I am business coach and sales trainer in Berlin (Germany), driven by a single purpose:

to empower people to succeed sustainably.

My focus areas are sales, executives/leadership and career.

Secure competitive advantages, higher sales performance and increased sales revenue and ROI. More responsibility for more sales success and autonomy.

 
 

Sales Training

I focus on B2B sales. Specific sales skills are needed to succeed in the midst of tough competition. Tailored trainings are essential to position well for future growth.

1:1 Sales Coaching

I believe that sales is at the heart of a company and is worth investing in. 1:1 Sales coaching is an effective and valuable tool to manage and develop sales staff. It supports motivation and team performance, strengthens the application of best practices, activates sensitivity for the sales process and promotes the development of sales with regards to performance and productivity.

For example:

  • Sales Management

    • Sharpen leadership skills and understand one’s role

    • Develop and lead sales teams

  • Sales Representatives

    • Mindset change

    • Improve presence, motivation and soft skills

    • Master presentations and negotiations

    • Intensify acquisition activities and free sales reps from blockages

    • Develop strategies and activities for selected key clients and follow up

    • Handle objections

    • Manage time, reduce stress, improve resilience

    • Improve sales closure orientation

    • Master challenging clients

    • Improve communication

 

Competence, inspiration and success. Business coaching for executives.

Lead consciously and responsibly.

Self-reflection increases self-awareness and enables new and effective patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour, which allow more successful management and control.

 
 

1:1 Executive Coaching I Leadership Coaching

I offer a safe space in which self-reflection is possible. I reliably support you in this process. I help you to structure your thoughts and manage this solution-oriented process in a constructive way.

For example:

  • Reflect and structure person and management style

  • Support for (junior) executives in their roles

  • Prepare for new tasks, functions, positions and develop potential

  • Improve self management and enhance leadership skills

  • Manage the first 100 days in a new job/position

  • Solve and clarify management and leadership problems

  • Manage times of crisis, solve conflicts, improve communication

  • Master complex decision making processes

  • Improve self-awareness and self-image

  • Develop key strategies to increase performance

  • Reflect values

  • Recognise behavioural patterns and change them for the better

  • Deal with stress, learn to create and maintain work/life balance

  • Prepare meetings, negotiations and presentations

  • Reflect virtual leadership

Coaching with the help of Hogan Assessments

Occasionally I use Hogan Assessments in my coaching sessions. Hogan Assessments is a leading provider of state-of-the-art, evidence-based, validated and scientifically sound personality assessments, which are based on solid research in the field of personality psychology. These personality procedures help employees, managers and organisations to realise their potential and to become more successful.

Hogan assessments predict job performance when using personal strengths, behaviour under stress and pressure and personal motives, values and preferences. The interpretation of Hogan assessment data can help to forecast performance in the workplace and behavior in organisations; especially in the context of personnel development and personnel selection decisions. For instance, in the context of executive and leadership coaching Hogan assessments aim to strengthen self-awareness and to create development goals in order to optimise effective leadership.

 

Business Coaching for Career Management

 
 

1:1 Career Coaching I Job Application Training I CV Coaching I Interview Training I Coaching for Professional Reorientation

Create your career pro-actively and see it take off.

Career coaching supports your professional development efficiently and leads to a higher perceived level of professional purpose, job fulfillment and work/life balance.

For example:

  • Recognise your potential, values and needs

  • Sharpen your profile and develop your career - newplacement

  • Pre- and onboarding

  • Master professional reorientation and transition

  • Clarify visions; e.g. the development of your positioning for self employment

  • Optimise self-presentation

  • Learn to better negotiate your salary

  • Prepare your annual review discussions and job interview

  • Consultation and feedback for optimising application documents, personal profile, social media profiles and application (strategy)

  • Creation of cover letter

  • Support with job search

  • Have someone to cheer you on!

 

Hi, I’m Silke.

I am success enabler for business executives, sales teams and individuals who wish to lead a better, more prosperous and holistic life permanently.

 
Silke Langbehn photo © Janosch Orlowsky

photo © Janosch Orlowsky

My key areas are B2B sales, executives and career. My base is Berlin, Germany.

After my economics degree at university in Germany and 20 years of international sales, marketing and management experience with large blue chips as well as notable SME’s and startup’s, I left the corporate world, to follow my calling in 2019.

As a certified systemic coach and trainer I now accompany individuals in their professional and personal lives and support them to get clarity on their goals and to implement them efficiently and successfully.

In addition I assist companies with developing leaders and training sales teams.

