Trainer, con­sul­tant, coach

Karen Nanninga is an expe­ri­en­ced trai­ner and con­sul­tant in the field of manage­ment sup­port, as well as a busi­ness and life coach for pro­fes­sio­nals. She is pas­sio­na­te about accom­pany­ing peop­le on their per­so­nal deve­lop­ment paths: when deli­ver­ing trai­ning to a group or when coa­ching indi­vi­du­als. Her objec­tive is always to deve­lop and mobi­li­ze per­so­nal poten­ti­al and inner wis­dom, to encou­ra­ge peop­le to take steps, to empower them to set and reach goals, to inspi­re them to live the life they want. She stron­gly belie­ves that each indi­vi­dual can make a dif­fe­ren­ce in his/her own envi­ron­ment, no mat­ter what posi­ti­on (s)he holds. Each person’s role goes bey­ond his/her job descrip­ti­on, as we all bring uni­que per­so­nal com­pe­ten­ce, talents and inte­rests to the work­pla­ce. Leadership is her moti­va­ti­on and mes­sa­ge in all her pro­fes­sio­nal are­as and activi­ties.

 

 Qualification

• Certified Coach (International Certification, CTI / ICF, USA)
• Certified Medical Coach (MCI Global)
• Coach (Co-Active Fundamentals and Intermediate, CTI, USA)
• Graduate of the Co-Active Leadership Programme (CTI, USA)
• Train-the-Trainer (Haufe Akademie/IHK Düsseldorf (Germany), ISBW (The Netherlands))
• Modules of BA and Psychology (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
• European Secretary (European Secretarial Academy, The Hague, The Netherlands), qua­dri­lin­gual, with expe­ri­en­ce as Executive Secretary and Management Assistant at senior manage­ment and exe­cu­ti­ve board level of inter­na­tio­nal com­pa­nies in The Netherlands and in France.

Active for the Management Assistant pro­fes­si­on sin­ce many years

Karen Nanninga has been a trai­ner and con­sul­tant for manage­ment assis­tants for over 20 years. She runs semi­nars, work­shops and cour­ses for (trai­ning) com­pa­nies in Germany and The Netherlands. She is also an accredi­ted trai­ner for the European insti­tu­ti­ons in Brussels. She is an expe­ri­en­ced mode­ra­tor of (inter­na­tio­nal) con­fe­ren­ces, panel dis­cus­sions and com­pany events. Her working lan­gua­ges are German, English (both flu­ent) and Dutch (mother ton­gue). Born in the Netherlands, she has lived with her fami­ly in Germany sin­ce 1994.

 

Other (for­mer) activi­ties:

• Active mem­ber of International Management Assistants (IMA, for­mer­ly EUMA), Chairman of EUMA Netherlands and EUMA Executive Chairman (European Chairman).
• Author for the European secre­ta­ri­al press and a mem­ber of pro­ject groups for the pro­fes­si­on
• Member of the Jury for the elec­tion “Secretary of the Year”, The Netherlands
• Chairman of the Jury “Professional Secretary Scholarship”, The Netherlands
• European dele­ga­te during sever­al “International Secretaries Summit Meetings”