Leading in Research & Development can be
brutal - we make good leadership doable!
your team – with Leadership Sculptor’s Coaching & Training.
Leading in Research & Development can be
brutal - we make good leadership doable!
your team – with Leadership Sculptor’s Coaching & Training.
Got 90 seconds? See what you can get out of this!
“You have to suffer for your PhD”
researchers believe that if you aren’t anxious 24/7 or suffering from imposter syndrome, then you’re doing
something wrong.
So, as a leader:
- How do you create a productive environment that is also positive?
- How do you manage your team so effectively that you meet deadlines and achieve outstanding results?
- How do you get your team to respect you and spark the same passion you have for your work?
- How do you teach your team to independently accomplish their work without you having to double-check everything?
- How do you create a productive environment that is also positive?
- How do you manage your team so effectively that you meet deadlines and achieve outstanding results?
- How do you get your team to respect you and spark the same passion you have for your work?
- How do you teach your team to independently accomplish their work without you having to double-check everything?
There are many challenges that you need to face if you want to become a good
leader. With Leadership Sculptor you get the tools and solutions!
Testimonials
Prof. Anja Zeigerer
Division Head Research Group Endocytosis and Metabolism at Helmholtz Munich
Prof. Maria Cristina Gambetta
Assistant Professor at University of Lausanne
Dr. Johannes Meiser
Head of Cancer Metabolism Research Group and FNR ATTRACT fellow at Luxembourg Institute of Health
50% of scientists experience anxiety and
depression in their careers
institution chose you to become a leader – even if you can’t believe it sometimes!
- The pressure to perform is ON
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There are always new problems that have to be solved
IMMEDIATELY
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You have ambitious goals and strict deadlines from your
bosses
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You have to work around the rigidity of the academic
system
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You have team members fighting over resources and
equipment
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You’re struggling to get your
team to perform well
Learning how to create a healthy work environment
The fitness factors of good leadership
- The quality and number of publications
- The level of research money attracted
Once there, you have to manage your team, your boss, and the academic system. And they all:
- come from different disciplines
- have very different approaches to analysing and solving problems
- are from different cultures & backgrounds
This makes R&D a challenging place to lead!
to develop and execute research strategies
to develop your team members, leverage their strengths, and help them improve
to recognise and resolve conflicts
to communicate effectively with your team and your boss
to delegate work while ensuring the required quality
Become the best leader you never had!
- achieve extraordinary results
- attract excellent staff
- get permanent job offers
Depending on your needs, we offer bespoke events and
workshops in person or online.
Group training for whole organisations
Improve leaders throughout your organisation. We come on-site or host online events with topic-specific workshops and interactive training sessions for your organisation.
Group training in an organisation
Improve your leadership skills. Benefit from the exchange with leaders from other organisations.
Individual training in coaching sessions
You have already participated in one of our Leadership Sculptor trainings or are seeking 1:1 coaching and more advice for your specific challenges? We’ve got you covered!
Choose the right Leadership Sculptor support
What our clients say
Prof. Dr. Claudia Bank (Head of Division)
Theoretical Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern
The EMBO Lab Leadership Course has greatly affected my approach to group leadership. It now sounds obvious, but one of the crucial things I learned was that everyone is different, and that by taking this into account we can grow into better mentors, leaders and collaborators. Specifically, I learned that what worked for me as a student/postdoc must not necessarily work for my mentees. It was wonderful to have Mette as my 24/7 coach for some months last year. She coached me through important career decisions and guided me to identifying my personal values. In difficult situations I still think “What would Mette ask me now?” because the coaching helped untangle my thoughts and keep my goals in sight“
Dr. Tomasz Wilanowsk (Group Leader)
Laboratory of Signal Transduction, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
“Great thanks for a great EMBO Lab Management Course (Ware, April 2011)! It’s already been a while since the course ended, so I’ve had a lot of time to see for myself how much I’ve learned from you. The things that you taught me have been very helpful in the running of my lab, recruiting new staff and so on. These were four most productive days of my life! I can’t thank you enough for that.”
