Manuel
After studying Applied Positive Psychology and building a series of psychology online programs, he's now developing the Pocketcoach program. Deeply cares about Pocketcoach's users.
Tara
Tara has a Masters Degree in Psychology with an Emphasis in Counseling and is a life coach and counselor in Vienna, Austria. She is dedicated to serving others and to ending the stigma around seeking mental health help.
Philipp
Has a Masters Degree in Visual Computing from the Vienna University of Technology. Philipp has worked in the Russian high tech startup Visionlabs. He cofounded the Marketing and Consulting agency Hawaras.
Flavia
After graduating Communication Sciences and working on both supply side, demand side and analytics side of the advertising industry, I joined Pocketcoach. My goal is taking Pocketcoach app in front of million users out there, in a mission to help people fight anxiety and build better thinking habits.
Büşra
Büşra is a Master’s student at the Vienna University of Economics and Business’ Marketing Program. She is particularly interested in digital marketing and social innovation and believes that social innovations are the key to making the world a better place.
Dieter
Works at the intersection of user experience design and software engineering. He strives to use technology as a tool to create better human experiences. He previously worked at SweepSouth, the first South African company to be included in the 500 Startups Accelerator.
We try
to live by our values as best we can. Each of them has their own little
story.
1. Maintain honesty, integrity and intention.
Admittedly,
it’s actually a combination of three values. Honesty means telling the truth.
It’s closely linked to integrity, which to me means keeping promises and
acting in line with my values and convictions. We strive to put honesty and
integrity at the heart and center of what we do. It’s not always easy and
everybody screws up sometimes.
But we
are committed to keep trying, keep screwing up and keep making amends. Maintaining
intention in this case means always keeping in mind what the ultimate goal is. And
that’s helping people live happier and more fulfilled
lives.
2. Focus on users.
Focus on
users means always keeping in mind that the most important part of Pocketcoach is
the people who actually use it. And remembering this as Pocketcoach grows and
changes is fundamentally important. It’s easy to get off track in the midst of
the day-to-day stress and busyness that comes with creating an application like
Pocketcoach. This value is a constant reminder that it’s the people who use
Pocketcoach who we are doing all this for.
3. Science drives story.
There’s
two aspects here. First, science. we strive for everything that Pocketcoach teaches
to be based on scientifically-validated therapy approaches. That doesn’t
necessarily mean that every single tool that Pocketcoach teaches needs to be
clinically tested. But it needs to have proven itself as part of well-tested
therapies. This scientific basis is the foundation for trust between Pocketcoach and
its users.
The
second aspect is story. Humans have been telling stories since the beginning of
civilization. That’s how we learn best and how we remember things.
That’s why we try to wrap many of our lessons around examples and videos which
tell small stories. Putting these two together, we could probably phrase it like
this: Science is the foundation of what we’re doing. And story is how we want
to bridge the gap between science and our users’ minds.
4. Last but not least, we gotta have fun.
Gotta
have fun stands for more though than laughing occasionally. It’s a reminder
that we can only be happy right in this moment. And that life is precious and needs
to be lived with gratitude. That’s also why it helps us remember to take care
of ourselves as well.
There
you have it. A little glimpse into our work and life. Hope you enjoyed
it!
The
Pocketcoach Team
