EMBRACE DIFFERENCES help businesses, teams, managers, expatriates and private individuals reach their full potential and develop their relational, collective and intercultural intelligence with tailored & multilingual coaching, training and consulting services.
From private to group coaching, intercultural training and team building, our approach is tailored to your needs, interactive, solution and action oriented.
We value open communication on equal terms, trust and respect to help you set achievable goals, meet them, embrace change, and value cultural differences and individual approaches.
REach your full potential and develop your relational, collective and intercultural skills with our tailored & multilingual coaching, training and consulting services.
📋 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR CHANGE, SUCCESS AND PERFORMANCE ?
💪Potential development
– a question of ressource use
☑ Focus on your strengths
☑ Mobilize your resources to achieve your goals
🎯 CHANGE
– A QUESTION OF ATTITUDE
☑ Regain motivation and confidence
☑ Develop success strategies and an action plan
🏆 SUCCESS
– A QUESTION OF RELATIONAL & COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
☑ Embrace differences
☑ Value complementarities
☑ Create synergies
📈 PERFORMANCE
– A QUESTION OF MINDSET
☑ Give meaning to your actions in order to reach your goals
tHE KEYS TO SUCCESS & FULFILMENT: EMBRACE CHANGE THROUGH coaching
Transform issues and difficulties into opportunities with personalised support.
Professional coaching is a powerful tool to look at things from a different perspective, realign yourself with your core values and give meaning to your actions while enhancing motivation, self-reflexion, autonomy and responsibility.
Our coaching services:
ONE-TO-ONE COACHING
☑ Solve professional issues
☑ Give meaning to your career
☑ Set your own goals
☑ Leverage your ressources
☑ Take on new challenges
☑ Implement strategies and solutions tailored to your needs
☑ Be a driving force in the change process
☑ Develop your full potential
TEAM COACHING
☑ Adopt strategies that foster involvement, cohesion and motivation
☑ Stimulate co-responsibility and co-creation
☑ Build trust within your team
☑ Develop collective intelligence
INTERCULTURAL
COACHING
☑ Develop your global leadership
☑ Make your expatriation a success, both personally and professionally
☑ Successfully manage a multicultural team
☑ Strengthen your relational agility
INTERCULTURAL TEAM COACHING
☑ Reveal the values behind different behaviours
☑ Perceive differences as assets
☑ Bring together everyone’s strengths & particularities, and align them with your mission and goals
☑ Create synergies and succeed in your projects
EMBRACE DIFFERENCES
Whether you are a manager or an employee working abroad or in your home country, whether you are managing multicultural teams or about to welcome and cooperate with international partners, intercultural agility is key.
Working globally entails many challenges: different communication, management and working styles, different approaches to time management, decision-making, trust and ways of handling disagreement. What may seem “normal” here isn’t at all out there, and often we aren’t aware of it.
Without support, such invisible but significant differences can lead to demotivation, financial losses and the end of a collaboration or mission.
AS INTERCULTURAL EXPERTS, WE CAN HELP YOU:
☑ become aware of how we all think and function differently
☑ develop intercultural intelligence
☑ adapt quickly to an unfamiliar environment
☑ develop interpersonal skills (soft skills)
☑ manage diversity
☑ minimise the time spent on managing frustrations and conflicts
☑ perceive differences as assets and bring together everyone’s strengths and particularities
☑ create synergies between co-workers and teams
☑ boost collective fulfillment and performance
☑ make your international partnership a success
OUR traning and team building services:
INTERCULTURAL AGILITY
- FOR MANAGERS & EMPLOYEES
☑ Become aware of the impact of cultural differences - ignorance can cost you dearly
☑ Decode cultural codes to better understand cultural differences
☑ Prevent issues, misunderstandings and conflicts due to cultural differences
☑ Learn the keys to working with other cultures
EXPATRIATION & INTE
GRATION
☑ Understand the context, mentalities and ways of working in your host country
☑ Decode surprising behaviours
☑ Prevent misunderstandings
☑ Minimise frustrations and time-consuming frictions
☑ Overcome cultural shocks
☑ Become aware of the impact of expatriation on your family and implement durable solutions that suit everyone
☑ Maximise fulfillment and performance in your new environment
TEAM-BUILDING & MULTICULTURAL TEAM SYNERGY
- INTERCULTURAL AGILITY FOR TEAMS
☑ Reveal the values behind everyone’s behaviour
☑ Encourage mutual understanding
☑ Bring together everyone’s strengths and assign responsibilities and tasks accordingly
☑ Define a common framework
☑ Create synergies
☑ Gain motivation, involvement and mutual trust
INTERCULTURAL
MANAGEMENT &
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP
- INTERCULTURAL AGILITY FOR MANAGERS
☑ Develop your intercultural competence and your interpersonal agility
☑ Strengthen your communication skills and leadership in an international context
☑ Adapt your leadership & management style to a target culture
☑ Learn how to manage a multicultural team in an inspiring, trustful and impactful way
OUR diffErence
Our trainers and coaches are certified experts committed to ongoing training and learning. Their toolbox includes professional co-development, communication psychology, Lego® Serious Play®, Cultural Navigator®, my.OS, etc.
