A native of Berlin, Germany, Andrea has more than 15 years of experience as a woman working in leadership positions in mostly male-dominated work environments, including being the first woman to participate in an intense five-year leadership training program at Commerzbank Berlin.

Andrea’s innovative and effective way of dealing with men led to her success in the male-dominated sports world, where she was the one and only female business manager of a professional men’s basketball team in Europe, Alba Berlin Basketball Team, then worked for Berlin Capitals EIS (ICE) Hockey Team and became the Sports Sales Manager for Ticket Online, working with all professional sports teams in Germany.

As a woman succeeding in the men’s world of business and sports, men shared a lot of their thoughts, complaints, and ideas with Andrea, and over the years these thoughts manifested in her hands-on advice on how to “deal” with men.

After moving to Dallas in 2000, Andrea created The Relationship Coaches to give women insights into men, sex and relationships they might never get otherwise. Happily married and the mother of four children and step mother to four more, Andrea is a certified personal coach and a member of the International Coach Federation.

In her classes, workshops and individual coaching sessions, Andrea provides an “honest girlfriend” approach to keep a ship (one’s relation-ship) afloat before it even begins to sink. She is the girlfriend who everyone loves, yet everyone hates because she is not afraid to tell you that “Yes, that dress does make you look fat. “