We are part of
Search Deutsch Accessibility Plain language

Coaching

  • Organizer: KIT FORGE
  • Audience: Students, Researchers, Founders
  • Language: German, English
  • Cost: Free of charge

Coaching focuses on structured guidance rather than pre-packaged answers. Coaching is an individual and team-based support service offered by KIT FORGE at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Designed for prospective founders, research teams, and early-stage entrepreneurs, this format provides systematic framework and reflection to navigate strategic, organizational, and personal decisions along the venture creation journey. 

Unlike specialized advisory sessions, coaching empowers participants to develop their own actionable solutions—covering everything from initial idea refinement and founder team dynamics to strategic decision-making and career choices around entrepreneurship. 

Structure & applications

  • Individual & team coaching: Flexible sessions tailored to individual founders or multi-disciplinary project teams based on their current development phase.

  • Focus areas: Idea validation, founder team alignment, conflict resolution, strategic prioritization, and personal decision-making in the founding context.

  • Program integration & independent access: Embedded as a core component in structured support initiatives such as EXIST-Women, HAFIS, and InnoSuper, while remaining accessible as a standalone support service.
Our experts support you

Have questions or interested? Get in touch!

Schadi Neumann

Your contact person

Schadi Neumann
Coach, Senior Researchers
schadi.neumann@kit.edu LinkedIn

Ready to build
what’s next?

Whether you have a vague idea, a breakthrough research paper, or an active startup – let’s talk.

Consulting inquiry

* Required field

I agree that my personal data submitted via the contact form may be processed by KIT FORGE for the following purposes: contacting me and providing startup consulting services. The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based solely on my consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). The information I provide in the contact form, including my contact details, will be stored by KIT FORGE for the purpose of processing my inquiry. KIT FORGE will not share this data with third parties without my consent. The data I enter in the contact form will remain with KIT FORGE until I request its deletion, withdraw my consent to its storage (which I may do informally by email to info@kit-forge.de), or the purpose for which the data was collected no longer applies (e.g. once my inquiry has been fully processed). Mandatory statutory provisions, in particular statutory retention periods, remain unaffected. For information on data protection relating to startup consulting, including applications for public funding programmes for spin-offs, please refer to https://www.kit-forge.de/en/privacy/.

Contact form

For consulting inquiries, please use our separate consulting inquiry form.

* Required field

I agree that my personal data submitted via the contact form may be processed by KIT FORGE for the following purposes: contacting me and providing startup consulting services. The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based solely on my consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). The information I provide in the contact form, including my contact details, will be stored by KIT FORGE for the purpose of processing my inquiry. KIT FORGE will not share this data with third parties without my consent. The data I enter in the contact form will remain with KIT FORGE until I request its deletion, withdraw my consent to its storage (which I may do informally by email to info@kit-forge.de), or the purpose for which the data was collected no longer applies (e.g. once my inquiry has been fully processed). Mandatory statutory provisions, in particular statutory retention periods, remain unaffected. For information on data protection relating to startup consulting, including applications for public funding programmes for spin-offs, please refer to https://www.kit-forge.de/en/privacy/.