How we can support your team
Advisors to SFB LeadersBuilding a Unified SFB Team Out of Disparate Elements PhDs arrive under different PIs, with different expectations, and rarely feel like one team.
Everyone's under pressure to be excellent, but time, self-management and focus get left to chance.
Coordinating across several participating universities means chasing people for a response, without ever landing on a shared vision.
No agreed structure for how the team actually develops together over the funding period.
Why Kompetenzia International?36 years working with PhDs, postdocs and supervising professors — we know this structure from the inside.
A ready-made navigation system — Mindset, Leadership, Project Management — not a one-off lecture.
Experience coordinating training across multiple institutions and stakeholders, not just a single department.
Trusted advisers to universities, ministries and DAX-listed corporations alike.
Every one of these problems is fixable — and we've spent 36 years learning how. Talk to Us Today → |
Partners to Busy Graduate SchoolsKeeping your Webinar List Genuinely Useful Bookings are falling.
PhDs are more stressed than ever — overwhelmed, unable to concentrate, sometimes in real panic mode.
Some book a course, then cancel at the last minute because something "more urgent" came up.
AI is fuelling anxiety about the future of research careers, making standard courses feel beside the point.
Why Kompetenzia International?We build courses around what PhDs and postdocs are actually up against right now — not a syllabus from five years ago.
36 years reading this exact audience, from first-year PhDs to full professors.
Agile course design that adapts as fast as the landscape — including AI — keeps shifting.
Already trusted by universities and ministries, so a low-risk addition to an existing course offer.
Falling bookings and burnt-out PhDs aren't inevitable — there is something you can do, starting right now. Talk to Us Today → |
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About us
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Svenja Neupert Dip. Paedagogin
Founder, Kompetenzia International Svenja has more than 36 years' experience of delivering inspirational coaching, seminars and speeches. Svenja has a true visionary perspective, which, uniquely, is strongly anchored in pragmatic action plans. The result for her clients is achieving sustainable results with a multitude of ways to integrate life-goals into daily life. An essential conviction for Svenja is that everyone has an inner compass - a purpose which gives him or her a lifelong orientation, and which especially equips one to cope with challenges in times of uncertainty. Very often the view of this ‘inner compass’ seems to be obscured by daily workload and time pressure. Sometimes people do not dare to ask themselves essential questions. It is Svenja's passion, and purpose, to encourage and support you with just such questions. |
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Mark Edwards Specialist in English Communication
Network Partner Mark has been working with doctoral students in Germany to help them transform their communication In English for the past 15 years. He began his career by co-founding and operating a successful marketing and graphic design business. Following this, Mark gained more than fifteen years' experience of working in blue-chip companies (British Petroleum, GlaxoSmithKline) and as a National Training Manager for a network of over 300 businesses. Since 2010, Mark has been successfully delivering specialised English courses in Germany in association with Kompetenzia International Clients include major universities and research institutes in Berlin and all over Germany. His approachable presentation style adds a touch of warmth and geniality to the most serious of topics. |
Public Speaking / Hosting
Work/Life Balance in Science
Click here to see a short video on the Geo:X conference on Work/Life balance, which was hosted by Svenja Neupert & Mark Edwards |
Presenting in English
to International Audiences Click here to see a five-minute excerpt from our lecture at the Hasso Plattner Institute. |
The Soul of Success
Click here to see ' Der innere Kompass zu Erfolg' - The Inner Compass to Success, delivered at the Didacta conference. This talk can also be delivered in English |
