Reflect Leadership. Amplify Impact.
The Coaching Lab is a dedicated space for reflection, orientation, and growth. Executives, decision-makers, and high potentials gain clarity, refine their leadership identity, and shape transformation with intention. Goal: Reflect on leadership behavior, enhance impact, and build confidence in action, especially in complex and uncertain environments.
Impulse with Impact • Driving Meaningful Change
Michael Kessler accompanies leaders as an Executive Coach & Strategic Sparring Partner who are ready to deepen their impact and rethink leadership.
Your Individual Space for Growth • THE COACHING LAB
- Self-Reflection & Perspective Shiff • Recognize old patterns, explore new pathways and regain your capacity for action.
- Mental Strength & Emotional Clarity • Cultivate awareness, focus, and composure for yourself and your team in turbulent times.
- Leadership Identity & Responsibility • Sharpen your role, set priorities consciously, and lead with authenticity.
Time to reflect. Design your Coaching Lab · online, on-site, or offsite.
Client Testimonial
“Michael Kessler is an inspiring and empathetic Executive Coach who gives personal and professional development real momentum. His structured yet highly individual approach creates clarity, focus, and new perspectives.” |
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The COREFLECTION Phase Model
A structured process with space for individual development:
1. Core Focus • Analysis of your current situation
→ Clarity through self-reflection and personal positioning.
→ Clarity through self-reflection and personal positioning.
2. Explore Options • Defining goals and leadership vision
→ Develop priorities, ambitions, and a compelling leadership vision.
→ Develop priorities, ambitions, and a compelling leadership vision.
3. Discover Plan • Building transformative competencies
→ Strengthen agility, empathy, and strategic thinking.
→ Strengthen agility, empathy, and strategic thinking.
4. Implement Strategy • Integration and feedback
→ Embed leadership strategies in daily practice and cultivate reflection.
→ Embed leadership strategies in daily practice and cultivate reflection.
5. Passion for Growth • Sustaining impact and development
→ Value-driven leadership, ethical awareness, and long-term growth.
→ Value-driven leadership, ethical awareness, and long-term growth.
Coaching Focus & Formats
Individual. Systemic. Action-Oriented.
Your coaching process is tailored to your needs • from the first impulse to sustainable impact.
Focus &
Orientation FOCUSED ✓ Address urgent challenges
✓ Make clear decisions ✓ Explore initial strategic options 
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Strategy &
Development SYSTEMIC ✓ Define clear goals
✓ Reflect on strategic pathways ✓ Shape transformation deliberately 
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Implementation &
Transformation HOLISTIC ✓ Translate strategies into daily practice
✓ Strengthen leadership and communication ✓ Secure sustainable growth 
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FAQ • Führung reflektieren. Wirkung entfalten.
What can leaders expect in the Coaching Lab?
The Coaching Lab offers leaders a confidential space for reflection, clarity, and growth. It’s designed to help them gain insight into their leadership style, impact, and priorities and turn awareness into effective action.
Why is reflection essential for effective leadership?
Reflection builds awareness of mindset, impact, and blind spots. Leaders who understand themselves lead others with authenticity and clarity. The Coaching Lab fosters exactly this self-awareness as the foundation for impactful leadership.
Who is the Coaching Lab designed for?
For executives, decision-makers, and high potentials seeking clarity in complexity or looking to realign their leadership role. The Lab provides a highly individualized process • independent of industry or hierarchy.
What does a typical coaching process look like?
It starts with defining goals and context, followed by structured reflection and development phases, actionable steps, and impact evaluation. Clear. Systemic. Effective
What impact does coaching create for leaders and organizations?
Coaching enhances self-leadership, communication, and decision-making. It builds trust and accountability – strengthening leadership impact and organizational effectiveness in the long term.
