Jörn B.
4.9
(29)
1,635 min coaching
Land Your First Job at a Foreign Company
Supercoach
Studied at INSEAD
Hiring Manager at Freudenberg
Available Tuesday at 11:00 AM UTC
Usually responds within 15 hours
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Jörn's Coaching Offerings
Advance your Career
Advance your career with expert guidance and a plan to achieve your goals.
Starting at $8975h+ of coaching
Discover a Career Path
Find clarity in your career direction and make actionable goals.
Starting at $8975h+ of coaching
Resume Review Workshop for an International Career
$1891h of coaching
Custom hourly · $189/hr
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Jörn’s Career Coaching Qualifications
Coaches professionally
Experience level: Vice President
40+ people coached for Career Coaching
Started my career with my first job abroad - best decision ever! Now I help recent grads and young professionals land their first international roles. From resumes to visas, let's get you hired! Ready to launch your career abroad or with a foreign company? I know exactly what it takes. I started my own career by landing my first job in a foreign country and different language, an experience that shaped everything that followed and led to 25 years of international leadership across American, German, and French corporations. Whether you're targeting foreign owned companies in the US or opportunities directly abroad, I specialize in helping recent graduates and young professionals navigate the practical challenges of international job hunting. Together, we'll identify your transferable skills, decode job postings across different markets, navigate visa and legal requirements, and assess when language skills become crucial versus nice to have. My coaching focuses on the real world essentials: translating your university projects into globally relevant experience, understanding how American directness plays in German precision focused interviews, adapting your resume format for different markets, and positioning yourself as the ideal candidate who brings fresh perspective to established international teams. From virtual interviews across time zones to understanding work authorization processes, I've guided dozens of twenty somethings through successful international job searches. Having mentored young professionals who've landed roles at top global companies, I know which concerns keep early career job seekers up at night, and we'll tackle them head on. That first international opportunity changed my entire career trajectory. Let's make sure it does the same thing for yours. Industries I have served: Automotive, chemical, bearing, wood, food, marine, oil & gas, steel, cement, mining, pharmaceuticals, mining, pulp & paper, textile, rail and wind power. Countries where I have managed personnel: Canada, US, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, UK, GB, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Turkey, South Africa, India, Vietnam, Thailand, China, South Korea, Japan, Australia. I do coaching in English, German, French and Spanish language.
Jörn can help with:
Interview Prep
Career Planning
Cover Letters
Professional Networking
Resume Review
Personal Branding
Salary Negotiation
Job Search Strategies
Jörn also coaches for Sales and Leadership Coaching. View all.
About Jörn
My journey from a German engineering student to an international CEO spanning five countries taught me that leadership isn't about having all the answers - it's about navigating uncertainty with grace. As a child, I experienced expatriation firsthand when my family moved abroad and then returned to small-town Germany, making me an outsider among my classmates. That early sense of not quite fitting in sparked a lifelong curiosity about different cultures and drove me to seek my Fulbright scholarship to the United States. Twenty-five years of leading global organizations across 40+ countries revealed a truth I wish I'd known earlier: our greatest growth comes from our most difficult challenges. Whether navigating a painful business divestiture as a CEO in France or advocating for my own career advancement within a traditional German corporation, each obstacle taught me that we can only control how we perceive and respond to situations. This realization - hard-won through experience and the guidance of exceptional coaches and mentors - became the foundation of my leadership philosophy. Today, my wife and I have come full circle, returning to Paris where we began our journey as a young couple from different nations choosing to build our life in a third country. Our two now-adult children, raised across France, Germany, and the US, embody the global mindset we cherished. While they pursue their own international paths, we gather regularly to hike, bike, and share stories over long dinners. Living in Paris's vibrant cultural scene, I balance my coaching practice with the simple pleasures that keep me grounded: morning runs along the Seine, exploring neighborhood cafés with my wife, and taking advantage of our 200+ theaters. My volunteer work with ENACTUS, mentoring student entrepreneurs with social projects in Africa, Asia, and South America, reminds me daily that crossing borders - whether geographic, cultural, or mental - remains life's most rewarding adventure.
Why do I coach?
