Living in a small village near Munich, Germany.

After graduating as Diplom-Informatiker (FH) / Masters in Computer Science and working for 10 years in the IT branche Ellen changed her profession to being a trainer. Ellen is a NLP trainer (PureNLP by Richard Bandler), Management 3.0 Facilitator and Agile Game Facilitator with an international and varied work background. Ellen´s clients include executives in industry, banking and the financial sector. She focuses on introducing concrete tools, games and practices to make business life easier and more effective. Besides coaching, Ellen is an active speaker with a passion for training and delivering motivational speeches.

Ellen also is a part time Scrum Master and Agile Coach at PENTASYS AG. PENTASYS is a leading IT project service provider that, as an agile enabler, increases the efficiency and competitiveness of well-known companies through individualized software solutions and IT consulting.

Ellen´s leadership background is from an international non-profit organization with over 330.000 members and over 7000 voluntary leaders all over the world. In that environment her approach to lead with agile methods was quite successful which is what she teaches her clients ever since. Agile Games and Management 3.0 methods complement her experience.

Since 2016 Ellen organizes and facilitates the Agile Game Night meetup in Munich. During that event she and the participants experiment with games - playing them and evaluating them for practice use and value in business teams.

Ellen´s motto is "Playfully - Moving people" - in more than one way. She focuses on moving people in agile working environments and business. She believes that change always is accompanied with people who are moved to move.