NEXT LEVEL • READY …
Michael KesslerExecutive Coach| Strategic Leadership Sparring
Berlin · Hamburg · Remote
www.coreflection.com |
Impulse with Impact • Driving Meaningful Change
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Learn more about our Leadership Programs
Impulse with Impact • Driving Meaningful Change
👉 Coaching Lab • Leadership impact and personal clarity
👉 Change Lab • Shaping transformation and complexity
👉 Future Lab • Strategic leadership and organizational development
👉 Coaching Lab • Leadership impact and personal clarity
👉 Change Lab • Shaping transformation and complexity
👉 Future Lab • Strategic leadership and organizational development
Insights
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Executive Coaching & Leadership Sparring • The key to strategic clarity |
Why managers need more than coaching
Today's managers face complex challenges: Pressure to make decisions, market changes and the need to position themselves as strong personalities. Traditional coaching? Helpful. But sometimes more direct, dynamic support is needed - this is where leadership sparring comes into play.
Personal branding • positioning with strategy
Strong personal branding is not only important for influencers - managers benefit enormously from it. Why? Because the way you are perceived as a manager determines your career. With targeted executive coaching, you can develop your leadership signature, your values and your public image.
Strategic leadership sparring • for clarity in decision-making
If you want to be successful as a manager in the long term, you need clarity about your strategy. But in the hustle and bustle of everyday business life, this is often easier said than done. Strategic leadership sparring offers exactly that: precise reflection, critical impulses and a sparring partner who not only empathizes, but also thinks.
What makes sparring so valuable?
Unlike coaching, sparring is about real conversations - no soft “And how does that make you feel?”, but hard-hitting questions: “What options do you really have?” and “What does plan B look like?”. Sounds intense? It is. But that's exactly what it takes to gain real strategic clarity.
👉 Conclusion: More than development • real transformation
If you want to take the next step as a manager, it's not enough just to gather knowledge. You have to challenge and develop yourself in a targeted way. With executive coaching and leadership sparring, you gain clarity about your position, your strategy and your impact.
Are you ready to take the next step?
Then let's get talking
Today's managers face complex challenges: Pressure to make decisions, market changes and the need to position themselves as strong personalities. Traditional coaching? Helpful. But sometimes more direct, dynamic support is needed - this is where leadership sparring comes into play.
Personal branding • positioning with strategy
Strong personal branding is not only important for influencers - managers benefit enormously from it. Why? Because the way you are perceived as a manager determines your career. With targeted executive coaching, you can develop your leadership signature, your values and your public image.
Strategic leadership sparring • for clarity in decision-making
If you want to be successful as a manager in the long term, you need clarity about your strategy. But in the hustle and bustle of everyday business life, this is often easier said than done. Strategic leadership sparring offers exactly that: precise reflection, critical impulses and a sparring partner who not only empathizes, but also thinks.
What makes sparring so valuable?
Unlike coaching, sparring is about real conversations - no soft “And how does that make you feel?”, but hard-hitting questions: “What options do you really have?” and “What does plan B look like?”. Sounds intense? It is. But that's exactly what it takes to gain real strategic clarity.
👉 Conclusion: More than development • real transformation
If you want to take the next step as a manager, it's not enough just to gather knowledge. You have to challenge and develop yourself in a targeted way. With executive coaching and leadership sparring, you gain clarity about your position, your strategy and your impact.
Are you ready to take the next step?
Then let's get talking
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Personal Branding & Leadership Signature • LEADERSHIP NEED A PROFILE • NOT A JUST A POSITIONIn times of uncertainty, change and remote work, a clearly recognizable leadership identity is becoming increasingly important.
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👉 What do you stand for as a manager?
👉 What makes you unique - beyond your role?
In a complex world, it is not enough to simply lead “well” - you need to be recognizable as a leader. Together, we develop your leadership signature: a clear, authentic leadership brand that combines attitude, impact and values. For decision-makers who lead consciously - and remain visible as a personality.
In coaching, we work on your leadership signature
✓ Developing your personal leadership brand
✓ Aligning values & impact
✓ Harmonizing inside and outside
Today, leadership is more brand than power
Your clarity is orientation for others.
