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About Anna Knieriem

International & Intercultural Competence
in Change Management, Leadership and Team Development

- Founder, Senior Consultant & Team Coach - 

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"I am passionate about creating and implementing solutions so that individuals, teams and organizations can grow with joy and live up to their full potential."

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is more intellectual play.”

- Immanuel Kant

Anna Knieriem knows not only as a result of her formal experience, competencies, qualifications and further training from the organizational world, but rather also from her own personal experiences how difficult change can be. At the same time, she has also experienced which approaches are helpful to go through such changes and to grow from them in the end.
 
Most people know the personal experience of how challenging change can be, especially when we are not involved from the beginning. This is no different with organizational change - and, of course, impacts individuals in the end.
That's why Changellence helps you understand when to involve others, how to engage stakeholders, what to communicate, and how to take action to ensure your change has the impact you want while addressing the needs of others.
 
Every change is unique.
Anna has experienced not only in all the countries she has worked and lived in (Poland, Germany, USA, France, Netherlands, China, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, among others), but also in the different companies she has worked for (Deutsche Bahn, MSA - The Safety Company, Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag (DIHK), FC Schalke 04 eV, Southern Ventures Corporation) that every change and also the way it is handled is very unique.
That is why it is very important for Changellence to address each customer very individually.
 
In total, Anna looks back on more than 20 years of qualification and experience in organizational and personal development, which have taught her how to systematically guide change to success. That's why you can rely on Changellence's expertise.
 

Contact us today and together we will make your change impactful!

Anna's Expertise & Experiences

Anna Knieriem is distinguished by her more than 20 years of experience in international organizational development as a consultant.
She has led over 200 workshops and trainings in English, German and Polish, most of which she developed herself.
Her p
assion lies in designing, facilitating and implementing change.
The focus is on enabling individuals, teams and organizations to achieve optimal development and healthy growth. She places great emphasis on involving those involved and affected.
With many years of leadership experience in a global high-tech company with employees in Europe, Middle East, Asia, and America she understands how to work with different cultures and develop common solutions.


Until 2020, Anna has mainly managed and supported projects in Asia, Europe and the USA, working with executives at all hierarchical levels up to the board of directors. 
 

In recent years, Anna has focused in particular on the start-up and scale-up environment, in which she has already accompanied many successful changes - both as an external consultant and as a leader.

Her experience in corporate, mid-market and start-up environments makes her particularly qualified to accompany organizations of any size in their transformations.

Areas of Expertise

  • Leadership Development

    • Behavioral leadership training

    • Design and lead of international leadership development programs

    • Strategic succession development

    • Development of agile mindsets
       

  • Change Management

    • Management and support of international change projects

    • Development of future visions with executives (including board) and involvement of employees

    • Communication concepts
       

  • Development of (global) teams 

    • Vision and Strategy

    • Roles and Responsibilities

    • Common Values

    • Trust / Psychological Safety

    • Collaboration (Team Communication, Meetings etc.)
       

  • Conflict resolution within and between teams (international and cross-cultural)
     

  • Facilitation of business workshops, also at board level (international)
     

  • Design and development of agile organizations

Education | Certifications

  • Systemic Organizational Development (wispo in Berlin, Germany)

  • Agile Organizational Development (Quadriga University in Berlin, Germany)

  • remotly Senior Team Coach (Loop Approach)

  • Organizational Culture & Change Management (Hofstede Insights International in Prague, Czech Republic)

  • Systemic Process Consultant (ComTeam in Gmund a. Tegernsee, Germany)Six Thinking Hats (de Bono in London, UK)

  • Master Change Facilitator (Change First in Berlin, Germany)

  • Hogan Assessment Certification (Hogan International in Pittsburgh, USA)

  • DDI Facilitator (DDI in Pittsburgh, USA)

  • Business Law Diploma (Westphalian University of Applied Sciences in Recklinghausen, Germany)

Organizational Experiences

  • remotly GmbH, 2 years (transformation consultant, team coach, train-the-trainer)

  • MSA – Safety Company, 11 years (leadership of a cross-cultural team, organizational, leadership & team development, strategic succession development, project management, personnel management, people development, facilitation & moderation, change management, training and coaching, creation and implementation of a global performance management process, supporting a European merger program, management of the reorganization of the European sales organization)

  • DB Cargo / DB Schenker, 5 years (integration of European acquisitions, leadership and team development, assistant to the CHRO)

  • FC Schalke 04 e.V. (assistant to management board)

Business Language

  • German 

  • English

  • Polish

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