My Way to Vancouver I - Leaving the company

Now, it is July 2010 and my Vancouver experience is starting in about a week. Time to look back over the last months and how the adventure begun. About a year ago in July 2009, first rumors arise that my company has to lay off employees due to the tough economic situation. At this time, I was as the Global Operations Manager of the companys training business - a great experience for me and I liked this job very much. However, I did not see a perspective for me within the company in the long term perspective. Consequently, there was only one way: leaving the company and looking for something new. After seven years within Siemens I decided to complete MBA because that would give me the time for self reflection, to network in an intercultural environment and to improve my business knowledge. With this I have hoped to get a perfect basis to succeed in my future commitments.

My MBA project in mind, I started negotiating the termination conditions with my boss. Finally, we agreed on a date 9 month later in May 2010 combined with a severance package. Perfect for me as I were able to work some more month while in parallel could apply for the MBA.