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The Global Coaching Group is led by Axel Wallem, co founder and managing director, and the GCG team.
OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM
Sebastian – A Personal Story
A passion for developing business and human potential.
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After 13+ years in different management positions in the manufacturing industry I dare to say that I found my home at GCG in 2023. On the one hand, it is the entrepreneurial way of working that I am drawn to since I grew up in a family run business. Working ‘out of the box’, serving customer needs, fail, learn, and rise again – now all of this is part of my profession.
On the other hand, it is coaching! Being Christa’s (founder of GCG) nephew I was able to join a GCG conference in 2012 and learned how “good leadership and people management” can foster business success and growth. Having been in studies of Business Coaching & Change Management at that time I was fascinated by the content and real experience cases. Throughout the years on the job I asked myself more often how we collaborate, what drives people, what makes them follow a leader, what makes them develop themselves. I understood that coaching can play a key role in people’s and organizational success. The idea of having an impact on people and being rewarded by their mastery, that is what I enjoy. Hence, coaching is the second part of my profession.
In addition, sensing the expertise, dedication and cohesion of the coaches attending that conference was impressive. It makes me feel proud and humble to be part of GCG and to pursue Christa’s and Axel’s vision to fulfill human potential at work and society.
Axel – A Personal Story
Creating new ways of working in today’s complex world.
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I come from an engineering and business background and have worked for companies of many different sizes, ranging from a one-man entrepreneurial startup to a big multinational corporation employing hundreds of thousands of employees worldwide.
Like everyone I had to accept the fact that we live in a world which is becoming increasingly complex and is demanding for new ways of living and working in order to achieve meaning in one’s life.
In the past, the lack of mobility and information were perhaps the main obstacles for professional development. Nowadays it is the excess of mobility, which means, being stuck with your own big car in never ending traffic jams, and the excess of partly useless information available at a swipe of the fingertip, becoming even bigger challenges for us to deal with.
The technology which enables us to work from home and therefore eliminates long commuting drives to workplaces and useless discussions is not being embraced and adopted with enthusiasm. A major reason for this is that we are social beings and have to find the right equilibrium between the need of social interaction and the required loneliness to unleash all creativity and productivity to make this world a better place to live in.
In addition to that, rather “old school” mindsets that used to be the solution for past challenges are still being applied to the new realities that ask for different approaches.
The more experienced I become the more I deal with one single question: “How can we be true to ourselves and be part of and collaborate in larger organizations, like the cells in our bodies do?” By pursuing the answer to this question I became a coach more than ten years ago and helped Christa to found the Global Coaching Group.
