About Us
A German couple in Thailand,
changing how the world works.
We're Daniel and Michèle — two disability inclusion professionals who left Germany to bring what we learned to the global market.
Between us, we bring 30+ years of hands-on experience: from sheltered workshops to forensic psychiatry, from special education schools to systemic family counseling. We've worked inside the systems that most consultants only read about.
Based in Thailand, working globally. We combine deep expertise in the German social system — one of the most regulated disability employment frameworks in the world — with a practical, results-driven approach for the international market.
Daniel
Founder & Lead Consultant — Strategy & English-Language Market
Daniel holds a State Examination in Special Education (Master’s equivalent) from Germany, with dual specializations in Learning Disabilities and Intellectual Development.
His career spans the full spectrum of inclusion — from teaching at special education schools to supporting adults with intellectual disabilities in sheltered workshops (WfbM), to six years educating patients inside a high-security forensic psychiatric facility at LVR-Klinik Köln.
In the forensic unit, Daniel designed individualized curricula for people navigating severe mental illness, personality disorders, and cognitive impairments — guiding them from basic literacy to nationally recognized school diplomas. That experience is the foundation of Bold Advisory’s approach: if inclusion works in the hardest setting imaginable, it works anywhere.
Daniel also founded Lerninstitut Zukunftsdenker, a tutoring institute in Germany, and leads Bold Advisory’s strategy, content, and international operations.
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Daniel's career follows one consistent thread: creating environments where people can learn and grow — regardless of the barriers around them.
At special education schools in North Rhine-Westphalia (2014–2017), he guided students with learning disabilities to their first school qualifications (Hauptschulabschluss). At the Rurtalwerkstätten sheltered workshop (2017–2019), he developed vocational education programs for adults with intellectual disabilities, gaining firsthand insight into the systemic barriers that keep people out of the open labor market.
From 2019 to 2025, he taught inside a high-security forensic psychiatric facility at LVR-Klinik Köln. His students were patients with severe mental illness, personality disorders, trauma, and cognitive impairments — many arriving with limited literacy and no German language skills.
In that setting, Daniel built something rare: a classroom where the body may have been confined, but the mind was free. No judgment, no restrictions on thought, no predetermined limits on what someone could achieve. Free and critical thinking wasn't just encouraged — it was the foundation of every lesson. In an institutional environment where conformity was the norm, his classroom was the exception.
The results: three patients earned nationally recognized school diplomas (Hauptschulabschluss, Realschulabschluss) — an extraordinary achievement in a setting where most arrive without basic education. One graduate went on to begin a vocational apprenticeship after release. Beyond formal qualifications, Daniel designed and delivered German language programs (up to TELC B1 certification) for an increasingly international patient population.
In 2018, Daniel founded Lerninstitut Zukunftsdenker, a tutoring institute focused on educational equity. Since 2019, the institute operates in official partnership with the City of Cologne, providing individualized learning support to hundreds of students. Daniel's role is not that of a teacher — it's that of a system builder: designing the pedagogical framework, recruiting and managing a team of tutors, ensuring quality standards, and creating processes that deliver consistent outcomes at scale. This entrepreneurial experience is what separates Bold Advisory from consultants who can advise but have never built.
Additionally certified as a therapist for dyslexia and dyscalculia by the IFLW Institute — deepening expertise in specific learning differences that frequently overlap with neurodivergent profiles in the workplace.
This philosophy — that every person deserves an environment built for how they think, not against it — is what drives Bold Advisory's approach to workplace inclusion.
Michèle
Specialist — Systemic Counseling & DACH Market
Michèle is a certified Systemic Counselor (INECO Institute) — a methodology that goes beyond individual coaching to work with entire systems: teams, managers, families, and the person at the center. This approach is what separates Bold Advisory’s support model from standard job coaching.
Her professional background: Heilerziehungspflegerin (HEP) with over 20 years of experience at Lebenshilfe Köln, one of Germany’s largest disability support organizations.
Michèle brings deep, practical expertise in supported employment, disability inclusion, and organizational dynamics within the German social system. She leads Bold Advisory’s DACH market operations and systemic coaching engagements.
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Michèle spent over 20 years at Lebenshilfe Köln, one of Germany's largest organizations supporting people with disabilities. Her work focused on assisted living (Ambulantes Wohnen) — the long-term, day-to-day support that enables people with intellectual disabilities to live as independently as possible.
Over the years, she provided sustained support for more than 20 individuals — not as short-term interventions, but as years-long relationships built on trust, consistency, and deep understanding of each person's strengths and challenges.
Her role was that of a bridge: between the individual and their employer, between the family and the support system, between the person's capabilities and the bureaucratic structures that often failed to see them. When workplace challenges arose, she mediated. When systems created barriers, she navigated around them.
During her time at Lebenshilfe, she also completed the organization's internal leadership development program, reflecting her role not just as a practitioner but as someone trusted to shape how inclusion was delivered across teams.
This experience is the foundation of her systemic counseling approach. At Lebenshilfe, she saw firsthand that supporting an individual in isolation rarely works — sustainable outcomes require working with the entire system: the person, their employer, their team, their family. That insight led her to earn her certification in Systemic Counseling from the INECO Institute, formalizing the approach she had practiced for two decades.
At Bold Advisory, Michèle brings this same methodology to the DACH market — helping employers not just hire inclusively, but build the systemic support structures that make inclusion last.
Our Story
From Germany's hardest classrooms
to global inclusion consulting.
For six years, Daniel taught inside a forensic psychiatric facility in Cologne — a high-security unit where his students were people society had written off. People with severe mental illness, trauma histories, and criminal justice involvement. He built individualized curricula and guided them to nationally recognized diplomas.
Meanwhile, Michèle spent two decades at Lebenshilfe Köln, working with people with intellectual disabilities — understanding their strengths, navigating the system's limitations, and fighting for better outcomes.
Together, we realized something: the skills that work in the hardest inclusion settings — radical individualization, systemic thinking, building trust where there is none — are exactly what companies need when they try to build neuroinclusive workplaces.
Having worked inside both education and workplace systems, we've seen the full pipeline: how institutions create the definitions of ‘capable’ and ‘productive’ — and how workplaces inherit those definitions without questioning them. Most consultants start at the office door. We start at the root.
So we left Germany — a country that legally mandates disability employment — and founded Bold Advisory to help organizations worldwide build what Germany enforces: workplaces that actually work for everyone.
We don't bring lived experience of neurodivergence. We bring lived experience of making inclusion work where it's most difficult. That's a different kind of credibility — and it's ours.
This experience is why we built The Inclusion Rescue — a structured 8-week turnaround for when inclusion programs fail under real-world pressure.
Our Mission
Disability inclusion isn't charity — it's smart business.
Companies that embrace neurodiversity and inclusive hiring don't just comply with the law. They access untapped talent, reduce turnover, and unlock government subsidies worth hundreds of thousands.
But most inclusion programs fail — not because the people can't do the work, but because the systems aren't built for them. Corporate systems aren't failing neurodivergent people. They're functioning exactly as designed — the design just never included them.
Bold Advisory exists to fix that. Practically, measurably, and without the corporate fluff.
Bold moves. Real results.