Roswitha A. van der Markt
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Roswitha A. van der Markt is a management consultant and executive coach for HP, Siemens or SAP.van der Markt studied humanities in Munich, Amsterdam and Pretoria and has more than 25 years of international management experience, including as a managing partner of the world's leading management consultancy Accenture. She holds an Executive MBA from Harvard University in partnership with MIT, Sloan School of Management (Boston, Mass.). She is also Commercial Manager (Babson College) and winner of the German University Software Prize. Roswitha has been working since 1998 van der Markt as an executive consultant and coach for first and second level executives as well as an author and business speaker. Her international customer and experience background includes companies such as Accenture, Siemens, Fujitsu, Infineon, HP, Oracle, SAP, Allianz, BT, GE, Telekom, as well as outstanding medium-sized companies. As an expert in business transformation, change management, leadership and human performance, as well as strategy and organizational development, she oversees mandates in Eastern and Western Europe and the USA. She also held lectureships at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, the Otto-Friedrichs-Universität, Bamberg, the Technical University, Dresden, the IE Business School, Madrid and was project coach of the IEWS (Institute of EastWest Studies) and UNESCO for multi-national projects for the economic and democratic development of Eastern Europe She describes herself as a digital baby boomer and has been working as a digital nomad for almost 20 years. More information at rvandermarkt.com
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