Testimonials
Gundi accompanied our consulting group through two of our joint summer team days, making them very attentive, effective and sustainable. With heart, humour and poise, she simultaneously provided structure and freedom while, above all, letting us be people. This jointly developed feeling of connectedness, openness and trust has been perceptible and effective for a long time. We thank Gundi for two wonderful days filled with powerful exchange, exciting conversations, and many beautiful emotions.
Associate, Consulting Company
We got to know Dr. Vater as a cooperation partner in a very important project and as a companion for our intra-organizational development process. In both collaborations, we were professionally accompanied with a high level of social competence and inspiration. To bring this special cooperation with Gundi Vater to the point, I will draw on multiple word pairs:
Theoretical basis AND practical persistence at the right points.
In-depth perception and observation skills AND the right words at the right point and the right time.
Strong level of interest in a future-oriented development of our overall organization AND no team member left out.
Engagement AND serenity.
Seriousness and serious work AND humour without end.
Structure, precision and accuracy AND space for creativity.
Cofounder and Managing Director, Consulting Company
We asked Dr. Vater to support us during a delicate stage for the company (and the management team affected thereby). With great sensitivity, strong commitment and empathy, Dr. Vater managed to get a picture of the situation within a very short time and proved excellent in dealing with the changes in the team’s composition. Within just a few workshops, these findings were - supported by an additional team-analysis tool (BELBIN) - discussed in the team transparently and analysed; from that, the necessary conclusions were drawn and converted into concrete action items. For many of us, myself included, that was the key to the knowledge of our team’s potential that can be fully developed only together. Without the patient, competent and sympathetic accompaniment in this process by Dr. Vater, the form would not have succeeded.
Managing Director , Energy Supplier
We arrived as a group of well-intentioned and dedicated individuals and left as a team with unified visions. Dr. Gundi Vater is extremely professional and possesses an outstanding ability to empathize. Even before the event, she had familiarized herself closely with our matters, demonstrating great understanding and attentiveness. By asking the right questions and using a bit of amusing theatrical interpretation, she helped us a great deal in developing a common identity. Her dry sense of humour and problem-solving expertise contributed greatly to this. We are already looking forward to a follow-up session!
Member of the Board , Reinsurer
Through the coaching with Gundi Vater, we continuously develop our leadership skills and can implement the jointly elaborated possibilities and measures directly in the company. The preliminary discussions and interventions enable recognising the needs of all involved parties, to understand and integrate into everyday business. As a result, even large communication challenges and hurdles can be managed more easily. Collaboration with Gundi Vater is characterised by a very high level of professionalism, a lot of empathy, positive thinking, a lot of humour, strong problem-solving skills and a wealth of experience. We are very pleased with the co-operation, and in this way, I would like to thank you for the time together.
Co-founder & CEO, SEO Consultant
We have been working with Ms. Gundi Vater for more than four years now. During this time, she has made a solid contribution to bringing forward the leadership culture in our region. What makes collaboration with Gundi Vater so special is:
high level of professional skills, broad experience combined with strong responsibility for the taken requests, which results in very customer-oriented programs
unique ability to build up an atmosphere in which a participant suddenly discovers for himself a variety of options and horizons, starts to feel and hear himself
huge curiosity for each personality
endless energy and optimism
Based on feedback from our employees, meeting with Gundi Vater is one of the most exciting experiences in their development paths, helping and supporting them in taking the right leadership decisions. We appreciate our cooperation very much!
Our personal thanks to Gundi for inner inspiration which we get from our discussions and programs!
Human Resources Director , Automotive Supplier
Dr. Gundi Vater has accompanied my way for more than 20 years. As a central trainer at Hernstein General Management Training many years ago she set values in an impressive form sustainably influencing our HGMT team. For all the past years, we have had our annual HGMT update with her.
What is so special about her? In an incomparable way, she manages the various currents, the unspoken resistances of the employees and managers, addressing them in the correct manner. She impacts with her statements but does not infringe. In this way, she activates employees and managers. In discussing future scenarios, she opens the participants’ eyes to new ways by questioning established processes.