It is my passion to help my clients with my energy, experience and expertise to sustainably reach their desired goals for success.

With my work - it is important to me to have a positive impact on this world.

 

5 reasons to work with me

  1. Expertise and inspiration with authenticity, empathy and professionalism

  2. Solution-orientated attitude, process and methodical expertise in training and coaching

  3. High professional competence and practical relevance due to sales and leadership experience

  4. Sound industry knowledge and long-time intercultural professional expertise

  5. Entrepreneurial understanding, high analytical ability and result orientation


Certificates & Qualifications

  • Systemic Business & Personal Coach, trained according to the guidelines of the European Coaching Association (ECA)

  • Train The Trainer (IHK)

  • Diplom-Kauffrau (first-class degree in Economics/Marketing, Universität Bielefeld, Germany)

  • 25 years professional experience in B2B Sales, Sales Management and Marketing in industries such as Marketing Services, IT Research & IT Consulting and Tech Software and self-employment

  • HOGAN Assessments

  • Mindfulness Trainer, Meditation Teacher & Stressmanagement Trainer

  • Numerous further advanced trainings in adult education and professionally, e.g. lively didactics and online trainings, Meisner Acting Technique, psychology, leadership, communication

Hogan certified
 

My mission

providing insights and clarity I developing potential and confidence I enabling growth and promoting success

 
Silke Langbehn Business photo © Janosch Orlowsky

photo © Janosch Orlowsky

It is my mission to empower you to achieve and sustain a joyous and fulfilling life - both professionally and personally; to help business leaders and sales teams to develop their full potential and to master transformational processes successfully for the best possible results. In fact, for those that can be measured and those that have an effect far beyond that.

Working with me makes sustainable and effective changes possible and makes a significant difference between “staying where you are” and “making a step forward fast”.

Ships in harbor are safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
— John A. Shedd
 
 
 

Does this sound like a road road worth travelling? Then let the journey begin.

Your goals are my focus

 

Just like this motto my coaching sessions are meant to empower you to master challenges and transformations by unfolding your potential with ease and enthusiasm and making you stand fully in your power for a successful future.

Being a certified systemic business and personal coach I see myself as facilitator. Coaching processes are intense processes of development, which require process competence and methodical expertise. I help you to develop sustainable solutions and to start acting upon these. I focus on your competences and implementation orientation. My appreciative, open and motivational attitude creates a trustworthy space for the development and realisation of new possibilities for reaching your goals.

In my sales training and coaching I focus on enablement and inspiration, so that my clients can achieve improved competitiveness and increased company success.

During my 20 years of international solution sales activity in the highly competitive, dynamic and intercultural B2B tech, marketing and research & consulting services sectors in London (UK), I developed strong mutually beneficial and long lasting business relationships. I meet people where they are and lead them with sensibility and responsibility. My high standards of quality, a keen eye for result orientation and focus on implementation and measurability helped me to be highly successful in my corporate career. This expertise and my extensive experience I continue to use in my current work.

Inspired by the works of Tony Robbins, Eckhart Tolle, Byron Katie, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Louise Hay, Pema Chödrön, Wayne Dyer, Neale Donald Walsch, Debbie Ford, Shakti Gawain and B.K.S. Iyengar, mindfulness is a topic close to my heart.

Depending on the needs of each client, I intuitively combine various systemic methods like hypno-coaching, visualisation or constellation work in my coachings. I offer my services face-to-face and online in English or German.

Clear goals and expectation setting with regards to our working together, along with openness, transparency and commitment are very important to me. Personal details will be dealt with confidentially.

 

What you can expect from me

 
Langbehn Coaching photo © Janosch Orlowsky

photo © Janosch Orlowsky

  • competence

    • Best coaching, training & consulting

    • Well-founded market and industry experience

    • Long-standing sales and management experience

  • solution orientation

    • Authenticity, empathy and engagement

    • Wide-ranging portfolio of methods and services

    • Suitable solutions on the basis of individual analysis and requests

  • efficiency

    • Reaching bigger goals faster

    • High flexibility & accessibility

    • International & intercultural

 
 
 
Silke Langbehn Business Coaching und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung

Foto © Janosch Orlowsky

Let`s talk.

Based in Berlin (Germany), I work in English and German, online and face-to-face in inspiring rooms in Berlin Charlottenburg or on the premises of your company.



✉ SL@silkelangbehn.com

☏ +49 (0)30 9661 4785

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Find out how my clients experienced their coaching or training with me.

