Majken Lorelei Matzau, executive coach and business psychologist, between golden columns
My Work

Executive Coaching with Majken Lorelei Matzau

With more than 25 years of experience, I advise, coach & counsel senior executives, business owners, and board members

Majken Lorelei Matzau, executive coach and business psychologist, between golden columns
My Work

Executive Coaching with Majken Lorelei Matzau

With more than 25 years of experience, I advise, coach & counsel senior executives, business owners, and board members

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Advising Leaders at the Top

I help extraordinary leaders navigate the complexities of business, leadership, relationships, and life

Executive Coaching

Developing Your Leadership & Your Business

Majken Lorelei Matzau, who helps executives develop their leadership and their business

I have been a practicing business psychologist since 1997, working in corporate psychology and consulting, and designing and leading organizational and leadership development projects for national and international companies. For more than twenty-five years, I have served as a trusted advisor to leaders across industries and continents.

I work one-on-one with CEOs, founders, senior executives, board members, and visionaries. Whether you are handling an acute situation, facing a decisive moment, or simply want to develop yourself, your leadership, and your business – that is where we begin.

Together, we work on what matters most – your leadership, your company, your life, your relationships, and your own evolution as a human being.

Check out Matzau Business Psychologists at www.matzau.dk
Let’s Get in Touch

Book an Executive Coaching Program

My Executive Coaching program typically consists of 8 in-depth sessions of 1.5 hours each – but there is no fixed end point. Many of the leaders I work with stay for years.

Alongside these sessions, you will have access to quick support from me by phone or video call – whenever you need it, and whenever an acute situation arises.

You are welcome to reach out directly for a confidential, introductory conversation – to explore whether we are a good fit, and what working together would look like.

Majken Lorelei Matzau inviting leaders to book an executive coaching program
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Testimonial

“We need more people like you – people who can act, act quickly, and do so with great professionalism and personal commitment. You are fantastic! Thank you so much. You have been absolutely outstanding.”

Trine Moulvad

Senior Vice President, Novo Nordisk

How I Work

Executive

Coaching

I am known as a sharp, inspiring, and sometimes unconventional advisor. Leaders come to me with an acute situation, a period of transition in the business, or personal relationships under strain – often several at once.

From the moment you sit down with me, I turn my focus to you – your unique personality, your position, and your organization – and I name your strengths, your blind spots, and the places where you are ready to shift and make new decisions as a leader and as a human being.

I see your patterns. Your timelines. Your shadows and untapped strengths. Clients often tell me that this is where they can speak in complete confidence about the questions they cannot raise with their board, their team, or their family.

I have a particular ability to zero in on a person's personal and professional DNA and draw out its essence. From there we build the solutions together – how you handle the situation in front of you, how you lead through it, and what decisions you make about your business, relationships, and life.

Majken Lorelei Matzau, arms crossed, describing how she works with senior leaders
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Core themes in my executive coaching

Executive advisory and leadership development for CEOs, founders, business owners & board members

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No two programs are alike

Themes We Often Work With

Our time together is a unique and exclusive space, shaped entirely by your personal and professional needs, your position, personality, and situation – that said, my Executive Coaching programs often touch on themes such as:

  • Managing acute situations that require clarity, decisions, and action

  • Navigating complex relationships – with leadership teams, boards, stakeholders, and investors

  • Developing and managing your business and organization – leadership, strategy, communication

  • Growth, wind-down, and succession – guidance and support through the entire process

  • Personal strength, clarity, and balance during demanding periods, such as mergers or company sales

  • Psychological guidance and support through generational transitions

  • Guidance and advice in personal and private matters

  • Revisiting the past – your professional and personal history, relationships, defining life events, and pivotal decisions

  • Uncovering your professional DNA as a leader

  • Identifying your unique personal drivers, strengths, and areas for growth

  • Deeper insight into your own personality – psychological patterns, blind spots, and potential

  • Personal values, purpose, and a sense of presence in your role as a leader

  • Looking ahead – turning new insights, strategies, and potential into a path forward

  • Choices, decisions, and implementation

Testimonial

“My Executive Coaching program with Majken Lorelei Matzau has been fantastic. Everything is top-level, and her professional expertise and her concert hall are five-star perfection. She is a superstar sent from heaven to help people.”

Peggy Gahimbare

CIP, People & Culture

Get Started

Where the Journey Begins

You may be facing a difficult, acute situation that needs immediate attention and help.

But you do not need a clearly defined goal to begin. Executive Coaching with me opens up whatever is ready to be looked at – in your strategy and your organization, and in your life and your personality. We explore it, work through it, and resolve it.

