Elisabeth Cassels-Brown Email & Phone Number

Vienna

I work on my own and in a network of training / consulting companies and business schools (see below) to support organizations and their members in developing what they need to manage stress and build resilience at work, perform effectively in intercultural settings, improve their leadership outcomes, and work together productively. Details at my website.

Each semester I teach a course preparing WU students to study for a semester abroad in the U.S.A. and to work and live in an ever more intercultural world.

As an external lecturer I teach or have taught intercultural management, diversity management, and team-building in the project management, international banking and finance, and logistics programs.

As a part of factor-D's large diversity, inclusion, and equity programs for mainly for-profit organizations, I facilitate workshops with a particular focus on recognizing and managing unconscious bias and strengthening inclusive practices.

My association with Lighthouse Organizational Development goes back many years to before they were even Lighthouse. In that context, I have coached in and designed and delivered workshops and whole programs for leaders and professsionals in for-profit and not-for-profit organizations mainly in the topics of leadership development, team building, resilience.

It has been my pleasure to design and deliver five-day workshops on leadership topics for Glomacs throughout central and northern Europe, with a special focus on Authentic Leadership and Maximizing Your Leadership Effectiveness--a gratifying mix of leadership development and resilience building.

One of the highlights of my time at Webster was teaching in the joint Executive MBA program with Comenius University in Bratislava. Similarly, the two years that I taught the blended learning intercultural management course in the Global MBA program were enormously enriching. Otherwise, my courses ranged from intercultural and diversity management to.

Teaching elementary German to these U.S. American college students in Summer School in Vienna turned into teaching Intercultural Communication, using the students' time in Vienna as a laboratory, in 2002 or so. These three-week, intensive courses were equivalent to a one-semester course back on campus.

My work for Ashridge was in the context of the Executive Education program and included co-designing and delivering workshops and seminars in English and German to support major international clients in developing ever more effective leadership and communication skills tailored to intercultural settings.

Courses, seminars and one-to-ones in Business English for major Austrian companies especially in the financial services industry, including program design for a number of years for the central bank of Austria and one of the major Austrian insurance providers.

Maintained contact with the international sales force; managed institutional orders, especially standing orders; coordinated book fair activities; coordinated two professional newsletters

Did credit checks on institutional customers, managed their orders, nurtured institutional client relationships. At the same time I did usual retail bookstore activities and managed a crew of about ten employees nights and weekends.

Diploma, Mentaltraining (Mental Skills Training ), Mit Auszeichnung (With Distinction)

M.A., International Business

Thesis topic: Achieving Cross-Cultural Synergy in International Business Ventures

Certificate In Resilience Coaching

Successful Completion Of Modules I & Ii, Coaching

Oberstufe, Advanced German

B.A With Honors, East Asian Studies

Activities and Societies: Hedden Scholar; junior year abroad in Kyoto, Japan; teaching assistant to elementary Japanese class and to.

Course, Intermediate French

High School Diploma, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Choir co-president, four-year member of the ecology club, interscholastic soccer and rowing (four years)