 

MARKETING DIRECTOR, BERLIN

Silke advised me as part of my executive coaching. I got to know her as a professional, always responsive sparring partner for difficult, urgent decisions. In her I found a coach who, through her own professional career and experience, was able to assess the challenges and thus contribute to problem solving. She indeed always had a sympathetic ear and sincere interest! I can highly recommend Silke and will certainly work with her again.


SENIOR FINANCE MANAGER, BERLIN

Silke is an amazing coach - she is not only highly prefessional but also very empathetic! She has the natural ability to connect with people! Silke helped me go through a transitional period in my career and provided me with the tools I could use later and I did!


DOCTOR, BERLIN

Highly Recommended! Silke clarifies the important problems and topics with lots of know-how and sure instinct. She evaluates these by professionally and empathetically engaging in a structured dialogue. Silke uses different coaching techniques, provides valuable feedback and clearly defines objectives. Every coaching session then turns into additional, directly accessible motivation on the way to one’s own success!


DIGITAL MARKETING MANAGER, BERLIN

Thanks to Silke’s methodology, her guidance and her wide-ranging professional and life experience I was able to develop realistic action steps towards a solution for a work problem in only two coaching sessions. We developed a strategy, which suited my personality and which made me come across authentically and convincingly during my annual review session with my boss. I felt thrilled and triumphant when I managed to get my superior to think about new ways for my personal development, which was a very new perspective from before. The sessions with Silke were much more than just coaching – I am still highly enthusiastic and inspired by her powerful and positive presence! A definite recommendation!


HEALTH CONSULTANT, LONDON

Silke made me feel listened to in a very attentive and caring way, while at the same time keeping to the structure and objectives of the session. Her consultation method was systematic and clear, which enabled me to feel comfortable and start talking about uncomfortable and intimate issues. At the end of my time with Silke I had an amazing breakthrough that revealed different and hurtful issues for me, and made me work through them in a positive and strong position. As a coach, Silke would be the first professional coach I would seek in order to help me with career and personal success, personal development to build my self-esteem and finding self-love, overcoming my long-term fears, and personal challenges. Silke’s support has been invaluable to improving my life, my happiness and self-worth in general. I would recommend her to anyone who is finding life difficult in any circumstances, and wants to be empowered and find life-long solutions for themselves. Silke is very effective in business coaching, as well as personal coaching. She is very skilled in all the coaching transformational systems that she practices. This is special as not all experienced coaches are as capable and successful as Silke. If you are looking for tangible and long-lasting results, she is the coach for you.


CEO, BERLIN

I was enthralled by the strong charismatic aura, distinctive appeal and energy of Ms. Langbehn from the first session onwards. She is sincere, very natural, refreshing and empathetic. This led to my feeling in good hands in every session, opening up and finding trust quickly. The work with Ms. Langbehn was very valuable and beneficial for me. She helped me re-activate my long-lost and unexpected resources and potentials. This led to high efficiency in all my actions, clarity with regards to my life goals and a highly increased ability for self-reflection. I also improved my communication skills - professionally and privately - and am able to address challenging situations and problems effectively. Coaching can be very intense work for coach and client and Ms. Langbehn manages this process really well. And, there is always time for humour too.


MARKETING DIRECTOR, BERLIN

Convincing, authentic and competent. I attended an inspiring live online training with Ms Langbehn. The content, practical exercises, the sharing of her own longstanding experience and the involvement of all participants was impressive and very professional. The hours flew by and I found the cooperation in the group to be extremely refreshing and motivating and very well managed. I was completely satisfied and was able to apply what I had learnt in my practical working life straight away. Highly recommended and well worth the money.


OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, BERLIN

I most definitely made the right choice with Silke. Silke has a lot of know-how, extraordinary empathy and is humorous and charming too. I recommend my coach highly - thank you very much!


SENIOR MARKETING MANAGER, BERLIN

My career coaching for reorientation with Silke helped me immensely and I was able to get a very clear and promising idea of where I want to be heading professionally in the coming years. In working with Silke, I found it incredibly valuable to first take a look back: What have I done so far? What used to excite me? What was I missing? What is my potential? Her stimulating questions and visualisation techniques made me realise where I am at the moment, what I want to do in the future and what I don't want to do anymore. Her way of empathising with me and asking exactly the right questions was incredibly empowering and, moreover, inspiring. I thank Silke for her empathic and constructive work and recommend her with all my heart to anyone who wants to develop professionally and personally.


HR MANAGER - HR DEVELOPMENT, BERLIN

Silke radiates great confidence, calmness and composure and has an open and sympathetic manner. She is totally professional, explains complex issues in a totally accessible way and is approachable and respectful towards the participants. Everyone felt seen by her. I found her training concept and storytelling super good; her presentation and group activities highly interactive and extremely professional.


