About us
We unleash the potential of people and organizations
Our mission
We offer high quality coaching for talents and managers at all career levels. Our executive coaches are hand-picked and all have extensive experience in leadership and change. They dedicate themselves exclusively to the coachees' individual and most important development needs.
Our story
In our own professional careers, we have come into contact with well-intentioned offers for personnel development many times. We have repeatedly found that most L&D programs don't make use of their potential in terms of effectiveness or time and cost efficiency.
Let's take group-based training as an example. These are popular and frequently used by companies. Since they are training several employees at once, they turn out to be financially viable. Unfortunately, it is not possible to personalize the training to the participants.
In contrast, individualized executive coaching sessions are very effective. The 1:1 format over a longer period of time enables personal needs to be addressed. However, the cost and time factor plays a decisive role here, which has a negative impact on scalability.
What we miss are development offers that are effective and applicable throughout the company at all levels. That's why we created Sparrks and offer our innovative, digital 1:1 coaching format!
Our story
Let's take group-based training as an example. These are popular and frequently used by companies. Since they are trained on several employees at once, these trainings are financially viable. Unfortunately, it is not possible to personalize the training to the participants.
In contrast, individualized executive coaching sessions are very effective. The 1:1 format over a longer period of time enables personal needs to be addressed. However, the cost and time factor plays a decisive role here, which has a negative impact on scalability.
What we miss are development offers that are effective and applicable throughout the company at all levels. That's why we created Sparrks and offer our Sparrks Coaching format!
Our Team
While we couldn't be more different, together we all share a passion for helping others reach their potential. We are lifelong learners and love honest and constructive feedback. We reward results, see failures as learning gifts, and celebrate successes.
Our founders
Dr. Nicolas Stephan / Co-Founder
As a medical professional who has worked in various industries over the years, I have experienced the benefits of coaching.
Over 7 years experience as a management consultant. Co-Founder of sennder GmbH (German Unicorn). Studies in medicine (MD - PhD) at LMU Munich and Harvard University and MBA studies at INSEAD.
Enthusiastic marathon runner, piano player and family man.
Jakob Hansen / Co-Founder
Coming from a coaching family, my enthusiasm for the topic of professional and personal development developed early on.
Over 5 years of experience as a management consultant at Bain & Company, most recently as a senior manager.
Studied economics at the University of Mannheim, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego and ESCP Europe.
Passionate kitesurfer and globetrotter.
Meet some of our team members:
Felicia Wintermann
In order to balance work and private life, I love doing yoga, going dancing and trying out Berlin's culinary offerings.
Patrick Winzler
I am a passionate rock musician, music video director and synthesizer enthusiast. As a physical balance, martial arts inspire me.
Annika Lundberg
Always interested to learn more, I read a lot of books when not working. I also love cooking vegan food, hanging out at beer gardens and biking around exploring Berlin with my bike Birgit.
Shawn Gabriel
In my free time I spend a lot of time with my friends and love taking care of myself.
Christoph Karger
When I am not working I like investing my time in my personal education and wellbeing, working out, playing football or trying to find time for surfing.
Our values
Appreciation
Sustainability
Effectiveness
Optimism
Our promise of quality
Top Executive Coaches
To ensure that our mission and values are implemented, we set the highest standards for the quality of our coaches. They all have over 2000 hours of coaching experience, have been in a leading position in a relevant industry for over 10 years themselves and have certifications from leading global coaching associations.
Practice-oriented coaching topics
We offer a variety of predefined coaching topics, which are oriented towards business-relevant use cases. This helps the coachees and coaches to work on a concrete topic in a practice-oriented way. This allows our coachees to get the most out of the 45-minute coaching sessions.