💬 How would others describe your leadership impact in three words?
👉 What makes you unique - beyond your role?
In a complex world, it is not enough to simply lead “well” - you need to be recognizable as a leader. Together, we develop your leadership signature: a clear, authentic leadership brand that combines attitude, impact and values. For decision-makers who lead consciously - and remain visible as a personality.
In coaching, we work on your leadership signature
✓ Developing your personal leadership brand
✓ Aligning values & impact
✓ Harmonizing inside and outside
Today, leadership is more brand than power
Your clarity is orientation for others.
💬 How would others describe your leadership impact in three words?
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Strategic Leadership Sparring •
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In Leadership Sparring, we work on strategic clarity, decision-making confidence and personal impact. Without filters. Without an agenda.
👉 Sparring is not a luxury, but a leadership necessity.
And that is exactly why you need a sparring partner who is not hierarchically dependent. Leadership means making decisions with far-reaching consequences every day - often under uncertainty, sometimes alone. In strategic sparring, you meet a peer who is challenging, reflective and always focused on the essentials.
👉 Strategic sparring for visionary leaders
In Executive Sparring, I support you as an executive in gaining strategic clarity, strengthening your decision-making skills and sharpening your personal leadership profile. As an equal reflection partner, I ask the questions that no one else asks - directly, honestly and solution-oriented.
👉 Sparring is not a luxury, but a leadership necessity.
And that is exactly why you need a sparring partner who is not hierarchically dependent. Leadership means making decisions with far-reaching consequences every day - often under uncertainty, sometimes alone. In strategic sparring, you meet a peer who is challenging, reflective and always focused on the essentials.
👉 Strategic sparring for visionary leaders
In Executive Sparring, I support you as an executive in gaining strategic clarity, strengthening your decision-making skills and sharpening your personal leadership profile. As an equal reflection partner, I ask the questions that no one else asks - directly, honestly and solution-oriented.
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Leadership in times of crisis •
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👉 Together we work on inner stability, clear communication and decisive leadership.
When everything is in motion, you need a calming influence. My mentoring supports managers in maintaining inner stability in times of crisis, gaining clarity and remaining effective - for themselves, their team and the organization.
💭 What has helped you to remain capable in your most difficult leadership situation to date?
👉 Coaching & mentoring for leadership in times of crisis
Leadership is particularly challenging in dynamic and uncertain phases. Our mentoring for managers in times of crisis supports you in maintaining emotional stability, clarity and the ability to act. For resilient leadership and trustworthy communication - even under pressure
When everything is in motion, you need a calming influence. My mentoring supports managers in maintaining inner stability in times of crisis, gaining clarity and remaining effective - for themselves, their team and the organization.
💭 What has helped you to remain capable in your most difficult leadership situation to date?
👉 Coaching & mentoring for leadership in times of crisis
Leadership is particularly challenging in dynamic and uncertain phases. Our mentoring for managers in times of crisis supports you in maintaining emotional stability, clarity and the ability to act. For resilient leadership and trustworthy communication - even under pressure
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Facilitate decision-making processes ·
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Then you need the ability to facilitate:
✓ Create spaces in which genuine participation is possible
✓ Tolerate ambivalence
✓ Integrate different perspectives
✓ Make decisions work together
Facilitating leadership means:
Less “I know how to do it”.
More: “I know how we can figure it out together.”
👉 Enabling complex decisions in a structured and effective way
In dynamic organizations, decision-making competence is more than just moderation. Today, managers have to act as facilitators - they create spaces in which participation, diversity of perspectives and clarity lead to viable decisions.
✓ Create spaces in which genuine participation is possible
✓ Tolerate ambivalence
✓ Integrate different perspectives
✓ Make decisions work together
Facilitating leadership means:
Less “I know how to do it”.
More: “I know how we can figure it out together.”
