Katja Pleterski

As founder, shareholder and Managing Director of Contrapunkt Consult GmbH, Katja Pleterski is responsible for the strategic direction of the consultancy network and the quality of our services.

Depending on the assignment, she works either alone or in collaboration with a small, trusted network of experienced coaches, organisational consultants and trainers.

She remains your main point of contact – from clarifying the brief through to designing the approach and reflecting on the results – whilst we put together the right team for your specific needs behind the scenes. In this way, we combine the reliability of a single point of contact with the diversity of different areas of expertise.

This wisdom shapes our systemic approach to coaching, organisational development and leadership development.

We do not view people, teams and organisations in isolation, but rather in terms of their interactions, patterns and relationships in an ecosystem – and we support them in acting more clearly, effectively and consciously within this framework.

We do not see ourselves as experts with ready-made answers, but as partners on an equal footing. We structure development and coaching processes, provide impetus, ask critical questions and create a framework in which you can reflect safely, recognise systemic interconnections, develop your own solutions and together we can implement them consistently.

Appreciation, empathy and a clear focus on resources guide our approach – whether in one-to-one coaching, working with leadership teams or supporting organisational change processes.

It is important to us that responsibility for the development process remains with you or within your organisation: we strengthen your sense of personal responsibility and support you in recognising and utilising your own levers within the system, rather than creating new dependencies.

We ensure that the colleagues we work with on larger projects share this systemic and values-based approach. This means you experience a consistent way of working across the entire network – from personal development and leadership issues through to shaping cultural and change processes within your organisation.

• Degree in Psychology (Dipl.Psych.), Saarland University, Saarbrücken
• Master of Arts in Human Resource Development (MA), University of Kaiserslautern
• Coaching training: ‘Hypnosystemic Coach – systemic and hypnotherapeutic concepts for organisational consultancy’, Milton Erickson Institute, Gunter Schmidt, Heidelberg
• Coaching training: ‘Psychology of Change – Emotional Coaching’, Dietz Training & Partner, Feldafing
• Systemic Process Consultancy, Transactional Analysis, Process Consultancy, Conflict Management, Team Dr Rosenkrantz, Munich
• IFS Coach & Consultant (Dealing with Internal and External System Dynamics), IIFS Institute, Heidelberg
• Mediation training: “NVC Mediation”, Judith Kohler, Timo Gesterkamp, Ober-Olm
• Further training: ‘IntOE – Integral Organisational Development’, Heiko Veit, Holzwickede
• Training: “ValueMatch Certified Practitioner”, ValueMatch, Auke van Nimwegen and Paul Zuiker, Utrecht

• Positive Intelligence Coach
• ZRM Zurich Resource Model
• Non-Violent Communication (NVC)
• SDI Spiral Dynamics Integral
• Agile Coach
• Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)
• Blended Learning Trainer and Coach
• HOGAN Personality Inventory
• DISC© Personality Model
• MBTI® Certification
• TMS Model

Since 2011

Managing Partner at Contrapunkt Consult GmbH

5 Years

Management consultant at LBBW, specialising in individual coaching for executives (levels 2–4) as well as in team and organisational development processes and change projects

7 Years

Senior consultant at KPMG Consulting, advising HR management and HR departments on topics including shared service centres, strategic HR management, the Balanced Scorecard and electronic personnel files

Katja Pleterski is listed as a Senior Coach with the following organisations: