Ariane Nickel MSc.
Clarity and coherence in complex contexts.
For people and organisations in challenging situations and constellations.
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Who I work with
I work with entrepreneurs, leaders and organisations, artists, doctors, high performers and initiatives when classic solutions alone no longer work, or do not yet work well enough, so that ideas, knowledge and commitment become tangible solutions and valuable enrichments that are of real use.
Virtuality (phil.) means the space of possibilities.
Hello
@arianenickel.de
I do not work with the surface.
But with what actually has an effect.
The goal is clarity that holds,
and implementation that lasts.
We work together on the points
where decisions are hard to make.
Where complexity, responsibility
and personal dynamics come together.
My approach combines Positive Psychology,
management experience and feasibility.
ANONYMOUS & confidential
Confidentiality comes first.
Many of my clients work in sensitive contexts and value absolute discretion.
Content remains protected, feedback anonymised.
Collaboration takes place in a protected space that makes clarity and development possible.
All offers are designed to recognise individual solutions and move forward in a protected and discreet environment. I understand the challenges, and with respect and more than 30 years of experience I deliberately offer anonymous solutions in Private Areas, tailored to the individual needs of discerning clients.
Loyalty, wellbeing and privacy are our highest priority.
Voices from our work together: from confidential 1:1 engagements in coaching, mediation and leadership supervision. To the voices
Leadership begins within ourselves
Our work together is about staying clear and acting effectively, even in complex and demanding situations.
Making decisions that hold.
Taking responsibility without losing yourself.
Clarity, integrity and inner stability form the foundation for lasting impact.
It is about understanding obstacles instead of avoiding them, and enabling real development from them.
Guiding principles
The word cloud is from my TalentCoach feedback.
What working with me means
My approach
Ariane Nickel (MSc. in Communication and Business Psychology) combines psychological expertise with more than 30 years of experience in Personnel & Business Development, Management Consulting, Marketing, Supervision and her own research.
Her approach goes beyond classic method, tool and solution orientation.
At its centre is the question of what brings people into integrity, inwardly and outwardly, and what separates them from it.
She therefore works not only on the level of visible behaviour, but includes different levels of human development and of shaping relationships:
- Understanding: recognising psychological and systemic connections
- Perceiving: using feelings and resonance as information
- Integrity: making inner and outer contradictions visible
- Transfer: translating insights into concrete behaviour and everyday life
- Development: not merely compensating for patterns, but changing them sustainably
In doing so, she combines psychoeducation, Positive Psychology, systemic thinking, many years of practical experience and her own models and profilings into a holistic approach.
In addition, Ariane includes an energetic, holistic experiential approach, clearly labelled as such.
The focus is not on the next method, but on the person in their individual dynamics, and on the ability to shape coherent decisions and relationships from within themselves.
Deep Dive & Coherence
She does not see the behaviour, but the stage of consciousness from which a behaviour arises.
She recognises:
- ego stages
- developmental standstills
- identity programmes
- torn lines of integrity
- dysfunctional family fields
- resonance patterns
- inner team dynamics
- energetic self-sabotage
This makes solutions possible that do not treat symptoms, but change the original codes.
She works integratively, not ego-centred.
Ariane leads people out of egoic patterns (control, fear, conformity, performance, expectations)
into integrated stages:
- inner clarity
- emotional truth
- expression with integrity
- conscious action
- responsible freedom
- self-leadership instead of self-optimisation
This is not esotericism and not mindset training.
It is integral psychology of consciousness.
She recognises energy not metaphorically, but precisely.
Ariane can:
- distinguish between toxic, unconscious and integrated energy
- recognise blockages in the emotional field
- name distortions of dynamics precisely
- grasp hidden patterns of manipulation immediately
- unmask the ego shortcuts
- distinguish between resonance and trauma intolerance
This makes her work radically efficient, and at the same time radically full of integrity.
For her, integrity is not a concept
For her, integrity is not a concept.
