About Globally Speaking
Karen A. Fenner has been providing on-site cross-cultural and language training for Europeans and Americans since 1995. Her company, Globally Speaking, offers one on one classes or group seminars in German and English language training and cross cultural training. Her expertise is Western Europe and the United States.
Her clients range from executives from Fortune 500 companies to individual clients needing language and cultural training for business, academic or recreational uses.
A native of Hamburg, Germany, but raised in the United States, she has unique insight to American and German/European management styles and social mannerisms. Karen's seminars provide today's global managers with instrumental cross-cultural tools helping them transcend cultural barriers quickly and effectively.
She is a regular lecturer at the Rutgers University Business School Executive MBA Program and continuously receives high marks for her seminars. She has been the Keynote Speaker at various companies and institutions such as the German American Chamber of Commerce in New York and has taught the course "Cross Culturally Communicating in the Global Marketplace" for the SIEMENS S4 Management Training Program.
Karen’s seminars focus on how individuals can better prepare themselves when working with various cultures focusing on how culture affects management and communication style. How can communication be maximized and conflict minimized? Why do language barriers still exist even though English has become the “global language”? Through her extensive experience in working with Americans and Europeans she is able to offer hands-on solutions helping to create open lines of communication and trust.Karen lives with her husband and three children in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
Education:
New York University (NYU) Masters Degree in Germanic Studies
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA Bachelors Degree in German w/a concentration in Intl. Studies
Universität Würzburg Matriculated student for one year.
Karen is a member of:
| AATG | American Association of Teachers of German |
| ACTFL | American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages |
| GACC | German American Chamber of Commerce |
| SIETAR | Society for Intercultural Education and Research, New York |
| IMI | Intercultural Management Institute, Washington, D.C. |
| NYU | Deutsches Haus, New York |
