About Us
Hanseatic Institute
Who We Are and What We Stand For
Coaching for Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Teams, and Individuals
We work as a team at the Hanseatic Institute with the aim of creating conditions in which people and organizations can live and work together in a respectful, courageous, and responsible way. Many of our clients already carry this wish within themselves, and we support them in making it real in their systems.
Our work focuses on strengthening inner stability and clarity so that challenges are not seen as threats, but can be used as steps in a process of development. We walk this path with a commitment to real change, with respect for what already exists, and with the trust that solutions emerge when you are willing to take the first step.
Our Vision and Mission
Vision
We envision a world where people and organizations live in harmony with themselves, their environment, and nature.
A world where intuition and a deep basic trust in life can not only be discovered, but also lived.
A world where justice, peace, harmony, joy, and success are not just words, but a lived reality.
Mission
Our mission is to support people through SystemEmpowering coaching and mediation in finding their basic trust, their inner strength, and their clarity.
We help them build harmonious relationships, discover and live their personal vision and mission, support their health and happiness, and be successful in their business.
Mission
Our mission is to support people through SystemEmpowering coaching and mediation in finding their basic trust, their inner strength, and their clarity.
We help them build harmonious relationships, discover and live their personal vision and mission, support their health and happiness, and be successful in their business.
The Founding of the Institute and the Development of SystemEmpowering
The Hanseatic Institute was founded in 1998 by Dr. Dieter Bischop. He describes himself as a shipowner who sends his ships out into the world to carry SystemEmpowering into the world.
His clear goal from the very beginning was to make life more worth living. Power for the people.
His motto: It has to be simple.
From many years of work with individuals, teams, and companies, a shared approach gradually emerged that was given the name SystemEmpowering in 2017, with the idea of bringing more power into systems.
SystemEmpowering brings together and further develops elements from coaching, mediation, NLP, Nonviolent Communication, constellation work, business coaching, and other approaches into one coherent method.
The Hanseatic Institute Team
Dr. Dieter Bischop
Founder
Dr. Dieter Bischop is the founder of the Hanseatic Institute and the originator of the
SystemEmpowering approach.
His work grew out of a combination of scientific thinking and a search for effective ways to resolve
personal and systemic conflicts.
Over many years, he developed a unified approach from different methods, which is now used in coaching,
mediation, team processes, and training.
Annika Dulige
Co-founder and Director of Training
Annika Dulige is part of the founding team of the Hanseatic Institute and leads the systemic coaching training program.
After studying law, she turned to the question of which inner and systemic causes lead to blocks and conflicts in companies and families.
Since 2007, she has worked as a coach and mediator, supporting people in situations of change and conflict in both private and professional systems.
Annika Dulige
Co-founder and Director of Training
Annika Dulige is part of the founding team of the Hanseatic Institute and leads the systemic coaching training program.
After studying law, she turned to the question of which inner and systemic causes lead to blocks and conflicts in companies and families.
Since 2007, she has worked as a coach and mediator, supporting people in situations of change and conflict in both private and professional systems.
Jan Schulz
SystemEmpowering Coach and Mediator
Jan Schulz is a psychologist (M.Sc.), coach, and mediator at the Hanseatic Institute.
Before joining the institute, he served for 13 years as an officer in the German Navy,
combining leadership responsibility with structured decision making in demanding environments.
He has been part of the SystemEmpowering team since 2015, moved into a full time role in 2024,
and works with people in personal and professional situations of change and conflict.
His work combines psychological expertise with hands on leadership experience from complex systems.
Where Our Work Makes a Difference in Practice
We are brought in when visible problems appear on the surface, for example stuck decisions in a company, ongoing tensions in leadership teams, conflicts between shareholders or family members in a succession process, or private issues that start to affect professional decisions.
In many of these cases, the real cause is not the structure, but injuries that come from System Laws being broken, such as exclusion, mistrust, or a lack of recognition.
This is where our work begins. Instead of only working on the symptoms, we work at the level of these systemic injuries, because that is where it is decided whether trust can return, cooperation can succeed again, and leadership can be supported.
Our goal is to restore the conditions for stability, clarity, and responsible action so that people and systems can carry their tasks forward with their own strength, in companies, in private life, and in the training of those who want to guide such processes professionally.
Companies That Trust Us
Gut Wulksfelde, Airbus Stade und Buxtehude, Dräger Lübeck, Ferring Kiel, Gerry Weber BreakPoint Base Halle, Moysig Herford, Tchibo Hamburg, HaGe Kiel, Hamburg-Mannheimer Hamburg, Keiper Kaiserslautern, Otto Hamburg, Sartorius Hamburg und Göttingen, Stadt- und Kreisverwaltung Nordhorn, Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen Erfurt, Stadtwerke Husum, Toepfer Hamburg, Uni und Studierendenwerk Hamburg, Uni Kiel, EMC Frankfurt und London, SOS Kinderdorf Lütjenburg, VDI, Corrente Kiel, Vater ESN Kiel, Weatherford Langenhagen, Blohm & Voss Kiel, Schülke & Mayr Norderstedt, Avantum Düsseldorf, Uni Gießen, Mehrens Unified Communication GmbH Neumünster, Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen Kassel, Hansetrans Hamburg, Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel, Wackerbau GmbH Offenburg, nld Neumünster, Lebensidealisten GmbH Kindergärten Nordost Berlin, Senvion Rendsburg, Philips Hamburg, Landkreis Stade, Brücke Flensburg, DMG Dental-Material GmbH Hamburg, Praxis für Plastische und Ästhetische Chirurgie Dr. Bauer München, Adventure World Tours – Stadtführungen und Touren Hamburg, Klick Tipp Berlin – London – Sofia, Privatpraxis für Dermatologie Bad Oyenhausen, FAIRFAMILY, Willi Meyer Bauunternehmen GmbH u. a.
Hanseatic Institut
SystemEmpowering: Resolving Emotional Conflicts, Developing Your Personality, and Strengthening Your Power Within the System.