It is the touchstone of her life.
She has:
- left toxic relationships behind
- transformed family patterns
- dissolved emotional dependencies
- freed her own lifeline
- put truth above harmony
- not put her work above her soul
Ariane is credible because her method arose from self-transformation, not from theoretical knowledge.
She works on a transrational level of consciousness.
While many consultants switch between the rational (knowledge) and the emotional (feeling) level,
Ariane works on the level behind them:
- patterns that repeat themselves
- axes of eros and integrity
- life tasks
- lines of truth of the soul
- systemic embedding
- energetic dynamics
- the unconscious driving forces of a life
This is the level that creates real change.
Not coaching.
Transformation.
Her USP in one sentence
Ariane sees coherence, i.e. the one truth that is coherent for everyone who is centred in themselves, behind all the ego truths,
and brings people to where they can act self-effectively without betraying themselves.
Dissonance vs. resonance.
Her connection to leaders and people with high responsibility
Ariane does not work for likes.
But for people who:
- bear responsibility
- have impact
- want to work on themselves
- no longer want to manipulate or be manipulated
- are ready to face their truth
- want to lead a life of integrity
She works with leaders who value someone who:
- sees them
- sees through them
- clarifies
- strengthens
- integrates
- stabilises
- and invites them to the next stages of consciousness
Experience professional practice
Expertise
- Management training & consulting (30+)
- Business Development (30+)
- Leadership/team management (30+)
- Entrepreneurship (30+)
- Marketing (30+)
- Communication (30+)
- Adult education (30+)
- Media-supported learning (30+)
- Learning motivation (master's thesis) (10+)
- Media design (30+)
- Psychology, Positive Psychology etc. (30+)
Management Consulting & Training
- Leadership Supervision
- Positive Leadership Training
- Positive Teamplay Co-working
- Positive Corporate Culture
- Design and moderation of strategy meetings
- Fireside talks for entrepreneurs, managers and in-house leadership teams
- Mystery Observation
- Congress management
- Setting up and running an in-house academy
- Training management and company seminars
- Entrepreneur Mentoring
- Communication
- critical success factors
- Leader image
- Emotional and social competence
- Self-motivation
- Stress management
- Sales partner management
- International dealer conferences
Business Development
- Corporate Identity relaunch
- Global profit centre management
- Management of communication and interaction between business units
- Product launches, relaunches
- Web strategy, e-commerce etc.
- Process analyses and more
- Mystery shopping/test purchases
- Mystery Observation
- Quality analyses of customer service and telephone support
- Complaint management
- Processes and communication across sites or departments
- Pilot project management
- new markets, multilingualism
- Customer interviews
- Employee interviews
- Sales partner interviews
Human Resources (HR)
- In-house Academy Management; trainer management, offer management, analysis and optimisation of measures, participant interviews, quality analysis
- Recruiting; staffing needs analysis, briefing for job advertisements, interviews, optimisation of assessments, recommendations for personnel selection, onboarding support
- Personnel development, further training; training needs analysis, setting up and running a training centre, selection, support and coordination of speakers, lecturer planning
- Running an in-house academy
- Specialist congress management
- Running company seminars
- Team management of a training centre
- Seminars, workshops
- Webinars
- Management, team and individual coaching
- Career, out-/newplacement, career orientation, assessing where you stand (What do I want?), analysis of CV/vita, recommendation for ideal positioning, optimisation of application documents, support with job hunting, speculative applications, cover letters, application strategies, labour market research, ideal matching, preparation, interview training, decision support, help with career changes, changing lanes
- Startup; personality-oriented coaching for business founders
- Leader & Entrepreneur Supervision
Marketing
- Achieving marketing goals through the targeted and skilfully combined use of marketing instruments. Budget planning and control.