My journey into coaching began in a boardroom crisis. As a CEO navigating a complex divestiture, I found myself isolated at the top - plenty of people willing to tell me what I wanted to hear, but few trusted advisors willing to challenge my thinking. Working with an executive coach transformed not just my business results, but how I showed up as a leader. Later, during a personal crossroads, a life coach helped me navigate choices I couldn't see clearly alone. These experiences revealed coaching's power to unlock perspectives we can't access on our own. Throughout my 25-year leadership journey, nothing matched the satisfaction of developing my team members. Watching a hesitant manager find their voice, seeing a cultural outsider become a confident leader, or receiving an email years later from someone whose career took flight after our work together - these moments mattered more than any financial target. Many executives I coached a decade ago now lead major organizations themselves, and they often remind me that our conversations were pivotal moments in their journey. Today, I bring a unique lens to coaching through my lived experience across cultures. Having led teams in 40+ countries, negotiated in five languages, and navigated the unwritten rules of business from Detroit to Tokyo, I help leaders decode the cultural dynamics that textbooks can't teach. My questions come from real boardroom dilemmas, actual expatriate challenges, and genuine cross-cultural misunderstandings turned into breakthroughs. Coaching is how I pay forward the guidance that made my own journey possible. Every mentor who pushed me beyond my comfort zone, every coach who helped me see my blind spots - they invested in my future. Now it's my turn. Whether I'm coaching a corporate leader through a global expansion that seemed impossible or mentoring ENACTUS students launching social projects in emerging countries, I'm privileged to play a small part in their larger story. My systemic coaching approach honors this belief in transformation through self-discovery. Rather than prescribing solutions from my own experience, I partner with you as the expert on your own challenges and opportunities. Through powerful questions that reveal new perspectives, we'll focus on what you can influence and the goals that matter most to you. Because I've learned that lasting change - whether navigating cultural complexity or leading transformation - comes from within, not from without.
Work Experience
Executive Leadership Coach
Cultural Immersion Inc.
February 2022 - Present
I coach executives through two critical career moments: preparing for international assignments with successful cultural transitions, and navigating real-world challenges in leadership development programs for global companies.
Global Executive Board Member
Freudenberg
February 2011 - December 2021
Hiring Manager
As Global Executive Board Member at Klüber Lubrication (part of the €12B Freudenberg Group), I doubled international sales in core market segments in 7 years while transforming leadership capabilities across 40 countries. Building partnerships with industry leaders - from GE and Caterpillar to Airbus and Mitsubishi - I learned that sustainable success requires developing strong local leaders. This experience of coaching managers through complex challenges while delivering measurable results shaped my values-based systemic coaching approach, which now helps executives achieve both business impact and personal growth.
CEO Gasket Division
Freudenberg
December 2007 - January 2011
Hiring Manager
As CEO of a €120M division serving BMW, Mercedes, and Porsche, I faced a dual challenge: transform the business while leading as an expatriate. The strategic pieces - divestitures, alliances, outsourcing - were clear. But success came from coaching my leadership team to embrace change and own the transformation. This experience crystallized my conviction that intensive leadership development isn't a nice-to-have during turnarounds - it's the difference between temporary fixes and lasting success.
Jörn was also given offers to work at
Michelin
Valeo
Delphi Automotive
thyssenkrupp
Education
Coaching Academy Switzerland
Diploma, Leadership Coaching
2022 - 2023
International Coaching Institutes (ICI) Certification
INSEAD
Executive Program, Business Leadership
2016 - 2017
Integral part of the Freudenberg Group's leadership development program
FU Berlin University
Executive Master's Degree, Business Marketing
1998 - 1999
Professional B2B Sales and Marketing
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Master's Degree, Management
1991 - 1993
Fulbright Scholar - Management Studies
RWTH Aachen University
Master's Degree, Engineering
1986 - 1991
Degree partially completed at the Ecole Centrale de Paris
Jörn was also personally admitted to
Technische Universität Clausthal
29 Reviews
Overall Rating
4.9
Knowledge
4.8
Value
4.8
Responsiveness
4.9
Supportiveness
4.8