Prof. Katja Schmitz
Clemens Schöpf Institute for Organic Chemistry and BiochemistryTU Darmstadt
CJ helped me with the tools, but much more importantly I now understand that these issues around time management were just symptoms pointing to some deeper challenges. Meeting these has brought a big shift in my leadership. I now understand that power is not a burden, but much more a lever to give me the freedom I need to do the research I want to. In addition, I now have pragmatic tools that help me to delegate and to help my people to learn how to solve their own problems. His approach to get me to observe and collect data about my own behaviour and thoughts has been invaluable. Getting used to viewing issues from a new perspective opened up new solutions quickly. The coaching also helped me to calm down and to complete the majority of my project proposals on time without burning the midnight oil.
Dr. Davide Danovi
(attended an EMBO Lab Management course in Heidelberg, 2008, while at Cambridge University) Director, HipSci Cell PhenotypingCentre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine,King’s College London
“The EMBO Lab Management course was very useful, extremely interesting and a lot of fun. Many of the concepts explained in it have brought awareness to my work life and still echo in everyday’s problems and opportunities. I fully recommend it to anyone who is willing to take up the challenge of building up a personal style to convey genuinely professional behaviour in academia or industry.”
Dr. Sarah Hyder Iqbal
The Wellcome Trust, DBT India Alliance
The style in which this course was delivered was truly unique and nothing like I have experienced before. There was no hierarchy, (nearly) no boundaries when it came to asking questions (or session timings), it almost appeared like a bunch of people got together to discuss challenges in their day-to-day professional lives and arrived at possible solutions with the help of the course facilitators and their fellow participants. This incredibly creative, empathetic, and participatory approach ensured that participants learned a great deal by the end of the course (a rare outcome of such short-term courses) and in the process formed a strong bond among themselves and with the trainers.
Dr. Samuel Krahl
EMBO Solutions
The feedback from participants on both the quality of the course material and the quality of the Leadership Sculptor training team is hugely positive, with particular emphasis often placed on how flexible and willing the trainers are to provide valuable, individual help on specific challenges faced by participants.
Prof. Anders Rosengren
Gothenburg University
I decided to get a coach when I was preparing for a grant interview that was critical to my career as an academic researcher. There might be a certain threshold to contacting a coach, as it may feel like “overdoing” things. However, in retrospect it is difficult to picture a more efficient way of spending your time and money. In my case, we had a specific task. I needed to refine my vision, strategy and leadership philosophy to be in good shape for the grant interview. Considering how much time you spend writing the grant, having a coach for 4 hours was indeed well-invested time.”
The Leadership Sculptor Team
Over the years, CJ has further refined this approach
with the help of his growing expert team:
- Education: Diploma and Ph.D. in Biology
- Languages: English and German
- Education: B.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Numerical Analysis
- Languages: English and German
- Education: BA Intercultural Management & Communications
- Languages: English and German
- Education: MA., English & Communications
- Languages: English, Danish, Swedish
- Education: B.Sc. in Biology, Ph.D. in Molecular Biology / Protein Chemistry, N.D. in Naturopathic medicine
- Languages: English
- Education: M.Sc. Industrial Engineeringand Management
- Languages: English and German
- Education: DPhil Leadership in Performance and - Change / MA Industrial Psychology
- Languages: English and Afrikaans
- Education: Primary and secondary school teacher
- Languages: English, German, French
- Education: Post Graduate Certificate in Education B.Sc.(Hons) Physics and Chemistry of Materials
- Languages: English
- Education: B.Sc. Marketing Communication and Advertising
- Languages: English
- Education: BBA Marketing, MA International Marketing & Brand Management
- Languages: English
Our Base, Meckesheim
We currently train leaders and their teams in in-person and online workshops across
Europe, North America and India. We are also producing digital self-learning courses based
on our material. In addition, we deliver coachings in-person and online.