Trainer & approach

YOUR TRAINER

WHERE THEORY & EXPERIENCE COME TOGETHER

Kimberly combines over 20 years of corporate and international business experience, with degrees in cross-cultural communications (MACCC) and electrical engineering (BSEE).  Explaining communication as a technical problem, she helps industrial business leaders and technical teams to see the mechanisms behind international communications, then to design them for business results.

Starting as an engineer with DuPont (a Fortune 50 company), she developed a passion for travel, growth, and hard work.  She moved from R&D Manager and Global Product Manager, to Global Business Manager, Corporate Growth Manager, and EMEA Regional Manager (P/L $150,000,000).  These international roles, including travel to over 50 countries, inspired research into international communications and, eventually, a masters in cross-cultural communication (with honors).  

Today, Kimberly helps teams and leaders use communication to build trust, relationships, and results.  She trains TEDx speakers and is a keynote speaker on culture and exporting at universities, the European American Chamber of Commerce, and the World Trade Center.  She is on the board of SIETAR Switzerland and manages the Cross-Cultural Association of intercultural education training and researchManagement Linkedin Group.  Kimberly's experience and positive energy go into every project, as she translates your needs into engaging and team-building workshops. 


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International and business communications are also technologies. By understanding these technologies, we can design them to meet our needs."Kimberly VanLandingham, CEO, Strategist, Trainer, Speaker

WHO

FOR THOSE WORKING INTERNATIONALLY

INTERNATIONAL TEAMS

Training and team building workshops provide a framework and vocabulary to discuss similarities and differences. Teams teach each other and use differences to accelerated growth, while building relationships.

INTERNATIONAL LEADERS

Strategy sessions, country data, and ongoing mentoring provide international leaders with the business, culture, communication, and/or team support needed to grow their skills, relationships, and businesses.

INTERNATIONAL GROWTH

Trying to sell your product or idea in a new country? You've come to the right place. Our training workshops help you to tailor your sales approach, communication style, and negotiation to the local culture.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS & EXPATS

Using a training method specifically for technically-oriented international professionals, expats gain insight into underlying culture and business that affect projects, strategies and relationships.

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WHAT DO WE KNOW?

OUR EXPERTISE

Training and team building sessions are based on extensive research using concepts from business theory, behavioral-psychology, neurology, and cross-cultural communication. Action-oriented training modules are packed with activities and arranged into a cumulative process to ensure learning. We don't stop here, we're constantly looking for new ideas and technologies, so our courses remain leading-edge. Below are the focus areas for our training and consulting expertise.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CULTURE

Beyond etiquette, you'll learn cultural frameworks that provide insight into business opportunities, problems, and relationships. Our cultural expertise is based on numerous large studies, such as the GLOBE Research Project, and other research. We select the most practical business characteristics for your geography, the roles of those involved, and the business situation.

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS

Our courses provide communications skills and processes to help leaders and teams develop more effective business relationships, gain support for their ideas or products, and grow their businesses. International communications expertise includes personality models, cross-cultural frameworks, public speaking structure preparation models, sales/marketing processes, and persuasion.

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INTERNATIONAL GROWTH

This includes market development processes, best practice strategies, and rules of thumb to help businesses make decisions regarding how and where to start or expand their business in Europe. Based on research and experience with large and small businesses, our methodologies support marketing and sales strategic decisions for specialty consumer and B2B industries.

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HOW

IT'S OUR TRAINING APPROACH THAT YOU'LL LOVE

It's our training approach that really creates the learning. We alternate short theory discussions with real world examples, exercises and practice. These are tailored to your needs. Courses include workbooks and other tools. For example, the presentation training includes videos of the presenters for self-discovery and further learning.

Specific tools

Short theory modules introduce concepts, strategic best processes, or supporting data.

Examples

Video or case-study examples, and other demonstrations accompany theory modules.

Applied-workshops

Theories are directly applied during team workshops or practice sessions to a work projects.

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TRAINING & OTHER SERVICES
SUMMARY

WHAT MAKES US SPECIAL

All about you!

Our facilitator tailors your training course to the group and business needs by carefully selecting training modules, examples & workshops.

Action-oriented

Practice, case studies or team-building exercises follow short theory sessions throughout the training.

Theory & experience

Your facilitator brings over 20 years of corporate international and management experience, visiting over 50 countries, plus a masters in communications.

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