decisions in challenging situations.

Advisory practice is more than external advice. It is a shared thinking process at eye level. Ursula brings her many years of experience from international institutions, public administration, companies, leadership development and participatory process design. At the same time, the individual concern remains the starting point: What is at stake right now? What really matters? What needs clarity, structure or another perspective?

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Coaching for Facilitators & Process Guides

For experienced facilitators and process guides, coaching can be a valuable resonance space. Especially in demanding processes, very concrete questions often arise: Which method fits this context? How much structure does the group need? Where is the real conflict? How can participation emerge without the process becoming diffuse?

Ursula supports people who already work with groups, teams or organisations and want to deepen their practice. This is not beginner coaching, but professional advisory practice for process design, choice of methods, difficult group dynamics and one’s own stance as a host.

Coaching for Leaders & Decision-Makers

Today, leaders often stand between contradictory expectations: they are asked to provide orientation, enable participation, make decisions, shape change and, at the same time, deal with uncertainty.

Individual coaching creates space to reflect on one’s own leadership practice and prepare concrete situations: conversations with superiors, clients or employees, strategic decisions, transitions into new roles, conflicts within the team or change processes with a high degree of complexity.

This format is deliberately different from corporate training. It is not a group format or a standardised programme, but personal feedback, tailored advice and the strengthening of one’s own effectiveness.

Team Coaching & Team Practice

Team coaching enables teams to reflect more consciously on their collaboration, roles, tensions, and next steps in their development. It also supports them in designing participatory processes – both online and offline – finding the best approach for a specific event or process, discovering effective tools and strategies for new challenges, or simply deepening their practice as facilitators.

Ursula Hillbrand will be at your back as you learn and practice, bringing a fresh, experienced outside perspective to your teamwork. Together we will reflect on and find the best solution even for delicate situations.

Ursula Hillbrand offers tailor-made consulting to prepare you for demanding situations, such as: meetings with superiors or clients and resolving challenges within teams. What questions need clarifying? Where are the tensions or misunderstandings? What unspoken expectations might be influencing the team? What does the team need to regain its effectiveness?

Team advisory practice can be provided on an ad-hoc basis, such as in preparation for a critical step, or as ongoing support during a change process. Depending on the context, it may incorporate dialogic methods, systemic questioning, elements of Art of Hosting, Story Harvesting, or process design.

Mentoring & Advisory Support

Ursula Hillbrand shares more than twenty years of practice in participatory leadership, Art of Hosting, process design, international collaboration and organisational development.

Mentoring is particularly suitable for people who are taking on new roles, building participatory competencies or further developing their own work as a leader, host or process guide. Unlike classic coaching, professional knowledge, experience and assessment may explicitly become part of the conversation.

Advisory support can also be designed for peers, teams or small groups. It makes it possible to reflect on concrete cases together, include different perspectives and learn from the experience of the group. In this way, a learning space emerges in which not only individuals, but also a shared practice can mature.

    Systemic Coaching & Constellation Work

    Many professional questions are not only personal questions. They stand within a larger context: roles, expectations, unspoken dynamics, loyalties, hierarchies, team patterns or organisational tensions all play a part.

    Systemic coaching helps make these connections visible. It looks not only at the individual person, but at the whole field in which they act. This allows new perspectives to emerge, entrenched patterns to become recognisable and next steps to become clearer.

    Systemic Coaching

    Systemic coaching is about understanding interdependencies. What influences the situation? Which roles, relationships and expectations are involved? Where is the real lever for change?

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    Ursula combines systemic thinking with dialogic process facilitation and many years of leadership experience. The coaching remains practice-oriented: it supports not only understanding, but also the development of concrete options for action.

    Constellation Work & Organisational Constellations

    Constellation work can be helpful when complex situations are difficult to grasp. Through spatial representation, relationships, tensions and dynamics become visible that often remain hidden in purely analytical conversation. We use this method in context.

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    In organisational constellations, teams, roles, clients, projects, decision options or conflict fields, for example, can be viewed in relation to one another. This creates a different picture of the situation. Not as a quick solution, but as a deeper perception of what is at work in the system and where new movement may become possible.

    Conflict Advisory & Difficult Conversations

    Conflicts are part of every living organisation. The decisive question is whether they are avoided, escalated or understood as an indication of something essential.

    Ursula Hillbrand supports difficult conversation situations, tensions in teams and conflicts in organisational contexts. Dialogic methods, systemic questions, Strategic story harvesting, elements from mediation and participatory process design may all be used.

    The point is not to superficially calm conflicts; it is to restore the ability to speak with one another, make interests and needs visible and enable viable next steps. Ursula has many years of methodological experience in conflict facilitation, dialogue design and supporting demanding group processes.

