Leadership · Leaders in transition

You're leading through change. And changing, too.

People look to you for direction while AI, restructuring or a new strategy changes the organisation. Your own role, ambitions or sense of purpose may be shifting too. SOULWORX helps you work through both — and make choices you can stand behind.

Hamburg, online and on site · English and German

Where you are now

What is changing in your leadership?

Stepping into greater responsibility

The role asks something different of you. What do you need to develop — and what can you stop proving?

Leading through AI and uncertainty

You need to assess unfamiliar options, explain decisions and give direction while important questions remain open.

Rethinking your ambition

You have achieved a great deal. What do you want your next contribution to be, and at what personal cost?

Preparing to hand over or move on

Succession or the end of a role raises practical and personal questions. What needs to be passed on, and what comes next for you?

Two transitions at once

The change you lead. The transition within you.

How you experience change affects how you lead others through it. We work with real situations: a difficult conversation, a decision without a clear answer, or a role that no longer fits as it once did. Reflection, dialogue and embodied practice help you notice your responses, consider alternatives and choose how to act.

The changeyou leadThe transitionwithin youWhereyouleadfrom
What can become possible

A clearer basis for how you lead.

Identity

Know what you stand for.

Clarify your contribution, your priorities and the kind of leader you want to be in this phase.

Inner authority

Make decisions you can stand behind.

Question assumptions, consider different perspectives and weigh consequences. When AI contributes to a decision, understand what you are accepting and why.

Relationships

Stay connected when conversations get difficult.

Express expectations, address tensions and create space for people to ask questions, disagree and raise concerns.

Shaping the future

Turn insight into practice.

Try a different conversation, decision process or team routine. Learn from what happens and adjust.

Ways of working

Work on your leadership. Individually or as a team.

We shape the collaboration around your situation, responsibilities and intended outcomes.

Leaders in Transition
Executive & Founder Coaching · 1:1

Leaders in Transition

Confidential work with Julia on the decisions, relationships and role questions you face. Sessions combine reflection with practical experiments between meetings.

Examples
A new role · Changing ambitions · Leading under pressure · Succession and handover
Discuss 1:1 coaching →
Leadership Teams in Transition
Team development · Workshops & retreats

Leadership Teams in Transition

For leadership teams forming, changing or finding a new direction. We work on shared priorities, working agreements and the conversations needed to lead together.

Examples
Team alignment · Roles and responsibilities · Strategic direction · Trust and collaboration
Discuss your team's situation →
Shaping change across the whole organisation? Intentional Transformation →How we work: the SOULWORX 5E practice →
Julia von Winterfeldt, former Managing Director of AKQA Germany
Your guide

Someone who has led, too.

Julia von Winterfeldt spent more than twenty years in international leadership, including as Managing Director of AKQA Germany. She knows the pressure of the role from the inside. Today she combines that experience with systemic coaching, inquiry and embodied practice, so that insight shows up in how you actually lead.

Systemic coach, trained in systemic therapyTrauma-informed leadershipEmbodiment & inquirySpeaker: TEDx, House of Beautiful Business
TEDxWhy AI can't replace human leaders →
In practice

Experiences from leaders and teams.

Executive coaching
“I want to challenge myself and develop through my own efforts. Julia von Winterfeldt has shown me how over the past few months. […] It's important to gain outside perspectives so you can align your behaviour with what you want.”
Guido Thiemann
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Pushfire
Translated and excerpted from his LinkedIn post.
Case · Leadership team

T-Labs, Deutsche Telekom, Berlin

A newly formed leadership team needed shared direction while exploring emerging technologies.

Over about a year, we worked together on a shared purpose, 13 leadership principles and clearer accountability, alongside practices in self-awareness, self-regulation and peer coaching.

“A group of individuals embraced the leadership principles, creating a new kind of human connection…”
John CalianJohn Calian, SVP & Head of T-Labs
A first conversation

What's changing in your leadership?

Bring a challenge, an ambition or a question about what comes next. We'll look at what is at stake and whether working together makes sense.

30 minutes · Confidential · Directly with Julia