I hear what you want to say.

Two languages from the start

Born in Russia, in Germany at the age of one. My mother spoke Russian with me, my father German. Growing up like that teaches you early on: the same sentence can mean two different things, depending on how it is spoken. Back then I had no idea this would one day become a profession.

Detours that were none

Before I became a trainer, I worked in a porcelain factory, built furniture, sold at flea markets, cut keys, guarded parking lots, worked in a beer garden and a cinema, and stood at the pool's edge as a lifeguard. And once I stood in front of 400 people, explaining and selling ice cream.

Sounds like zigzag. But it was the best school: you learn selling at a market stall, not in a seminar. You learn reading people at the pool's edge, where you have seconds to decide whether someone is playing or drowning.

In between: half a year in Salamanca, half a year in Sheffield, studying and working in two more languages. At the end stood four languages and a degree in specialized translation for English and Russian. And the realization that what interests me most about language is what happens between the words.

The voice as a craft

I studied speech science in Halle and then worked for five years as a speech-language therapist. Five years with people whose voices no longer carried. If you have experienced what it means when the voice fails, you treat it differently: it is not a decorative element of your personality. It is your most important working instrument.

The temporary leader

From 2011 I worked as a trainer for large technology companies and learned to explain complex things so they stick. Later I spent five years advising daycare centers across Germany on language education, while training as an Integral Business Coach (ICF/DBVC, LEAP).

Today I spend around 110 days a year in the seminar room, for corporations and mid-sized companies, from automotive to telecommunications. I see myself as a temporary leader for a limited time: I create trust in the group, give impulses, show possibilities and potential. And then the results belong to the participants, not to me.

And now: AI

When AI arrived, trainers faced a choice: ignore it, fear it, or use it. I chose option four: use it and at the same time strengthen what AI will never be able to do. That is why both now run live in my seminars: AI feedback on your real presentation, and voice work built on speech-science craft. The machine takes over the busywork. We stay in charge of taste, judgment and how we treat each other.