My Path to LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
From IT Professional to Facilitator and Trainer
First top-tier hospitality. Then IT consulting. And then LEGO SERIOUS PLAY?
Yes! It couldn't really be more logical.
At just three years old, I wanted to become a "cook."
The childhood wish of back then later became a deep standard for quality.
My training as a restaurant specialist at Hotel Bareiss, one of the leading houses of European top-tier hospitality, shaped me. Afterward, at Landhaus Scherrer, a childhood dream came true: not just admiring the kitchen, but cooking at Michelin-star level.
After a few years as an F&B Management Trainee and in controlling, the polish to become a master craftsman at hotel management school was next.
To the simple question of what would come after that, I had no answer.
Since computers and IT had always fascinated me, it quickly became clear:
The next step could only be a degree in computer science.
This then led me to study media informatics and into international IT consulting. At IDS Scheer, founded by Prof. Dr. August-Wilhelm Scheer, it was all about processes, structures, and complex relationships. His forward-looking work permanently changed the way companies understand and design processes.
It is this mix that still forms my foundation today: working with people, a high standard for quality, and thinking in structures and connections.
My first encounter with LEGO SERIOUS PLAY came through a friend.
AIt was in the summer of 2015. She told me that, together with colleagues from the DACH region, she had "played out" the strategy for the coming year.
"You played out the strategy for the following year? What did you do?"
She showed me photos of the workshop on her phone. On a large table stood LEGO models, bigger ones, smaller ones, some with lots of detail, others quite reduced. Some were connected to each other, others not. Even the material they had used was different.
And then she began to explain the models to me ...
Her voice changed, her eyes began to shine. I had the feeling that she was completely back inside that workshop again.
The words simply poured out of her. Without hesitation, without long deliberation.
That didn't just make me curious. It completely fascinated me.
It was as if I had found that one puzzle piece I didn't even know existed. In that moment, I saw how thoughts become visible in models, and felt how it brings people into real, deep storytelling.
II began to research and in 2016 completed my training as a certified Facilitator in the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY method with Robert Rasmussen, one of the fathers of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY. Already during those days it became clear to me that I wanted to go further with this method. On the last day of training, I decided to also train as a Trainer for Facilitator in the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY method, with him and Per Kristiansen.
What fulfills me about this: That every voice counts. That people don't just join the conversation but truly help shape it, with full commitment. And that something lasting emerges from it:
Clarity. The courage to decide. Real movement.
Expanding International Perspectives
Alongside my work as a Trainer and Facilitator, I am also co-host of the English-language video podcast Bricks Boutique Hotel.
Together with Michel Cloosterman, I dive into exciting topics around the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY method there: from new fields of application to experience reports to in-depth discussions about the further development of the method.
For everyone who wants to understand LEGO SERIOUS PLAY even more deeply and think internationally connected.
My Style as a Trainer
In my trainings, you can expect a mix of enthusiasm, motivation, and clear demand.
I carry people along, I motivate, I challenge, always with the goal of truly developing you and your abilities.
No show, no rattling off of methods, but real learning, real understanding, and real transformation.
What Matters to Me
My work is based on clear principles:
- Trust
- Depth
- Practice
- Real knowledge
- No BlaBla
- No buzzwords
- no fun-fun-trallala trainings
Instead, on well-founded work with substance and impact.
Changes That Make Waves
Over the recent years of my self-employment, I have repeatedly recognized a pattern: when something changes for a single person, it makes waves. Into the team, into the organization, and ultimately into the world.
That is my drive. I accompany people and teams in creating clarity, initiating change, and enabling decisions that hold.
When you learn with me, it's about more than a training. It's about becoming effective as a Facilitator and shaping processes in a way that triggers real development.