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 topics for individual coaching might concern the following areas:

• preparation of the doctoral defense, presentations or important talks
• work organisation and time management
• job-related crises and conflicts
• career orientation
• decision-making processes: 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 individual coaching process comprising a maximum of five session à 90 minutes, write us an e-mail to: and arrange an appointment for a first meeting.