Sjaak van Vliet

Location: Germany
Language/s: Dutch, German, English
Sjaak has over 20 years’ influencing and negotiation experience and has been a leader within Europe working with many large organisations in both the public and private sectors.
A skilled negotiator, Sjaak offers advice on planning negotiation strategies and negotiation conduct. He also prepares negotiation teams and facilitates conflict resolution projects.
By profession a biologist, Sjaak began working as a scientist for the GTZ in West Africa. He then took on the role of Intercultural Management Consultant with an international NGO based in the Netherlands. As a Business Development Manager for Asia & the Pacific he was successful in expanding growth in the area and tripling revenue in 3 years time. During this period he worked intensively with senior public service managers in Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
He joined ENS in 1995 and started building up its activities in Germany, where ENS now enjoys wide coverage, especially in the pharmaceutical and health sector and in the information technology industry. He is currently based in Berlin and is Adjunct Professor for negotiation skills with the University of Potsdam.