WALTER SCHWARZ

Cross Cultural Addict
Coach - Trainer - Consultant
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About me

Hello, Privet and Guten Tag - I am Walter Schwarz!
My career began in an IT project management environment, in parallel I lived my passion for people centred creative activities such as HR development, training and consulting of the team and change programs.

After some failures and lessons learned in self employment, I am now actively seeking open minded, creative and authentic project teams to join and build. Personal development, coaching and cross cultural competence one the one hand and business modelling and project management experience on the other is the perfect mix of a multi-faceted generalist.

This broad perspective and unbiased view adds value especially in leadership roles or cross-unit projects, where an eagle perspective secures the specialists to perform at their best reaching the overall project goal.

"Guiding change towards growth through unconventional methods"
and "creating positive impact" is what others say about me. 

Quick cultural check to see, 

if we can grow together successfully:

Let us talk, if your organisation culture contains:
  • Open minded and agile perspective
  • Authentic, non-conform individualisms
  • Think global act local
  • Testing new things and approaches
  • Flat hierarchy and group think
  • Fail, learn, share, grow
  • Humour connects and solves problems
We likely differ in our approaches, if you prioritise the following:
  • Standardisation matters most
  • Conformism and collectivism above all
  • Resistant to change
  • Repetitive activities and behaviour
  • Hierarchy over common sense
  • No mistake policy
  • Fun is weak and unprofessional

How is your result?

More greens? Fantastic! Have a look at my past experience below (although seldom the future can be derived from it) and let us find out in which ways I can add value to your upcoming projects.

More reds? Fantastic! Glad, we did find out at this stage. We should speak definitely, if you are seeking for a change within your company and personnel and require support through coaching and consultancy. Also, if you have non-standard projects upcoming and need a cross-cultural coaching expertise let us brain storm with coffee about it.

What do you get?

GenEraliSt

Having worked in different positions, organisations and countries I have a developed an eagle perspective. Situations, evaluations and judgements differ depending on your perspective. I enable discovering them and choose the fitting one.

HOLISTIC

A holistic perspective considers various units, departments and people involved into problem solving. A consideration of the system itself is key to creation of effective and lasting change.

PEOPLE PERSON

The core of improvements, changes and transformations is reaching a better version of the situation. But above all, a better way and value for the person dealing with it.

Personal information

Walter Schwarz
1190 Vienna
Austria
+43 677 64 81 44 77
2walterschwarz@gmail.com

Languages

German, fluent
English, fluent
Russian, fluent
Spanish, intermediate
French, basic

Professional skills

Business modeling
73%
Ideation
97%
Project management
81%
Solution driven
83%
Software proficiency
86%
Process automation
77%

Interpersonal skills

Collaboration
93%
Cross Cultural Intelligence
100%
Empathy
90%
Methodology
75%
Coaching
77%
Emotional intelligence
89%

Working experience


01/2019 – current
Business Development Manager

MyTeamConnector, Singapore

Acquisition and project integration of PWA - Progressive Web Apps, new clients SMEs, focus on understanding customer needs and translate them into technical requirements catalogue


08/2017 – 12/201
Self-Employment, Start-Up

Wunderling.org, Online-School German Language, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Setup fully automated, digital marketing sales cycle (Website, Mailing, Scripts, Automations, SMM, Payment Integration)


08/2015 – 08/2017
Business Development Manager

We.Conect Global Leaders GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Responsible for full sales cycle from acquisition, consulting and closing of solution provider for Digitalisation-based B2B-conferences. Managed portfolio of four events and reached a revenue of 780.000 EUR. Initiated improvement of the CRM system, agile project workshops, and implementation of project management tool. Held team workshops on customer services.


09/2011 – 07/2015
Business Coordinator

E.ON IT GmbH, Hanover, Germany

Consulting on internal processes within EBS group, Conceptualised and implemented center of excellence for customer oriented process services, led decision making committee on mid-management level optimising processes among departments and companies.




06/2010 – 08/2010
Intern Process Consultant

Patentica LLC, St. Petersburg, Russia

Initiated and realised an optimisation program, standardised core process of patent filing, moderated management-workshop for strategy development, held intercultural competencies workshop


11/2007 – 12/2009
Trainee Quality and Processes

E.ON IS UK Ltd., Coventry, United Kingdom

Supported international team during audits, enhanced the internal quality control system, setup of internal online-portal for Business Process Management for management team

Education


08/2010 – 07/2011
M.A. International Business
(Entrepreneurship)

University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom

Thesis: The role of cultural intelligence in international entrepreneurship - Analysis of a German company entering Singapore


08/2004 – 07/2007
B.A. Business Administration (Industry)

University of Cooperative Education, Hamelin/ Hanover, Germany


Thesis: Concept and implementation of an expatriate program
 for apprentices in UK


08/2003 – 05/2004
Civil Service

M&I Hospital, Bad Pyrmont, Germany



07/2003
A-Levels

Commercial High School, Hamelin, Germany

Further education


10-12/2017
NLP Practitioner & NLP Master

NLP Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany


10–12/2014
Start Up Accelerator Program

E.ON Agile, Berlin, Germany


03/2014
Business Model Generation Masterclass

Alexander Osterwalder, Berlin, Germany


11/2013 - 05/2014
Early Talent Leadership Program

E.ON Hanover/ Dusseldorf/ Berlin, German

Interests

Fun facts

  • I have a twin brother
  • I have been teaching social dancing for about 8 years
  • After my wife and I married, she began studying psychology. Incident? ;)
How do you prefer
having a quick chat?
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Walter Schwarz
+43 677 64 81 44 77
2walterschwarz@gmail.com
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