PRIVATE ADVISORY
Power has always needed
places beyond its reach.
An independent,
protected space
outside your system.
Why this space matters
The greater the responsibility, the fewer places there are where a woman does not have to represent anyone or anything.
When decisions carry weight, almost every perspective comes from a particular position.
People within your system speak from their roles, interests and loyalties. They are affected by decisions, bear their consequences or have access to only part of the picture.
Their perspective may be valuable. It is rarely entirely independent.
Responsibility therefore needs a place outside the system.
A place where you do not have to defend a position or meet anyone’s expectations.
Where you do not have to protect, reassure or persuade anyone.
Where you do not have to temper your perception to leave the existing order undisturbed.
Here, what has no place within the system can become visible.
This space is not specialist consulting.
It is not crisis intervention.
It is not an emergency exit.
It is a form of professional care.
So that responsibility can be carried without a woman having to hold back more and more of herself in the process.
Trusted Advisory is a form of professional relationship
Trusted Advisory is not built around a method or a fixed programme. It grows out of a professional relationship that allows closeness without entanglement.
A space where there is no need to perform, protect or gloss over anything.
Independence
I am not part of your system, nor am I invested in any particular outcome.
This allows me to see and articulate what can easily remain invisible within the existing structure.
Loyalty to Your Authority
I am not here to validate you or reinforce a preferred point of view.
My loyalty is to your capacity to see the situation in full and act from your own authority.
Unfiltered Reflection
I consider external power dynamics and internal attachments at the same time.
This shows where real constraints are at work and where inner ties already restrict your scope for action before the system itself does.
Continuity
Our conversations do not begin again from the beginning each time.
I know the history, recognise recurring patterns and notice shifts while you are in the midst of it.
My role is not to tell you who to be or what to do.
My role is to make visible what is still obscuring your own authority.
Female Power Architect describes my work.
Trusted Advisor describes the role I take within it.
Strategic sparring describes how we work together.
Two ways to work together
Three months or six months
Not every woman needs the same length of engagement.
The three-month space offers a clearly defined period of collaboration for working with a current situation over several weeks.
The six-month space is for a woman who knows that the work is not about a single situation, but about the existing form itself.
Both engagements begin with a Power Talk.
Private Advisory
Three months
This space is for women who want to work with a current situation over several weeks.
Rather than seeking clarity in a single conversation, there is enough time to recognise connections, notice changes and continue working with what emerges in everyday life.
Across three sessions, we work with what is actually at play in your life and in the responsibility you carry.
The written exchange between conversations allows you to bring in significant observations and developments without having to wait until the next session.
The framework
Three 90-minute sessions within three months
Online via Zoom or in person in Graz
Written exchange between sessions
English or German
Fee: €1,290
Final price. No additional VAT will be charged.
This three-month engagement can be booked once. If it becomes clear that the work requires more time, it may continue within the six-month engagement.
Beyond the Trellis
Six months
This space is for a woman who knows that she no longer wants to evolve within a form that no longer reflects who she is.
Here, the work goes beyond individual situations. We look at how the existing form continues to shape your life, your role and your relationships. Where familiar patterns of adaptation return. Where your own authority takes up more space. And what happens when this shift has real consequences.
The continuity of our work reveals what can easily remain hidden over a shorter period. I hold the wider context, accompany developments as they unfold and remain available between sessions when something significant begins to move.
The process follows the reality of your life.
Beyond the Trellis is not a programme you complete.
It is a space in which you stop adapting yourself to the existing form.
The framework
18 sessions of approximately 90 minutes each
Flexible scheduling within the agreed period
Ongoing written exchange
Personalised meditations and supporting materials where they serve the work
Online via Zoom or in person in Graz
Optional intensive day by individual arrangement
English or German
Fee: €7,900
or six monthly instalments of €1,350
Final price. No additional VAT will be charged.
Your private online space
For the duration of our work together, you will have access to a private, protected online space.
There, if you wish, you will find recordings of our sessions, personalised meditations and supporting materials.
Your access remains active for three months after our last scheduled session. If we continue working together, it remains uninterrupted.
What Happens in Our Work Together
We work with what is actually happening in your life and in the responsibilities you carry.
The reality of the situation determines what needs to become visible and which level of the work it calls for.
Our work begins
where your role continues to function outwardly, but you hold back essential parts of your perception, strength or vitality in order to secure belonging or maintain the existing order.
You do not yet need to know what another form will look like.
It is enough to recognise that the existing one can no longer hold all of who you are.
This work combines precise thinking with presence, inner perception and lived experience of navigating power and responsibility.
1. Structure and Power Dynamics
The true structure of complex situations becomes visible.
We look at roles, formal and informal power, interests, loyalties, dependencies and consequences.
This shows where real constraints are at work and what scope for action actually exists.
2. What Is at Work Within
Pressure, exhaustion, conflicts of loyalty or emotional tension need neither be hidden nor resolved prematurely.
