Charlie Lang

Charlie Lang works with senior executives who are already successful and want to make sure that they stay at the leading edge. They are often challenged by issues like:

• How to improve staff retention, especially how to keep top performers
• How to minimize conflicts and instead foster constructive dialogue
• How to develop a high-performance team spirit
• How to achieve a corporate success culture that guarantees long-term success
• How to create new levels of excellence through high employee engagement

Charlie, an executive coach & trainer who is known for his innovative approaches towards leadership and team processes, assists his clients in mastering these challenges. They achieve outstanding results through Charlie’s unique application of latest findings in research combined with his own experience in international management and leadership.

During his 13-year corporate career, he worked for progressive companies, so-called ‘hidden champions’, as Managing Director, as VP Sales & Marketing and as Sales Director, in Europe and Asia. He developed his exceptional intercultural competence during his extensive travels to over 60 countries worldwide.

Charlie’s mission is to help Progress-U’s clients deal with their interpersonal challenges in the most effective way for the benefit of all stakeholders. To achieve this, Charlie offers Executive Training and One-on-one Coaching to upper and middle management. He also delivers public speeches and keynote addresses and is a passionate thinker and writer of articles on these topics. End of 2004 he started authoring “The Groupness Factor”, a book on First-Class Leadership which was published in August 2005. Charlie published over 100 articles which got printed in Human Resources, Effective Executive, CareerTimes, FZ Asia Magazine, SCMP and AsiaPreneur. SCMP, Silkroad, Premiere and Recruit reported about Charlie. He appeared live on radio RTHK and Cable TV to talk on leadership and coaching.

Charlie has lived in Germany, France and Hong Kong and is fluent in German, English and French. As trainer and coach, Charlie works mostly with Europeans and Asians (focus on Greater China) based in Hong Kong and China.

Selection of companies Charlie has recently worked with:

• ALLIANZ Insurance
• Standard Chartered Bank
• ARKEMA
• IPC (technology company)
• Roquette (chemical company)
• Bayer MaterialScience
• DSG (Dixons Store Group)
• LOGITECH
• LEGO

Charlie is fluent in German, English and French

Topics

• New Map for a New Age – Improved talent engagement and retention through a Corporate Coaching Culture
• The Groupness Factor – How highly influential leaders manage to engage the people of their organization
• The Power of Paradox – How integration of apparently opposite dynamics lead to more success and happiness
• Getting the right people on the bus – New ways of making recruitment of top talents more effective and efficient
• Confronting the brutal facts – How to develop a culture of openness and honesty, especially at times of crisis

Testimonials

“It is the first event which really helps us in judging ourselves and also can be combined with the situation at the workplace. It will have a strong impact throughout my life – in every aspect.”
Nikhil Shukla, GEMALTO

“This kind of presentation will change your thinking and open your mind. It is worth to attend and you better be prepared to a deep learning experience.”
Zhao Bo Wei, AIR LIQUIDE ASIA

“Worth attending – very rich content. A lot to think about and useful tools to improve yourself and your team.”
Nathalie Paccard, UBISOFT

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