The LUMEUS Team
Meet the people behind LUMEUS - a diverse team of experts dedicated to your mental health
Core Team
The founders and leadership of LUMEUS
Verena Herzog-Pohl
CEO & Co-Founder
Verena is responsible for the development, digitization strategy and internationalization of the "Herzog Method". As an experienced company founder, user and mother, Verena has committed herself with LUMEUS to the mental and emotional health of children and adults to help them lead a healthier and happier life. Her goal is to revolutionize the mental health market. Privately, Verena enjoys spending time with her family and traveling together.
Dagmar Herzog-Bühler
Co-Founder & Coach
As the founder of the Herzog Method, Dagmar has been responsible for creating new training programs and coaching for over 20 years. She is a bestselling author with over 300,000 books sold and an expert in emotion research and application. When she's not traveling the world to discover new countries, she develops further trainings and gives people a tool to heal themselves through the power of their own emotions.
Patrick Hofbauer
Strategy & Investor Relations
Patrick is Sales Lead and responsible for Investor Relations at LUMEUS. His activities include managing communication with potential investors and funding institutions as well as contact with potential customers. This makes him an important part of brainstorming and evaluating new partnership opportunities. Patrick is also responsible for information and marketing materials for investors and corporate customers and manages projects to expand the LUMEUS product range with the help of AI. In his free time, Patrick follows political events around the world with great enthusiasm, as well as everything related to the world of aviation.
Camilla Dahms
Founders Associate
Camilla is Founders Associate at LUMEUS and supports our Co-Founders in both administrative and strategic business areas. With a BA in Business Management from EWS Vienna and more than 18 years of international professional experience in Executive Assistant, HR and Sales, Camilla is now pleased to be able to support one of the most important topics of our time at LUMEUS: Our mental and emotional health. Privately, Camilla enjoys walks with her dog in nature and traveling.
Aleksandra Knebel
Psychology Consultant
Aleksandra supports LUMEUS with her many years of professional experience as a psychological counselor. After her Bachelor's degree in Psychology at Middlesex University and her Postgraduate studies in Humanistic and Psychodynamic Counseling at Goldsmith's University in London, she worked extensively with children and adults in the field of mental health. She was also able to gain experience in psychological supervision and group therapy. Aleksandra now wants to bring her training and experience to LUMEUS to help children and adults. Otherwise, Aleksandra spends her free time with her little daughter and her family.
Advisory Board
Experienced advisors and experts who support LUMEUS with their knowledge and expertise
Jürgen Bühler
Strategic Advisor
Jürgen is a former director of a major bank and has been self-employed in the international financial sector for over 40 years.
Anja Bonelli
Advisory Board Member
Anja has many years of experience in agile software development, digitization and change management processes and has already successfully built an international B2B2C application.
Psychologists
Experienced psychologists and coaches who develop and accompany our programs on a scientifically sound basis
Susanne Wieder
Psychologist & Coach
Susanne Wieder is your coach for the prevention course "Healthy Stress Management through Mindfulness and Positive Emotions – The 8-Week Online Training" and accompanies you on your way to a relaxed and stress-free self. Diploma psychologist, psychotherapist and certified mindfulness teacher. Focus areas: Causes of stress and stress reduction mindfulness and meditative exercises.
Isabella Burger
Seminar Leader & Coach
As a trained coach of the Herzog Method, Isabella conducts LUMEUS corporate seminars and individual coaching sessions. Isabella has training in Psychology and Pedagogy OIP, Zurich. Her many years of experience and core areas include psychosocial counseling, trauma therapy, body-oriented therapy according to Stanley Kelemann. Isabella is also a parent and adult educator (AGEEB, Aarau) and a certified hypnotherapy therapist (IGM). Isabella lives and works in Switzerland and is the mother of three adult children.
Maria Hoppe
Building Online Coaching Area of the Herzog Method
Systemic counselor and trainer, lecturer for coaching, organizational consulting, social psychology at Fresenius University Berlin; Psychology scholarship holder, Paris-Nanterre, France; Diploma studies in Psychology University of Giessen.
Dr. Stella Cifuentes
Consulting, Development & Coach of Children's Training of the Herzog Method
Doctor, psychologist (BSc.), children's yoga therapist. Holistic view of physical, mental and emotional health in children.
Speakers
The voices behind our emotional trainings
Tobias Krell
German Speaker (Children)
Our Emotional Children's Training is spoken by Tobias Krell, known as the presenter of the popular children's television show CHECKER TOBI (Kika). How Tobi and Yvonne recorded the Emotional Children's Training can be seen in the CHECKER TOBI show: The "Feelings Check"!
Dagmar Herzog-Bühler
German Speaker (Adults)
The speaker of the German version of Emotional Training for adults is Dagmar Herzog, known as the founder of the Herzog Method and multiple bestselling author. Dagmar has already helped more than 300,000 people with her distinctive voice to become healthy and happy again.
Yvonne Greitzke
German Speaker (Children)
The speaker of the Emotional Children's Training is Yvonne Greitzke, known as Princess Anna from the Walt Disney film FROZEN. Yvonne conveys inner peace and tranquility to children with her distinctive, warm and gentle voice.
Michella Moss
English Speaker
The speaker of the English version of emotion training for children and adults is Michella Moss. She was, among other things, the voice of a PBS nature documentary, Regent Cruises, Scott Cawthon (FN@F), as well as numerous audiobooks. Michella has the kind of voice that speaks for itself. Her skills include not only the speaking role, but also the composition and production of music and lyrics – including singing.
Adrian Roman Petriw
English Speaker (Children)
The speaker of the English version of the children's stories is Adrian Roman Petriw, a Canadian television, film and voice actor. He is best known for his role as Tony Stark / Iron Man in the television series Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Commander Gren in The Dragon Prince and Adam in the Netflix original series The Hollow.
Composers
The talented composers who create the emotional music pieces for our trainings
André Bauer
Film Composer, Producer, Conductor
André was musical director of the Schauspielhaus Zurich and composed numerous pieces for our trainings.
Gert Wilden Jr.
Film Composer, Musician, Arranger
Gert composed film music for numerous feature films (including Die Wilden Kerle, Sophie Scholl) and many of our training pieces.
David Christiansen
Film Composer, Conductor, Arranger
David is a multi-award-winning film composer for BBC, Disney and Pixar, among others, and composed special pieces for LUMEUS.
Authors
The creative minds behind the content
Dagmar Herzog-Bühler
Bestselling Author & Founder
Multiple bestselling author with over 300,000 books sold and founder of the Herzog Method.
Judith Nestroy-Schöll
Screenwriter & Producer
Multi-award-winning film producer and screenwriter (including X Filme, Audible, Netflix), writes the children's stories for our Emotional Children's Training.