Munich-Bogenhausen
Coaching with
Martin Frederik Garbers
Do you enjoy developing your company? As an entrepreneur, do you give room to your inner enthusiasm? What are you burning for?
Leave your comfort zone with me in a protected coaching atmosphere to discover your inner compass and to joyfully realize your potential. Towards authenticity, towards inspiration for you and the people around you. Towards sustainable inner growth and entrepreneurial development. Let me accompany you on your path to make the (almost) impossible goal possible in your zone of genius.
Leadership Coaching
Leadership starts with leading yourself
Why? The leading question! We get to the bottom of this question. This is often not a thought rather a feeling. From this feeling we create your entrepreneurial vision and long-term strategy. This is the basis for your compass, with which you can consistently guide yourself and others. My responsibility as a guide is to lead you through uncomfortable questions and silence to towards deep insights. Insights that will move your world. Insights that will lead to important decisions that change your mindest and therefore your company. With small steps of change and perseverance, this results in exponential growth: from inner joy to the unleashing potential and creating authentic meaning.
For most people, a goal is a place to get to. What changes if it is “a place to come from”? Then the goal is a compass and guides you as a waymarker: My waymarker reads: authentically co-creating joy!
self leadership & employee leadership
goal setting & achievement
unleashing potential & inner compass
growth issues & personal visions
leading through conflicts & mastering crises
change management & disruption
business model & systems
corporate succession & foundations
discover meaning & abundance anew
A goal is a place to come from
a few different ways to coach with me...
Camino-Coaching or BE-WITH Session
Let me guide you along the Isar River for a day, we are following the St. James Camino from Munich to Lindau. Walking in nature slows down the thinking and allows for a new perspectives and creative solutions.
I offer the one-on-one coaching format on different routes as a daily format.
The classic route is Jakobsplatz, Munich along the Isar towards Schäftlarn, it requires a good physical condition for almost 23km of walking.
Alternatively, there is the possibility to walk along the Starnberger See or for those who prefer to walk along the Chiemsee, I have also discovered a route there that allows for a full day in the most beautiful surroundings with lake and alps.
After more than four years of Camino-Coaching experience, I have collected an astonishing series of transformational stories from my clients and how this day has deeply changed their lives after just one day of Camino Coaching. Especially when it comes to a career change decision, looking back, this day is often the domino day, after which all the stones start to fall. Be it a change of company, be it a sabbatical, be it a succession plan, be it the start of self-employment or a company. For this, the day is worth its weight in gold.
Consigliere for Entrepreneurs
My long-time entrepreneur clients acknowledge my role as a consigliere. It’s my zone of genius play, sometimes I am the trusted advisor, sometimes the coach for the essential questions in life, sometimes the one who reveals the inconvenient truth, sometimes I put on the CFO hat and question the numbers and sometimes we simply celebrate life. I play my whole range and draw on my experiential truth and am the guide for my clients to reveal and live their dream in a big way.
This offer requires a big challenging change in the company, a significant level of prior coaching experience of the client with me or another certified coach and a high commitment in time, energy and investment. The design is tailored to the specific setting of the client and combines day-long retreats, with regular coaching sessions and a concierge support, espresso-coaching when needed. The investment is linked to outcome or the magnitude of the challenge and is designed in such a way that a return-on-investment factor of 10x within two years is reasonable.
Coaching for Leaders
In my leadership coaching offer I accompany a leader or an entrepreneur for one year in a 1:1 coaching. Together we develop the vision, the strategy and work on topics like mindset and leadership toolbox. In the long term, the focus is on personal transformation and the development of leadership skills so that personal growth leads to exponential growth and results. Most of my clients work two or three years with me in this setting and harvest exponential growth as result.
The prerequisite is the willingness to invest regularly time, energy and money into this transformational coaching. My clients invest between € 1.000 and € 5.000 per month depending on the intensity. In this format the places are limited and require a selection process.
Apprenticeship
Coaching for Coaches. The transformation from a long corporate career into the world of coaching is a challenge. Trying to tackle it alone is like hiking high mountains without a mountain guide. While most coaching training focuses on coaching skills, almost all certified coaches face the question after certification, “How do I turn this into a prosperous business?”. From my own experience, this path is often rocky and arduous, and through the guidance of experienced mentors and guides, I have managed to turn it into a good six-figure business in 3 years.
Every year I share my experience with two apprentices and accompany certified coaches on their way into a prosperous business. The goal is to achieve an income level of six figures and more from coaching fees in two years. The program requires significant investment in time, energy and money. It’s designed as annual bi-weekly 2 hour setup with a total of 24 sessions and is available in face-to-face and or online mode.
More about the Apprenticeship Programm
Success Stories
REFERENCES and TESTIMONIALS
To speak my truth!
