Meet The Coalition
Licensed facilitators of
adapt and succeed
Members of Global Coach Coalition are a select group of practitioners and coaches who have undergone rigorous personal and professional development to become licensed facilitators of Adapt & Succeed. More than a group, it is a movement to get proven strategies in the hands of more of the globally mobile so they can make the most of their lives IN TRANSIT.
Andrea Puck
Imperial Feng Shui Consultant
Born and currently living in Germany Andrea has a global mindset and experience living on 3 continents for over a decade. She understands the hassle of moving around and getting settled in your home of choice. As a certified Imperial Feng Shui Consultant and a member of the Expat Coach Coalition she is facilitating a unique program tailormade to support expats on their journey back home.
Related to her family history Andrea also has a background and personal experience in Naturopathy and Herbalism. So well-being is an essential part of her work with clients.
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Clients
Repatted expat families and those soon to repatriate.
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Languages
English and German
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Location / Time Zone
Germany
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Angie Weinberger
The Global Mobility Coach
Angie Weinberger has over a decade of coaching experience and 25 years in International Human Resources, specialized in Global Mobility for Germany and Switzerland. Angie supports minority expats looking for income in the host country and those looking to build high-performing global virtual teams. Angie Weinberger became an Intercultural Executive Coach in 2010 by Dr. Eva Kinast and Drs. Boudewijn Vermeulen.
In 2013 and 2015 she was certified as a Professional Certified Coach by the same coach educators.
In 2018 she was certified as a seminar leader for group coaching according to the Boudewijn Vermeulen® method by Dr. Eva Kinast. Angie has been an licensed practitioner of Adapt & Succeed Abroad since November 2020. She has worked with over 250 coaching and consulting clients. She also has a background in systemic consulting and intercultural training.
Committed to bringing the Human Touch back to Global Mobility, Angie is the author of ‘The Global Career Workbook’, a self-help career guide for internationally mobile professionals and ‘The Global Mobility Workbook’. She is a recognized consultant and lecturer in Global Mobility and Intercultural Management. She also lived and worked in the UK, Australia and India.
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Clients
Expats and their partners
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Languages
German, English
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Location / Time Zone
CET
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Website
Andrea Puck
Imperial Feng Shui Consultant
Born and currently living in Germany Andrea has a global mindset and experience living on 3 continents for over a decade. She understands the hassle of moving around and getting settled in your home of choice. As a certified Imperial Feng Shui Consultant and a member of the Expat Coach Coalition she is facilitating a unique program tailormade to support expats on their journey back home.
Anna has lived abroad all her life and is currently raising her own Third Culture Kids in a cross-cultural marriage. She knows what keeps you awake at night - as a parent and as an individual.
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Clients
Repatted expat families and those soon to repatriate.
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Languages
English and German
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Location / Time Zone
Germany
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Arlette Chatlein
Transformation Coach & Mentor for the Globally Mobile
Born in Curaçao, Arlette has spent 20+ years living across 8 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. She didn't just move, she rebuilt herself, each time, in new soil.
That lived experience is the foundation of everything she does. Arlette knows firsthand what repeated relocation quietly does to your sense of self, the slow erosion of identity, belonging, and confidence that no one talks about. She also knows the way back.
Arlette helps the globally mobile — serial expats, repats, nomads, and accompanying partners — rebuild from the inside out. The goal isn't faster adaptation. It's deeper rootedness: feeling grounded, confident, and capable of building authentic relationships, no matter where in the world you are.
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Clients
Serial expats, repats, nomads, and accompanying partners navigating the inner upheaval of relocation and life transition.
