Kerstin Brandes

About me

As a business coach, trainer and consultant for (intercultural) communication and leadership, I support people, teams and organisations in successfully mastering their multi-layered challenges in a global and digitalised world and in achieving their professional or private goals. Constant changes, such as restructuring, globalisation or working from home, unsettle many people because familiar and proven patterns of behaviour no longer work. They increasingly experience these factors as a burden and develop stress symptomssuch as sleep disorders or back pain, which may put their health at risk and limit their performance.

In my coaching sessions, my clients develop achievable goals, e.g.• strengthening their resilience in order to cope better with changes and crises or • leading a remote team effectively in the case of a manageror• working together trustfully in the case of a teamor• finding orientationin the new role by means of intercultural coaching in the case of an international employee. Changing perspectiveprovides my clients with clarity and enables them to take sustainable decisions and develop specific solutions on their way to achieving their goals. This equips them with a high level of self-confidence, motivation and performance. This equips them with a high level of self-confidence, motivation and performance.

With many years of experience in international sales, as a manager of a multicultural team and as an expat, I am familiar with the highly complex challenges of a diverse world. That is why empathy, cultural intelligence and passion are the core ingredients of my intercultural coaching services for multicultural (remote) teams, employees with a migration background and for international experts and managers. Intercultural coaching – as I understand it – is based on trustfuland transparent communicationand pursues the goal of actively involving all parties in a successful, fair andparticipative integration process which results in a lasting employment relationship.

Coaching experience

• Executive coaching and coaching for employees
  Role clarification, leadership style and communication, staff development, conflict resolution,developing leadership skills as junior managers, reintegration, leadership & health etc.
• Resilience coaching
  Identifying stressors and stress symptoms, methods for increasing resilience and adaptability, coping strategies for crises, dealing with uncertainty, sustainably maintaining or restoring health
• Team development in companies
  Team coaching (also intercultural/virtual): Improvement of cooperation, communication and feedback culture, clarification of roles and processes, understanding of leadership, etc.
  Training & Workshops: leadership & health, resilience and stress prevention , intercultural competence, communication and leadership in globally operating companies, leadership skills for junior managers, corporate culture, diversity, understanding of leadership etc.
  Workshops RAUS
• Intercultural coaching
  Onboarding support for international specialists, managers and employees with a migration background: integration into the team/company, role clarification, management style and communication, conflict avoidance, etc.
• Organisational consulting
  Systemic organisational analysis, streamlining of processes, interfaces & structures, company values and culture; workshop design& facilitation, trainings, team and executive coaching
• Personal and career coaching and counselling
  Career reorientation, analysis of potential, goals and decision making, application counselling, personality development, work life balance, conflict resolution, etc.
• Expat coaching
  Professional, personal and cultural orientation for expats in Germany, career coaching and counselling, coaching & counselling for expat partners, repatriation and reintegration etc.

Qualification

• Systemic Business & Personal Coach – Coaching Akademie Berlin, European Coaching Association (ECA) certified
• Resilience coach (Institute for Educational Coaching)
• Organisational development (Trigon & Zeitsprung)
• Intercultural Trainer (International University Bremen)
• Live Online Trainer (The Consultants-e/UK) –
• e-Moderator/e-Learning Trainer (The Consultants-e/UK)
• Scrum Master PSM1 (scrum.org)
• Suggestopedic Trainer (DGSL)
• ITC Trainer ‘Teaching Languages with Technology’ (The Consultants-e/UK)
• CLTC Trainer ‘Communication and Language Trainer – Corporate’ (IIK Düsseldorf)
• Graduate Business and Language Expert (Justus Liebig University Gießen)

• Team leader (approx. 20 multicultural lecturers) of the language department of the European University of Applied Sciences in Neuss 2009 – 2013
• Foundation of 2TRAINERS (English for trainers and coaches) 2011
• Foundation of wortwelten (business training) 2003
• Sabbatical 2002 – 2003
• Sales Representative (Southern Europe) 1996 – 2002
• International sales assistant 1988 – 1996

Industries: IT, mechanical engineering, automotive, office supplies and stationery, textiles
International: North and South America, Southern Europe, UK

• ICF (International Coaching Federation)
• UTE Meeting Network of female entrepreneurs Erftstadt