You've built something real.
Something still isn't right.
Executive coaching and leadership facilitation for senior leaders at the crucible moments — in their leadership and their life.
I work with senior leaders when the old way of leading stops working and the next chapter isn't clear yet. The work is honest, direct, and built for movement — a genuine thinking partnership for the human being navigating the role and the life simultaneously. What becomes possible on the other side is worth working toward: more clarity, more choice, and a next chapter that's actually yours.
I'm Derek Lauber — executive coach and leadership facilitator, dual citizen, based in Munich.
For more than twenty years I've worked with senior leaders navigating the moments that ask the most of them — when the tools that built the career stop working, when the role and the life are pulling in opposite directions, when something has to change and the path forward isn't clear yet.
My work is built around one conviction: that real movement in leadership requires honest work on the human being doing the leading.
Experience includes work with leaders and organizations across PwC, Salesforce, Colgate-Palmolive, European Union, Fannie Mae, UNC, The Energy Project and other multinational, public, and executive education contexts.
The Work
1:1 Executive Coaching
Something in the way you've been leading is costing more than it should — in the role, at home, and in the person doing both. This is a private, six-month engagement built around what's actually happening in your leadership and your life. Not a program.
A real thinking partnership built for movement.
Leadership Facilitation
You have a program and a population. You need a facilitator you can trust with your people — someone with lived cross cultural experience, who reads the room, doesn't need managing, and makes the content actually land.
Senior populations, EMEA and global. Twenty years of reps.