Kompetenzprofil

International Skills

• 15 year employment with the U.S. Consulate General in Hamburg
• International projects, conferences and contacts
• Native-language skills in German; full professional proficiency in English

Communications

• Communication principal skill during the last 15 years
• Networking, lobbying, PR, representation
• Presentations in German and English
• Establishment, cultivation and deepening of relationships
• Mediation, conflict management, bridge-building
• Audience-specific communication

Analysis/Strategy

• Ability to cut to the core of a problem and solve it
• Provide recommendations to executives (U.S. Consulate General in Hamburg,
  U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Department of State, and other federal departments)
• Point out alternatives and consequences
• Scrutinize certainties and intentions to act

Leadership

• Cooperative leadership of international project teams with 5-15 internal and external members
• Ability to counsel, convince and implement
• Decisive and able to put things in a nutshell
• Empathy, good knowledge of human nature, positive thinker and actor
• Confidence building and justifying personality
• Recognize and use opportunities

Project Management

• Project lead, mostly international
• Planning and organization (e.g. conferences, roundtables, symposia):
  capacity, personnel, and budget planning, time management, monitoring
• Great overview, early recognition of problems and course correction
• Motivator

Marketing

• Sell ideas, concepts, strategies and measures
• Ability to convince and inspire
• Experience with complicated treaties, agreements and legislation

Additional Skills and Qualities

• Passion, decisiveness, persistence, integrity and loyalty, tact and diplomacy
• Curious, positive thinker