      Online, Hybrid or In Person – How We Work Together

      Coaching and mentoring can take place online, in hybrid formats or in person. Many concerns can be addressed very well by video, Ursula has a great talent to develop social depth also in digital environments. For deeper processes or longer reflection formats, an in-person meeting at the Bregenz Salon or on the client’s premises may be useful. After a first in-person consultation, video follow-ups work very well.

      It begins with an initial conversation. This clarifies what the concern is, which format makes sense and whether a single advisory session, short-term support or a longer coaching process is appropriate.

      Possible formats:

      • Individual coaching sessions
      • Regular mentoring conversations
      • Advisory Practicing before important appointments
      • Team coaching during change processes for small groups
      • Accompanying reflection during an ongoing change process
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      Voices from Practice

      People who work with Ursula Hillbrand value her combination of clarity, experience and presence. She listens closely, recognises patterns and brings questions to the point without imposing premature solutions.

      Especially in complex leadership situations, process questions and transitions, this creates a space in which people become capable of acting again, clarify their own position and move more courageously into their next steps.

      Marjut Falkstedt
      Marjut Falkstedt
      former Secretary General of the European Investment Bank
      “We asked Ursula Hillbrand to help us work with the different leadership concepts in our management teams including executives. Her diplomatic way of working accepts different styles and cultures elegantly, and still she smartly invites everyone in the room to create a shared purpose, which she was able to hold for us from the background in a sustainable way through a longer process. We also have a great experience of an away day she designed and facilitated for my staff. She has a great talent to work with the non-manifested potential of a group and make it visible.”
      Mag.a Ruth Picker, E.MA
      Mag.a Ruth Picker, E.MA
      Facilitating Dialogue & Collaboration
      “

      Senior management teams are demanding and need a lot in a short period of time. Then it is so valuable to have a thinking partner like Ursula Hillbrand, who generously shares her wealth of knowledge and experience when preparing an assignment. Thank you for the sparring – I emerged from it with in-depth insights, effective framing and good new ideas and was able to create an extremely important customer.”

        All Testimonials

        Would you like to reflect on a concrete situation, prepare for a difficult conversation or deepen your practice as a leader, host or process guide?

        Then an initial conversation is a good place to begin.

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        FAQs – Mentoring & Coaching

        What is the difference between coaching and mentoring?

        Coaching supports you in developing your own answers, clarity and new options for action. Mentoring is more strongly based on experience: an experienced person shares knowledge, assessments and perspectives from practice. With Ursula Hillbrand, both forms can flow into one another, depending on what your concern requires.

        When is coaching useful and when is mentoring useful?

        Coaching is useful when you want to reflect on a situation, clarify your role or develop new options for action. Mentoring is particularly helpful when you want to benefit from Ursula’s experience in participatory leadership, Art of Hosting, process design or international organisational development.

        What is an advisory practice?

        Advisory practice offers a focused space to reflect on concrete hosting challenges, process questions or difficult situations. It can take place one-to-one, with peers or in small groups. Depending on the context, Ursula may work with formats such as Pro Action Café or Peer Coaching Café.

        What is team coaching?

        Team coaching supports teams to reflect more consciously on their collaboration, roles, conflicts, expectations and stages of development. It can be particularly helpful when a team is undergoing change, taking on new responsibilities, seeking to resolve tensions or facing important joint decisions.

        The focus is on the team’s specific situation and the question of what will now provide clarity, direction and the ability to act collectively.

        What is systemic coaching?

        Systemic coaching considers not only the individual person, but also the environment in which they act: roles, relationships, expectations, structures and dynamics. This can make connections visible that often operate unconsciously in everyday work.

        What can constellation work do?

        Constellations make complex situations spatially visible. Relationships, tensions, roles or decision options can thereby be viewed from a new perspective. This supports clarification, deeper understanding and the development of new options for action.

        Who is Ursula Hillbrand’s individual coaching suitable for?

        Individual coaching is suitable for leaders, decision-makers, facilitators, process guides, Art of Hosting practitioners and people in roles of responsibility. It is particularly appropriate for complex situations in which clarity, reflection and experienced advice are helpful. Sometimes team-coaching can also be suitable.

        How does an initial conversation work?

        In the initial conversation, the concern, the central question and the most suitable format are clarified. This may lead to a single session, a coaching process, mentoring or another form of support. In practice, coaching, mentoring and advisory support may flow into one another when this serves the concern. The format is shaped by the need, while the professional framework remains clear and consistent.

        Can the coaching also take place online?

        Yes. Coaching and mentoring can take place online, in hybrid formats or in person. Many concerns can be addressed very well by video. For certain formats or situations , an in-person meeting at the Bregenzer Salon or on the client’s premises may be useful.

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