experience & qualification -

Personal and professional experience in cross-cultural contexts
Grown up in the Dutch-German frontier with family on both sides of the border line
Work experience in China, England and Germany
Work experience as a general manager  in a Swedish foundation (German branch)

Balance of analytical thinking and pragmatic flexibility
Experience in dealing with processes of change

Empathy for the life & work environment in a fast changing world
20 years of professional work for a wide range of industries and international organisations:Automotive - management consultancies - parliaments and international administration - cosmetics industry - SMEs
20 years of professional work with Impats & Expats; own expat experience
30 years of professional work with with people from all continents (more than 40 nations)




Solution-focused Team Coaching
Workshop by Kirsten Dierolf
Solutions Academie, Bad Homburg

Solution-focused Brief Coaching
Workshop by Peter Szabo
Solutions Surfers, Basel

CertifiedBusiness Coach
12-month Business Coach training at Munich Business School (MBS)

Licence: DPI – Developing People Internationally
York Associates, York

Licence: TIP – The International Profiler
Worldwork Ltd Licensing Programme for working with psychometric web-based questionnaire; feedback to individuals
WorldWork Ltd

Studies of Linguistics, Sinology and Political Sciences
Muenster / Westphalia (Germany); Taipeh / Taiwan; Tuebingen (Germany)
M.A. (Magister Artium)  Tuebingen University