Reclaim your creativity
You work to challenge the status quo. The world needs your unique talents more than ever, but it’s so common to find yourself unable to take full advantage of them.
I partner with designers, entrepreneurs, artists, and builders of all kinds to help them reconnect to their capabilities, define what matters, and reimagine what’s possible.
Hi, I’m Dieter. I have a depth of experience working in the creative fields, centred on the power of collaboration and holistically blending the technical and emotional.
My first career was as a jazz musician. Then I bootstrapped a pivot to design and spent the next 25+ years working in all kinds of environments, from pre-seed startups to 3000+ orgs. I’ve built products from scratch, helped scale-ups build high-performing teams and processes, and spent time as an educator, mentor, and advisor. Throughout it all has been a focus on fostering trusting, collaborative cultures and helping people discover their strengths, communicate with clarity, and make decisions aligned with values and purpose.
Today I’m a coach certified through the Co-Active Training Institute, widely recognized as the industry’s gold standard coach and leadership development organization.
My focus is to support those who think differently. Let’s unlock your insight, imagination, drive, courage, and caring, and create a better future together.
It’s time to grow
Having a creative spirit means living in contradiction — being endlessly curious while remaining driven to deliver impact. This is a rare gift, one that’s critical to achieve meaningful change in people’s lives. But it’s also easy to get lost. The vulnerability and open-mindedness required mean your intent, confidence, and autonomy — or even you period — can fall by the wayside.
Growing as a leader eventually requires personal development. Great results come from your self-awareness — understanding your strengths, where you need help, what your biases and defaults are, where you get in your own way.
Perhaps you recognize yourself in one of the very common scenarios below. If so, let’s talk to discover how you can get back to thriving.
Reset
You take ownership, you’re ambitious, and you care deeply. But you’re also working unsustainably — spread thin, struggling with compromise or decision making, running on fumes or adrenaline. You feel stuck in a box, and you know you’re flirting with burnout (if you’re not there already).
Realign
You reached the next level, only for the ground to shift under you again. You feel trapped between your vision and desire to create, and your awareness that there’s more to life than just work. You want to drive hard and have impact, but simultaneously need to make room for stability and practicality.
Reinvent
You’re hungry for a big change. You may not know what, but where you’re at isn’t cutting it any more. You’re done with the status quo — you want more meaning, to honour your holistic self, and to feel proud about the impact you’re having. You know you’re capable of magic and it’s time to transform.
None of these feeling quite right? Want to mix in some design or leadership mentoring?
Contact me to find out how we can customize an approach that works for you.
No matter where you are — feeling stuck and challenged, or ready to start playing a bigger game — coaching is for you.
- Break out of the reactive mindset keeping you in a fight-or-flight panic
- Understand how to rest and recharge, without feeling guilty
- Handle ambiguity and stressful periods with confidence
- Discover the boundaries that matter to you, and how to hold them
- Get grounded, confident, and define success on your terms (not theirs)
- Discover your authentic self, learn how to take action in a way that resonates
- Unpack your limiting beliefs and understand where you get in your own way
- Describe what leadership means to you, foster your unique style, and take charge authentically
What clients say
The time I spent working with Dieter was truly transformative. His ability to surface insight from my turbulent thoughts and feelings was invaluable. I feel clearer in who I am, and more confident in where I’m going. Dieter helped me remember what it is that makes me me, and that that person is amazing.
— Principal Product Designer
Dieter has been a kind, steady, intelligent presence. His coaching skills helped me identify and clarify where I was, and where I was headed. I am now on a new career path, and am so excited.
— Self-employed Entrepreneur
Work, life and emotions have never been so hard to manage: juggling daily life and striving for balance and better health. Dieter was there, listening, asking me about my feelings, acknowledging them. I was able to have more clear and vivid memories from things we would discuss that helped me focus on my own reflections to be better and love myself. Thank you Dieter for this gift.
— Staff Product Designer
Let’s work together
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