Background

Expert in communication

Since 1990 conference interpreting experience in various areas

• business (including RWE AG)
• politics (including European Commission, European Parliament, German Federal Ministries)
• culture (including Frankfurt Book Fair)
• specialised conferences (including conferences on medical, technical, philosophical and legal subjects)

Teaching experience
Since 1990

• Training of conference interpreters - Warsaw, Lodz, Bradford, and Geneva University, as well as training courses run by the European Commission and European Parliament
  
• Stress management seminars
  
• Individual coaching for people experiencing dramatic (private and professional) changes

Personal experience of change (a few examples)

• Grew up in former East Germany (Brandenburg)
  
• Successful freelance career since 1990
  
• Lived and worked in Poland 1990 -1994
  
• Moved to Germany (Cologne) in 1994 and established successful freelance career in a completely different context
  
• Attended training courses for several months in Bonn, Brussels, Bradford, Strasbourg and Geneva
  

My motto:
Change your beliefs!

(Richard Bandler, co-founder of NLP)