A Change of Focus:
From Business Advisor to Writer and Storyteller
After offering management consulting services and advice since the beginning of 2000, time has come for a change.
You may not have known, all along, during my international business career, I pursued a secondary calling as writer and storyteller, albeit in a “low-key’ fashion. I have now made this my new focus.
Starting in my high school years, I wrote occasional news articles for daily newspapers and monthly publications in English, French and German; as well as poems that were published in a literary magazine.
During my business studies at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, the student association elected me editor of its monthly magazine “prisma”. The highlight was a special edition on the occasion of the inauguration of the new campus which combined modern architecture by Walter Förderer and art by world famous artists such as Alexander Calder, Jean Arp, Joan Miró and Alberto Giacometti.
Later, I reviewed draft professional translations from German to English of two Structogram® textbooks, and adapted them to be easily understood by North American readers. I could do this “localization” because I was familiar with the topics and their specialized terminology in both languages.
More recently, I have been researching and assembling draft elements for my personal memoirs and for a book of vignettes about the many extraordinary persons I have had the privilege of encountering over the years. Many of these real stories will be more astounding than fiction; such as a senior political figure surviving execution by firing squads, twice!
To start a conversation, call me at 226-770-3546, or call/text 416-575-4735 (mobile), or email andreas@andreashugconsulting.com
I am looking forward to it.