I ask focused questions and share my own assessment.
About Mirko Sasten
Knowing organizations from the inside. Enabling development from the outside.
Mirko Sasten combines leadership, HR, and organizational experience with around 15 years of work as a trainer, coach, and consultant.
Two perspectives
Experience inside organizations. Development work from the outside.
My understanding of organizations grew through around 15 years in HR and organizational development at international companies, including leadership responsibility for organizations of roughly 1,000 employees. For another 15 years, I have worked with leaders, internal trainers, teams, and organizations as an external trainer, coach, and consultant.
This dual perspective shapes my work: I take organizational realities seriously, read interpersonal dynamics accurately, and still arrive at a clear decision, intervention, or path forward.
Get in touch directly →What it feels like to work together
Clear, engaged, and willing to take a position.
I listen carefully, form hypotheses, name the dynamics I see, and challenge you when it helps move the work forward. The specific situation always stays at the center.
If I see a dynamic shaping the work, I name it.
I can handle disagreement, and I expect us to work with it productively.
We do not have to agree. But by the end, we should know what the real issue is and what happens next.
Career timeline
Experience earned over time.
A documented track record in corporate work, professional programs, and consulting.
years in HR & organizational development
Corporate practice, organizational development, and several years of leadership responsibility.
years in independent practice
Training, coaching, consulting, and multi-module development programs.
Train the Trainer
First cohorts, followed by repeated delivery and continued development for in-house programs.
Coaching programs
First systemic coaching program, followed by additional independently designed and delivered cohorts.
Programs developed through practice
Professional programs and development formats.
Today’s services draw on the first Train the Trainer cohorts in 2010, the first coaching program in 2012, and years of continued delivery and refinement.
Real working environments
One-on-one conversations, training rooms, stages, and organizations.
Depending on the engagement, the work may involve analysis, facilitation, training, rehearsal, or direct work on a real case. Form follows purpose.
Qualifications and working languages
Dipl.-Kfm. (FH), business administration · training in systemic coaching · adult education training qualification · Austrian psychotherapeutic foundation program · German and English
Direct contact
Let’s talk about the situation.
In the first conversation, we clarify the situation, the intended outcome, and a useful next step.
Directly with MirkoBrief fit conversationSituation · format · next step