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Languages
English, Dutch
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Location / Time Zone
Curaçao
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Website
Ben Voegele
Male TCK Coach
Born in Idaho but raised overseas, author Ben Voegele spent his formative years in Hong Kong and Taiwan. An advocate for Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and the ex-pat life in general, Ben has also lived and worked professionally in Shanghai, China, as the Director of Admissions at Shanghai Community International School. Currently finishing up his master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Ben is passionate about working to combat the stigma associated with men’s mental health issues and the well-being of TCKs and ATCKs. Ben is a teacher, coach, published author, ex-pat facilitator, podcast host (BenThere), speaker, and blog writer (BenThere.org). A proud Boise State University graduate, Ben lives in Salt Lake City, UT, with his wife, Emilee, and their dogs, Kayla and Wrigley.
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Clients
Expat & TCK Consultant/Facilitator
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Languages
English (Fluent), Mandarin Chinese (Proficient)
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Location / Time Zone
Salt Lake City, UT (Mountain Time)
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Website
Claire Hauxwell
Confidence and Mindset Coach
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Clients
Female Accompanying Supportive Spouses/Partners (Expat and Domestic) – Stay-At-Home Moms, Empty Nesters, Child-Free Accompanying Spouses and Self-Employed/Entrepreneurial Spouses
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Languages
English
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Location / Time Zone
Zurich, Switzerland (CET)
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Website
Dawn Fleming
Life Redesign Strategist
Dawn Fleming is an attorney-turned-alchemist - author, entrepreneur, speaker, and certified Adapt & Succeed facilitator who believes life's most exciting chapters often begin after 50.
Originally from Minnesota, Dawn has reinvented herself multiple times—from successful real estate professional to international business attorney, corporate trainer, entrepreneur, podcast host, and coach. Along the way, she and her husband Tom traded conventional living for a life of adventure, sailing thousands of miles through the Caribbean before creating a new life in Mexico.
Today, Dawn helps midlife professionals, entrepreneurs, and pre-retirees design their next chapter with greater purpose, freedom, and fulfillment. Through her coaching, speaking, writing, and community leadership, she encourages people to challenge outdated assumptions about aging, retirement, and what's possible in the second half of life.
Dawn is the author of Claim Your Dream Life and founder of Boldest Years, a movement dedicated to helping people create a life they never need a vacation from. She also serves as the founding Managing Director of the Lake Chapala Chapter of eWomenNetwork in Mexico.
Drawing on her personal experience navigating major life transitions, international moves, entrepreneurship, and reinvention, Dawn helps clients build the confidence and clarity needed to embrace change and create a future aligned with who they truly are.
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Clients
Dawn works primarily with midlife women, professionals, entrepreneurs, and pre-retirees who are seeking greater freedom, purpose, adventure, and fulfillment in the next chapter of life. Many are navigating major transitions such as retirement, relocation, career changes, or lifestyle redesign.
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Languages
English
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Location / Time Zone
Lake Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico
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Elena Darmenko
Cross-Cultural Psychologist and Adaptation Strategist
Elena is from Moscow (Russia) and was raised in a multicultural family.
She’s an expert in cross-cultural communication with over 15 years of experience in Psychology and Foreign Relations. She also has a background in Strategic Management. Her personal expat story includes several years in Scandinavian countries and the Middle East.
In 2020 Elena completed her postgraduate degree at Diplomatic Academy of Russia in the field of professional adaptation of foreign staff of international organizations.
She focuses on the adaptation of introverted expats to help them feel more self-confident both in professional and personal communication by creating their own comfort zone.
Elena is a certified Art therapist and helps expats to manage their stress in new cultural conditions. She also supports intercultural couples, who want to improve their relationships and build their unique family culture.
Elena’s core value and principle is to be on her clients’ side whatever happens in their lives, assisting them to make the most of their experience abroad.
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Clients
Expat professionals, intercultural couples, introverted expats
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Languages
English, Russian
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Location / Time Zone
Moscow, Russia UTC +3
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Website
Andrea Puck
Imperial Feng Shui Consultant
Born and currently living in Germany Andrea has a global mindset and experience living on 3 continents for over a decade. She understands the hassle of moving around and getting settled in your home of choice. As a certified Imperial Feng Shui Consultant and a member of the Expat Coach Coalition she is facilitating a unique program tailormade to support expats on their journey back home.
