
helps global companies implement their strategies across cultures. As consultant, coach and author John focuses on the influence of national culture on business.
From 1999 until 2002 John integrated cross-border business practices within Siemens AG in Munich and was engaged primarily in the post-acquisition integration of Westinghouse Power Corporation.
Prior to Siemens John was a senior consultant with the Institut für Interkulturelles Management in Bonn, Germany where he co-executed training programs preparing German managers for expatriate assignments in the United States.
Over the last seventeen years John has served companies such as Allianz, Alstom, Audi, Aventis, BASF, Bayer, Bertelsman, BMW, Bosch, DaimlerBenz, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, Hewlett Packard, Lufthansa, Merck, SAP, Siemens, ThyssenKrupp and Volkswagen.
Prior to his work in the private sector John Magee was a Member of the Professional Staff of the majority party Christian Democrats in the German Bundestag. From 1995 until 1999 he advised its leadership on issues of German-American relations.
John Magee, an American, studied History at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and Freie Universtität Berlin. John has lived and worked in Germany for over two decades. He divides his time between Bonn and Philadelphia.
Philadelphia. Early October. Indian Summer. The days are still long and warm. The foliage green and heavy. It will be a few more weeks before the landscape turns radiant yellow, orange, red, soft light brown. The transition of the seasons has me thinking of the past. It‘s Saturday and I leaf through the Philadelphia Inquirer [...]
Soon my base of operations will be Bonn and Philadelphia. Spending large blocks of time in the latter will allow me to be closer to my US-based clients. And I intend to broaden my offering beyond the German-American space. Input, ideas, suggestions are coming in from my network of contacts in the U.S.
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