Career Choices: Designing your career according to your strengths and values

Dr. Kerstin Mauth has been a freelance coach and trainer for more than five years. Before that, she worked for more than 15 years in the German academic system fulfilling different roles and functions. She thus, has a broad and deep understanding of the challenges that come both with working within the academic system as well as planning a transition to a career outside the system. Kerstin Mauth supports people in professional change processes - resource-oriented, in partnership, holistically, with humour and empathy – so that they keep their North Star in mind and experience change as an opportunity for growth. In times of increasing competition and constant change, she also supports universities and other research organizations in developing a conscious and mindful leadership culture, in which appreciative cooperation and everyone’s health are just as important as profile building and excellence in research and teaching. Her main areas of expertise are: (self) leadership, career building, mindfulness and stress reduction, self-confidence and overcoming the impostor syndrome.