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"Even in the digital era, we are and will remain human beings"

Dr. Nora Engelbert

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Three phrases shape my work – as mindset, as compass, as invitation:

 

gnōthi seauton – know yourself. Transformation begins within.
panta rhei – everything flows. Change is nature.
panta en pasin – everything is in everything. Connection is reality.

Vita 

I made a conscious choice: to work with people, and for people.

My aim is to create spaces where collaboration, impact, and well-being can thrive – within healthy relationships, structures, and systems.
I live by the principle:

“Start with the person in the mirror.”

 

The idea of health in connection has been familiar to me since childhood – it runs in my family.
And international collaboration became part of my path just as early – and never let go of me.

By the age of 29, I had earned a PhD in Cultural Anthropology.


I conducted research and published on topics like migration, aging, and demographic change.
At the same time, I had already spent over four years working as a trainer, lecturer, and consultant in language learning and intercultural communication – across education, business, and healthcare contexts.

Identity in transition – individual and collective – has always been my home turf.

At international conferences, I shared my work, met inspiring people, and began to imagine new futures.
And I realized:
I don’t just want to talk about transformation – I want to co-create it.

 

So at 30, I made a bold move:
I left academia and traditional consultancy behind and stepped into a new arena –
Project management in international IT and business transformations.

In leadership roles, I guided international project teams to success.
Through inspiring facilitation, trust-building communication, and clear structures, I helped establish and empower global change agent networks.
Some of my largest projects took place during my time with Indian and European IT service providers – and later, as a freelance facilitator for a wide range of clients and transformation initiatives.

During that time, I began asking new questions:
What kind of tools and frameworks truly support our humanity in complex systems?
And how can technology not disconnect us – but empower us?

Today, I bring this knowledge – together with heart, clarity, and experience – into an international network of brilliant, diverse, and deeply connected collaborators.
Together, we weave a global web of people driven by purpose, love, and the desire to uplift themselves and others.

In today’s digital working world, technology, content, and form are constantly intertwining in new ways.


To remain truly capable of action, we need something deeper:
Complex leadership and communication capacity.

That’s what I offer my clients:
The space, structure, and methods to evolve their leadership, communication, project management, and co-creative practices – for organizations that want to be not just efficient, but humanly effective.

And the most rewarding part of my work?
That moment when a client smiles after a breakthrough and says:
“Hey Nora – we did it.”

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