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Karen Schmidt

Managing Director

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10117 Berlin
Germany

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Personal information

Wants

valuable solutions for customers, engaged consultants, professional expertise, positive energy, a broad variety of partners, working with passionate people, challenges, diversity, changing the traditional way of work, enabling people, friends
Haves

open mind, open will, open heart
Interests

Helping organisations to achieve their objectives effectively is my profession. My passion is finding synergies of diverse perspectives within and across organisations and to co-create solutions that matter for people. Of course beeing aware of constant change.
Organizations

Society for Organziational Learning (SoL), Knowledge Management for Development (km4dev), The Presencing Institute Community
Groups

Professional experience

Jul 2010 - present
(1 year, 11 months)

(Only visible for registered members)
Nov 2009 - present
(2 years, 7 months)

Partner

Becota GmbH, http://www.becota.com

Industry: Consulting
Oct 2009 - present
(2 years, 8 months)

Associate Partner

Wargitsch & Comp. AG, http://www.wargitsch.com

Industry: Management Consulting
Jul 2009 - Jun 2010
(1 year)

Freelancer

Karen Schmidt - International Consulting

Industry: Consulting, Management Consulting, HRD, Training, Knowledge Management, Organisational Learning
Nov 2009 - Jan 2010
(3 months)

International Senior Expert

ETF European Training Foundation

Industry: Education
Dec 2007 - Jun 2009
(1 year, 7 months)

Director, International Public Sector

imc AG

Industry: Consulting, Training Management, Information Technology & Services, Process Management, E-learning, Capacity Building
Oct 2005 - Dec 2007
(2 years, 3 months)

Head of International Public Business

imc AG

Industry: Consulting, Development Cooperation, Education, e-Learning, Capacity Building
Aug 2000 - 2005

Senior Consultant

imc AG

Industry: Consulting, Training Management, Education, Information Technology & Services, Process Management, E-learning
1992 - 2000

Marketing- & e-learning consulting

self employed

Industry: Consulting
1993 - 1998

Marketing manager

Copyland Dresden

Industry: Printing

Employment status

Entrepreneur

Educational background

1993 - 1998

Technical University Dresden
Business and Education Sciences, Master

Business Science with focus HR / HRD, Marketing, Education Sciences
1992 - 1993

Martin Luther University Halle/Wittenberg, Germany
Education Science

Germanistik, Pädagogik

Languages

German, English, Spanish, Russian

About me

My academic background is business and innovative learning. I love to combine my experiences in business consulting and management with entrepreneurship. I held a variety of positions in consulting, sales and international management at a mid-sized software and consulting firm and have also been working as independent consultant.

As consultant my goal is to co-create sustainable solutions with customers. Mediating between different cultures within complex projects or organizational settings, I am happy if I can help to connect different business and IT perspectives. My assignments have been mostly within large private sector companies and European public administrations.

As entrepreneur I want to work with open minded partners and customers, with people who share the passion for making a difference or to bring things forward! No matter if they are working in a commercial or not-for-profit area, no matter in which part of the world.

I fully support the idea of open companies and prefer a shared vision across organisational boundaries but refuse beeing led by thoughts about competition and short term profits.