We provide our customers an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary and inter­na­tional team of experts. We are people in an exclu­sive training academy (Exec­u­tive Academy) and an inno­v­a­tive coaching insti­tute (Exec­u­tive Coaching). With passion and fun, we prop­a­gate our unique combi­na­tion of research and prac­tice into new knowl­edge and skills. In our work, we focus on exec­u­tives and corpo­rate processes.

Our trainers and coaches are experts in commu­ni­ca­tion, coaching, and change processes. They have diverse geographic back­grounds. They are from Germany, Austria, Switzer­land, Norway, Slovakia, Denmark, the Nether­lands, Belgium, the United States, and China.

With their commit­ment to field-research and quality training, they are compe­tent to support managers in achieving their goals.

 

Their educa­tion back­grounds are also widely different, including

  • psychology,
  • marketing and market research,
  • engi­neering,
  • educa­tional sciences,
  • cultural anthro­pology,
  • busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion and sciences,
  • control­ling,
  • corpo­rate gover­nance,
  • strategy devel­op­ment,
  • philos­ophy,
  • commu­ni­ca­tion science,
  • hermeneu­tics,
  • IT,
  • retail oper­a­tions,
  • logis­tics,
  • statis­tics,
  • services manage­ment,
  • media sciences,
  • busi­ness infor­matics, and

 

Our Manage­ment Team

Wolfgang Schmitz
Dr. Wolf­gang Schmitz

Founder and CEO, eurac estab­lish­ment

  • Global Lead­er­ship Devel­op­ment Advisor for C‑suite and Top Manage­ment in over 60 coun­tries
  • Ph.D. in Busi­ness Science, Univer­sity of Cali­fornia (USA)
  • EMBA, Ross Busi­ness School, Univer­sity of Michigan (USA)
  • M.A. in Psychology, Univer­sity of Hamburg (Germany)
Claudia Jing Zhang
Claudia Jing Zhang

General Manager, eurac Asia Pacific

  • Special­ized in Mindful Inter­cul­tural Commu­ni­ca­tion for Global Busi­ness and Global Lead­er­ship
  • Global Lead­er­ship Devel­op­ment, Summer Insti­tute for Inter­cul­tural Commu­ni­ca­tion, Reed College (USA)
  • Master of Science in Educa­tion, Inter­cul­tural Commu­ni­ca­tion, Univer­sity of Penn­syl­vania (USA)
  • Bach­elor of Art, English Language and Liter­a­ture, Lanzhou Univer­sity (China)
Caroline Kaufmann
Caro­line Kauf­mann

Client Asso­ciate & Admin­is­tra­tion

Annette Miescher
Annette Miescher

Client Asso­ciate & Admin­is­tra­tion

Gaby Frommelt
Gaby From­melt

Client Asso­ciate & Admin­is­tra­tion

Our Global Lead­er­ship Experts

Joyce S. Osland
Prof. Dr. Joyce S. Osland

Lucas Endowed Professor of Global Lead­er­ship, Founder and Exec­u­tive Director, Global Lead­er­ship Advance­ment Center, College of Busi­ness at San José State Univer­sity, USA

  • Inter­na­tion­ally known specialist in inter­na­tional manage­ment with a focus on global lead­er­ship and orga­ni­za­tional devel­op­ment.
  • Exten­sive exec­u­tive educa­tion and consulting expe­ri­ences in global compe­tency devel­op­ment with global corpo­ra­tions, non-profits and univer­si­ties.
  • Winner of the highest teaching award (Outstanding Educator Award) by Inter­na­tional Manage­ment Divi­sion of the Academy of Manage­ment.
  • Co-founder, the inno­v­a­tive Global Lead­er­ship Lab.
  • Prolific and award-winning scholar with over 150 publi­ca­tions.
  • Ph.D. in Orga­ni­za­tional Behavior, Case Western Reserve Univer­sity.
Gigi
Gigi de Groot

Senior Lead­er­ship Specialist at FBA, Sweden

  • Highly expe­ri­enced trainer and consul­tant devel­oping global teams and indi­vid­uals from over 75 cultures.
  • Special­ized on inter­na­tional facil­i­ta­tion, inter­cul­tural manage­ment, organ­i­sa­tional devel­op­ment, cross-cultural commu­ni­ca­tion, organ­i­sa­tional culture, culture and person­ality, change manage­ment and global lead­er­ship devel­op­ment.
  • Previous CEO, itim Inter­na­tional, nowa­days known as Hofstede Insights.
  • Master’s Degree in Inter­na­tional Rela­tions, Univer­sity of Gronigen, Nether­lands.
  • Fluent in English, Dutch and Swedish with a good under­standing of German and French.
Joyce S. Osland
Prof. Subhasis Ray

Marketing and Sustain­ability, Xavier Insti­tute of Manage­ment, Xavier Univer­sity, India

  • 24 years’ expe­ri­ences in corpo­rate and acad­emia.
  • 8 years in strategy and busi­ness devel­op­ment for leading MNCs in emerging markets-BP, HILTI and the TATA group.
  • 16 years’ acad­emic expe­ri­ences of teaching/speaking on sustain­ability, CSR and marketing at leading univer­si­ties (including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Darden, INSEAD) to partic­i­pants of 35+nationalities in 23 coun­tries.
  • Ph.D. on Corpo­rate Social Respon­si­bility, Osmania Univer­sity.
Piotr
Piotr Gryko

