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From Managing Systems to Mentoring Ecosystems

I love to work with people on their journeys around their challenges and to create beautiful, sustainable processes, organizations, and services.

I didn’t learn leadership from textbooks. I learned it by practicing it and watching how living systems actually work—and seeing what happens when we ignore them. For years, I watched brilliant people break themselves against extractive systems, including myself. I saw start-up founders and team leaders sacrifice their health for growth and functioning well, NGO and community leaders burn out trying to save the world, and farmers isolated by the heavy pressures of trying to support it.

During the last five years, I threw myself into the deep end of Regenerative Agriculture—acquiring hard, practical knowledge on diverse farms and planning adaptive grazing strategies. This wasn’t a hobby; it was an intense, muddy, and rigorous immersion in managing volatility. It demanded a radical ability to shift contexts instantly, dive deep into unfamiliar ecologies, and build a sharp, comprehensive understanding of living systems under real-world pressure. I learned that a degraded field and a burned-out team suffer from the exact same root cause: over-extraction. The fundamental laws of regeneration don’t change whether you are regenerating soil or scaling a company.

Bridging the boardroom, the field, and the kitchen table, I combine living-systems thinking, practical organizational strategy, and deep inner work to help you transition from a ‘manager’ who controls, to a ‘steward’ who cultivates. Whether you are navigating entrepreneurial pressure, managing climate anxiety on the land, or weaving a community, I am here to help you lead from a place of resilience, vitality, and deep ecological alignment.

Leon teaching holistic management

Bringing worlds together

My background gets these diverse worlds together–strategic frameworks of Systemic Coaching, Holistic Management, and Systems Thinking with the practical execution of Lean workflows, Project Management, and Design Thinking. My perspective is deeply shaped by the principles of Regenerative Agriculture and the Circular Economy.

An agile sprint and an ecosystem cycle are the exact same thing. Both rely on constant observation, empirical data, rapid feedback loops, and an immediate willingness to pivot when the environment changes. Whether I am analyzing a grazing pattern or a software development pipeline, the core truth remains: you cannot force a system; you can only design the conditions for it to thrive.

I look at your farm, startup, NGO, or community project as a living system to support your journey toward a model that is self-sustaining, adaptive, and deeply rooted. 

I do not step into your world as an all-knowing consultant with a pre-packaged template. I show up as an Agile Coach and a peer.We explore your now and your path by keeping your unique purpose, your quality of life, and your decision-making in a healthy balance. 

It is sometimes not an easy journey, but it is yours. My job is to walk alongside you, providing unlocking questions, strategic mirrors and structural feedback loops you need to thrive. 

A glimpse of past projects I have been working in can be found on my portfolio page or at Land Regeneration.  

I also love to write. Some of my regenerative thoughts you can find on Across The Ocean, a blog I started years ago, when I didn’t even know I would end up here.

I live my life in beta.

What I have done so far

Over the last 20 years, I worked in different roles like:
regenerative & agile coach | holistic management professional | ecological monitor | management consultant | workshop facilitator | design thinking coach | service designer | concept writer | project manager | product owner coach | process analyst |
event, workshop and training facilitator | scrum master | farm hand.

Work engagements

  • Creating Regenerative Journeys

    Freelance | Coach & Trainer | Jan 2021 - now

  • EOV Global Quality Assurance Team

    Savory Institute | Freelance | July 2024 - now

  • Land Regeneration | Hub for Holistic Management

    Lead Trainer | Freelance | Jul 2021 - now

  • Climate Farmers | Coach Germany

    Climate Farmers | Freelance | June 2021 - May 2022

  • Circular Economy Education & Community

    Circular Berlin | Jan 2019 - Apr 2021

  • Agile Coaching & Facilitator

    Freelance | Jun 2018 - Jan 2021

  • Traveling to collect stories

    Around the world | Aug 2017 - May 2018

  • Senior Consultant Project Coaching & Innovation

    Deutsche Bahn AG | Apr 2012 - Aug 2017

  • Executive Assistant to the Board Member

    DB Netz AG | Mär 2010 - Mär 2012

  • Business Process Management Consultant

    DB Netz AG | Nov 2007 - Feb 2010

Further education

  • Breathwork Instructor Course

    2026 | Michaël Bijker, Yogalap

  • Work That Reconnects

    2024-25 | Deepen Your Roots, Rooted Healing

  • Permaculture Design Certificate

    2024 | Geoff Lawton Online PDC

  • 21 Days Nervous System Tuneup

    2024 | Irene Lyon

  • Grazing for Life Course

    2024 | Integrity Soils Inc.

  • Ecological Outcome Verifier & Monitor

    2022-23 | Savory Institute

  • Soil Health Masterclass

    2023 | Nicole Masters, Integrity Soils Inc.

  • Field Professional Holistic Management (accredited)

    2020-23 | 3LM, Ireland, & Savory Institute

  • Regenerative Organization

    2021-22 | nRhythm, Design Labs

  • Biomimicry Masterclass

    2022 | Biomimicry Institute

  • UX Writing Masterclass

    2020-21 | | UX Writing Academy

  • Circular Economy Foundations

    2018-2019 | TU Delft, online

  • Professional Scrum Master I

    2017 | Scrum.org

  • Design Thinking Coach

    2015-2016 | DB Mobility Logistics AG, Germany

  • Six Sigma Blackbelt

    2012 | DB Mobility Logistics AG, Germany

  • Systemic Coach

    2011-2013 | Odenwald Institute, Wald-Michelsbach

  • Diploma Business Economics

    2001-2006 | Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main

Some amazing people I worked with recently

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