Management

Thomas Baumer is the founder and director of the CICB Center of Intercultural Competence Ltd.

He studied business economics (graduating as a business economist HWV / FH) and has 20 years of managerial experience in different international companies. As an assessor, he has carried out more than 500 assessments since 2001.

Thomas Baumer is a member of the Association of Management Consultants Switzerland (ASCO), the Swiss Institute for Board Directors and Managers (SIVG) and the Swiss Management Association (SMG).

In addition to his activities with the CICB Center of Intercultural Competence, he is a speaker at universities and was director of the A+O Career Group (assessments, outplacements, international assignments and coaching) from 2001 to 2008.

He worked for the Swiss airline Swissair as a Division Manager and Deputy General Manager until 1999, and was responsible for business administration, marketing, network management, purchasing and sales at the Swissair Training Center (recruiting pilots and managers for Swissair and other companies, organising courses and further training for pilots and flight attendants, in Human Aspects Development).

In the course of business and personal travel, he has visited more than 100 countries. He is a member of Traveler's Century Club and senior fellow of the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE).

For many years, he has occupied himself with the topic of intercultural competence. In addition to writing other works on the subject, he authored "Evaluating intercultural competence" and the Intercultural Competence Handbook (2 volumes), which is recognised as the standard work on intercultural competence by many experts in the field. He founded the CICB Center of Intercultural Competence in May 2000.

Seit April 2003 ist This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung von CICB, wo er u. a. die Bereiche Seminare und Marketing betreut. Er studierte an der ETH Zürich, war Partner einer venture-capital-finanzierten Unternehmung in den USA und erster CEO des WWF Schweiz. Als Coach und Trainer namhafter Firmen hat er prägende Erkenntnisse zum Thema Einzigartigkeit gewonnen. Er ist Unternehmensberater und Geschäftsführer des J. T. Sorg & Partner Netzwerks.