Hi readers and followers of my blog,
exactly 14 calender days ago I luckily walked through the “DOOR OF NO NO RETURN” into my “INDEPENDENCE” and thus left my highly exciting and successful traditional professional carreer as company employee proudly after almost exactly 4 decades behind me.
This does not mean at all, that I won´t continue to do highly professional work for companies but it just expresses that I will from now on offer all my know how, skills, professionality, experience, internationality, excellent global contact network and trustworthyness as services through my own consulting firm KFH IM & Consulting Services Ltda (https://kfhservices.com/) to my customers.
Thanks to my former employer VULKAN (https://www.vulkan.com/en/), for which I have been President of their brazilian subsidiary (Brazil | VULKAN Group) during the last 10 years until recently, and the terms of our seperation agreement, I could practically and perfectly prepare my new personal & professional future activities since the beginning of this year.
And I have used this valuable time properly for preparing the relaunch of my completely redesigned company opened originally 15 years ago in Recife, when I came back from Mexico to Brazil after 6 years as Managing Director for german automotive supplier companies there, my 2nd marriage and the birth of my 3rd son, as a pure Interim Management services provider.
On one hand I decided to enlarge the service portfolio of my company and incorporate lots of new services like go-to-market support, business development support, sales support, technology transfer support, supply chain analysis and optimisation support, mentoring and coaching and several other highly qualified services more.
But – for sure – Interim (General) Management for companies that need quick and effective help to get out of crisis situations, continues one of my classical services, which I have already successfully delivered to several well-known and recognized german industrial companies in Brazil during the period 2010-2014.
http://kfhservices.com
Shortly before my oficial retirement at VULKAN I followed the invitation of a handful of technology and market leading german industrial companies to – one after and totally independent of the other – visit their companies and factories in Germany for discussion and identification of fields of mutual interest and potential service requests from them to me, that may arise from this.
It was wonderful for me to meet personally with all these great professionals and personalities, in the majority the owners and/or CEO`s, and to exchange experiences and ideas with these fine people.
I am looking very optimistically now to most propably soon upcoming concrete agreements and contracts for me and my company as a result of these personal encounters.
Once again it confirmed – good results come out if the right people meet and talk to each other personally.
And I could take the beautiful opportunity to – once I was already over there in Germany – visit my sister, my wonderful two german sons and two former friends and colleagues from my Henkel Engineering Department times in the 90`s, which I had not seen again since more than 25 years.
Together with my sister Gudrun and her husband Herrmann
Together with my german sons (from left to right) Florian, Alexander and his lovely partner Anita
First meeting after 25 years of seperate ways with my friends and former Henkel Engineering Department colleagues Ralf Reifferscheidt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralf-reifferscheidt-72a03b31/) and Gerd Bösemann
In the meantime I have happily returned home to Vinhedo, São Paulo, and I am just waiting now for important decisions to be taken by my – hopefully! – future customers and business partners in Germany.
But – who really wonders about this? – I`m not just sitting around here without doing productive things.
I continue to develop my virtual community of followers in all social media further together with my friends from the excellent digital marketing agency Amplia (https://amplia.derybr.com.br/) which supports me and I participate rustlessly in important industry events, like f.e. the big South American mining industry exhibition EXPOSIBRAM 2024, where I have participated during the whole last week in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state.
The next big event where I will participate is the Rio Oil & Gas Exhibition which happens in two weeks in Rio de Janeiro.
And several other important events will follow afterwards, some of these with my active participation as exhibitor and panel speaker.
Because – as we all know and as the Rolling Stones sing so beautifully:
“Time waits for no one”:
And don`t worry. For sure I will keep all of You closely updated on all eventual important news!
Bye bye until the next time. Hope it won`t take me as long again as this time to write the next post in this blog.
And – last not least – like always, please give me Your feedback upon this post and do not hesitate to ask me, in case You have questions, comments or doubts.
Take care and enjoy the weekend!
