Dr. Andreas von der Heydt is a renowned international Leadership Expert, Executive Coach, Consultant, and Scholar with nearly three decades of experience building high-performance and entrepreneurial organizations. He's the founder and managing director of AVDH Coaching & Consulting, a certified ICF PCC coach, a Professional Fellow of the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School, and a Senior Lecturer at EBS University. He trained and worked with leading coaches across Europe and the United States, co-founded Amazon Germany's Coaching Program, and was a founding member of L'Oréal's Mentoring Program.
His recent work centers on HUMA, a leadership development framework built on Five Core Competencies and Ten Human Power Skills that prepares leaders to thrive in the AI era. Unlike leadership models that treat technology as the central challenge, HUMA argues the opposite: human capability is the defining leadership question of our time.