And why women leaders need a new operating system It is lonely at the top is often expressed as an observation, sometimes as an almost romantic price of success, but for many women leaders it is neither a quote nor a status phrase. Unfortunately, for many it is a daily reality in which responsibility piles up as space slowly disappears and turmoil, discontent and undervaluation increase. What I have experienced myself

Not steering harder but leading more fundamentally, There are phases in leadership when everything seems right and falters at the same time. You are running along nicely, the results are acceptable or even good. Your schedule is full and your fixed structures and responsibilities are clear. And yet an undercurrent of tension arises. Because despite the success, you also know that you would like things to be different You miss lack of challenge and

There is a moment that many women in leadership recognize. Not loudly, not dramatically, but clearly and unmistakably. The moment when you feel you are still excellent, still delivering results, still carrying responsibility, but you are no longer using yourself at the right level. You know there is more in you. Not more commitment, but more direction, more depth, more intelligent impact. And yet you keep

Freeing yourself by taking a different position What do you do when your current role no longer matches the phase your company is in? When you are still engaged in day-to-day operational matters, while deep down you know you want to free yourself and position yourself as the strategic leader? What you're feeling here is not growing pains. It is role friction. You once started out as a builder.

By the way, this is not a crisis but a strategic tipping point. Highly educated, intelligent women rarely get accidentally caught up in a rat race. With dedication, responsibility and an ability to bear complexity that is almost unmatched, they build their own rat race. But that's exactly where it falters. Our lives are over-regulated. Not only by systems and rules from the outside, but especially by the lack of sharp conditions and boundaries from within. Too often

How can you be exceptionally good and yet feel invisible? Be dedicated and yet feel undervalued? It is not because your value is lacking, but because your value is not visible and therefore not seen, heard and appreciated at the position where you currently operate. Too many successful and experienced women doubt themselves because they are in the wrong place. And the insidious thing is that this doubt feels

Many people enjoyed their freedom during the holidays. A break from your daily routine, time to be together, time to reflect on the past year and what you will do in 2026. Don't do more, don't offer more, do less. 2026 does not require you to show more ambition or set bigger goals. It requires you to face up to whether your current standards and routines, the

While everyone was looking ahead to 2026 with new plans, new tools, and new promises, something different happened to me. I wasn't scaling up. I was scaling back. During a moment of reflection, I didn't write down what visible growth brings, but what actually moves things forward. Choices that build freedom, enforce focus, and deepen leadership. In total, there were seven strategic choices. And they all have the same core: simplify, change, and enrich.

The 2026 Strategic RESET: from noise to clarity Choosing not ‘more,’ but ‘better,’ because the biggest block to your growth is not a lack of potential, but an excess of noise. But what are you choosing to do? Because you have been in a restless in-between phase for some time now, where you feel that working harder and doing even more is no longer a solution, but even a wrong move

Everyone with great ambitions comes across this sooner or later, but hardly anyone dares to name it. The moment in your career where your growth no longer comes from knowing more or doing more, but from thinking differently. That growth requires a different intelligence than the intelligence you have built through education, experience or expertise. It requires a deeper kind of clarity. An ability to