OUR FACILITATORS

Jacquelyn Reeves

Berlin, Germany

Keywords

• Intercultural
• Negotiation
• Gender
• Unconscious bias in business transformations
• Dynamic
• Friendly
• Innovative

PL work
Jacquelyn Reeves, MS, is a Personal Leadership Senior Facilitator. She implements the PL method most often for intercultural business-administration students expected to enter and work exclusively in a highly-competitive international environment. 

Other work
Jacquelyn is a intercultural trainer, facilitator and consultant. An adult learning professional with on-the-ground international experience, she has lived and worked in Berlin for 17 years, and in the US for seven.

She has trained at all levels in the auto, engineering, pharmaceutical, IT, telecommunications, oil and gas, and rail transport industries. She is especially adept at creating a comfortable and open atmosphere so that clients can best profit from their investment and experience.

Jacquelyn works in a variety of areas: teambuilding; cultural awareness; unconscious bias; international presentation skills; international negotiation skills; women and negotiation skills; Personal Leadership practice; and specialty workshops on U.S. and German work cultures. Her goal is always to facilitate international understanding, and to manage the stress that is often a byproduct of working and living internationally.

She has certification from the Intercultural Communication Institute with instructors Stella Ting-Toomey and Leeva Chung). She is also certified to administer the International Profiler, an assessment tool used to coach and develop leaders and staff working in foreign environments.

Jacquelyn’s facilitatation style capitalizes on a combination of life experience, training, her background as an actor, and the belief that learning can be fun. With that dynamic combination, she supports group ownership and the development of the solutions specific to the particular groups and individuals. 

In 2016, Jacquelyn presented in Valencia, Spain, on the friction between the U.S.A. and Germany regarding privacy values and data protection. In response to the strong interest in this topic, she is currently developing this field for training and consulting purposes, and presents and publishes regularly on this topic.

An active member of SIETAR Deutschland (Europe), she has worked in Germany, Switzerland, France, Britain, Sweden, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Spain and the U.S.A.

Jacquelyn works in English and German.

Personal background
Jacquelyn’s interest in living her work—beyond simply facilitating—came during an exchange program in the German Democratic Republic in 1988 and 1989. It was a significant life experience to see the complex city of Berlin from both sides of the Wall. While studying the city’s challenges from linguistic, historical and political perspectives, she decided to make it her life’s work to unravel these complexities and promote collaboration through inclusion.

Academic
Jacquelyn has an MS in Adult, Continuing, and Occupational Education from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. She also has a BA in German Studies from Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont. 

Other interests
Jacquelyn enjoys travel, language, literature, film, and different points of view.