Christiane Holbrook got her first taste of the entrepreneurial world at the age of eight working for her father in the family shoe business in Germany, started by her grandfather over a century ago. Over the years, she saw a thriving business quietly slip into decline and finally close as her father became burned out and could no longer handle the strains of running a business. She felt the sting of how this burnout and stress affected the family and the closing of the business impacted the community.

At the age of 22, she moved to the United States and helped her husband turn a fledging product development firm into a successful global business. Through her experiences Christiane learned the do’s and don’ts of how to go from nothing to incredible success but also the toll overwork and prolonged stress can take on a business and family life.

Through her own experiences and her wealth of expertise, she then went to create her own business but ran into the same walls many entrepreneurs have run into which was burn-out, stress and a loss of excitement for her business. After she closed her business, she reexamined her life and made it her mission to discover the secret of growing a thriving and fulfilling business while maintaining a healthy balance between work and home.

She found that to thrive in today’s fast-changing economic environment requires business owners to become leaders of their lives and businesses everyone wants to follow. From her expertise of human behavior, business acumen, and her knowledge of future business trends, Christiane created her High Impact Business™ system that is now changing the way her clients do business. Working with Christiane enables her clients move from working longer and longer hours to growing businesses that impact people, profit and the planet, all in balance with their lives and values.