Co-founder and Senior Partner, House of Skills, Poland

  • Special­ized in visual strategic facil­i­ta­tion, orga­ni­za­tional culture analysis and tran­si­tion manage­ment, cross-cultural effi­ciency, exec­u­tive teams’ effi­ciency.
  • Over 25 years’ profes­sional expe­ri­ences across multiple cultures including Poland, Sweden, Russia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia.
  • Accred­ited prac­ti­tioner in Inter­cul­tural Manage­ment
  • MA, Inter­na­tional Busi­ness, SGH Warsaw School of Economic, Poland.
Piotr
Steve Terrel

Pres­i­dent at Aspire Consulting, USA

  • Special­ized in Global Lead­er­ship Devel­op­ment, Lead­er­ship Devel­op­ment, and Manage­ment Consulting.
  • 30 years’ expe­ri­ences in improving orga­ni­za­tional and human perfor­mance. Deep and broad capa­bil­i­ties in virtu­ally all aspects of executive/leadership devel­op­ment.
  • Ed.D., Human Resource Devel­op­ment, The George Wash­ington Univer­sity.
  • M.S. in Educa­tion, Old Dominion Univer­sity.
Piotr
Satu Kreula

Exec­u­tive Coach & Lead­er­ship Devel­op­ment Consul­tant, UK

  • Special­ized in inte­grated approach of coaching senior exec­u­tives and teams for global lead­er­ship effec­tive­ness across cultures.
  • A wealth of inter­na­tional project and program manage­ment expe­ri­ence working in over 40 coun­tries across six conti­nents. 
  • Accred­ited MBTI, LCP Prac­ti­tioner; Member of ICF, SIETAR, AC.
  • M.Sc. Orga­ni­za­tional Behavior and Inter­cul­tural Commu­ni­ca­tion, Helsinki School of Economics (HSE).
  • Bilin­gual in English and Finnish, full profes­sional profi­ciency in Spanish, basic French, Portuguese, and Swedish skills.

Our Experts

Wolfgang Schmitz
Dr. Wolf­gang Schmitz

Founder and CEO, eurac estab­lish­ment

  • Global Lead­er­ship Devel­op­ment for C‑suite and Top Manage­ment in over 60 coun­tries
  • Ph.D. in Busi­ness Science, Univer­sity of Cali­fornia (USA)
  • EMBA, Ross Busi­ness School, Univer­sity of Michigan (USA)
  • M.A. in Psychology, Univer­sity of Hamburg (Germany)
Claudia Jing Zhang
Claudia Jing Zhang

General Manager, eurac Asia Pacific

  • Special­ized in Mindful Inter­cul­tural Commu­ni­ca­tion for Global Busi­ness and Global Lead­er­ship
  • Global Lead­er­ship Devel­op­ment, Summer Insti­tute for Inter­cul­tural Commu­ni­ca­tion, Reed College (USA)
  • Master of Science in Educa­tion, Inter­cul­tural Commu­ni­ca­tion, Univer­sity of Penn­syl­vania (USA)
  • Bach­elor of Art, English Language and Liter­a­ture, Lanzhou Univer­sity (China)
    Mark Harris
    Mark Harris

    Strategy Faculty

    • Expe­ri­enced, highly effec­tive, extremely networked exec­u­tive with over 30 years of expe­ri­ences in the high-tech and entre­pre­neur­ship industry with a distin­guished career of advance­ment and achieve­ment.
    • Adjunct Profes­sor­ships in Tech­nology Entre­pre­neur­ship & Inno­va­tion at the Univer­sity in Sofia (Bulgaria), the Politehnica Univer­sity in Bucharest (Romania) and the Univer­sity of Applied Sciences in Rosen­heim (Germany)
    • Master Degrees in Computer Science and Economics at Tech­nical Univer­sity in Munich  (Germany)
    Dr. Ingrid Siegel
    Dr. Ingrid Siegel

    “YOU!”-Faculty/Training-Faculty

    • Ph.D. in Philos­ophy (Studies and Research), Person­ality Theory, Hermeneu­tics, Commu­ni­ca­tion Theory, Soci­ology, Univer­sity of Leipzig (Germany)

    Stephan Kluge
    Stephan Kluge

    Coaching and Research

    • BSc. Inter­na­tional Hospi­tality Manage­ment, Ecole Hotelière de Lausanne (Switzer­land)
    • Master of Advanced Lead­er­ship (ZfU-Inter­na­tional Busi­ness School) Zürich (Switzer­land)
    • Interim manage­ment, company manage­ment, change manage­ment for econom­ical turn-around and subse­quent sale
    Stephan Kluge
    Philippe Sous­sand

    Founder and Prin­cipal of SOUSSAND ASSOCIATES, LLC

    • Special­ized in orga­ni­za­tional devel­op­ment and strategic marketing for world’s leading fashion and luxury brands including Dior, Fendi, Burberry, and Bally since 2002.
    • Hold a number of senior exec­u­tive posi­tions at LVMH, Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton for 11 years.
    • Advi­sory Board of Mad Network, a luxury retail consulting leader based in Paris.
    • MBA, The Wharton School, Univer­sity of Penn­syl­vania.
    • Fluent in English, Spanish, French, and profi­cient in Portuguese.
    Stephan Kluge
    Dr. Asli Toksal

    Founder at Invite­Fu­ture and Senior Project Manager for AI Initia­tives at Siemens, Germany

    • Special­ized in lead­er­ship, human resources devel­op­ment, mental training and systemic consulting.
    • Certi­fied Finan­cial Risk Manager with 15 years’ expe­ri­ences in finan­cial services including sales, risk manage­ment, process design, IT project manage­ment and sustain­ability.
    • Ph.D. in Social and Economic Sciences with an empir­ical study on corpo­rate gover­nance from the Univer­sity of Cologne (Germany)
    • CEMS Master in Inter­na­tional Manage­ment (HEC Paris) and Commer­cial Sciences from the Vienna Univer­sity of Economics and Busi­ness (Austria)