
SEVGI ATES
Sevgi Ates encourages and challenges her customers as a successful consultant and management coach. Purposefully, with refreshing rigor and clarity. Anyone who meets Sevgi Ates will notice that she is a woman who with ease instantly opens up to a discussion that is full of curiosity, empathy and disarming frankness. Sevgi Ates doesn’t waste time. She goes directly to the point, by asking the right questions and providing the relative answers, by contemplating tasks and giving their relative solutions, and gives examples of strategies and potential. For her there is no obstacles, only possible ways, flows and objectives to do things.
Ideas from business
and high-performance sport
Sevgi Ates takes a systematic approach, and nowadays she has become an expert in executive coaching, HR consultancy and change management. In national or international projects, with Sevgi Ates it is all about personal and professional supplementary development.
Consistent focus
on the result
Born in 1971 in Duisburg, Sevgi Ates is a daughter of a Turkish immigrant worker. She initially studied law and from personal experience she acknowledges the struggle of achieving your own goals.
Later, Sevgi Ates did casual work as a telephone agent for the Gerling Group. During that time, she developed a virtually infallible sense for how people should behave to be successful professionally. She was also successful herself. Her sales figures were so good that she was inspired to set up her own company, ATES GmbH, and all of this while she was still studying. Her company’s core expertise was telephone sales training. At that point she was only 25 years old. For her, it soon became clear what consistent effort is able to achieve. Sevgi Ates acquired one of the first customers for ATES GmbH – her former employer, the Gerling Group.

She is one of the few paid advisors for the football industry. Further, it goes without saying that she is the only woman there! On top of it all, she manages to win over her biggest critics through her specialist expertise.
Sevgi Ates radiates a sense of great satisfaction. She is the founder of the patented ATES Spirit® method, that is used to analyse which flows and performance energy a company can access. Sevgi Ates is not only a businesswoman, she is also a mother and part of a loving family. Moreover, Sevgi Ates is sought after as a speaker. Her personal motto is: speech is silver, action is gold and acting consistently guarantees success.
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TYPICALLY ATES
AUTHENTIC
Sevgi Ates tells personal, eye-opening stories, both on stage and during one-to-one talks. Her secret is self- deprecation in combination with clear statements.
SWIFT
Sevgi Ates shines with her intuition and her analytical abilities. She recognises patterns remarkably quickly and reveals options that free up the route to the next stage.
EXPERIENCED
20 years of demanding work with different personalities ranging from business, society and sport bear witness to her deep, tried-and-tested management know-how.
TRANSFORMING
Be it with mergers, reorientations, changed target requirements or simply the next stage upwards, Sevgi Ates always knows a way to a new dimension of achievement.
COMMITTED
As a lecturer at the Fresenius Hochschule, Germany’s largest private university, she is using her sound knowledge to prepare the next generation of movers and shakers.