A stop at Freudenberg Sealing Technologies: A chat with President Matthew Chapman and his EA Agnes Spohn

093: Getting to know Agnes and Matthew: Matthew Chapman: President of Sales & Marketing, Automotive Sales https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-chapman-2397065 Matthew is a dynamic and trusted global sales and marketing executive with extensive experience in strategic planning, sales process development, global intercultural leadership, and sales execution. Confident, self-motivated, bi-lingual leader who is able to recognize cultural differences and resolve problems across cultures. Proficient at managing multiple complex projects and focused on building strong customer relationships to profitably grow both the top and bottom lines. Strong technical communicator proficient at delivering complex ideas in a clear manner with experience engaging and collaborating at executive management levels. Driven by a desire to continually grow, learn and motivate others using a management style that balances motivation with data driven results.   Agnes Spohn: EA to Matthew Chapman and Founder of FST Assistant Community https://www.linkedin.com/in/agnes-spohn-4b647b35 Agnes was born in Berlin where she also lived until 2013. Her background is hotel management and during that time she learned being a multitasking person and enjoyed working with different nationalities & humans. After many years in the hotel operations day to day business, she moved on to a Sales position in charge of the DACH region corporates and the entertainment industry. By planning her sales calls, she discovered the world of being a frequent traveler which helps her today planning business trips for her manager. Her network to the hotel industry is still huge and that helps a lot by planning meetings and negotiating contracts. Agnes moved to the South of Germany in 2013 working in Frankfurt in the financial industry. During that time, she was mainly in charge of planning investor meetings and roadshows as well as huge investor conferences in Frankfurt and Paris. After her parental leave she started with Freudenberg in 2018. Today, she combines a lot of her skills learned in the past to the daily business of being an Executive Assistant. She loves working with an international global based team and so it is no surprise that her manager is located in the US but Agnes is located close to Heidelberg.   Further links: Habit List: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/habit-list/id525102168 YearCompass: https://yearcompass.com/