Decades of foreign professional experience with international companies and teams, including virtual teams
Solid expertise and first-hand experience at a corporate social and environmental responsibility leading company
We coach, train, counsel and dream in English, German, French and many other languages
YOUR CONTACT PERSON
EVA-MARIA HARTWICH, FOUNDER
Eva-Maria Hartwich is a Certified Professional Coach, Intercultural Trainer & Consultant. A German native, she has been studying, living and working in international contexts since 1999. She worked for more than 10 years within international companies (Titelbild/Ericsson, Patagonia) in France and Germany before founding EMBRACE DIFFERENCES.
Her personal experience of change and cultural misunderstandings within a wide range of industries helped shape her holistic, realistic and hands-on approach. Her seven years of experience at Patagonia, one of the most inspiring and innovative companies in terms of corporate social and environmental responsibility, still inform her vision of coaching, training and team development.
Her approach is personalised, interactive and solution-oriented. Her countries of primary expertise are France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and USA. She works in English, French and German.
OUR PARTNERS & NETWORK
CLAIRE IVINS, FOUNDER OF CIKAÅR IN TOULOUSE
As an American citizen who spent 17 years in China, Claire Ivins’ life experience lead her to study Intercultural Communication and Linguistics in the USA. Her love for cultures and languages took her to France, where she has been working since 2010 on business intercultural issues, most notably on French-Chinese and French-American projects. She works in English, French and Chinese.
STEPHAN HILD, FOUNDER OF CULTURAL CONSULTANT IN MUNICH
A German citizen, Stephan Hild is an Intercultural Coach, Trainer and Mediator. He has 25 years of cumulated experience in management positions at international companies. His countries of primary expertise are Portugal, Brazil, India, The Netherlands and the USA. He works in German, English and Portuguese.
IMC-COACHING - INTERCULTURAL & MOBILITY COACHING
IMC-Coaching is a network of experts specialised in Intercultural & Mobility Coaching. Each coach has extensive experience and knowledge about one or several countries, and past experience at companies, consulting firms and management position levels.
HELIOS INSTITUT
Founded in 2010 by Hendrick Monnier, HELIOS INSTITUT is made up of coaching, consulting and training experts in the field of human capital & organisations development.
AFFILIATIONS
EMBRACE DIFFERENCES is an active member of:
THEY TRUST US
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
“After the training cycle “How to collaborate successfully with the French” given by Eva-Maria, we completely changed our strategy, which allowed us to find partners in France and make our cooperation a success.”
“The coaching sessions with Eva-Maria were fundamental and decisive for launching my business. Thanks to her efficient approach, we were able to tackle complicated issues, but in a very light-hearted and fluid way.
Eva-Maria helped me address my professional issues by dealing very respectfully with my overall position in my personal and professional life.
I was able to learn and adopt easy and relevant tools to understand my strengths and weaknesses and to outline my business strategies from there.
Her gentleness, attentiveness and her approach are unique and very precious!”
“Thanks, Eva, for a great day! It was well planned and thought-out and really touched on every aspect to prepare ourselves.”
“You cannot NOT communicate. However, everybody communicates in a slightly different way. Thus, the tailor-made seminar was very helpful in order to better understand the behaviour of international partners. Eva-Maria really understands to point out the subtle hints between the lines, which are often overlooked in day-to-day communication with other people - be it business or private contacts. Moreover, the hands-on training and the real-life examples tremendously helped in raising awareness and translating the well-explained concepts to recent communication challenges. I’m very much looking forward to a future seminar or consulting!”
“With my three degrees I learned everything I need for my finance role. But the only thing I did not learn is the cultural aspect of how to work with people from other cultures. Now that I work in France and with Belgium, I realized it’s all about culture. I’m grateful that I have learned how to bridge the culture gap.”
“True-to-life, hands-on, individual, concrete.”
“The cross-cultural training program with Eva-Maria was very valuable. She fully responded to my particular interests and concerns. The two most valuable things I have learned from the program with Eva-Maria were my cultural characteristics as compared to my host country’s (and an airline customer’s country) and how to best communicate and identify with people around the office.”
“I had difficulty with accepting change and adapting to my new position during the reorganisation of our organisation. I am deeply grateful to Eva for helping me step outside the box and find my own solution. I appreciated her professionalism, listening skills, insight, clarity and great sense of humanity.”
“Eva-Maria helped me when I had to make a crucial work decision.
She managed to listen, analyse, understand my situation and anxieties. She summarised, structured, highlighted what mattered, while taking into account my wishes, my feelings, my personality and my goals, without judgement.
I was able to make a crystal-clear decision within one hour and a half, after having previously spent 15 days ruminating on my own.”
“I am so grateful for your commitment, availability, support and the progress we made together, for your way of being, your attentiveness and orientation tools. It helped me tremendously while I was in a difficult personal and professional situation that I had never experienced before.”
“Eva is an experienced coach who masters her subject of expertise. She identifies what is blocking, which allows awareness and rapid change. Thinking with her for a few hours amounts to tens of hours with others. Eva does not come with preconceived ideas but knows how to adapt to everyone. I highly recommend her!”