You will leave with answers to questions you had not yet thought to ask.

So do not hesitate to reach out if you are unclear about what you need. We will find clarity together.

An executive coaching conversation with Majken Lorelei Matzau, where the journey begins
Executive Coaching with Majken Lorelei
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Three Universal Areas of My Work

Whatever brings us together, most of my Executive Coaching programs move through the three areas below

The Acute

One – Crisis and Critical Decisions

If you are facing an acute situation that calls for swift clarity, firm decisions, and decisive action, that is where we begin. This might involve conflict at executive or board level, a sudden crisis in the public eye, complex personnel matters, or issues surfaced through a whistleblower process.

I have stood beside countless leaders in situations like these, and I know what they require. Not advice from the sidelines, but someone who thinks with you while it is still unfolding.

I move fast and stay close, so that you act rather than react, and so that the decisions you make under pressure are ones you can still stand behind a year from now.

When you find yourself in the middle of it, we handle it together, with clarity, discretion, and a steady overview.

Majken Lorelei Matzau, business psychologist, on handling crisis and critical decisions
The Business

Two – Succession, Growth, and Transition

My work reaches far beyond the immediate and the acute.

Many of the leaders and owners I work with seek my guidance during periods of significant change – succession processes, generational handovers, M&A processes, or preparing for an exit. What makes these stretches demanding is rarely the transaction itself. It is the psychology around it: an executive team that needs steering, a board with its own agenda, a family with everything at stake, investors and stakeholders to be managed – and underneath it all, a leader who has to stay clear-headed through due diligence, press attention, and decisions that cannot be undone.

That is where I come in.

I advise and support you on all three simultaneously: yourself, your leadership, and your organization. A decision in one of them affects the other two.

Majken Lorelei Matzau beside a gold candelabra, reflecting the long-term coaching partnership
The Private Sphere

Three – Beyond the

Boardroom

Because leadership does not end at the office door, my work does not either.

I support you not only in matters of governance, strategy, and power, but also in the intimate landscapes of your personal relationships, marriage, and family life. I help you navigate the relationships that matter most – whether you are entering a new relationship, rebuilding trust, or considering a break up or divorce. I walk beside you through transitions, betrayals, reinventions, and new beginnings.

Through life's ascents and descents, I remain a steady presence. Together, we set and hold a course aligned with your higher consciousness – not driven by fear, pride, or external pressure, but guided by integrity and inner truth. The decisions you make in your private life shape your leadership just as profoundly as any strategic move.

Through our work together, you will develop new strategies for navigating a modern, complex life with greater insight – where strong, loving relationships and a deeper awareness of yourself become the foundation for sustainable leadership.

Majken Lorelei Matzau in a blue room, on coaching that reaches beyond the boardroom
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Trusted By

A selection of the companies I have had the privilege of working with

IBMCoca-ColaThe LEGO GroupNovo NordiskSiemensA.P. Moller – MaerskDeloittePwCKPMGCarlsberg GroupPandoraVestasDanske BankNordeaIBMCoca-ColaThe LEGO GroupNovo NordiskSiemensA.P. Moller – MaerskDeloittePwCKPMGCarlsberg GroupPandoraVestasDanske BankNordea
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From those who have worked with Lorelei

Testimonials

My executive coaching process with Majken Lorelei Matzau was competent, present, and rewarding, as I received concrete suggestions for actions that could be implemented and made sense at the time.

I felt supported and understood, and Majken Lorelei is a great listener who is skilled at pointing to practical tools that can be applied. Majken Lorelei helps you begin using established theory in practice.

I have learned that I must find the answer within myself as to what it takes to move forward in my life path. I would recommend Majken Lorelei as an executive coach to others, provided they are highly intelligent and willing to work on themselves.

Finn Bruun
Deputy CEO, BEC

My executive coaching process with Majken Lorelei Matzau has been highly professional and competent. From the very beginning, Majken Lorelei provided present and thoughtful guidance, offering perspective on both professional and personal challenges. Through our conversations, I gained a deeper and more fundamental understanding of both body and mind. Majken Lorelei also openly shares her own experiences, which strengthened the presence, inspiration, and perspective within our discussions.

My process with Majken Lorelei extended over 18 months and has been instrumental in bringing me to a clearly better place, both personally and professionally.

I give Majken Lorelei my warmest recommendations.

Nicklas Hansen
CIO, William Demant Invest

My process with Majken Lorelei has been both rewarding and educational. I reached out to her at a time when I needed guidance regarding a specific professional challenge.

