Dr. phil. Iris Wangermann

German-Austrian I Diploma in Intercultural Business Communication & Psychology I Intercultural & Diversity Competence Trainer since 2003 I In the human resources and organizational development of international companies and universities I Bottom-up Facilitator & Guide I Eight years working, living & studying in Italy, Austria and the USA I Moderator I Speaker I Coach I Consultant I Interims Professor of Intercultural Business Communication 2012-2014 I Visionfast Guide in Nature I (Cross) Thinker I Empathic I Detail-Freak with Vision I Likes daily meditation in motion - yoga and peaceful martial arts Aikido I Researcher Soul I Nature lover I Mover & Shaker

My message is that peace on earth is possible. My aim is to bring light into the darkness of our history and free our societies from racism and xenophobia.
My strength and passion as a psychologist are to create secure workspaces for groups, teams, and individuals. My work leads to sustainable transformations because I invite you to work on the roots of your topics. I am very good at detecting and mirroring unhealthy relationships and structures in systems and in developing solutions together with my clients. You will feel motivated and inspired, get more clarity, even teams will regain their strength and balance.

My passion is working with groups. I love creating secure spaces where you can work bottom-up on your topics. At the same time, I sometimes provoke lovingly and question your cultural reality. I work with ..

Accurate problem analysis and accurate information/research results so you can figure out relationships.
Many practical exercises and living examples. Focus is on the implementation.
Personal examples and experiences.
Interactive methods and aha experiences.

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Work experience Education Training Networks Speaking Interviews Supervised Theses

Work experience

07/2003 - today: Self-employed as Intercultural Competence Trainer
- 50% for international executives, team leaders and expatriates
- 50% for international scientists and students
09 / 2012-08 / 2014: Interim Professor Intercultural Business Communication, HAW Hamburg.
- 8-12 hours apprenticeship / week in Foreign Trade & International Management.
08 / 2004-02 / 2009: Senior Consultant, Syklight GmbH. Business Consulting International Business Communication.
- Three studies on the quality of intercultural and language training from the point of view of German personnel developers. One for the Stiftung Warentest.
10 / 2000-05-2001: Project Coordinator Euro-PhD, Sapienzá University of Rome.
02 / 1998-07 / 2000: Consultant T-mobile. Graz / Austria. Customer Communication.

Education

07/2004 - 08/2008: Dr. Ing. phil. University of Cologne. Intercultural Business Communication.
Thesis: In / Direct Communication & Courtesy in Corporate Communications. People in Germany, Austria and Italy in cultural comparison (cum laude).
09 / 2001-06 / 2004: Graduate Psychologist, University of Cologne.
Diploma thesis: Intercultural training methods in empirical comparison. (1.0)
08 / 2000-08 / 2001: Psychology studies. Sapienzá University, Rome.
Erasmus Free Mover Scholarship.
09 / 1998-07 / 2000: Basic Psychology. Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria.
09 / 1994-08 / 1998: Basic study pedagogy / adult education.
06/1994: German high school diploma
07 / 1991-06 / 1992: High School
Diploma of Graduation.
After an exchange year with the American Field Service (AFS) Clarkston, WA, USA.

Training

2004-2016: The Way of Council in Business.
Circle practice of empathic listening and communicating
2013-2014: Interactive teaching methods. HAW Hamburg.
2013: Diversity Team Trainer, DPI York Associates.
08 / 2003-08 / 2007: Rhetoric practice, Toastmasters International.
Two years president of the Cologne RheinRedner.
03 / 2001-03 / 2002: Client-centered communication according to C. Rogers. The University of Cologne, according to GwG guidelines.

