Travel with Tanja
Navigating Business Frontiers Where Horizons Expand
Some travelers follow guidebooks. I charted my own course. Life’s journey has taught me that the most rewarding paths are found in self-charted expeditions, not conventional maps.
I have always been an individual traveler – having a goal in mind, the destination, a plan to get there, the rough itinerary while not planning each detail. Settings might change or great opportunities arise that you would regret missing.
My journey spans EMEA, North America, and Latin America, refining my multilingual and multicultural toolkit to read international business landscapes with unique clarity.
I build bridges between strategy and execution, global vision and local implementation, and innovation and tradition. My travel stations range from multinationals and mid-sized companies to family-run businesses and start-ups.
My backpack carries expertise in sales, marketing, and product management across technical consumer goods, medical devices, and digital health solutions.
Three Expeditions That Shaped My Navigation Mastery
Traveling Through Roles
Every Business Function Is a Different Travel Style
My career expedition includes a deliberate choice of roles in product management, brand and marketing management, and sales management – all with an international scope.
Each role taught me a different navigation language – technical precision, creative storytelling, and persuasive execution through relationship building – creating a multilingual business fluency that bridges any functional divide to fuse into commercial excellence.
The most enriching part was connecting the dots and fusing these roles to develop business through commercial excellence along the whole value chain, developing a holistic view.
When I’m in sales, I always have product and brand in mind. When I’m in product or brand roles, I put myself in the shoes of sales. It’s not about either one or the other – it’s about being one without ignoring the other. It’s about developing business with an end-to-end vision.
This functional fluency became my foundation – enabling seamless collaboration across departments and creating holistic commercial strategies that align every piece of the business puzzle.
Traveling across Regions
Every Culture Has Its Own Business Rhythm
As a teenager, I was already fascinated by other cultures and languages, loving to discover countries and learn languages for deeper cultural immersion. I was lucky to integrate this passion into my professional journey. Diversity through cultures and languages remain one of my most inspirational sources.
My geographic expeditions started with France and Spain – childhood connections that shaped my path. I continued my journey to Southwestern Europe and then to North Africa and the Middle East, regions with captivating stories. The land of freedom called next – leaving Europe’s safe haven to conquer the US started with a three-month visa and ended with a two-year stay, adding diving as a great hobby.
I finally traveled extensively to Latin America – a plan I’d had since university. Such a contrasting region, geographically so close to the US but culturally so distant, adding Argentine Tango to my passion for cultural immersion.
Each region taught me essential navigation skills, for example high-context versus low-context cultures, approaches to hierarchy, personal relationships versus transactions, individualism versus collective importance, time management, risk openness in planning
This cultural kaleidoscope thinking became my superpower – reading any market’s invisible signals and adapting strategies that honor local wisdom while achieving global objectives.
Traveling Through Company Sizes
Size Determines Expedition Style, Not Destination
My organizational expeditions have taken me from well-mapped corporate territories with established base camps and clear pathways to startup wilderness adventures where you forge trails with limited supplies. Arriving at many organizations during storms of change or crossroads moments.
Corporate expeditions taught me to navigate with detailed maps, established supply chains, and coordinated team movements. Startup adventures showed me how to improvise with basic gear, find creative shortcuts, and move fast. Scale-up territories revealed the delicate art of building permanent camps while maintaining the explorer’s pioneering spirit.
While large companies offer specialized guide development and well-stocked supply stations, smaller ventures demand versatility – making you a navigator, supply manager, and team motivator all together. Sometimes a pioneering spirit clear paths that detailed planning cannot.
My expedition showed that leadership compass skills transcend expedition size – what matters is reading the terrain and adapting your navigation style.
I am equipped me to guide any organizational journey – whether you need a well-planned corporate expedition, the agility of a startup adventure, or the transformation leadership to navigate through organizational storms.
What This Means For You
From Consulting to Co-Expedition
My navigation philosophy combines multiple functional languages, diverse cultural signals, and organizational ecosystem fluency.
I read business challenges like a seasoned guide reads weather patterns, immersing completely in each environment. Where others see barriers, I see connection points guided by an end-to-end commercial vision.
I design and walk the path alongside you, navigating real-time challenges while adapting to your specific terrain and implementing pragmatically.
Because your expedition is too unique to follow someone else’s itinerary Your expedition deserves someone who creates maps and walks the path.
Ready to expand your horizons?
Let’s chart your course together.
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