Management and trainers

"Whereas in my childhood I was more fascinated by foreign smells, different food and incomprehensible languages, today it is more the human intercultural encounters that inspire me. "

• Business Partner Human Resources Development / Talent Management at Sievert SE
• Research assistant at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology with a focus on intercultural business psychology at Osnabrück University (2018 - 2024)
• Doctoral candidate in intercultural business psychology at Osnabrück University
• Studied Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences and Intercultural Psychology at Osnabrück University
• Experience abroad in Southeast Asia
• Lecturer/lecturer at Osnabrück University
• Freelance organizational consultant and trainer for intercultural competence

Contact:  cosima.kossmann@sievert.de

"I spent three years as a digital nomad traveling forwards, backwards, sideways on the colorful world map: sometimes here, sometimes there & still arrived."

• Consultant for strategy and Organizational Development in international cooperation
• Research assistant incl. Doctorate in international research projects at the Chair of Business and Ethics at the University of Vechta (2017-2024)
• Studied psychology with a focus on intercultural psychology in Osnabrück and San Diego
• Experience abroad in Pakistan, China, Singapore, India, USA
• Lecturer/lecturer at HHL Graduate School of Management, TH Mittelhessen, Université de Pau et des Pays de l' Adour (France), Södertörn University (Sweden), Università degli Studi di Palermo (Italy), Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli (Croatia), Belarusian State University and Tartu Ülikool (Estonia), among others
• Freelance trainer & consultant in the areas of team development, sustainability and intercultural skills, among others

Contact:  lhollands@posteo.de

"I am at home in two cultures, because I grew up in Russia and Germany."

• Psychotherapist in training
• Project assistant in the MWK project "Ready for a colorful world" at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology with a focus on intercultural business psychology at Osnabrück University (2021-2022)
• Project assistant in the Career Service at Osnabrück University (2018-2021)
• Doctoral candidate in intercultural business psychology at Osnabrück University
• Studied psychology in Wuppertal, Riga and psychology with a focus on intercultural psychology in Osnabrück
• Experience abroad in Russia, Latvia and the US
• Lecturer/lecturer at Osnabrück University and TU Kaiserslautern
• Freelance trainer for resilience and intercultural skills

Contact:  marina.schefer@uni-osnabrueck.de

"Since I was little, the adults have always spoken German and Spanish at our family gatherings - we children from back then are now grown up and speak German, Spanish, Arabic, French and Dutch."

• Research assistant in the "Cultural Adjustment Project for Improving Relations in Europe" (CAPIRE, 2022-2025) at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology with a focus on Intercultural Business Psychology at Osnabrück University with the project partners Universiteit Twente (Netherlands), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy), Université Gustave Eiffel (France), and Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu (Poland)
• Doctoral candidate in intercultural business psychology at Osnabrück University
• Studied psychology with a focus on intercultural business psychology in Tilburg (Netherlands) and in Osnabrück
• Freelance trainer for intercultural competence

Contact:  anna.wiegand@uni-osnabrueck.de

"Privately, I move between Germany and Mexico, professionally between different employers in the region - navigating through different cultures accompanies and enriches me on several levels every day."

• Research assistant at the Institute of Psychology at Osnabrück University and at the LearningCenter of Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
• Doctoral candidate in intercultural business psychology at Osnabrück University
• Individual and couples counselor, continuing education student in the Master of Counseling (KatHo NRW)
• Studied psychology in Münster and Pachuca (Mexico) and intercultural psychology at Osnabrück University
• Lecturer/lecturer at the University of Osnabrück
• Freelance trainer for intercultural competence

Contact:  kimkristin.terkuhlen@uni-osnabrueck.de

"I come from the Ruhr area and love to experience cultural diversity in everyday life."

• Postdoc at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology with a focus on intercultural business psychology at Osnabrück University
• Doctorate in intercultural business psychology at Osnabrück University
• Studied psychology with a focus on intercultural psychology at Osnabrück University
• Experience abroad in New Zealand, Great Britain and the USA
• Lecturer/lecturer at the Osnabrück University, the TU Kaiserslautern and the DHBW Lörrach
• Freelance management consultant, mediator and trainer/coach for intercultural skills

Contact:  svenja.schumacher@uni-osnabrueck.de

"During my first year abroad in the USA, my host mother started a conversation about a misunderstanding with the words: "This might be cultural..." - Since then, I have been fascinated by the question of how every intercultural encounter can be enriching."

• Research assistant at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology with a focus on intercultural business psychology at Osnabrück University
• Doctoral candidate in intercultural business psychology at Osnabrück University
• Studied psychology at the University of Lübeck and intercultural psychology at Osnabrück University
• Experience abroad in the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Costa Rica
• Lecturer/lecturer at Osnabrück University and Aalen University
• Freelance organizational consultant and trainer for intercultural competence

Contact:  lena.schmeiduch@uni-osnabrueck.de

"In almost three years, I traveled around the world without an airplane and was able to meet people in 33 countries. Once again I have realized: We are often more alike than we would expect in advance"

• Studied Education Science (specializing in adult education and extracurricular education), Psychology and Psychosocial Medicine at the Universities of Giessen and Roskilde, Denmark
• Further training as an intercultural trainer, experiential educator, online trainer and coach
• Work experience in Bangladesh, Nepal and India
• Lecturer/lecturer at the Universities of Augsburg, Osnabrück and Constance as well as Augsburg University of Applied Sciences
• Many years of experience as an educational consultant in the field of education for sustainable development
• Trainer for intercultural competence and diversity, train-the-trainer and sustainability

Contact:  leo@sibeth-training.de

"My second family comes from Costa Rica - I experience every day how often we are more similar across borders than within a country."

• Project manager for qualification in education for sustainable development and global learning at Engagement Global gGmbH - Service for Development Initiatives
• Freelance trainer and consultant in the fields of sustainable development, intercultural competence and global learning
• Research assistant and Doctorate at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology with a focus on Intercultural Business Psychology at Osnabrück University, including management of international cooperation projects with Latin America (2017-2024)
• Studied psychology with a focus on intercultural psychology in Heidelberg and Osnabrück (2010-2017)
• Experience abroad in Canada, Yemen, France, Kenya, Costa Rica and Chile
• Teaching activities at various national and international universities (e.g. University of Würzburg, Ruhr-West University of Applied Sciences, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, University of Granada (ES), University of Thessaloniki (GR), National University of Costa Rica (CR), O'Higgins University (CL))

Contact:  shirin.betzler@posteo.de

"My father worked abroad a lot - from the USA to Morocco and Australia: intercultural encounters at the kitchen table at home were simply part of my life from the very beginning."

• Research assistant in the Training & Development department at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
• Project coordinator of the intercultural mentoring program IMOS at Osnabrück University (2012-2017)
• Doctoral candidate in intercultural business psychology at Osnabrück University
• Studied psychology with a focus on personality development and clinical psychology in Osnabrück (2006-2012)
• Experience abroad in Tanzania, Vienna, China and South Africa
• Lecturer/lecturer at Osnabrück University, the Lower Saxony Institute for Early Childhood Education and Development (nifbe), Marmara Üniversitesi Istanbul (Turkey) and Palacky University Olomouc (Czech Republic)
• Freelance consultant and trainer in the fields of personal development and intercultural competence

Contact:  a.engel@hs-osnabrueck.de