Anna has lived abroad all her life and is currently raising her own Third Culture Kids in a cross-cultural marriage. She knows what keeps you awake at night - as a parent and as an individual.
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Clients
Repatted expat families and those soon to repatriate.
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Languages
English and German
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Location / Time Zone
Germany
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Hélène Raison
About This Member of Global Coach Coalition
At age 15, Hélène, French by birth, left her rural county to start a journey of back-and-forth abroad experiences. She also experienced the “tough repat” experiences. She has lived in France, Pennsylvania and Texas in the USA, Mexico, South Africa, and recently repatriated to Lyon, France.
After years in banking, she made a switch to be more of service to others. She has worked for organizations whose main drivers are empowerment and social and economic inclusion. She is a certified coach.
From her expat life, she loves navigating between groups, like an "outsider within," investing herself where she lives as much as she can to dig in the new culture she encounters and create bridges of understanding.
She has incorporated her love for questioning through all of her work to ensure there is a clear call to action that helps her clients thrive in who they want to be.
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Clients
Expat professionals, accompanying partners, and other relocating individuals or families who do not identify as expats
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Languages
French, English, Spanish
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Location / Time Zone
Lyon, France/ UTC + 1 hour
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Website
Andrea Puck
Imperial Feng Shui Consultant
Born and currently living in Germany Andrea has a global mindset and experience living on 3 continents for over a decade. She understands the hassle of moving around and getting settled in your home of choice. As a certified Imperial Feng Shui Consultant and a member of the Expat Coach Coalition she is facilitating a unique program tailormade to support expats on their journey back home.
Anna has lived abroad all her life and is currently raising her own Third Culture Kids in a cross-cultural marriage. She knows what keeps you awake at night - as a parent and as an individual.
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Clients
Repatted expat families and those soon to repatriate.
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Languages
English and German
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Location / Time Zone
Germany
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JULIANNA OVERMEYER
Christian Expat Adventure
As a child Julianna always wanted to live overseas. When her children grew up, she flew the nest. With a passion to see God glorified in the lives of young people, she spent 1 year in the Gambia, West Africa before meeting a South African and moving for love (and service). Currently she is the Center Director for a small NPO that assists women and families confronted with Gender-Based and Domestic Violence.
Married to a South African, Julianna has 3 grown daughters and is learning to be the “Best Grandma” to 3 boys and 2 girls residing in the USA. She is passionate helping Christians recognise how God is working in and through the process of transition, no matter what their vocation or line of work.
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Clients
Lovepats, Expat grandmas, Christians abroad
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Languages
English
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Location / Time Zone
South Africa (SAST) GMT+
Andrea Puck
Imperial Feng Shui Consultant
Born and currently living in Germany Andrea has a global mindset and experience living on 3 continents for over a decade. She understands the hassle of moving around and getting settled in your home of choice. As a certified Imperial Feng Shui Consultant and a member of the Expat Coach Coalition she is facilitating a unique program tailormade to support expats on their journey back home.
Anna has lived abroad all her life and is currently raising her own Third Culture Kids in a cross-cultural marriage. She knows what keeps you awake at night - as a parent and as an individual.
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Clients
Repatted expat families and those soon to repatriate.
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Languages
English and German
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Location / Time Zone
Germany
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Linda Mueller
Expat Partner Coach
Linda empowers expat partners to create a life they love, one filled with purpose, fulfillment, and a renewed sense of self. With extensive personal and professional experience overseas, and as a three-time repat, she utilizes her experience to coach expat partners with compassionate accountability during all stages of the expat/repat cycle.
Linda is a certified life coach and the mother of a third culture kid with 10+ years of expat partner experience in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. She fully understands the opportunities and challenges that expat partners encounter while living abroad and is passionate about supporting those on a similar journey.
