I'm your host Gary Nowak and I've got a China / Germany KPMG connection for you with my outstanding guest Angelika Alt-Sherer. I was blown away by the great perspective and advice provided throughout this conversations

Biography Snapshot

• Borne and grew up in Munich, Bavaria, Germany
• Married for more than 25 years, met my husband at KPMG
• Career start at KPMG after graduating 30 years ago with 7 years out of the box experience at another Big Four, a smaller consulting firm and as a freelancer in the first decade of my career
• Audit Partner at KPMG Germany with stations in Munich, Stuttgart and Shanghai (3 years)
• Serving a broad range of clients in different industries (main focus on Media and Automotive), listed companies as well as family owned business
• Since 2018 part of the Audit Leadership of the German firm as CHRO

Highlights

• Working on the farm from ages 9 to 12 yo
• Tax consulting early
• 7 year checking things out of her career
• Wanted to try out a lot of things and see what she liked
• Being a very structured person and being german, go figure
• Going from big company to her own company
• Learning the advantages of a big company and how to make it work for her
• The ideal combination of a KPMG
• You can hear her smile throughout the discussion
• Being mentored and mentoring, how she developed her style
• Selling - listening and asking questions
• Great questions when mentoring, really strong
• Everything has a price and consequences
• Using martial arts for career guidance
• Her best advice
  
  • Learn
  • Work hard
  • Be independent
• Leave your comfort zone, as much as possible
• Being positive and flexible
• Setback discussion
• Sink or swim without a lifeguard (metaphorically of course)
• Working in china conversation and how to work their successfully
• Solid celebrity crush

Want to be a guest? Email me at gpnowak@gmail.com!