top of page

We met each other in a time when the world stood still, locked in our homes, separated from the world, our families, co-workers, clients, routines. In the vague of the disruption of normal we met because each of us sought comfort, exchange, support in sharing and sensing in the sisterhood of women. While the physical conversations with girlfriends, sisters, mothers was taken from us we joined the virtual groups of women across the States and world really, to form another connection in order to cope with the unknown by making it an active process of observation and exploration. …

Mary Lee

Mary Lee grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, the oldest of three sisters, raised by a former opera singer mother and a race-car owning father. Following college in Massachusetts and North Carolina, she continued her education by getting an MSW and an MBA. She found her career niche combining her degrees - in the field of training and development. She has spent the decades since then designing training curricula, coaching instructors, and mentoring students in corporate, non-profit, and university settings. The mother of Madeline (27) and David (25), Mary Lee and her husband Mike recently moved back into the city of Chicago, (a block from where she lived when she and Mike began dating more than 30 years ago). Mary Lee enjoys traveling, researching and learning, leading small groups, music, art, golf, and her family and friends.

Danielle

Born a wild child with more phantazy than an East German surrounding had use or answers for, she grew up with a belief she has to fit in. 

Then the wall fell, the iron curtain opened, two power poles collapsed and her in the middle at 11 years. While the world had to recollect the power system and redefine a 40 year old truth of

East, Russian, Socialism, good: West, USA, capitalism, bad

and the other way around, a teenager discovered the world. Yet a world that hadn't existed ever before. Non of the learnings of my parents were true anymore except some knowledge. Math and Engineering, the rules of physics still applied and family taught values in her house like don't lie, be nice or be kind to strangers and people, have mannors. When it came to what to do in life and what education to take she had to take non of what her parents knew was there anymore. She was among the first movers. She calls it a schizophranic hookturn. 

From don't speak your mind and never express an opionion that wasn't system conform

to freedom of speech 

From be like everybody else 

to what makes you different, better and special from the other applicants

From Socialsim

to the beginning of turbo capitalism

From being locked-in

to globalization

From everything old is bad

all new is good

From all East German ruled

to suddenly all West German ruled (in 2019 30 years later, from the 80 public Universities in Germany not one principal is an East-German)

She made use of the new possibilites. From that moment one doing things for the first time, change and doing new things became her lifestyle. All her education was following new possibilites, new schools or following new educational paths. New is not always better but that is written on another page. She went to the USA for an AuPair year after regualar school education. Later she studied business administration because journalism her parents didn't allow her. She followed the advice of her parents concerning education is your ticket to a paycheck that makes you have a good life standard and regretted it for years - to learn along the way. If it is your thing, life brings you there no matter what road you chose. The tools you collected along the ways become yours to use. 

Contact US

Thanks for submitting!

bottom of page