About Dr. Nat & Her Path to Wholeness
Hello, fellow flawsome human and thank you for being here.
If this is your first time visiting and you’re curious to get to know me – Dr. Nat, the person behind this work and this way of being – I invite you to read My Story.
Not a story person? If you’d rather look at experience, credentials, and tangible proof points, Achievements, Honors & Awards is the place to go.
Both paths offer context. Choose the one that suits you best.
My Story: From Hustle to Home
For many years, I was internationally visible, successful, and in demand. From the outside, everything looked “perfect”: a doctorate, international stages, bestselling books, five-figure months, over 220k LinkedIn Learning students, and a bilingual community. I was known as the “LinkedIn Unicorn” – top expert, speaker, and businesswoman. And yet, beneath the success, something began to feel increasingly off.
Despite recognition, momentum, and applause, a quiet emptiness crept in. The pace was relentless. My connection to my body, to creativity, to spontaneity slowly faded. What once felt alive began to feel tight, functional, and performed. At some point, I knew: continuing like this would mean losing myself entirely.
My second, radical sabbatical became the turning point.
I stepped out of familiar structures and into deep inner work. Through embodiment practices, somatic healing, and an honest exploration of spirituality and femininity, layers of conditioning began to fall away. What surfaced wasn’t comfortable: much of my life had been shaped by pressure, fear, proving, and achievement. Working from a deep sense of self-worth, ease, joy, and inner alignment felt like a foreign concept to me. So, my conscious pause became a remembering.
Slowly and gently, I began again. I released my former brand with respect and followed a quieter, truer call. Human Design became a framework for understanding my inner authority. Learning to rest without feeling lazy, working more precisely – less, but better – and rediscovering simple pleasures outside of work (like yoga, Pilates, and baking) replaced constant doing and competing. Visibility no longer came from extreme effort or lack, but from truly seeing and valuing myself.
Today, this lived transformation is the foundation of my work.
I now guide ambitious entrepreneurs – especially women who have “achieved it all” yet feel disconnected from themselves – back to their inner truth. I work with people who don’t need another strategy, but a reconnection: to their body, rhythm, voice, and their inner leadership. I guide them back to who they truly are and from there, their business becomes alive, aligned, and unmistakably theirs.
My work invites a shift: from head to body, from hustle to wholeness and from overperformance to presence. Why? Because nowadays I know that real success isn’t defined by what – or how much – we accomplish, but by how deeply we inhabit who we are. The moment we come home to ourselves.
“The term flawsome combines the words flaws and awesome. For me, it describes a person who acknowledges their imperfections, embraces them, and works with them consciously. It’s in the ownership and integration of these aspects that real strength, vitality, and authenticity emerge - often far beyond what we imagine possible."
Achievements, Honors & Awards
If you’re looking for a more factual overview of my background and experience, you’ll find a selection of achievements, honors, and awards below – milestones my team and I are grateful for.
- LovelyBooks Community Award 2025 Nomination – LovelyBooks · November 2025
- “Top 111 Personal Brands 2024” – Expertenportal · November 2024
- 50,000 students worked through my LinkedIn Learning course “Personal branding with LinkedIn” – LinkedIn Learning · December 2023
- 50,000 students worked through my LinkedIn Learning course “Your optimal LinkedIn profile” – LinkedIn Learning · August 2023
- Top 50 Most impactful people of LinkedIn 2022 – Ahmad Imam · November 2022
- Gifting myself with two radical career breaks/sabbaticals of nine months to arrive at my true self, heal inner wounds, attain lacking emotional and behavioral skills and live as an example for self-integration, -love and -respect
- Having guided 111+ entrepreneurs, coaches, mentors, speakers, authors in becoming a thought leader in their niche using LinkedIn, expressing themselves through authentic content & increasing their sales
- Outstanding Leadership Award in the field of marketing – Marketing 2.0 Conference · March 2022
- Top 10 Inspiring Business Persons To Watch In The Middle East In 2022 – Forbes · February 2022
- Having delivered keynotes for leading industry conferences and events in the UAE, Germany, USA, Austria, Poland, Singapore, Bahrain, Spain, Croatia and Slovenia
- Forbes Coaches Council Member and Executive Coach – Forbes · November 2018 – December 2021
- Top 50 Most Impactful People of LinkedIn 2021 – Ahmad Imam · December 2021
- The Top Ten LinkedIn Coaches to Follow – yahoo! finance · December 2020 2x bestselling Author (No. 1 in E-Commerce books, No. 1 in Marketing in general books, No. 2 in Online Marketing books) – Amazon.de · March 2020
- Top 100 Leaders in Education award – GFEL · December 2019
- All-time bestseller Podcast, category: Marketing – German iTunes Charts · August 2019
- LinkedIn Learning Author – since July 2019
- Top Experte award – Erfolg Magazin · April 2019
- Being featured in LinkedIn MENA’s #inittogether campaign – LinkedIn · September 2018
- Becoming a Certified Digital Marketing Professional – Digital Marketing Institute · December 2017
- GCC’s Women Leaders award – CMO Asia · October 2017
- Being a guest writer for prestigious magazines like Entrepreneur Middle East, Forbes, Thrive Global – since September 2017
- Becoming a Dr. of Philosophy – Leibniz University Hanover, Germany · June 2017
- COSMO Awards 2016 Finalist, category: Ultimate Inspiration – Cosmopolitan Middle East · September 2016
- Attaining a Master of Arts (Social Science) – Leibniz University Hanover, Germany · October 2008
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