Dr. Vater is top-notch on a technical level. She substantiates with facts acquired from science. She works with the client’s selection of topics, so that her consultation is lined with industry-specific know-how. I am very enthusiastic about her. I can only recommend her for organisational and strategic consulting services.
Director and Proprietor, IT Consulting Company
Hello Gundi!
It felt good to take some time away from operational matters after an intensely busy period (despite iPad, iPhone, etc.) and to turn back to non-operational things (is communication non-operational?)
It did me a lot of good and I came away with a lot more than I thought I would.
We also laughed a lot – that alone is worth the while.
See you next time (already looking forward to it)!
CEO, Newspaper Publisher
The workshops led by Gundi Vater were a complete success not only in terms of content but also from a personal perspective. Ms. Vater, an expert in her field, is able to get the best out of the group in a fun and almost playful manner. She points out where there is room for improvement and, more importantly, how this can be addressed. To do so, she always takes the needs of the participants into account and supports their individual learning processes. Gundi Vater’s workshops are indispensable for anyone in a management- level position and a special experience for all participants.
Director of Corporate Development of a Newspaper Publisher
I would like to describe Dr. Gundi Vater by using the following three headers:
1. Executive development
2. Central and Eastern Europe
3. Humor
Executive development by and with Dr. Vater means receiving executive development that is customized for your company and tailored to your particular corporate culture. Dr. Vater’s ability to consistently create a connection between upper management and management trainees must be emphasized in particular.
Her wealth of experience in Central and Eastern Europe spans from Slovakia to the Ukraine and from Belarus to Serbia. It allows her to provide executive development that picks up on the respective culture and incorporates and complements it – not only in German but also in English.
Humor, though mentioned last, is one of the most important attributes of Dr. Vater. Her great sense of humor, combined with a high level of people skills, lets her master the most difficult problems with a smile. This brings rays of sunshine into each day of working with Dr. Vater.
Head of Human Resources, Automotive Supplier
Gundi Vater came to our company during a phase of considerable reorientation. Her experience with organizations and their development as well as her particular ability to empathize with people allows her to lead a group very quickly to the heart of the matter.
During the workshops, no stone is left unturned, and fundamental views and assumptions are questioned. Leading the way with her spontaneity, effortlessness, and sense of humour, Ms. Vater successfully helps the groups deal with complex topics in a solution-oriented manner, though always keeping the people themselves in mind. At the end of the workshop, the participants are motivated and energized, ready to take on the challenges of the future.
I particularly valued the fact that the situations used for learning purposes were rooted in current issues related to our business, thus enabling the methods acquired to be put immediately into practice. I hold our work together in high esteem.
Chairman of the Executive Board, Elevator and Escalators Manufacturer
What I especially appreciate about Ms. Vater is her ability to analyse the core of the problem quickly and to articulate it clearly. She always then presents good solutions and makes apparent to everyone that people are part of the overall company system and that everyone is responsible for an individual part. She thinks and acts for the whole, for parts, and also for individuals by helping and encouraging them to move in the right direction. I admire her for her targeted, constructive results combined with people-orientation. Following discussions and workshops with her, the location of sticking points is ultimately clear as well as the measures individuals should take in relation to the overall organization. This holistic, clear access often uncovers issues which had not been visible on the surface and has always led to success for me and the organization for which I have been responsible. When you work with her, you get to the essence of leadership and change management. And the goals are achieved.
Managing Director, Newspaper Publisher
Ms. Vater did a great job here. Her extraordinary dedication was already evident during the preparations as she carried out telephone interviews with all the participants and held intensive discussions with me, after which she developed a very convincing workshop concept. She then implemented the concept in a highly committed and effective manner.
I think we achieved everything on that single day that can possibly be achieved in terms of creating new impulses in such a short amount of time.
Member of the Board, Financial Service Provider