Senior public sector professionals
Ministries, agencies and municipal leadership across Germany and the EU. Often the first move outside the institution in fifteen or twenty years, and the first CV written since.
Senso Global Consulting
You have not lost your competence. You have lost the context that made it legible.
Advisory support for senior professionals in government, NGOs, INGOs and international development, at the exact moment a restructuring, an ended mandate or a funding decision changes the ground under your feet.
Working with individuals and organisations across Germany and the EU, in English and German.
Who this is for
People whose work was excellent, inside a structure that just moved.
Most of Claudia's clients did not fail at anything. A ministry reorganised, a programme lost its funding, an international mandate reached its end date, or a role that fitted for a decade stopped fitting. What they share is a body of experience that is deeply valuable and, for the moment, hard for outsiders to read.
NGO and INGO leaders
Country directors, programme heads and heads of function whose organisation is merging, shrinking or shifting its mandate, and who need their leadership to become visible outside their own sector.
International development and cooperation experts
Advisers, project leads and technical specialists whose portfolios ended with a funding cycle, returning to Europe or staying, and asking what the next chapter should be called.
Students and early career professionals are welcome too. A shorter engagement exists for exactly that stage.
How the work unfolds
Three movements, one climb.
Claudia's process follows the same shape every time, because the shape is what keeps difficult transitions from becoming chaotic ones.
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Orientation
A free thirty minute conversation. Where you are, what you have tried, what a good outcome would look like, and what it costs you to stay put. Mostly listening.
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Diagnosis
Together we name the actual problem. It is rarely the CV. It is usually the story around the CV, and the audience it was never written for.
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The work
A structured program of private sessions, documents and rehearsals, sized to your situation. Practical on the surface, personal underneath.
Programs
Three ways to work together.
Each program combines private sessions with concrete deliverables: your CV, your LinkedIn presence, your positioning and the conversations you will need to have. The difference between them is depth and duration.
Transition Clarity
For a focused reset when the direction is roughly clear and the materials are not.
ReadLeadership Repositioning
For a considered move across sectors or up a level, with a rebranding map to match.
ReadExecutive Presence and Transition
For senior leaders who need two audiences, a full positioning suite and a network plan.
ReadInvestment is discussed on the intro call, once Claudia understands your situation well enough to recommend one program rather than three.
In every sector I have worked in, academia, international business, development and cooperation, the deciding factor was never the system diagram. It was the people inside it.
Why Senso
Senso means to feel, to sense, to make sense. It is the name Claudia chose for a practice built on a simple conviction: that in a time when so much of professional life is being automated, the most valuable investment is in what makes us human. Her own path ran from a small town on Germany's western edge through Zimbabwe, South America, the European institutions and the study of conflict and negotiation. It taught her to think across disciplines, which turns out to be exactly what a career in transition needs.
Read Claudia's storyInsights
Notes from the middle of a transition.
Short, practical pieces on positioning, institutional careers and what actually changes when the institution does.
Rebuilding a professional network in Germany and the EU after years abroad
Returning after a long international posting means a network that has aged. Here is how to rebuild it without sending a single cold message.
Read the piece
An interdisciplinary career is not a detour
Claudia Bülbül on why a path through several disciplines and countries looks messy on paper and is, in practice, exactly what a transition needs.
Read the piece
After the mandate ends: five questions before your next role
For development and cooperation professionals whose programme has closed. Five questions to answer before applying anywhere, and one to stop asking.
Read the pieceA first conversation
Thirty minutes, nothing to prepare, nothing to pay.
The intro call is where we find out whether this is the right kind of support for where you are. You bring the situation as it is. Claudia brings twenty years of watching institutions change and the people inside them find their footing again.
Book your intro callCalls take place online, in English or German.