neu-frontbild-1.jpgPhotograph: Stefan Wiede

Education

Professional experience

  • More than 15 years as a projectmanager in international projects within civil society, private sector and public administration.
  • 3 years managing a team and office abroad. For the past 5 years I have been a teamleader at Servicestelle Kommunen in der Einen Welt, Engagement Global. Engagement Global is an implementing organisation of Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. We are networking and funding municipal partnerships to promote the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At Engagement Global, I also serve as a conflict advisor for conflicts at the workplace. 
  • Since 2024, as advisory board member of Southern Africa Refugee-Led Network (SARLN), I have been voluntarily supporting a refugee organisation in South Africa.
  • I have been working as a long-term advisor to NGOs for more than five years. 
  • Facilitation of dialogue processes with conflict actors (quiet diplomacy), working with in a context of trauma and crisis, research on and documentation of mediation, action research.
  • Facilitation of training workshops, conferences and study trips for a variety of target groups from young students, social entrepreneurs, elderly people to researchers, and people coming from the public or private sector.
  • Volunteer mediator for students and families.
  • Public administration, NGOs, philanthropy, pharmaceutical industry.


Publications

Conflict management training manual

Contribution to a book on civil conflict management

Articles, studies, internal working papers


Motivation

Since my student exchange with Youth for Understanding in the USA in 1994, I have repeatedly integrated myself into other cultures. In total, I spent eight years abroad and have been working internationally for 17 years. My desire is to transfer knowledge from other contexts and pass on the boundless empathy of my international partners, because the joy of our lives is connected with the quality of our relationships.  

Quality also means having your moments on the stage of life. As a saxophonist and flutist, I work between collaboration and solos, work and play, and am known for my ideas and playful, spontaneous solutions. Listening carefully, tempo, expressing emotion, a feel for the audience, which plays just as much a part as the musicians themselves... offers you new approaches from the creative field.