European Based Coaches
Bernd Reichert-Berg
Bernd's most
striking gift is his ability to detect individual potential and engage a person
in a developmental process that uses this potential to achieve corporate goals.
This is how he turns day-to-day teams into high-performance teams and contributes
to an increase in corporate performance. He focuses on creating a workplace where
clear and honest communication can take place and will cause momentum within the
organization. His consulting and training style and skills are clearly pragmatic,
results-oriented, and above all strongly anchored in his professional experience
in sales and marketing. He is a strong ally in designing and implementing measures
that lead to bottom-line results.
Bernd is one of few who feels at home with all hierarchical levels, and uses his unconventional wisdom to bring people of the most different backgrounds to reach extraordinary results together. He is quickly accepted as a natural mediator in conflicts and as a corporate confidante.
Bernd started his career at the Standard Elektrik Lorenz corporation in Stuttgart (now Alcatel) and in his 15 years career there has subsequently filled positions as a Sales Director, Marketing Director and Business Unit Director. He then assumed the position of Business Unit Director for the Deutsche Telekom Technikniederlassung in Offenburg, and turned the business unit into the most profitable Telekom Unit in Germany. He was chairman of a print and engineering company in the south of Germany, a member of the board of the directors of T-Online International AG, and sat on several management supervisory boards. He now works as an independent consultant where he focuses on making companies more efficient through executive training and coaching. He lives in Möglingen, Germany.
Kees C. de Vries
Kees is an accomplished organizational consultant specializing in succession planning, strategy, leadership issues and executive coaching.
Kees has nearly 30 years of experience as a successful, creative and pragmatic business-psychologist with assignments in executive and career coaching, EQ-development, and individual and organizational assessments. Areas of expertise also include executive outplacement, organisation transformation, management consulting, and executive search.
Kees’ clients describe his style of coaching as energizing, intuitive, challenging, collaborative, transformational, and purposeful. He guides executives in successfully articulating and leveraging their distinctive leadership “brand” as a path to sustaining peak performance. His focus point is helping executives learn to authentically express themselves and achieve mastery in their relationships with both work and life.
Recent assignments include Corus, a large international law firm, Ball Packaging, the State Department of Justice, and TNO. In the case of large and complex assignments his clients can count on Kees' vast network of professionals and global partnerships. Kees has a graduate degree in Business Psychology and earned his individual and organizational coaching certification through The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara (CA), USA. He is a Dutch native speaker, is fluent in English, and has working knowledge of French and German. Kees is based out of Amsterdam.
Hans Neff
Hans is the
ideal partner and advisor to managers, self-employed entrepreneurs and independent
business people who want to dramatically increase their market shares, their sales
volume and profits. He specializes in activating underutilized performance reserves
and maximizing the contribution of people to their organizations.
He counts twenty years of success as marketing director, sales director and vice-president in the consumer goods industry. His business acumen combined with his profound knowledge of human nature have enabled him to establish himself as a powerful communicator, coach and trainer with the most varied audiences. His working style is firm yet enthusiastic, and results-oriented.
After his MBA in business administration, Hans worked as general manager of a medium-sized German brewery, and then continued for nearly twenty years in leading marketing and sales positions in national and international companies (Procter & Gamble, Erdal-Rex, Shell). He created the brand concept "Frosch" (now Germany´s No. 1 Brand in the detergent market) and successfully placed it in the market, opening enormous sales and market potential for the company and revolutionalizing the whole detergent market in Germany.
Hans is a graduate of Coach University, USA and a board member of the International Coach Federation in Germany. He is a state-approved Naturopath in Germany. He also owns the only certification as Guerilla Marketing Coach in Germany and he is a partner for Hogan Personality Assessment Systems. Hans works as an independent business coach, trainer and consultant focusing on helping organizations achieve maximum corporate effectiveness. He lives in Möglingen, Germany.
Håkan Schyllert
Håkan
has held a number of management positions within sales, with specific achievements
in strategic selling as sales manager with Shell Oil and as sales director with
Esselte. At Shell he gained extensive experience in coaching managers and leaders
as they transitioned into new positions. In the past ten years he started two
companies – one dealing with career development and outplacement and the
other focused on coaching, mentoring and leadership/team development. He holds
Board member positions in Polar Oil Co. and an association for officers in the
reserve of the Swedish military.
His pragmatic approach is focused on producing measurable results and has led to an aptitude to work one-on-one, or in programs integrating group and one-on-one sessions. He is proficient and trained in the use of a number of instruments and processes (such as Authentic Leadership by Koeztenbaum, Social Styles by Wilson, Myers Briggs, Firo-B and various leadership development instruments).
Håkan holds a BSc degree in economics and is certified as a professional and organizational coach by the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara. He is based in Sweden. Languages: fluent in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish; some French and German.
Catherine Beau-Wedemeyer
Catherine
helps her clients manage the accelerated pace of change inherent in today's business
environments and define new performance levels for themselves and their organizations.
Her specialties include leadership development, intercultural coaching and cross-cultural
effectiveness, and intellectual capital inventory and optimization.
As a consultant, Catherine develops strategies to help companies optimize the use of their intellectual assets through the innovation, design and implementation of customized intellectual capital initiatives. With specific measures, corporate culture and internal communication can be adapted to support organizations in transforming their intellectual assets into capital market gain while promoting personal fulfillment and satisfaction. These practices lead to increased effectiveness, accelerated innovation rate, increased retention rates, and reduced training and recruiting expenditures.
Catherine works primarily with teams and individuals that have an ambitious goal or who want radical change. Her clients are sales professionals, "high-potentials" and individuals who work in a complex multi-cultural context. Current clients include: Accenture, Thomson Multimedia, Coherent Laser Group, MET, Boss Lab, Dasign Kommunikation, Banque Générale du Luxembourg, and Quadro-Software.
Catherine received her European Business and Management degree from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Bordeaux (F) and the University of Humberside (GB) in 1992. Prior to launching her independent coaching practice, Catherine was responsible for the Knowledge-Management of the Process organization of Accenture in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. She is a graduate from Coach University, USA. She is a Coach University graduate and Business Coach graduate of the B/Coach Systems (USA).
In addition to her business and coaching qualifications, Catherine owns a COI/COM license (cultural orientation indicator) of the Training Management Corporation, Princeton, NJ in the area of intercultural effectiveness. She is the first professional business coach in Europe to be certified in the BrainStyles System. This is a unique coaching method based on the most advanced findings of genetics and brain research, used to reveal and leverage areas where clients can effortlessly excel. Catherine is an active member of the International Coaching Federation in the US and Germany. She lives in Möglingen, Germany.