Gitta has been coaching since 2007, with over 2,800 hours supporting senior leaders, executives, and founders across high-performance organizations. She specializes in executive coaching, leadership development, stress reduction, burnout recovery, executive presence, confidence, emotional intelligence, imposter syndrome, resilience, high-stakes communication and presentation coaching. Her clients are high-achieving leaders who are successful but feel something is missing, leaders stepping into a new role who want to grow into it with confidence, leaders preparing for promotion or expanded scope, and leaders running on empty who need a more sustainable path forward.
Current and former clients include leaders at Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI, Groq, Apple, Google, Dropbox, Mirum, GiveWell, Netskope, Cisco, TED and TEDx presenters, and numerous founders, startups and investment firms.
What distinguishes Gitta's work is its depth. While grounded in leadership performance and organizational dynamics, her approach goes beyond behaviors and strategies to address the underlying patterns that drive them. Neuroscience-informed, deeply human-centered, and holistic, her coaching integrates mindset, emotional intelligence, embodied leadership and nervous system awareness. Because the approach engages the whole person, the changes her clients make tend to be lasting rather than situational.
Her communication and presentation coaching is a particular strength. Since 2008, she has supported CEOs, founders, and executives preparing for TED and TEDx talks, board and investor presentations, conference keynotes, and high-visibility communications. Drawing on her background in movement analysis and voice expression, she helps clients close the gap between intention and impact.
Gitta coaches individuals one-on-one and designs and facilitates team experiences focused on team dynamics, team effectiveness, trust, communication and presentations. Having lived and coached across three continents, including Germany, Sweden, Paris, Rome, Sydney, Los Angeles, Iceland, and San Francisco, she brings genuine cultural intelligence and fluency in English, German, and Swedish to her work with global leaders and teams.
Gitta holds the PCC credential with the ICF (International Coaching Federation) and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC). She is accredited in Everything DiSC, Leadership Circle Profile, MBTI, and Hogan, and uses CliftonStrengths and Enneagram with clients when useful.
“I have been working with Gitta for almost two years now and she's been an invaluable partner for me to continue to develop as an executive. Since I started working with her, I feel more confident about my decisions, I am a more effective communicator, and she has observed me in meetings to provide constructive feedback about my style and the differences between how I perceive myself and how others perceive me.”
Marten Abrahamsen
CFO Fundbox
“Before we started working together my leadership style was to solve problems by doing and by always taking on more. I have grown to learn true leadership building and presence, an understanding I wished I had learned many years ago while working in a high management role at Google. During my year of executive coaching with Gitta , I have grown my scope and built a very strong team, which I see as a success in my journey as a leader. Gitta is a great listener, she always asks the right profound questions which take me deeper into my learning and understanding of my role. I highly recommend her!”
Qi Jin
President of Engineering and Product, Stripe
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