The Founders

Dr. Rolf Meier and Axel Janssen got to know each other in 2004 and identified a similar understanding of values in coaching, from which they developed the “think tank” Hamburger Schule.

Dr. Rolf Meier

Dr. Rolf Meier, born in 1944, studied economics at the Freie Universitaet Berlin with a central focus on business and economics education. For more than 20 years he held managerial and managing director positions in various fields and organisations.
Author of many books, he has always dealt thoroughly with questions on the selection and further development of employees.
Leadership, as a personal and structural form, is at the centre of his job as a management trainer and consultant of employee development concepts.

Axel Janssen

Axel Janssen, born in 1964, studied educational science with a focus on personnel studies at the Helmut-Schmidt-Universitaet in Hamburg. Many years of leadership experience in managerial positions in a range of fields and organisations have formed his humanistic-constructivist idea of man, as well as his love of and devotion to learning processes combined with a substantial degree of structural design.
Axel Janssen is joint founder of the “Deutscher Verband fuer Coaching und Training” (www.dvct.de) of which he was executive chairman for 5 years.