It developed into a longer and more wide-ranging process, the benefits of which I continue to value.

I have gained a deeper understanding of my role and position, as well as the challenges that inevitably come with them, and I have become better at handling them.

Majken Lorelei's insight and structured approach have made a lasting difference to how I lead today.

I am happy to recommend Majken Lorelei and have already done so several times.

Sandra Marguardsen
CEO, Dining Six
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The Heart of My Practice

My work reaches you wherever you are, but if you can come to Copenhagen, there is somewhere I would like you to see

Welcome

My Office & Workspace – Lorelei's Concert Hall

My work is available worldwide online, so wherever you are, I am too. I divide my time between Copenhagen and Los Angeles, and I travel frequently.

But if you have the opportunity to visit Copenhagen, I will welcome you to Lorelei's Concert Hall – my historic home, built in 1845 and once home to the Wegener Library.

More than a residence, it is the heart of my practice: an extraordinary space where history, beauty, and art create the unique conditions for profound insight and lasting transformation.

Welcome to Lorelei's Concert Hall, executive coaching venue of Majken Lorelei Matzau
Lorelei's Concert Hall
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A Confidential, Long-Term Partnership

I have advised hundreds of C-level leaders across continents and industries over the past 25 years

From those who have worked with Lorelei

Testimonials

I was referred to Matzau by a colleague, and I would not hesitate to recommend Matzau to my other colleagues as well. I completed a very positive coaching program with Majken Matzau, and the entire process felt tailored to my specific situation from the very first meeting. The original purpose of the program was to gain a clearer understanding of my strongest competencies and interests, and to understand how I can apply them in my current and future professional life.

Through personality assessments and meaningful conversations, I felt affirmed in my own perceptions of my competencies. At the same time, I made many new observations and began to see my strengths from multiple additional perspectives, which will undoubtedly strengthen me going forward in both my current role and future career steps.

Antonino Castrone
Executive Vice President, Aalborg University

The process with Majken Lorelei Matzau has been deeply professional from start to finish, without ever being impersonal or distant. It is highly effective that, already in the first session, many things are set in motion. It was impressive how quickly Majken Lorelei was able to read and understand my situation and get me to work on myself. It is close and personal, and you are challenged.

I have grown stronger in my understanding of who I am, and I have become better at not being so hard on myself. I have also improved at focusing on my own side of the table, and I have become far more authentic as a person – something that feels very good to me.

Majken Lorelei has been a fantastic catalyst, pathfinder, and cheerleader on my personal journey. She has my warmest recommendations.

Deniz Jensen
Managing Director, Corendon

I completed an intensive Executive Coaching program with Majken Lorelei Matzau, and my experience with her has been fantastic.

Everything is top-level – her professional expertise and her concert hall are five-star perfection. If you are looking for peace and clarity in your life, Majken Lorelei is the person to turn to.

I am very grateful to have had Majken Lorelei as my executive coach, and I look forward to continuing the process in the future. I received support both in my professional role and personally, and I have learned to manage difficult and unexpected situations.

I would absolutely recommend Majken Lorelei. She is a superstar sent from heaven to help people. The world would be a better place with more people like her.

Peggy Gahimbare
CIP, People & Culture
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You are welcome to reach out directly for a confidential, introductory conversation

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Contact Majken Lorelei

I respond personally within 24 hours – never through an assistant.

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Twenty-Five Years of Confidential Partnerships

From pharma and finance to public institutions and government – the pressures at the top are the same

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From a Chief Executive who has worked with Majken Lorelei

Testimonial

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I have had a very good and highly rewarding executive coaching process with business psychologist Majken Lorelei Matzau.

From our first conversation, I experienced Majken Lorelei as both highly professional and at the same time present and personal. She has a particular ability to quickly grasp what lies behind the challenges and considerations you bring to her, and she is not afraid to ask the questions that make you think.

For me, the process has led to a greater understanding of myself, my reactions, and my own strengths. I have become more aware of what matters to me, and where I can make a difference myself, rather than spending energy on what I cannot control.

What I have particularly appreciated is that Majken Lorelei both challenges and supports. She does not simply give you the answers, but helps you find them yourself. That has made the process very concrete and applicable, also in my everyday life.

I leave the process with greater calm, greater self-insight, and a clearer sense of who I am and what I want.

I can therefore warmly recommend Majken Lorelei Matzau to others who are looking for a professional, present, and developing process.

Flemming Storgaard
Chief Executive, Ikast-Brande Municipality
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