Her Business: A Provider of Transformational Change Processes for Corporations & Professionals

Timeline of Sylvia’s Professional Development

2010

• Co-founded the Michigan International Professional Association (MIPA)

• Began partnering with Christine Klisch to operate Business + Culture, serving German companies in the Midwest (USA) with their combined knowledge of intercultural awareness, executive coaching, change management and team-development

• Participated as an active member of the German American Chamber of Commerce (GACC)

• Served as the first non-American member on the board of the Professional Coach Association Michigan (PCAM)

2009

• Joined BORA-Consulting International, with a focus on telephone coaching

• Served as one of three official mentor coaches for the Professional Coach Association Michigan (PCAM)

2008

• Began a three-year term as an Associate of David Chinsky & Associates, focusing on executive coaching inside The Institute for Leadership Fitness^TM

2007

• Started coaching in the US with a focus on Executive Coaching and Coach Training
• Introduced a new service: Public Speaking

2006

• Moved to Michigan (USA)

2004

• With Stefan Lammers, founded The Coach Center Duesseldorf in a beautiful old Patricia Villa

• Served as the President of the International Coach Federation (ICF)
  Germany

2003

• Began a three-year term on the German board of the International Coach Federation (ICF)

2002

• Began a four-year membership with Bredemeyer & Friends, a consulting company focusing on large group facilitation for major cultural and corporate changes

• Became a team member of Carpe Viam, Dr. Anja Henke’s consulting company, and spent two years working on dynamic international outplacement support programs and difficult change-management processes where resisting key-players had to get on board to become drivers for necessary change

• Became the first Professional Certified Coach of the ICF in Germany
• Re-launched her coaching practice under the brand Commitment: Coaching the Passion in People ^TM

2001

• Became a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), a professional community of likeminded, committed transformers
• Began a flourishing seven-year partnership with Dr. Baldinger & Partner with a focus on coaching, corporate in-house training, and train-the-trainer, including working with Dr. Baldinger & Partner’s English section, the-wright-way (in English)

2000

• Served as a network partner of Systemic Consulting with a focus on systemic coaching and consulting (for two years)

1999

• Discovered by Winner´s Edge, a large successful German consulting company, and utilized as a change agent for two years, assisting in the facilitation of Post Merger Integration processes

1998

• Awarded a two-year 55000 Euro prize called PFAU by the Ministry for School, Education, Science and Research (MSWWF) of Nord-Rhein-Westfalen; this was given in recognition of her business start-up under the business name “Commitment”

1997

• Launched her career as the first known Telephone-Coach
• Offered “Coaching to Secure the Sustainability of Corporate Training” and in-house trainings for service orientation, communication and conflict management

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