👉 Enabling complex decisions in a structured and effective way
In dynamic organizations, decision-making competence is more than just moderation. Today, managers have to act as facilitators - they create spaces in which participation, diversity of perspectives and clarity lead to viable decisions.
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Role Clarity and Anticipatory Tension
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Leaders are caught between conflicting expectations. Coaching creates clarity:
✓ What am I there for?
✓ What expectations do I conform to?
✓ Which expectations do I reject?
👉 Role clarity as the foundation for confident leadership
Coaching helps you to become aware of this ambivalence, consciously shape your own role, set clear priorities and position yourself clearly as a manager.
✓ What am I there for?
✓ What expectations do I conform to?
✓ Which expectations do I reject?
👉 Role clarity as the foundation for confident leadership
Coaching helps you to become aware of this ambivalence, consciously shape your own role, set clear priorities and position yourself clearly as a manager.
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Team development for Clarity and Impact • It starts with structure · and ends with responsibility .Many teams fail not due to a lack of motivation, but rather a lack of clarity. 👉 Together we clarify:
✓ What are we here for? ✓ Who decides what? ✓ How do we create a strong “we”? |
💬 What question does your team (still) ask itself too rarely?
A team is more than the sum of its members. Our coaching helps groups to clarify their roles, tasks and responsibilities - and to develop a common understanding that supports collaboration and develops effectiveness.
🤝 Team development & shared responsibility
A strong team needs common goals, clear roles and supportive cooperation. Our team coaching for managers accompanies groups on the path to real responsibility, structure and cooperation. For teams that really want to make a difference.
A team is more than the sum of its members. Our coaching helps groups to clarify their roles, tasks and responsibilities - and to develop a common understanding that supports collaboration and develops effectiveness.
🤝 Team development & shared responsibility
A strong team needs common goals, clear roles and supportive cooperation. Our team coaching for managers accompanies groups on the path to real responsibility, structure and cooperation. For teams that really want to make a difference.
From Insight • To Impact
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Change Management accompaning Executive Coaching.As an experienced executive coach, I support you in strengthening your leadership skills, improving your professional performance, and achieving your goals. In confidential conversations, we identify challenges and develop strategies to overcome obstacles. As a sparring partner, I provide a safe space for self-reflection, holistic strategic thinking and sharing.
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We are preparing the ground for something new At the heart of our collaboration is your need to recognize your strengths and identify areas for improvement. Together, we create certainty in your decisions, explore alternative perspectives, reassess priorities, and adjust corporate goals and actions. By taking stock and critically examining your expectations and attitudes, we develop initial ideas and experiment with new approaches.
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Impact Builder
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How to become an Impact BuilderMany leaders are busy fighting fires and no longer have time for strategy and planning.
Way-from » I have to do it myself Towards » We can do it ✓ We » collaboratively as a team ✓ Me » as an Impulse-giver ✓ For a jointly supported strategy |
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Empowering People. How we collaborate.Transformative leaders have the greatest impact on the organization. They develop themselves and their team. They strengthen the team culture by delegating and trusting their team. This empowers employees to create their own solutions, take responsibility and act with commitment.
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Self-reflection, the fine art of leadership.The time to self-reflect and co-reflect with a coach is crucial to mastering emotional intelligence. This is the key to stay alert and open to unexpected challenges.
What can I build on with myself? How can I develop myself further? |
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Finding out, what really drives me.It is essential and crucial to create a real need for change. Being personally motivated, to strongly connect our own story to who we are and how we want to be, is the most effective way to reinvent ourselves and generate self-efficacy.
Create your Leadership Signature ✓ Reflection of the leadership role and competencies |
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Understanding that I am part of a whole system.Seeing yourself as part of the Organization, taking the pressure off and understanding change as a process.
