Thomas Baumer

Thomas Baumer (* May 29, 1960 in Fribourg ( Switzerland ) ) is a Swiss business economist and expert on intercultural competence and personality assessment. He developed areas of the prognostic assessments in aptitude testing and coined this term, particularly in German-speaking countries.

Life

Thomas Baumer is a son of speech and religion scientist Iso Baumer. He attended the Jesuit school Stella Matutina and studied Business Administration at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He is married and has one son.

From 1986 to 1999 he worked at the former Swiss airline Swissair, most recently as Division Manager at Swissair Training Center ( recruiting pilots and members of management with Swissair and other companies, education and training of pilots and flight attendants, Human Aspects Development ). He is the founder and director of the Institute CICB Center of Intercultural Competence AG, which was founded in 2000 and since 2010, expanded the range CACB Center for assessment and coaching, is run as a joint stock company.

Baumer conducts research and organizes courses, preparation for missions abroad and so far over 500 assessments and coaching sessions (with or without a specific focus on intercultural competence). He developed and shaped key aspects of prognostic assessments, the application of which, in extension of the findings of well-known assessment methods ( aptitude tests, assessment centers ) as well as the potential analysis, a precise and verifiable testimony not only to existing abilities of humans and its potential, but also to achievable goals, with the necessary framework and the needed for this period, allows.

Works (selection)

  • Manual Intercultural Competence, Volume 1; Publisher Orell Füssli, Zurich; , 2002. ISBN 3-280-02691-1
  • Manual Intercultural Competence, Volume 2; Publisher Orell Füssli, Zurich; , 2004. ISBN 3-280-05081-2
  • Prognostic Assessment. Anticipate skills and personal development; HRM file; SPEKTRAmedia Verlag, Zurich; , 2013. ISBN 978-3-908244-94-3
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