Ilan Wolffberg
American psychologist. Master of Management Science.
Ilan started his career as a psychology instructor at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. He subsequently moved to Europe and worked as an Outward Bound instructor in the UK, after which he introduced and represented Outward Bound outdoor leadership training in Denmark. He then worked for five years as an industrial psychologist for the Danish Technological Institute, working with general leadership training as well as with quality circles, on which he wrote two books.
In 1990 Ilan established Scandinavian Team Training (now Wolffberg Human Resource Development). He was a pioneer in the teaching of teamwork in Denmark, using new teambuilding techniques and experiential training.
Ilan has carried out teaching and training activities throughout Europe and in the USA. His focus has been on teaching leadership and creativity to managers and on making teams function better. He teaches managers how to make their own teams work better, and he works directly with teams to optimize collaboration. One of his particular specialties is the training of product development teams.
Ilan has worked with managers and industrial project teams in USA, Denmark, Sweden, England, France, Germany, Spain, Greece, Belgium and Hungary, see the above list of selected clients.
In 2005 Ilan became a certified Gestalt therapist, specialising in couples’ therapy. He uses the intellectual framework from Gestalt theory in his HR and industrial training, to focus on raising awareness of the issue at hand, bringing the problem into focus, and working on behaviours and problems in the here and now.
Ruth Wolffberg
Danish/UK business woman. Master of Law from the University of Copenhagen. Ruth has studied at The London Business School. She also has a Bachelor’s degree in English.
Ruth is an accomplished business manager and consultant with over 30 years’ experience. She started her first business, a successful foreign language copywriting shop in Copenhagen, Denmark, when she was 21. Most of the major Danish companies were clients, including Bang & Olufsen and Royal Copenhagen Porcelain.
In 1986 Ruth co-founded Ravensbeck, a strategic consulting and venture company in London, UK. She has consulted to large UK and international companies on projects ranging from strategic evaluation of a company’s core business and possible acquisitions, to detailed issue analysis of specific problems and project management. Consulting clients included Woolworth Holdings, Autoglass, PepsiCo, Glass South Africa, AGB (now AGB Nielsen) and The Walt Disney Company.
Startups which Ruth has helped grow include Pret A Manger, the foremost chain of sandwich shops in the UK, and Right Information Systems, the developer of 4Thought, a powerful neural network software program.
Ruth was the Managing Director of Ravensbeck from 1986 to 2006. In 2006 she set up a specialist segmentation company called Clusters, of which she was Chairman from 2006 to 2012 (www.clusters.uk.com). Ruth joined Wolffberg Human Resource Development in 2010.
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