Individual Coaching for Doctoral Candidates and Postdocs

Coaching is a professional counseling format that offers goal and solution-oriented support during career related change and development processes. 

The Graduate Academy offers individual coaching for GA members. The individual coaching is conducted by GA staff members with a systemic coaching qualification and relies on the GA Counseling Mission Statement. Concerns and topic for individual coaching might stem from the following areas:

• preparation of the doctoral defense, presentations or important talks
• work organisation and time management
• job-related crises an conflicts
• career orientation
• decision-making process: Working in academia – should i stay or should I go?
• work-life-balance

If you are a member of the Graduate Academy and you would like to discuss a job-related topic within an indivdual coaching process comprising max five session á 90 minutes, write us an e-mail to: and arrange an appointment for a first meeting.