We are living in a world of rapid change and many of us just can't keep up with the pace. The transformation we went through during the last 50 years was amazing and if somebody would have predicted this development back then, absolutely nobody would have believed it!

We went from the industrial age to the post industrial age and now we are told that we already are in the information age. What does it mean to you? Nobody can really tell but for many people it just means losing their jobs not knowing what to do.

On the other hand corporations are constantly aligning their businesses in order to deal with the fast changing challenges often seeing only that they are forced to downsize or outsource by ultimately reducing the number of their employees.

Why is all this happening? Well, it happens because we are trying to solve today's challenges with yesterday's methods. Or to give you a metaphor it's like trying to solve a software problem with a hammer!

Now imagine that instead seeing it as a threat this well might be the opportunity of a lifetime for you! How about that?

Imagine that there is a much better way to handle our problems, an enlightened way to grow bigger than any problem we might encounter.

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it!" said Albert Einstein and he was right.

Imagine learning how to personally grow, learning the power behind accepting your responsibility for your life by understanding that you literally create your life.

Imagine corporate leaders understanding their responsibility for their people helping them to embrace life by providing them with the education needed. Imagine what a turnaround this would be!

Walter H. Groth
Institute for Life and Career Transition

Walter H Groth

In July 2004 Walter Groth founded the Institute for Life and Career Transition with offices in Laguna Beach and Munich, following his extensive experience in large international corporations of 26 years as a manager and leader in different countries such as Germany, Mexico and the United States.

He specializes in Teaching and Coaching Business Owners and their Leadership Teams in the Power of true Caring Leadership and Personal Development, and how to leverage this with down to earth steps and actions to take to become an expert in business and leadership situations. He believes in Leadership being the ability to get the individuals of your team aligned and act “like one” towards a common vision. When a team of dedicated individuals makes the commitment to act “like one”, only the sky is the limit.

Walter Groth has a proven experience in industries such as Banking, Thermo Technology, and Automotive where he held a number of leadership positions during his 26-year long career in large international corporations, mainly working for Volkswagen HQ in different countries such as Mexico, Germany, and United States.

During his years as a leader at Volkswagen HQ in different assignments and different countries he became aware that people, culture and leadership are the issues of utmost importance, being the decisive factors of success. Walter Groth decided to dedicate his life, his skills and all his abilities to those people, those leaders who believe that now the time has come to truly change our way of doing business, and changing the outlook to a bright and promising future. He believes in the right people at the right place and that these superior “ingredients” are the diamonds just waiting to be polished and converted into beautiful and precious gem stones. This is what Leadership is all about.

Walter Groth speaks fluently German, English and Spanish, and has an unmatched insight into the Power of Leadership and how to leverage it for Growth.