personal data: Silke Weigang

Silke Weigang is multi-lingual, working simultaneously in German, English, Italian and Spanish as a freelance trainer, consultant and coach. She founded her business consultancy on management skills training in 2002. Since 1987 she has worked in about 20 different countries all over the world.

USP: Assisting heterogeneous teams and leaders in managing their internal and external relations, work results and processes - e.g. supporting international project teams as facilitator, coach and trainer.

After leaving the United Nations in late 1999, Silke Weigang has conducted workshops, training seminars and coaching in the following areas of specialization:

• international project management (tools and soft skills)
• intercultural communication
• leadership skills, self-management and stress release, prevention of burn-out
• skills assessment: personality style / preferential analysis
• presentation skills related to multicultural customers
• quick repartee and creative problem solving

She serves as a public speaker and as a facilitator for workshops - and conferences at ministerial level.

Silke Weigang works for clients of the private industry, international development community, services and public administration. Her approach is dynamic, open-minded, client- and process-orientated, plus creative with a lot of interaction among participants.

She continuously invests in her own professional formation, among others: NLP-Master (DVNLP) and Expert on HR Process Facilitation for Individuals and Groups (Külpp & Partner).

She is co-author and network-partner of traintool’s tool box web, an intelligent databank with soft skill instruments for executives, HR managers, trainers, facilitators and coaches. Co-author: Einstellungstests, job interview tests for employers, book with CD-ROM, 2. edition 2009 and testy rekrutacyjne (Polish Edition).

Further professional history

• 1996 to 1999, responsible for several international projects at Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in Rome I Italy
• 1995/1996 post-graduate course in International Project Management, at the German Development Institute in Berlin and Bangkok/ Thailand
• 1992-1995, Professional Assistant to Members of the German Federal Parliament in Bonn/Germany
• 1989-1995 Political Science (M.A.) studies, in Munich, Bradford/Great Britain and Bonn
• 1987/88 & 91, human resource development in Paraguay
• 1968 born in Munich / Germany