- Development (launch/relaunch) and maintenance of a consistent Corporate Identity and Corporate Design, setting up and implementing improved organisational processes
- Setting up and maintaining press and competitor archives
- Developing advertising, PR and sales promotion concepts and measures, also in cooperation with external agents or internal departments
- Conception, planning, development and design as well as production handling of advertising materials, including business stationery, business cards, visit reports, flyers, brochures, graphics and photo work, giveaways, invitations, mailings, news, in-house magazines, price lists, creation of signage systems for company buildings
- Internet relaunch; analysis and optimisation, conception, design and creation of web presences (website and more, usability, psych. profiling and more) as well as web promotion, also in cooperation with programmers, web agencies etc.
- Sponsoring; negotiating sponsorship engagements, presenting beneficial offers, maintaining contact with sponsors and clubs, representing the company at sponsorship events
- Sales support; team supervision, in particular improving efficiency and performance, motivation and conflict resolution, sourcing address data, conducting telephone marketing training and the basics of telephoning for sales and hotline staff, creating argumentation aids, interview and evaluation forms, feedback forms, online surveys, evaluations, e.g. references, introduction of certificates, sales spirit analysis and solutions
- Sales promotion campaigns; company/image positioning, placing products/services as offers or offer packages, events such as experience days, courses, in-house fairs, open days, sales training, managing campaigns, events, telemarketing training and projects, trade fairs, online data collection, interviews and evaluations, customer and employee trips/conferences/incentives
- Trade fairs; organisation, preparation and coordination of trade fair appearances, including Cebit, Systems, Internat. Eisenwarenmesse, Collections Premiere and more
- Developing stand concepts in cooperation with exhibition stand builders
- Managing set-up, designing the trade fair presentation
- Sales optimisation, stand staff training
- Developing, conducting and evaluating visitor interviews
- Generating prospects/customers, optimising lead generation
- Pre- and post-trade-fair management analysis and optimisation options
- Event management/events; running and organising information events, seminars, congresses, presentation days, sales partner meetings, opening ceremonies, anniversary celebrations and more, lecture presentations also multimedia, press conferences
- Design of participant documentation
- Participant interviews / evaluations
- Project management; coordination tasks in project teams, project leadership, supervision
- Media support; developing presentations, information materials, advertisements, reports
Media
- Conception, design and production
- Multifunctional web projects and online academy incl. community, e-commerce, learning management system LMS, AI chat, event management and much more
- hybrid media mix projects
- multilingual learning media L&D, interactive e-learning projects, knowledge bases and much more
- Social media content strategy
- Copywriting
- Blended Training, Blended Coaching Virtual Expert Base
- Multimedia lecture presentations
- Training concepts/presentations
- Video productions, interactive videos, conversation simulations
- Commercial productions
- TV/cinema productions
- Animations
- Marketing campaigns
- Trade fair appearances
- Polls, studies, online interviews, mass data collection, online tests & analyses
- Online and mobile solutions, responsive design
- Landing pages, sales pages, funnels / flows
- Mobile apps Android & Apple
- Classic print media
- Books; self-publishing, publisher
- Profiles/dossiers, curriculum vitae, authentic qualification profiles
Curriculum Vitae / Qualifications
- Master of Science, MSc. in Communication and Business Psychology, FH Wien
- Certified health & prevention consultant
- Certified psych. management trainer, coach & supervisor
- Trainer of media designers
- Studies in social behavioural sciences, economics, law, FernUniversität Hagen
- Business grammar school Abitur + general university entrance qualification
- Commercial vocational training with distinction
I am
Ariane Nickel MSc.
Founder and Managing Director Facultas Vivendi | vitalvita
Let's Talk
The best reference is and remains you yourself.
A warm welcome!
- If you are at a point where standard solutions no longer work, a conversation makes sense.
- Choose a slot in the calendar and we both automatically receive the Zoom link and reminders by email.
- Confidential conversation
You can book appointments in my calendar at any time, take up a free initial consultation, and we get to know each other and clarify together what will move you forward now.
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