Next Level Academy - Konstanz

Peter Binetsch

There is no one better!
“Alexander is the best high-level language coach I know, period. I recommend Alexander Harmsen to anyone who quickly needs to up their English for high-level professional or political communication.”

“I am an internationally active learning and development and organizational change consultant. With every sentence, Alexander Harmsen shows how constructive and appreciative communication can be. His extremely rich background, connecting many disciplines, fascinates. He is uniquely able to vividly simplify complex material. It is impossible not to learn from him. As a colleague, I take my hat off to him.

Before collaborating with Alexander on an interpersonal communication development project I found him when I needed to quickly improve my rusty school English to leading professional development workshops for international teams. I didn’t have much time and I didn’t have much hope. Working with Alexander was a real pleasure and the results speak (write) for themselves. Call him … you won’t regret it.

Alexander is the best high-level language coach I know, period. I know because you could say I have tried every type of language training. Why is he the best? English training with Alexander is so much more than just ‘language’ training. He is the first person in my not so short life who created in me the relationship to a language I needed to learn well and enjoy it. Alexander takes you into the language in a way I have never and since experienced. His breadth and depth of knowledge lets him take you on a journey from how language works to a learning process that fits this like. All the while energizing the process and joining you at eye level in the world you need to live in and express in English. The result is the network connections your brain needs for the learning to stick! The magic was for me the key to within ten months of bi-monthly two-hour sessions being able to lead multi-day workshops in English. Thank you! I recommend Alexander Harmsen to anyone who quickly needs to up their English for high-level professional or political communication. There is no one better!”

Leadership Coach & Senior Trainer, International Training Provider, Switzerland

Thilo Krah-Tomala

"I highly recommend Alexander Harmsen’s communication focused sales training for all serious high-level sales professionals.

I was interested when my then head of international sales offered a sales communication seminar. I went without a clear goal and with the hope that something new, something different (and better) than the usual sales training would happen. I was positively surprised and my hope was fulfilled. This wasn’t the usual, and I have attended many, surface focused ‘sales tips’ seminar. Instead, the ideal I have of myself as a salesman and the profession as a whole was strengthened and expanded. Alexander’s seminar focused on sustainable human sales relationships.

I left with tools and a strengthened awareness for seeing and treating the customers and ourselves as eye-level partners in a shared process rather than reducing them to an ‘outlet,’ or buyer. We experienced and trained powerful ways of understanding and positively influencing the how and whys of my and my customer’s behavior and needs throughout the sales process. Ways that help me and my customers and business partners feel more at ease and more motivated to reach our individual goals working together. Ways that I continue to use and expand.

I very much enjoyed the climate in the working group. Alexander managed to get a group of key account managers active in different sectors feel that they were doing something together and not just being present. He respected every question and detour and got through all the material without sacrificing time or quality. I felt very engaged and involved the whole time.

Everything I trained, such as really understand the conversation partner, applies to my success as a salesman, and to my new role discussing and negotiating business partnerships. The communication tools I learned help me connect to others and establish the trust to stay connected. They are especially helpful outside my home culture, such as in Asia.

From a professional perspective, I was delighted that it became clear in the training that selling is not just ‘selling,’ but that it is an art and science of relationships and cooperation. Many salespeople, unfortunately, do not realize this and only see the number behind the customer. "