Maren Baermann

Maren Baermann is an innovation consultant and trainer for Northeastern USA - as well as a post graduate student at the International Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State College (The State University of New York).

Maren’s passion for creativity stems from her experience in how it can unleash productive potentials when nourished in organisational contexts. She views the ability to innovate as any organization’s key not only to survival but also success. In spite of her full time study programme, Maren is also making time to help companies in northeastern USA innovate better.

Maren is currently on sabbatical to do her Master of Science in Creativity and Innovation at the Buffalo State College. Maren believes that a creative culture brings a lot more business value for an organisation than ‘mere’ ideas – which will form the core of her Master's degree thesis.

Maren has a M.S. in Psychology (RWTH Aachen, Germany), with focus on occupational psychology. She is a trained systemic consultant (Wiesloch Institute, Germany), a certified PRINCE 2 Practitioner and a Competent Toastmaster (CTM). She is fluent in German and English, speaks good French and basic Flemish.

Maren devised and initiated a communications strategy for a technical integration project at DHL, Brussels. She designed a learning centre for a Procter & Gamble plant according to learning-ergonomical standards as her master thesis. She won a case study contest tendered for students of IT, business and economical sciences. During her graduate studies at the RWTH Maren chaired the local branch of a student initiative (Market Team) for one year and conducted several projects with companies.

Maren founded a successful on-line/off-line social network in the expat-community of Brussels (near Erps-Kwerps). It yielded many inspiring conversations and connections, and a marriage between two members last year. Maren’s escape from any stress is music – writing and consuming it – and she enjoyed recording an unpublished CD with her favourite musician Arno in Bonn.

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