Gunnar Brückner Gunnar Brückner is a Leader, Coach, Consultant, Strategist, Expert and Interim Manager who specializes in capacity building, organizational learning and staff development in a global, multicultural context. He assists companies to boost their learning culture, to optimize their learning processes and to support teams and individuals to bring out the best in them by selecting interventions as needed at varying levels, namely individual, group, organization. Gunnar Brückner is the former Chief Learning Officer of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where he successfully fostered the development of more than 5000 staff in over 135 countries. As a Line Manager he has selected and contracted corporate coaches, he has been coached, and of course he has coached others for many years himself. Over time, he has become a combination of Learning Strategist at the organizational level and hands-on Learning Coach or Trainer at group and individual level. His clients include many UN Organizations like WFP, UNDGO, WHO, UNODC, ICC, UNDP, and UNSSC as well as other Development Organizations, such as GTZ, InWEnt, Global Fund, GAIN, SNV, and CARE USA. Whether in the context of competency-based career development, career change, relocation, or simply striving for job effectiveness and high performance, Gunnar Brückner’s experience will help you finding solutions. As an Action-Learning Team Coach and Executive Coach for leaders worldwide, he is particularly known for being gender-aware and for being a motivating Learning Coach, helping clients identify their true problems and then, helping them to learn smarter and with the right resources in a blended learning approach in order to reach their goals more expediently. Throughout his professional career he has also designed and delivered management development, intercultural training and coaching programmes for corporate clients (Delphi Electronics, DHL, Scanditronix, Affinion International and Covance). Gunnar Brückner is a relentless advocate for and creator of blended learning scenarios, including elearning and he specializes in unleashing the potential of informal, just-in-time, and on-demand learning opportunities worldwide. He is top class with combining synchronous and asynchronous online coaching. Using a proprietary collaboration software that he has been developing together with a small group of staff after leaving the UN, he usually offers the essential online support for the creation of a learning process/context as an add-on service to many of his clients or to communities of practice supported by him. Gunnar Bruckner’s approach is shaped by more than 17 years practical experience in a multi-cultural and global context. His vita includes extended assignments in the Americas and Africa, in countries as diverse as Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, USA, Angola and a few others. He is proficient in German, English, Spanish, Portuguese and conversant in French.