“Das Alcazar-Gruppen-Coaching-Format bietet Vielfalt, kombiniert mit Tiefe und Offenheit. Martin gelingt es einen vertrauensvollen Rahmen zu schaffen und kann den Raum halten, wenn wir unsere persönlichen Themen offenbaren und auflösen. Jede Person entscheidet selbst, wie viel und was sie teilen möchte. Die Verantwortung liegt bei uns.
Ich habe durch die Teilnahme an der Alcazar-Gruppe mein Coaching-Profil schärfen können, meinen Umsatz steigern können und bin viel mehr im Einklang mit mir, meinen Angeboten und Kunden. Meine Intention war es “To speak my truth” und ich habe sie auf unterschiedlichsten Ebenen erfahren und stärken können. Ich bedanke mich bei allen für die gemeinsame Zeit. Martin fordert und fördert seine Coachees. Er ist ein außergewöhnlicher Coach mit Herz.”
As the sole founder, it seemed to me at first that everything was going too far. Martin recognized my blind spots and my talents in no time and was able to help me regain my energy so quickly. Today, I am a happy, stable entrepreneur who is able to keep her cool so quickly. Thanks to Martin’s support, I have developed professionally, especially in the areas of personnel management, controlling and company values. I have also grown personally through Martin’s coaching and have now become a new mother. With a perfectly fitting team that lives the company values, the combination of motherhood and entrepreneurship is also possible with a clear conscience and for this I thank Martin from the bottom of my heart.
I have known Martin Frederik Garbers since 2018, when we first explored possibilities for collaboration. I immediately understood Martin’s uniqueness in the combination of strong business/ financial understanding with an ability to connect deeply to individuals around him. We started collaborating in the scope of NeverDoneBefore (NDB), an exclusive community of expert facilitators that he joined in Summer 2020. In January 2021, I invited Martin to join the advisory board which consists of six expert facilitators with the ability to support NDB’s mission through strategic advice and critical feedback on a pro-bono basis.
His knowledge, devotion and engagement have contributed to the shaping of the NeverDoneBefore community and educational programme. Within the advisory board, Martin has continuously challenged our assumptions and thereby helped us grow in unexpected ways that exceeded my expectations by far. Martin connects easily with those around him and impacts other people’s way of thinking through his powerful questions and sharp observations.
Martin stands out in the coaching community through his ability to apply various methods – financial and business as much as visual and spiritual approaches – to the various contexts his clients’ encounter. I highly recommend Martin as a coach or advisor of solopreneurs who want to explore growth opportunities beyond their imagination.
After years in strategy consulting it was important to me to find my own style and way. Martin helps me with this as an external sparring partner, who taxes important impulses for my decisions. I have developed a clear vision for my professional and private goals and needs and I consistently adhere to it. This enables me to make decisions faster, sometimes based on gut feeling – and I can always check whether I am still on the right track. Coaching with Martin helps me to realize much more of my potential. Over time, I have found out that in my job it is similar to what I do in sports. The more I work on myself, the more progress I can make.
When I was promoted to division manager, my biggest challenge was to change my focus from the operational business to my role as a leader: to become effective through my employees instead of doing it myself. Already in the first intensive coaching session I was able to gain important insights for me and my new leadership role. Martin instructed me to work out a target picture for one year and to derive from it the essential steps that we worked out together during the year. With these new insights, I decided to deploy independent teams with team leaders and to concentrate more on leading the teams. This restructuring has given my department an important motivational boost with the newly formed independent teams, which has also triggered a growth spurt. Martin gave me practical tools from the book “Leading Simple”. It was almost even more important to question old patterns and develop new creative solutions each time. Even if I should not reach the “impossible goal”, it is simply a pleasure to fill it with life every day. My leadership is now clearer and much more effective than before.
With his business background, I was very open to ask Martin to help me with issues of professional and personal development. I expected a structured and procedural approach in the support. What I experienced was a heart-filled person who took me by the hand at eye level to lead me to answers that I could not have given myself. As a result, Martin regularly supports me to lift my mental fog and surprises me with his sensitivity and leadership. He is, in short, an outstanding coach, person and now also friend.
more testimonials
I have known Martin Frederik Garbers since 2018, when we first explored possibilities for collaboration. I immediately understood Martin’s uniqueness in the combination of strong business/ financial understanding with an ability to connect deeply to individuals around him. We started collaborating in the scope of NeverDoneBefore (NDB), an exclusive community of expert facilitators that he joined in Summer 2019. In January 2020, I invited Martin to join the advisory board which consists of six expert facilitators with the ability to support NDB’s mission through strategic advice and critical feedback on a pro-bono basis.