This is how the path becomes the goal. Create Impact #TheNewWe ✓ Culture, for a development from within ourselves ✓ Make a meaningful contribution ✓ Achieve scalable results |
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What must change? • What do I have to change?It is no longer a nice-to-have it is an absolute necessity to ensure a sustainable transfer in coaching. The goal is to provide clients with the tools that enable them to develop their own solutions. In this way, the new insights and capabilities developed in coaching can be applied fluidly and adaptively in the respective business context.
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Next Level, ready • make a move✓ Development of a vision for the future
✓ Clarity about personal values and priorities ✓ Refection of the leadership role and competencies ✓ Recognition of strengths and development potentials ✓ Development of an authentic leadership strategy |
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Deep Dives • Deep ImpactMy clients want to make a difference to achieve significant results as thought leaders, enablers, and decision makers.
As an executive coach, I support leaders and teams of experts with a focus on transformation and collaboration. |
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Connecting People to PurposeBy examining one's own values, strengths and weaknesses, a manager can optimize his or her own performance and thus also increase the success of the company. Coaching can be a valuable support to develop this ability and to reflect oneself again and again. Because only those who know themselves well can also lead others successfully. As an executive coach, I support managers in deepening their self-reflection and developing their impact.
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Creating ImpactAs a leader, it is important to pay attention not only to the needs of others, but also to your own. Self-reflection is an important skill in order to increase your own effectiveness.✓ Creating impact
✓ Invest in yourself ✓ Invest in your people |
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Reflect • develop • enable✓ reflect · to calibrate
✓ develop · to transform ✓ enable · to scale What moves you? Challenges. Opportunities. Future perspectives. Coaching is CoReflection Time to reflect and co-reflect with a coach |
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LINC Personality ProfilerThe LINC Personality Profiler is a powerful tool for strengths and development-oriented coaching. Based on the scientifically proven BIG FIVE standard model, the personal profile provides a differentiated picture of your character, motives and competencies. In combination with a customized coaching plan, this creates a comprehensive basis for personal growth.
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Input ME • output BETTER MEDiscover the LINC Personality Profiler for personalized coaching tailored to your strengths and growth areas.
The individual results allows a new perspective on your personality. This not only enables a deep understanding of your strengths, but also a clear identification of areas for development. The profile therefore serves as a starting point for the sustainable further development of managers. |
Credibility in coaching comes from attitude, experience, and professional integrity.
COREFLECTION stands for certified quality, transparent processes, and measurable impact in leadership and organizational development.
COREFLECTION stands for certified quality, transparent processes, and measurable impact in leadership and organizational development.
Michael Kessler is a member of leading professional coaching associations.
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These memberships represent adherence to high professional standards, ethical guidelines, and continuous professional growth.
Certified. Transparent. Effective.
Michael Kessler’s coaching approach combines international accreditation with evidence-based tools:
Michael Kessler’s coaching approach combines international accreditation with evidence-based tools:
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Strong partnerships for impactful coaching solutions.
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These collaborations extend COREFLECTION’s reach and enable scalable digital leadership development formats.
Michael Kessler is an authorized INQA Coach within the ESF Plus Programme, supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in transformation processes. The “New Quality of Work” (INQA) initiative is funded by the European Social Fund Plus (ESF Plus) and the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS).
👉 Goal: Empowering SMEs for the future – through customized strategies for a modern, adaptive work environment.
👉 Benefit: Up to 80 % funding for sustainable organizational development.
👉 Link to the sponsor page
👉 Goal: Empowering SMEs for the future – through customized strategies for a modern, adaptive work environment.
👉 Benefit: Up to 80 % funding for sustainable organizational development.
👉 Link to the sponsor page
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Transparency builds trust.
COREFLECTION ensures full legal and data protection compliance.
• Legal texts & privacy by eRecht24
• Professional liability insurance by HISCOX · Coverage · worldwide
• GDPR-compliant data management
COREFLECTION ensures full legal and data protection compliance.
• Legal texts & privacy by eRecht24
• Professional liability insurance by HISCOX · Coverage · worldwide
• GDPR-compliant data management
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