That’s us!
Carmen
Academic staff, trainer, business and online coach
Hello! My Name is Carmen (as some of you already know) and I created this Peer Coaching Online Course together with my colleagues that will also introduce themselves. I am a certified Business Coach and CAI®-certified Online-Coach, additionally I work for EmployID as academic staff at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) at the moment and I am in the end phase of my PhD. I lead the training and capacity building in EmployID and the peer coaching activities.

Pablo
Trainer, Coach
Hi, I am Pablo (as some of you already know) and I am part of the EmployID Peer Coaching Team. I am a certified Business Coach by ICF and additionally I work for Enzyme Advizing Group. I do training on peer coaching in EmployID together with Deirdre and Carmen.
Deirdre
Careers practitioner, Trainer, Researcher & Policy Adviser
Hello! My name is Deirdre . I have worked in the field of career guidance and counseling for over 30 years. I am passionate about improving the life chances of young people and adults through effective careers dialogue. I have worked extensively in the UK, EU and internationally on career developments policy, research and practice. It’s terrific being part of the EMPLOYID Team because we are working with practitioners and managers to support their everyday practice. I thoroughly enjoy training and look forward to working with you!
Katarina
Employee at Croatian Public Employment Service, psychologist, soon cognitive behavioral therapist
Hello! My name is Katarina. I work almost for 10 years in Croatian Public Employment Service (PES) , Central office in the field of career guidance and counselling. Beside that, I have experience in the development and implementation of different projects and national strategies within the broader area of the labor market and education. I studied psychology and I’m additionally trained in cognitive behavioral therapy (which I still attend). I am happy to be part of the EMPLOY ID team where I try to connect PES needs and environment with the scientific approach and research. Together with my colleagues from CES I tried to adjust the content of the training to our needs and organized the process of implementation of the course in CES.
Tanja
Employee at Croatian Public Employment Service,…
Hello! My name is Tanja. I’ve worked in Croatian Employment Service (Central Office), Project Implementation Unit for a year and a half so far. I’ve gained experience in preparation and implementation of projects and I’m happy to contribute to Employ ID project, especially in developing various new aspects of learning and relection in CES. I believe these new aspects could make contributions to everyday work tasks of each practicioner, who is willing to give himself/herself the opportunity to grow.
Angela
Trainer, EmployID Academy developer
Hi I’m Angela! I work for a Welsh education research company called Pontydysgu. I specialise in education technology, open badges and creating online teaching and learning resources. I’ll be providing technical support for this and other EmployID Academy courses.
Further team members of the peer coaching team are:
Christine
Trainer
Hi I’m Christine! I also work for the Welsh education research company Pontydysgu and as a freelance consultant in areas around human resource development. I have a particular focus on motivational aspects in the context of knowledge development at the workplace.
Andreas
Trainer
Hi, I am Andreas, and I work for Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences in areas of knowledge management, technology-enhanced learning, and enterprise social media. My background is computer science. My group has developed the peer coaching online tool.