His knowledge, devotion and engagement have contributed to the shaping of the NeverDoneBefore community and educational programme. Within the advisory board, Martin has continuously challenged our assumptions and thereby helped us grow in unexpected ways that exceeded my expectations by far. Martin connects easily with those around him and impacts other people’s way of thinking through his powerful questions and sharp observations.
Martin stands out in the coaching community through his ability to apply various methods – financial and business as much as visual and spiritual approaches – to the various contexts his clients’ encounter. I highly recommend Martin as a coach or advisor of solopreneurs who want to explore growth opportunities beyond their imagination.
Myriam, Managing Director, NeverDoneBefore.org
Martin fulfills exactly everything I want from a first-class business coach. He is himself an experienced manager, advisor, sparring partner, and people person. He sees details and the big picture. I have been working with him for more than a year in regular sessions. In the process, I have come closer to my personal development goals in rapid steps. Sometimes with amazing methods. Sometimes because he simply makes you aware of the obvious. I can highly recommend Martin as a business coach.
Jonas, Managing Director, media agency
Martin Garbers has the ability like no other to penetrate complex situations and, by asking specific questions, to find new, decisive pieces of the puzzle, from which a surprising overall picture then emerges.
Dirk, Fellow R&D, Hi-Tech-Industry
Martin Garbers has a fine feeling for his counterpart. His structured approach and his questions to the point led convincingly and quickly to the goal during a coaching session.
Jörn, entrepreneur, PR/Marketing
The coaching enables to recognize the essential even in complex situations. After a coaching session, the solution to a problem that I have been thinking about for a long time appears crystal clear. It helps me to make decisions and to become a little bit better every day in what I do.
Thomas, CFO, Electrical Engineering
As a mentor coach of the Munich Academy for Business Coaching, I experienced Martin as an empathic sparring partner at eye level, who, by asking the right questions, had brought me from a position of self-doubt into a self-reflective, positive basic mood, in which I was able to approach new solutions with motivation. In addition, I was able to get good impulses for my own coaching style, which had already helped me very well in many situations. All in all, Martin was able to help me make a significant leap forward in my personal development and give me the necessary energy to change even complex issues, outside my own comfort zone.
Dietmar, senior executive, automotive supplier
A forward-looking coaching that covers the areas of heart and mind. Martin Garbers has worked very intensively on my specific roles as an entrepreneur and private person. The coaching was trend-setting and gave me a lot of confidence in the future development of the company.
Georg, Managing Director, construction supplier
After about one year of individual and team coaching with Martin I draw the following conclusion: I have achieved all my goals defined at the beginning of the coaching! Therefore it was very clear to me that I would like to extend the coaching with Martin. Each coaching session with Martin helps me to see my role as an entrepreneur and my long-term life vision more clearly. Each coaching session results in a series of new insights and tangible to-do’s, which significantly accelerate my personal development as an entrepreneur and help me to identify and successfully overcome hurdles that currently hold me back. I am very grateful to Martin for his help and hope that we can continue to work together so successfully.
Bakir, entrepreneur, Music Industry
Martin combines two qualities that could not be more perfect: The methodical numbers man and the sensitive soul man. He thus succeeds in making me look not only at business-relevant topics, but also at what lies beneath. Because that is where the unconscious pitfalls for my personal success are anchored. After about 12 years as a self-employed person, I wanted the change from self-employed person to entrepreneur. Martin understood immediately how I meant it and what feeling I associate with it. He creates a framework in which my thoughts and feelings get structure and thus quickly become realizable ideas and measures. Already after a very short time I have taken huge steps forward. Thank you Martin – I am looking forward to the further common way.
Gloria, entrepreneur, graphic design/marketing
Your Coach
Martin Frederik Garbers
As a coach I accompany entrepreneurs and executives on the path of personal development. I am equipped for this with the analytical-technical numerical reasoning of an industrial engineer, leadership experience through many years as CFO, who knows how to examine business models. As a trained and certified coach, I also bring my empathic and methodical skills to bear, enabling me to approach my clients with confidence and commitment and to guide them in their further development with an independent view from the outside.
More important than thinking for me is sensing! It needs a strong NO to be able to say a big YES! For this realization I have walked two million steps to the end of the world. At the end of the Saint-James-Way in Finisterre I did not know what I would do next. When I asked myself: Am I going back to the corporate world? my body had a clear answer: NO! From thereon I was able to follow my own path and am building a strong YES on the clear NO.
“Play your game, and don’t play any other game” is one of my guiding principles. According to my conviction and experience, if you follow your inner-compass life will arrange it self authentic joie de vivre in business activities. I accompany my clients on the path, creating security, with an eye on the essential. Powerful and moving at the same time, intuitively and measurably towards joy.
