Carsten Alex

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Carsten Alex (* 1965 in Berlin ) is a German consultant and author .

Professional activities

Alex began his professional career as a post office clerk, became a business graduate, worked as a business manager controlling at Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart and later in Aschaffenburg as an authorized signatory of a Mercedes car dealership.

In 2000, Alex decided to take a two-year break and went on a 20-month trip around the world. After his return he managed to get back into management at DaimlerChrysler. Until March 2006 he was responsible for training sales after sales in the sales organization Germany of DaimlerChrysler AG.

In 2006 he took another long break of one and a half years. Carsten Alex wrote the book “Time to discover. Diary of a world traveler ”. The sequel appeared in 2007: “Der Auszeiter | From management to life - and back ”.

Alex has been living as an independent (business) consultant and coach in Berlin since 2006. His main topics are time-out and sabbatical advice as well as living and working in balance (work-life balance). He advocates that society regards time off as a natural part of professional life, because it is a way of maintaining performance and motivation, from which employees and employers benefit.

Media appearances

Alex was available to speak to print and online media (Focus, Handelsblatt, Chrismon) and gave interviews for television and radio (ZDF, WDR television, Deutschlandradio, rbb kulturradio).

Publications

  • Time to discover. Diary of a world traveler. alex verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-00-019487-8 .
  • The time-out | From management to life - and back. alex verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021376-2 .
  • Time out as an opportunity: helping your career with a sabbatical. Signum-Verlag, Seedorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-85436-407-8 .
  • The Daredevil. Taking time out from management - a journey of transformation. alex verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-9815631-2-2 .
  • The time-out myth. 98 questions, 104 answers. alex verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815631-8-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See http://menschenmitffekt.de/ueber-mich/berufliche-station
  2. ↑ See http://www.derauszeiter.de/autor.php
  3. ↑ See archived copy ( memento of the original from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.menschenmitendung.de
  4. ↑ Cf. http://menschenmitffekt.de/ueber-mich/berufliche-station and http://menschenmitffekt.de/ueber-mich/meine-philosophie
  5. ↑ See archive link ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aok-business.de
  6. ↑ focus.de
  7. ↑ handelsblatt.com
  8. ↑ Menschenmitffekt.de ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Menschenmitffekt.de
  9. ↑ Video time out from the job  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 25, 2014.
  10. ↑ wdr.de ( Memento from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ dradio.de
  12. ↑ kulturradio.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kulturradio.de  
personal data
SURNAME Alex, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German coach and time-out expert
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin