Our Partner Network

With over 14 years of experience across Learning & Development, HR, Business, Product, Operations, and Finance, she brings together strategic thinking, behavioural science, and a healthy dose of creativity to design learning experiences that lead to meaningful behaviour change. She holds an MSc in Learning & Development in Organisations and an MBA in Human Resources.

Today, Vanessa designs leadership and team development workshops and learning journeys for organisations, and she supports professionals at every stage of their careers. Her work spans topics such as self-awareness, collaboration, change management, and the thoughtful adoption of AI at work. She loves turning complex ideas into engaging, hands-on learning experiences that people actually remember and enjoy.

When she’s not designing learning experiences, you’ll probably find Vanessa wandering through an art gallery, exploring nature, trying a new sport (just for the fun of it), or enjoying a slow afternoon with a good book and nice conversations.

With over seven years of international experience in Europe and Latin America, Jessica holds a Master’s degree in Work and Organizational Psychology from Universiteit Maastricht, building on an earlier degree in Psychology and training in Ontological Coaching. This combination of academic background and first-hand experience in the field across the Dutch, German, and Spanish markets gives her a distinctive dual perspective: a genuine understanding of what customers and future employees want, paired with insight into how organizations are perceived from the outside.

Jessica provides in-depth analyses of already existing brand & content strategies as well as every step necessary to make sure your brand gets the attention it deserves. Her approach draws equally on her psychological training and years of recruiter-side experience, giving clients both the human and the practical sides of how communicating via Social Media, newsletters and Co. actually works.

She holds a freelance residence permit in Germany and works across Europe and Latin America.

Originally from Australia and based in Germany since 2009, Kathleen knows both professionally and personally how bewildering German bureaucracy can be when your language skills aren’t up to scratch. A trained translator and interpreter, she founded Red Tape Translation to bridge the gap between internationals and the German systems they need to navigate.

Today, Kathleen and her team provide certified and legal translations, interpreting and practical relocation support, with a particular focus on immigration and residence matters, freelancing and self-employment, and navigating German public offices. Red Tape Translation also provides virtual office services for freelancers and small businesses that need a professional business address in Berlin.

Kathleen’s approach is warm and practical rather than theoretical: sometimes relocation coaching becomes “visa therapy” rather than just ticking items of a checklist. Having built her own business and started a family in Germany, she has first-hand experience of just about all the systems her clients encounter, from tax platforms and health insurance battles to marriage and children, along with entrepreneurship and the general joys of German paperwork.

Before becoming an intepreter and entrepreneur, Kathleen spent many years working professionally as an opera singer in Germany.

Kath started her working life in marketing but soon realised a desk job wasn’t for her. She became an English teacher for adults in 2008 and worked in Spain, Indonesia and Japan before settling in Berlin. Since 2020, she‘s specialised in helping professionals to speak better English at work, with more confidence and less stress.

Client progression is her number one priority. However, providing a friendly and relaxed atmosphere with sessions that her clients look forward to, is a close second.

Kath offers two different services:

The Just Talk Club is a group, online program with conversation-based sessions. It’s a friendly and fun, safe space to practice the English you need for work with other business professionals. You also get personalised feedback from Kath after each session.

Kath also offers personalised 1-on-1 or small-group training sessions, specifically designed around your goals and her assessment of your English. These can be online or at your office in Berlin.

Olivia is an international lawyer with 19 years of legal practice, admitted as a qualified attorney-at-law with the Rechtsanwaltskammer Zweibrücken in Germany. She has spent her career at the intersection of international law and cross-border business, previously as in-house legal counsel for multinational corporations across media & entertainment, retail, real estate, and energy.

Today, her practice focuses on supporting international entrepreneurs, freelancers, and professionals building their businesses in Germany – people navigating a legal and bureaucratic system that isn’t the one they grew up with, often in a language that isn’t their first.

Her work covers contracts, GDPR and data protection (Datenschutz) compliance, terms and conditions, Impressum requirements, intellectual property protection, business setup, dispute resolution and the broader legal foundations a growing business needs in Germany and the EU.

Having built her own business in Germany as a non-German founder herself, Olivia understands firsthand what it takes to start from zero in an unfamiliar system – and works to make legal compliance clear and actionable rather than intimidating.

Beyond 1:1 legal advice, Olivia runs a community for international founders in Germany, and her platform spotlegal.io offers ready-to-use legal templates for founders who need fast, affordable essentials in place.