Positive Potential Coach
Author/TEDX Speaker
I am passionate about helping people unlock their positive potential—the untapped capacity each of us carries to live with more clarity, compassion, and courage.
As a Positive Potential Coach, I guide individuals, teams, and organizations to move beyond self-doubt, embrace self-compassion, and activate the strengths that allow them to thrive. My approach combines positive psychology research with practical, hands-on strategies that bring lasting change.
Rand in a Nutshell:
- Born and raised in Chicago, living in Germany since 1999
- Author Awful-ly Happy
- International Positive Potential Coach for individuals, companies, associations and universities
- Expert in Positive Psychology (Certified by Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener)
- Member of IPPA, AGBC, ISQOLS
- PhD Well-being Researcher (Open University)
My Passion
1 on 1 Self-Discovery Sessions
These personal sessions will give you the tools to talk to the inner voice of “I’m not enough” and eventually send it on vacation
Seminars/ Workshops
Train management and staff to focus on their strengths and introducing awareness, compassion and gratitude in the workplace
Positive Potential Coach
For over 30 years, I’ve been an American educator and have been helping to develop the human potential that lies within each individual. Whether it was the Native Americans on the reservations in New Mexico or Italian street children in Rome, I always provided the crucial psychological tools to work out individual strengths, individual consciousness and self-compassion. Twenty five years ago, I brought my knowledge and experience to Europe. In university lectures, seminars and trainings, I “teach” doctoral students, business men and women, employees of international companies and private individuals and groups throughout Europe.
As a well-being researcher at Open University in The Netherlands, I work within the relatively new science of happiness, also known as “Positive Psychology”. Positive psychology deals with human emotions, strengths, relationships, the meaning of life and our achievements. Through mindfulness and self-compassion, we increase our well-being and happiness – eventually building a positive relationship with first, ourselves and then with those around us. My current passion is to coach people to use their positive potential and give them “tools” in one-on-ones, seminar, workshops, retreats and universities around Europe – eventually helping them build their potential strengths. These strengths are already there…let me help you bring them out.
A Book That Teaches Resilience & Acceptance
I bring in the latest and most up-to-date scientific studies to explain how important and priceless my childhood actually was. I describe 20 indispensable and extremely useful lessons that have helped me become a more respectful son to my mom, a more positive role model to my daughter and a more dedicated and loyal partner to my significant other … and let’s not forget, a more supportive friend to those in my life.
