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Strength training is dangerous. For powerful women. I want to tell you about something that has changed me more than almost anything else in the past years. It isn't a method or a program. It's lifting heavy things, again and again, with people who notice when I don't show up. When I started strength training, I thought it would be about my body. And it is. But not in the way I expected. For me, strength training means seeing, through my own body, that I can actually grow. No

Every company I talk to says it wants to put people first. Leaders want healthier teams, more inclusion and workplaces where people can bring their whole selves. Yet when it comes to actually doing it, most organizations get stuck. I think one reason is that most of the topics we use to talk about the human side of work are abstract. Neurodivergence, ADHD and autism are incredibly important, but many people still find them hard to grasp, and leaders often do not know where to

Menopause as a rebuild of the brain and of life 3 a.m., a bedroom in Munich. A woman, 47, wakes up drenched in sweat. Her heart is racing, a heat rising from the inside. She lies awake thinking about things she has carried for years. The next day, in a meeting, a word she has used a thousand times escapes her. On the drive home she cries in the car without quite knowing why. And months later she says a sentence I hear very often in my work: "I'm not doing this anymore." Many

The German government’s recent decision to fund research and workplace programs around menopause is an important milestone for women’s health at work . It signals that the biological realities of half the workforce are finally entering public policy. But from my work with more than 3,000 people and multiple organizations on the theme of integrating awareness and education on women´s health at the workplace, I see one truth very clearly: Policies alone do not change behavior.