Academic  Credentials

Background and Academic Qualifications.

Academic and professional qualifications underpinning Kerstin’s work in leadership development, organisational behaviour, and workplace wellbeing.

Kerstin’s professional background spans corporate, entrepreneurial, and leadership roles. Having worked as an employee, a leader, and a business owner, she understands the pressures leaders and managers face from multiple perspectives.

This experience enables her to recognise not only surface problems in organisations, but also the deeper opportunities that often lie beneath them.

Academic Qualifications

2025
PhD in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour
UGSM–Monarch Business School, Switzerland (Distinction)

2016
Master’s Degree in Applied Positive Psychology
University of East London, United Kingdom (Distinction)

Coaching and Professional Accreditation

2023
ICF-accredited Professional Certified Coach (PCC)

2012
Positive Psychology Coaching Diploma
School of Coaching Mastery, United States (Designated Coach Trainer)

2009–2010
Certified Inner Life Skills Coach and Life Coaching Diploma
Life Coaching Institute, United Kingdom

Specialist Training and Applied Learning

2020
Empathy, Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness, and Resilience at Work
UC Berkeley, United States

2019
Certificate in Organisational Crisis Management
UGSM–Monarch Business School, Switzerland

Happiness @ Work Facilitator
Global accreditation and Master Group contributor, South Africa