Is the path easy? NO! But it is worth it and if it is done step by step with a guide any path becomes simple.
Systemic Business Coach (SBC) Graduated industrial engineer
Trainer for Design Thinking, Business Model Generation and Business Model You
Former Europe CFO of an American corporation, 18 years international corporate experience
3 languages: German, English, Italian
Your Coach
Martin Frederik Garbers
As a coach I accompany entrepreneurs and executives on the path of personal development. I am equipped for this with the analytical-technical numerical reasoning of an industrial engineer, leadership experience through many years as CFO, who knows how to examine business models. As a trained and certified coach, I also bring my empathic and methodical skills to bear, enabling me to approach my clients with confidence and commitment and to guide them in their further development with an independent view from the outside.
More important than thinking, for me is feeling! It needs a strong NO to be able to say a big YES! For this realization I have walked two million steps to the end of the world. At the end of the Saint-James-Way I did not know what I would do next. When I asked myself: Will I go back to the corporate world? my body had a clear answer: NO! From thereon I was able to built a strong YES on that.
“Play your game, and don’t play any other game” is one of my guiding principles. According to my conviction and experience, many paths leads to success are based on authentic joie de vivre in business activities. I accompany my clients on the path, creating security, with an eye on the essential. Powerful and moving at the same time, intuitively and measurably towards joy.
Is the path easy? NO! But it is worth it.
Systemic Business Coach (SBC)
Graduated industrial engineer
Trainer for Design Thinking, Business Model Generation and Business Model You
Former Europe CFO of an American corporation
3 languages: German, English, Italian
Skills
- Requirement
- Conviction
- Procedure and scope
- Cocreate joy of life
- Important keywords
- Possible forms of coaching
- Growth according to Fibonacci principle
Requirement
I expect my clients to have the courage to go their own way. On the way there are obstacles, like the fear of change. My clients bring the willingness to face this!
To make this possible, we create a strong coaching agreement, which creates commitment, enables directness and is the basis for clear communication. For me coaching is: leadership!
Conviction
I am convinced that a healthy business existence is based on human sustainability and inner fire that wants to burn. Inner growth always occurs when the passion for your own potential can regain the upper hand, when your entrepreneurial creativity inspires the people around you – and thus presents both the company and your own vision in a new light. “Lead yourself and others! As in small things so in large things” Together we will consistently follow this path.
Procedure and scope
For me, coaching is a constant process of change. It needs time and endurance. Therefore I only coach long and deep with a clear agreement.
How and where? Both in the open air and on the flipchart in my studio, we work with targeted structural elements such as financial indicators to make visions measurable. Leadership coaching is a 1:1 appointment for your development with an outside view, therefore not in your company. My coaching sessions are designed for the long term. Only through a continuous process do insights and change emerge.
Cocreate joy of life
I challenge my clients to go beyond their comfort zone of competence, because growth is only possible at the edge of the competence zone. Wherever it is a little exciting and uncomfortable, joy of life can be created authentically from not being there.
I am a trained and certified coach, have many years of resilient experience in the areas of finance and controlling and am equipped with intuition, feeling and energy for the further development of people. My heart is opened when I can experience clients rediscovering their true calling in a joyful and powerful way.
Important keywords
Inner Fire, Knowledge, Energy, Flow, Abundance, Joy, Vision, Growth, Sense, Core, Being Alpha, Keyboard of Leadership, Emotionality, Development, New Start, Risk, Courage, Crystallization, Lighthouse, Way of St. James, Leading Simple, Paradox, Transformation, Systemic, Spiral Dynamics, Fibonacci, Upper Limit Problem, Self Sabotage, Zone-of-Genius
Possible forms of coaching
I offer individual coaching, group coaching, facilitation and Camino Coaching (walking along the Saint James path or in nature).
Growth according to Fibonacci principle
In nature, healthy growth takes place from the inside out, often following the principle observed by Leonardo de Fibonacci. I also use this principle in my coaching sessions. Each step in development, whether personal or corporate, builds on its predecessor, but there is always a change of direction, so that the spiral grows evenly from the inside out.
This principle is reflected in my logo. The healthy growth is the golden spiral and the blue lines serve as a construction aid. Ideally the coaching interventions are only a construction aid, because the actual growth usually takes place between the coachings. Once you have internalized the principle, you can easily take the next steps yourself.
Martin Frederik Garbers
Camino Coaching
c/o BayernConsult
Ismaninger Str. 68, 81675 München
Tel mobil: +49 172 1328207
Email coach(at)martin-frederik-garbers.com
As an entrepreneur and human being, discover your inner compass and joyfully tap your potential. Coaching with Martin Frederik Garbers accompanies you on the path to entrepreneurial growth and authentically lived joy of life.
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