Silke Karte
Industrial Education Specialist (M.A.); studied at RWTH Aachen. Coach training completed. Over 15 years’ professional experience in personnel development, including several years as HR Manager in a medium‑sized company. For the past eight years in particular, focus on management diagnostics and leadership development as Senior Consultant and Project Manager in a consulting firm. Consulting for well‑known DAX companies.
Professional Career
Since 2024
CORNELIA TANZER – ASSESSMENT | DEVELOPMENT | TOOLS, Cologne
Head of Consulting / Senior Consultant
2017 – 2024
CORNELIA TANZER – ASSESSMENT | DEVELOPMENT | TOOLS, Cologne
Senior Consultant
2013 – 2017
Obermann Consulting GmbH, Cologne
Senior Consultant in the field of management diagnostics and development
2006 – 2013
Jäger + Schmitter Dialog, Cologne
HR Manager in a medium‑sized service company for dialogue marketing; focus: recruiting, training, development, labour law
2004 – 2005
Internationales Haus Sonnenberg, Sonnenberg
Freelance Trainer with emphasis on communication and presentation
Project Experience
- Individual assessments / management audits to support or secure staffing decisions and determine current standing
- Assessment procedures in the context of strategic realignment or as feedback instruments for top executives
- Group assessment centres / development centres for (emerging) leaders to determine standing and derive personnel development measures
- Design and implementation of recruitment and selection processes for large numbers of candidates
- Conception and implementation of performance‑management systems (interfaces: competency model, target agreements)
- Conducting personnel development interviews following potential or staffing assessment centres and deriving individual development measures
- Coaching interventions focusing on leadership and management
- Training with focus on leadership, AC moderation and interview conduction
- Moderation of leadership/team workshops and large‑group events
Academic Education / Further Education
- Degree in Industrial Education, Work, Industrial & Organisational Psychology and Sociology, RWTH Aachen – Magister Artium
- Integrative Coaching Training (Rauen Coaching)
- Certification in job‑related diagnostic suitability testing according to DIN 33430