Some things emerge in strategic conversation. Others through emotion, bodily awareness, inner images or energetic patterns.
3. Your Own Authority
Your inner point of reference becomes accessible again.
You recognise where you hold back your authority in order to secure belonging, recognition or the existing form.
Your actions can once again align with what is true for you, consistent with your integrity and sustainable.
I know power from the inside
My knowledge of complex systems comes from having carried responsibility within them.
For more than three decades, I worked in international leadership structures, made decisions and carried responsibility for them, navigating owner interests, institutional expectations, formal authority and informal power.
I know the value of such systems. And the price a woman pays when she succeeds within their rules but has less and less room to live in a form that is truly her own.
For many years, I have also worked with inner and energetic structures. With inherited loyalties, deeply embedded patterns of adaptation and ties that cannot be resolved through analysis or strategy alone.
I hold both levels at once.
This makes it possible to distinguish what is genuinely constrained from the outside, where inner ties reinforce that constraint and where your own authority can take up space again.
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What stays with you
“Over a period of eighteen months, Renate Hechenberger was a constant point of reference in my work.
What distinguishes her work is her ability to reach the heart of complex situations quickly and bring clarity where it is often missing.
She does not work with predefined approaches, but from an internal structure that provides orientation without oversimplifying.
Our conversations were not about quick solutions. They were about decisions that could stand the test of reality.
This way of working together creates a space in which leadership can be recalibrated. Precise, calm and effective.”
„Renate’s presence and work stay with you long after the session ends.”
She combines sharp strategic thinking with a depth that is rarely found — cutting through complexity without losing what matters. Her insights land exactly when they’re needed. And they stay.
Working with her has changed how I lead, how I decide, and how I show up — every day.
Confidentiality is essential
Private Advisory requires a space where a woman can speak openly without having to monitor what may later reach the outside world.
Everything you share with me remains within this space.
I do not disclose names, content or personal information.
Your experiences will not be used as examples, even anonymously.
Nothing that happens here becomes content.
I remain entirely separate from your professional, personal and private circles.
In the course of our work together, I do not contact anyone within your system.
No recordings, notes or evaluations are made unless you expressly request them.
A formal non-disclosure agreement (NDA) can be put in place at any time.
Discretion is not an additional service in this work.
It is the foundation of the relationship.
HOW WE BEGIN
Every engagement begins with a Power Talk.
In this conversation, we get to know each other and look together at what brings you to me. You do not need to know yet which engagement is right for you.
The Power Talk is not a shortened consultation or a first session. Its purpose is to determine whether this way of working is right for you and which timeframe fits your situation.
I will not recommend a format simply because it is the larger one. If my work is not what you need at this time, I will tell you just as clearly.
The first step is not a buying decision.
It is a conversation about whether we should work together.
Key Questions
Is Private Advisory coaching or therapy?
Private Advisory is neither a standardised coaching programme nor a form of psychotherapy.
The work combines strategic sparring, a systemic perspective and precise attention to internal and energetic dynamics. Which level we include depends on what your actual situation requires.
Private Advisory is not a substitute for medical, psychological or psychotherapeutic treatment.
How soon can we begin working together?
Appointments for a Power Talk are usually available within the next seven to ten days. You can view the available times directly when booking.
The three-month Private Advisory can usually begin shortly after the Power Talk. For Beyond the Trellis, we agree on a starting date individually, based on current availability and the timing that makes most sense for you. In most cases, it is possible to begin within two to three weeks.
If you are working within a particularly narrow timeframe and cannot find a suitable appointment, please send me a short email. I will then see whether an earlier time can be made available.
What does written exchange between sessions mean?
Between sessions, you can share significant observations, questions or developments with me in writing.
This exchange helps us keep important developments within the wider context without requiring you to wait until our next session. It does not replace an additional session and is not intended as an ongoing message conversation.
I respond personally within the agreed parameters of our work.
How does payment work?
The fee for the three-month Private Advisory engagement is €1,290 and is payable before the engagement begins.
The fee for Beyond the Trellis is €7,900 when paid in full.
Alternatively, you may pay in six monthly instalments of €1,350. The first instalment is due before the engagement begins.
All amounts quoted are final prices. No additional VAT will be charged.
Do I need to come to Graz for the session?
No. Both engagements can take place entirely online via Zoom.
In-person sessions in Graz are also available. Where it serves the work, an in-person session may include a systemic constellation.
Whether we work online or in person, the quality and depth of the work remain the same.
A First Step
The free e-book Wenn niemand Ihnen die Entscheidung abnehmen kann (When No One Can Make the Decision for You) shows which loyalties, expectations, questions of belonging and personal consequences are at play in a difficult decision.
A clear framework for recognising what is actually shaping your decision.
The e-book is available in German only. You can read it online and download the PDF from there.