IT SPECIALIST, BERLIN

The training was great fun, provided a lot of valuable content, encouraged me to do things differently in the future and inspired me to develop myself further. The training was conducted very confidently and competently. Ms Langbehn created an extremely pleasant and open working atmosphere that made a lot of valuable exchange possible.


DATA ANALYST, BERLIN

Dear Silke! Thank you so much for your support and help with my applications. It worked out well and the first week in my new job has just passed.

Silke helped me to define my ideas about my new employer and working environment, so that I don't just find a job, but something I will thoroughly enjoy. With Silke I learnt to pay attention to my strengths. She always supported me when I could no longer think positively. She was optimistic and motivating throughout the process and showed me new creative ways where I couldn't see them anymore. I find Silke very competent, empathetic and sympathetic. She immediately understood my needs and has great general knowledge. She also has an excellent talent for edititing. She turned my raw text into "the most delicious sweets". I am sure I learnt a little from her; and, when I need it in the future, my acquired knowledge will help me. In addition, it was important to me that Silke has a very good overview of the current labour market situation and knows how to navigate and successfully present oneself in times of globalisation and digitalisation. I know that my personality has grown due to my coaching and I find these changes even more important than job offers. I highly recommend Silke.


ENGINEER & YOGA TEACHER, MUNICH

 Prior to my career coaching I didn't know exactly where I would be drawn to in terms of my professional life, alongside my family and during my yoga teacher training of several years. Our common interests (dance and yoga) were the first indicators and during our initial call I knew Silke was a the coach for me. She convinced me not only with her professionalism, but also with her dedicated and empathetic manner. Even her online coaching sessions are accompanied with a lot of warmth and humour in all the right places. Like a singing bowl, her natural way resonates long after the coaching. My request was to be supported in my professional development. Now I am sure that I am on the right path. Every coaching session was an intensive collaboration with all the necessary pauses for reflection. Her questions are asked and feedback is given at exactly the right moments. The self-reflection through the techniques used and the structured approach have helped me a lot. People who have acquired certain patterns and want to break them are in the right place with Silke! You can fill the blank page with her help and let exciting developments begin!


SENIOR MANAGER, GÖTTINGEN

A coaching with Ms. Langbehn means very goal-oriented, future focused and personal consulting, which is tailored to the individual client/company. Ms. Langbehn captures and analyses consultancy needs in a very exact manner and develops possibilities for solutions with various tools and methods, which represent valuable support. With regards to business coaching I see Ms. Langbehn providing competent and objective consulting services, be it business related topics or personnel development. At the company level I specifically see Ms. Langbehn’s competences in supervision sessions for company management and employees.


PHYSICIST, BERLIN

I have found Ms Langbehn to be exceptionally motivating and results-oriented. She helped me in a very constructive and structured way to recognise my strengths, but also my weaknesses, more clearly and took me a big step forward.


ASSISTANT TO MANAGEMENT, MUNICH

Dear Ms Langbehn, the time has come. I now have a job and I am totally happy with it. Just as I had wished for. My future employer was totally thrilled with my modern CV! I would like to thank you very, very, very much for the career coaching and the advice regarding my CV and cover letter. Many, many, many thanks!!!


FINANCIAL SERVICES MANAGER, FRANKFURT

My coaching took place in a pleasant atmosphere. Competent, sensitive and solution-oriented sessions led to positive results. Ms. Langbehn is characterised by her structured approach.


PSYCHOTHERAPIST, LONDON

I find working with Silke extremely helpful both personally and professionally. In my work as a counsellor/psychotherapist these two areas are intimately connected and Silke with her expert listening and incisive questioning skills is quite quickly able to guide me towards my own answers. She always allows space for me to access my intuition and I always feel the sessions are collaborative. I find her positive energy inspiring and motivating and invariably the sessions are fun and I look forward to them. I always feel she is ‘on my side’ and her passion and commitment in helping me achieve my goals is self-evident. I cannot recommend her highly enough! 


MARKETING MANAGER EMEA, DÜSSELDORF

My coaching with Silke was a very good and valuable experience for me. The atmosphere was comfortable and respectful, our session filled with trust and appreciation. I felt that I was in good hands and guided well through the coaching process. The solution we worked out together helped me to solve my problem permanently. I recommend Silke as a coach anytime.


JUNIOR MANAGER, BERLIN

Thank you! It was amazing again! A completely new experience for me.