omnipresence consulting
Perform at your best when living abroad costs you your edge
When relocation costs you your performance, the answer isn’t more mental toughness. It’s identity reconstruction, rebuilding the exact conditions under which you already know how to perform.
I’ve lived what you are going through
Hi, I am Dr. Caren Diehl, sport psychologist and ICF-ACC certified coach.
I was born in Germany. Grew up in Ghana and Tanzania. Studied in Wales, the US, and England. Worked in Malaysia and the UAE. Then, I moved back to Germany.
Every single time I moved, something happened to my performance. My confidence. My sense of who I was. And I had a PhD in sport psychology. I knew the theory. I taught it. It didn’t matter.
Because nobody had told me that when you relocate, you don’t just change your address. You lose the environmental cues, the social proof, the cultural context that your brain uses to tell you: you are good at this. You belong here. You can perform.
“Performance doesn’t break down abroad because you got worse. It breaks down because nobody told you that identity and performance are the same thing.”
I’ve since worked with athletes who dominated at home and fell apart abroad. Executives who were exceptional in one country and suddenly mediocre in another. High achievers who put it down to self-doubt, imposter syndrome, losing their edge.
It was never that. It was always identity displacement. And it’s fixable.
"It was never a confidence problem. It was never imposter syndrome. It was always identity displacement, and it's fixable."
“No Human is Limited”
– Eliud Kipchoge
Lived & worked abroad
Accra, Ghana
Kuala Lumpur
Dar es Salaam
Canary Wharf
Who this is for
Elite Athletes Abroad
You dominated at home. You moved abroad to compete at a higher level. Now you’re underperforming, and nothing in your training prepares you for what’s happening mentally. You need someone who understands the full picture.
Executives & Leaders Abroad
You were exceptional in your home country. You relocated. Now you’re doubting decisions you’d have made without hesitation six months ago. Your skills haven’t changed. Your context has.
Returning After Years Abroad
Years abroad. Now home again. You expected home to feel like home, and it doesn’t. Reverse identity displacement is just as real — and just as fixable.
Third Culture Kids (TCKs)
You grew up between worlds. Never fully from one place. You learned early to adapt, to belong everywhere and nowhere at once. Now, as a high performer, that fragmented identity shows up in your performance — and you need someone who has lived it, not only studied it.