Networks

Speaking

25-26. January 2019: Keynote: Change Master Mother Nature - Agile Culture Camp, Hamburg.
July 11, 2017: Key note: Intercultural differences in 2017. Bayer Intellectual property, international meeting.
June 23, 2016: Intercultural trainings for international scientists. Euraxess Conference 2016
June 4: Older-Younger Council Facilitation. "About us" - PAKH, working group intergenerational consequences of the Holocaust, Cologne.
19 March 2016: Inner Diversity - Outer Diversity & Identity. Annual Meeting of the Warlord e.V., Loccum.
October 30 - November 2, 2014: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German-Japanese Frontiers of Science Symposium. Poster presentation: Reconciling cultural differences: a video project on intercultural critical incidents.
July 4, 2014: KomDim Expertise Circle Meeting, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences: Bringing Cultural Differences into Harmony: A Video Project.
10/2013: VDU - Association of German Women Entrepreneurs, International Team - Annual Meeting: Workshop on Intercultural Awareness
06/2012: Appointment Commission of the FH Hamburg: Diversity Management: Challenge leading an international project team
06/2012: Appointment Commission of the FH Hamburg: Cultural Challenges for Germans in China in the Context of Supply Chain Management.
04/2008: Languages and occupation: results of the market analysis DICE I "Quality of intercultural and foreign language training from the point of view of German personnel developers" (for SKYLIGHT GmbH).
08/2007: Wirtschaftsclub Düsseldorf: "Intercultural Business Communication: People from Germany, Austria and Italy in Cultural Comparison." In Cooperation with Rundstedt HR Partners.
04/2006 KAAD Conference Bad Honnef: "Taboo and Intercultural Communication".
02/2006 EtnoLog Cologne: "Intercultural Communication: People from Germany, Austria and Italy in Cultural Comparison."
10/2005 Culture studies conference Klagenfurt Austria: "Intercultural communication: people from Germany, Austria and Italy in cultural comparison."
08/2005 Intercultural Summer Academy Jena Doctoral colloquium: "Cultural Differences in Corporate Communications: People from Germany, Austria and Italy in Cultural Comparison.

Interviews

11/2018: BS Hoffmann Blog - Business Knigge Fit for the job abroad
10/2018: HrWeb - The right coaching for 3 target groups
08/2018: HrWeb - The basics of intercultural competence
06/2018: HrWeb - Vienna Expats I Vienna as a magnet for expatriates
07/2017: The business paper More than kowtowing and shaking hands correctly.
04/2017: HrWeb - Intercultural communication in a multicultural environment
03/2017: HrWeb - Intercultural Learning
03/2017: HrWeb - Intercultural Education
11/2016: HrWeb - Intercultural Communication: Peculiarities of the Austrians
02/2016: HrWeb - Intercultural communication - Everyday work in international companies.
02/2015: Inside out - FH Köln Magazin Punctual small-talk muffle.
01/2015: Business Spotlight - Italy. About the Italian business mentality. Pp. 38-45. Spotlight Verlag.
11/2014: German perfect. How the Germans work. Pp. 28-32. Spotlight Verlag.

Supervised Theses

Master Theses
- Karabekyan, A. (2015). Umbrella branding of Armenian wine for the EU market: Empirical analysis of market preferences from the consumer perspective. University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg.
- Kuhlmann, I.V. (2015). Hamburg goes international: Analysis of the archetypes and target group structure for the markets China and Scandinavia: A qualitative preliminary study for the qualitative market research planned by Hamburg Marketing GmbH in 2015. HAW, Hamburg.
- Mischke, I. (2015). The economic impact of Africa on the global economy and the role of the African diaspora as middlemen between cultures. HAW, Hamburg.
- Oral, N. (2015). Intercultural marketing in the context of global market development. HAW Hamburg.
- Hersch, D. (2006). Intercultural marketing as a challenge of a globalized world using the example of South Africa. Europe FH Fresenius.
Bachelor theses
- Schacht, A.D. (2015). The influence of cultural peculiarities on the marketing mix of international companies. HAW Hamburg.
- Wittke, S. (2015). Internet-based social media as a communication tool to reach the target group 50+ in the context of suction marketing. HAW Hamburg.
  Jiang, Q. (2013). Problems of German companies entering the Chinese market. HAW, Hamburg.