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Clients
Expat partners & repats who want to find purpose and design a life they love
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Languages
English
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Location / Time Zone
USA / CST / UTC -6
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María J Devolx López
Expat Partner Coach
After 20+ years of living abroad as expat, repat, and fauxpat, María decided to put her international life experience to work. She is passionate about working with those who enter the expat world for the first time AND seasoned expats in need of readjustments to embrace the global mobility lifestyle with its thorns and many flowers. María is Spanish, married to a Belgian diplomat and is the mother of three kids born in three different continents. She lives and breathes expatriation in her very own way.
María has worked in the corporate world, taken 8 gap years to look after her kids, reinvented herself as an educator and currently is working toward ICF coaching certification. Throughout her life, María has adapted her professional journey to her personal goals, enriching her life with a wide range of working and learning experiences.
María´s focus is on adapting. She enjoys transforming challenges into opportunities and being intentional about living a happy life. She believes that the expat life is like filigree: twisted and beautiful!
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Clients
Expats to-be, new expats on the block, expats in a personal transition. Spanish speaking expat women.
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Languages
Spanish, English, French
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Location / Time Zone
Belgium / UTC +1
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Website
Matthias Augustin
Global Mobility Facilitator, Coach and Trainer
Matthias, born in Zurich, Switzerland, is a certified coach, corporate mentor, and trainer. People in change processes, whether in their professional or private lives, are his main focus. In the context of Global Mobility, it doesn't matter if someone settles down in a new country, if one is a LovePat living with someone together from another country or culture or if one is now planning to move to the next country or even to return to one's country of origin. As a man in his fifties, Matthias is also an ideal sparring partner for men in such situations.
In his work, Matthias also coaches executives and c-level executives in their professional development, reorientation, or building up new businesses as well as in the areas of leadership, mental fitness, and resilience. More than 50 percent of his clients have a cultural background other than Switzerland. Matthias has further training as a business mentor/coach and has completed the training as a Global Mobile Facilitator. He is the father of two adult sons and lives together with his girlfriend.
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Specializations
Expats / lovepats (partners of expats) / repats, relocation and onboarding into new business roles and companies, but then also job applications, team communication, leadership, resilience, sleep, burnout prevention, mental health and life design.
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Clients
People in change processes who want to grow into their potential through reflection and willingness to learn.
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Languages
German and English
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Location / Time Zone
Switzerland / Winter CET (UTC +1) / Summer CEST (UTC +2)
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Website
Andrea Puck
Imperial Feng Shui Consultant
Born and currently living in Germany Andrea has a global mindset and experience living on 3 continents for over a decade. She understands the hassle of moving around and getting settled in your home of choice. As a certified Imperial Feng Shui Consultant and a member of the Expat Coach Coalition she is facilitating a unique program tailormade to support expats on their journey back home.
Anna has lived abroad all her life and is currently raising her own Third Culture Kids in a cross-cultural marriage. She knows what keeps you awake at night - as a parent and as an individual.
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Clients
Repatted expat families and those soon to repatriate.
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Languages
English and German
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Location / Time Zone
Germany
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Nic Scholtysik
About This Member of Global Coach Coalition
Nic is a ThirdCultureKid (TCK) turned serial-expat who recently moved to her 7th country. She’s living the multi-cultural married life and raising 2 TCKs in Sweden. In her podcast A Home Worth Having she explores belonging and how we can create it when we’re living an international life. Her own expertise lies in interior design and how to create space that makes us think and feel good about ourselves and what ‘enoughness’ is for each of us individually.
Nic rooted her design work in the idea of essentialism and sustainability: “As little as possible, but as much as needed to feel complete and satisfied.” She prides herself in designing spaces that don’t pose for social (media) likes, but that make life for her clients easier by focusing on their personality and the future memories they yet want to have. She helps first time expat families make their life abroad a mindful and savoring experience from the start. For experienced long-term expats/immigrants, Nic supports those who are ready to stop pretending their experience is temporary and fully dive into designing what their settledness should look and feel like.
