Our team
Team
consilia cct: create culture together stands for interdisciplinary, networked and creatively designed services. Together with our diverse and interculturally experienced experts and various cooperation partners, we have been working for many years on a project basis in precisely the ways that determine professional everyday life today. Transparency, appreciation, liveliness, humility, structure, pragmatism and flexibility characterize us and our work.
Gesa Krämer
Managing Director consilia cct
Personally, I love bringing people together and discovering new things. Even as a teenager, I led language trips for children and still like to design creative fields of experience and share them with my family, among others. Throughout my professional career I connect worlds: as a coach and therapist for 20 years in my own practice; before that as head of university marketing; as a project manager for coaching/ training in technical sales & service for Europe; and as a coordinator of B2B marketing in the automotive industry.
Most of my clients and participants say that I respond precisely to their needs and present topics in a lively, well-founded manner and with humor. I successfully convey even the most difficult of topics clearly, always manage to change perspectives and watch carefully and closely – and with enthusiasm.
This spectrum from which I draw is based primarily on my M.A. in Intercultural Communication, and through my training and further education as a body psychotherapist, psychotherapeutic alternative practitioner, and certified trauma therapist, as well as an NLP Master. This combination, which may seem unusual, also results from my own experiences with health and from my urge to do research: I want to understand causes, backgrounds and connections.
In addition to coaching and training, I pass on my experience as a lecturer for intercultural communication, didactics, etc. at various universities and as a book author. I volunteer as a supervisor for Sea-Watch to provide "support to the supporters".
In my daily work, I am frequently concerned with online didactics, virtual leadership and the implementation of diversity projects, in addition to coaching, supervision and facilitation. I prefer to work in different languages; besides German I speak English, Spanish and French fluently.
My deep conviction is: "New ideas come through open doors". I am therefore always curious, what topics, tasks or challenges are waiting behind the next door.
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Nazarkiewicz
Stakeholder consilia cct
"Life is lived forward and understood backward", is a famous quote from Kierkegaard. That is why I know today that I studied sociology, economics and psychology in Frankfurt and Giessen to understand what collective influences people are exposed to. At that time, you could not take Intercultural Communication as an academic subject and so I took the school of life as a source of knowledge. For more than a decade, I flew around the world as a flight attendant and cabin manager to finance my studies and to get to know cultures and life worlds. During this time, I had impressive experiences with life lessons and worked in heterogeneous teams, both of which had a lasting impact on me.
And the urge to do research continued. I have always been interested in how adults, teams and organizations learn and develop. My master's degree in adult education and further training in organizational consulting and coaching have sensitized me to this. Equipped in this way, I became self-employed in 1996 and applied a variety of methods and processes, from accompanying scientific research to developing mission statements and facilitating large groups. In the meantime, I expanded the consilia team and brought "the world" to me: colleagues speaking different mother tongues, cultural experts, like-minded people. With Gesa Krämer I was lucky to find an ideal counterpart and my permanent business partner, and we have been working together in a GbR ever since.
Throughout all this, I have followed my enthusiasm for a scientifically reflective approach. Research projects, teaching assignments, and publications have always accompanied my path. This led to the professorship for Intercultural Communication at the University of Applied Sciences Fulda in 2017.
Now I have the great pleasure to combine everything as a senior coach, intercultural consultant and process facilitator: science, my enthusiasm for cultures, reflection on global and digital working, pedagogy, and developing people and organizations.
Would I have thought that 40 years ago? Never. When read backwards, however, it seems like a plan – see Kierkegaard.
Virginia Schoell
Back Office consilia cct
Born in Brazil, I moved to Germany as a teenager: I grew up in two countries and was shaped by several cultures. Translating between worlds was therefore part of my everyday life from the very beginning, long before it became my profession.
While studying engineering and business, I began working in the aviation industry and subsequently switched my major to tourism and mobility management. Professionally, I've remained in the operational sector ever since, working closely with people from all over the world.
Over time, I felt a growing desire to further my professional development. That's how I came to pursue a master's degree in Intercultural Communication and Cooperation in Munich, where my life and professional experience merged with theory. This experience broadened my perspective on the world - and on myself - once again.
Today, I work as a freelance trainer and seminar leader specializing in diversity and intercultural communication. In addition, I delve deeply into the topic of neurodiversity, which was also the subject of my master's thesis.
At consilia cct, I support the team in the back office and with administrative tasks; I also work here as a freelance trainer.
I enjoy new challenges. The mix of organization, flexibility, and interacting with people brings a lot of wonderful variety to my work.
Cooperation partners
consilia cct works together with strong network partners on a contractual basis. We are united by many years of experience in cooperation, as well as by the shared criteria we apply to our work.