Hedwig Fassbender

Systemic Coach

Clear thoughts, clear action.
Personal and professional coaching for artists

Why coaching is right for you?

Are you professionally active as an artist and are sometimes so busy with work that seem to you lose yourself in it? Do you often feel as if you care too little about your career, your image, or your private life? Do you often doubt the path that you are on, feel as if you can’t see what lies ahead, or are even considering quitting?

If you’ve answered „yes“ to any of these questions, I know exactly how you feel.

I have worked actively on the stage for over 35 years. During this time I held a professorship for over twenty years and became a mother of two daughters.

Today, as a systematic coach, it is my goal to help artists achieve more professional and personal clarity. I will professionally accompany you, until you can clearly think and clearly act again.

My personal coaching offers for you:

  • A joint analysis of your current situation
  • The definition of your goals and your inner monologue
  • Joint development of possible solutions

My qualifications:

  • A well-rounded, certified training as Systemic Coach at the European Business School (EBS) with Wilhelm Backhausen
  • Further training in solution-oriented short coaching (LOKC) with Sabine Asgodom
  • Professional coaching experience
  • Over 35 years of international experience on operatic and concert stages
  • Decades of professional contact with artists
  • Experience with and knowledge of hierarchies in the classical music industry
  • Over 20 years of experience as a university professor
  • Years of managerial experience in the conservatory, and as artistic director of several cultural initiatives
  • A good intuition for people and their professional and personal situations
  • Life experience as an artist and working mother
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Possible coaching languages:

German, English, French

Coaching locations:

Frankfurt, Paris, by phone or video conference

Clear thoughts, clear acting.
Coaching for Applicants Seeking Professorships at Conservatories

How this coaching can help you:

Have you gained ample performance and/or teaching experience and now want to pass on your knowledge to the next generation? Would you like to apply for a professorship, but you do not quite know how?

A competitive application for a professorship requires insider knowledge, excellent teaching demonstrations, stringent pedagogical concept work, and eloquence in the interview process.

During my time as both member and chairperson on many appointment committees, I observed time and again how suitable candidates were prematurely dismissed from the interview process due to a lack of knowledge and preparation – mostly regarding teaching demonstrations and institutional structures.

My coaching offers a clear, sound, and structured path, guiding you step by step from the application to your professorship appointment.

The building blocks of the coaching:

  • A first consultation (free of charge)
  • A personalized day tailored to your needs with conversations, analysis and simulation of teaching demonstrations
  • The accompaniment to the successful application
  • Additional one-on-one coachings
  • Preparation and debriefing of your teaching demonstrations
  • Review of your teaching and pedagogical concept documents
  • My availability to you for further questions and/or feedback in person, by phone, or by e-mail at no additional price

My qualifications:

  • A certified training as Systemic Coach at the European Business School (EBS) with Wilhelm Backhausen,
  • Advanced training in solution-oriented short coaching (LOKC) with Sabine Asgodom
  • Over 20 years experience as a university professor, many years as a chair of the voice department and dean
  • Experience as a member, chair, and external expert on appointment committees in Germany, Switzerland and France.
  • Over 35 years of international experience on operatic, concert and recital stages
  • A sound intuition for people
  • Several years of coaching experience
  • A lengthy roster of successful former students
  • Success stories of former clients who now hold professorships
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Possible coaching languages:

German, English, French

Coaching locations:

Frankfurt, Paris, by phone or video conference

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