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Clients
First-time and experienced expats.
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Languages
English, German, French, Spanish, and Polish
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Location / Time Zone
Stockholm
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PAULINE ALBERTS
(Team) Coach, Trainer, Neurodiversity Expert
Pauline is an experienced life and leadership coach and trainer who specializes in transitions, happiness and wellbeing. She is passionate about neurodiversity and she is a certified ADHD coach. As a third‑culture kid with a neurodivergent family, she brings rich life experience to her sessions, always rooted in her values of growth and connection.
Pauline is originally from the Netherlands. She grew up and lived in seven different countries and worked on four continents, both as the accompanying spouse as well as for her own professional assignments.
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Clients
Cross-cultural and Diverse Teams / International Leaders / Expats / Expat partners / Repats
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Languages
English and Dutch
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Location / Time Zone
Amsterdam / Winter CET (UTC +1) / Summer CEST (UTC +2)
Andrea Puck
Imperial Feng Shui Consultant
Born and currently living in Germany Andrea has a global mindset and experience living on 3 continents for over a decade. She understands the hassle of moving around and getting settled in your home of choice. As a certified Imperial Feng Shui Consultant and a member of the Expat Coach Coalition she is facilitating a unique program tailormade to support expats on their journey back home.
Anna has lived abroad all her life and is currently raising her own Third Culture Kids in a cross-cultural marriage. She knows what keeps you awake at night - as a parent and as an individual.
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Clients
Repatted expat families and those soon to repatriate.
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Languages
English and German
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Location / Time Zone
Germany
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Website
Andrea Puck
Imperial Feng Shui Consultant
Born and currently living in Germany Andrea has a global mindset and experience living on 3 continents for over a decade. She understands the hassle of moving around and getting settled in your home of choice. As a certified Imperial Feng Shui Consultant and a member of the Expat Coach Coalition she is facilitating a unique program tailormade to support expats on their journey back home.
Anna has lived abroad all her life and is currently raising her own Third Culture Kids in a cross-cultural marriage. She knows what keeps you awake at night - as a parent and as an individual.
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Clients
Repatted expat families and those soon to repatriate.
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Languages
English and German
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Location / Time Zone
Germany
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Candice L. Progler-Thomsen s
International Educator, Intercultural Practitioner, and Transitions Specialist
Candice L. Progler-Thomsen
International Educator, Intercultural Practitioner, and Transitions Specialist
Guidance and Support for Global Living and Learning
At 16, Candice took a transformative step by leaving small-town America to embark on a year-long Rotary Youth Exchange program in Denmark. This pivotal experience profoundly shaped her both personally and professionally. Over the past 25+ years, she has dedicated herself to developing, facilitating, and leading various international education programs, global mobility support services, intercultural training, and cross-cultural communication and transition care initiatives across the United States, Denmark, England, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
Having moved abroad many times for her education and career—on her own and with her family—Candice possesses a deep understanding of the rewards, challenges, and nuances of an expatriate lifestyle. This extensive background allows her to empathize with the unique considerations that come along with global living.
Throughout her career, Candice has had the privilege of supporting thousands of individuals from across the world as they navigate the complexities of their global living and learning journeys. After eleven international relocations, she is now based in Denmark, where she is part of a cross-cultural marriage and is raising two third-culture kids (TCKs) who attend the local international school. Together, they are embracing the richness of a multicultural life in rural Denmark.
As an educator, practitioner, and consultant, Candice offers invaluable insights and expertise to expats, repats, partners, youth, families, and organizations seeking guidance in managing global careers, education, and lifestyles. Her approach fosters positive well-being, a sense of purpose, and personal fulfillment, empowering individuals and families to thrive in their international pursuits.
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Clients
Expats, Repats, Partners, Youth, Families, Organizations
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Languages
English, Danish
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Location / Time Zone
Denmark / CET / UTC + 1
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