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K>MOBIL 31 // KIRCHHOFF Group People: Leadership
Womanpower at KIRCHHOFF
r Throughout all functions and hierarchies, both national and international
Sabine Boehle, 41, married,
position: Marketing & Strategic
Planning
At KIRCHHOFF since: 2001
Motto: Carpe diem – and
always recognize even the
little good things in life.
Why she is at KIRCHHOFF:
Because it is the strongest
growing company I have ever
worked for and I am proud
to be a part of it.
Meaningful experiences:
Growing with each challenge
that has to be mastered and
knowing that the family
can be a great source of
strength.
Claudia Schaue, 32, single,
position: Head of Company
Communication FAUN Group
At KIRCHHOFF since: 1997
Motto: Always meet the
challenges of life with an
open attitude. Why she is at
KIRCHHOFF: FAUN gives me
the opportunity to make a
difference. Meaningful experiences:
Learning to swim
after having been thrown in
at the deep end every now
and again.
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Claudia Heutelbeck, 25,
single, position: Controller
Holding
At KIRCHHOFF since: 2005
Motto: There is nothing that
cannot be accomplished!
Why she is at KIRCHHOFF:
After doing an internship at
Volkswagen America I wrote
my thesis at KIRCHHOFF.
I was then offered a job I just
couldn’t refuse.
Meaningful experiences:
The close ties to my family
give me a lot of strength; the
experience I gained during
my year in the USA gave me
self-confidence.
Françoise Arnaud-Kieran, 49,
married, position: Human
Resources and Finance
Director
At KIRCHHOFF since: 1981
Motto: Always look at the
positive aspects of life.
Meaningful experiences:
From a private point of view:
the birth of my two children.
From a professional point of
view: having the ability to
develop the company and
see it grow, right from the
first day we started in Ireland
to the present time.
In a study titled “Men and women are almost
equal” the Cologne Institute for Economic Research
ascertained: “Women have caught up in
professional life.” Between 1960 and 2005 the proportion
of women employed rose from 38 to 45 %.
Nowadays an increasing number of married women
are professionally active – a fact that is far more
socially accepted now than it was thirty years ago.
Not only that – those of the “weaker” sex are more
highly qualified, which means they have better
opportunities on the job market and earn more
money.
Particularly in the qualified professions, the ladies
are rapidly catching up to their male counterparts.
Whereas in 1995 the percentage of professionally
active female academics was 34%, by 2005 the figure
had already reached 39%. At school the girls have
long since overtaken the boys. At university they
have already drawn level.
Alexandra Klein-Teske, 35,
married, position: Key Account
Manager
At KIRCHHOFF since: 2003
Motto: Never put off till
tomorrow what you can do
today!
Why she is at KIRCHHOFF:
Good working atmosphere,
a great deal of freedom to
make personal decisions and
work independently.
Meaningful experiences:
Passing my license as a
hot-air balloon pilot and
taking part in international
competitions.
Petra Knappstein, 37, single
parent, position: Key Account
Manager
At KIRCHHOFF since: 2001
Motto: Think positive!
Why she is at KIRCHHOFF:
Family-run business, global
thinking, teamwork
Meaningful experiences:
Giving birth to and raising
my daughter Anna; having
the unquestioning support of
my family.
It is meanwhile normal for young women to have
jobs – something that was not automatically true
for their mothers’ generation. The young ladies
are, however, not yet making the most of the good
results they achieved at school and their choice of
professions is often limited to the traditional ones,
which narrows their range of career opportunities.
Despite this, the number of women employed has
risen sharply over the last few decades – having a
job and following a career is something women do
as a matter of course these days. Particularly married
women are far more professionally active than
they used to be.
What is the current situation of well educated,
highly motivated women in the internationally
active KIRCHHOFF Group? Have we got “womanpower”?
The answer is, “Yes, we certainly have”
– throughout all functions and hierarchies of our
company Group, both at our headquarters in Germany
and in our overseas locations.