Successful career transitions

After Moving Countries For Switching Professional Fields After Career Breaks or Personal Transitions

Our Services

We provide guidance to individuals making conscious career decisions during change processes, and support employers and institutions in developing appealing offers for international employees and their families.

Talent Interlock Training-and-workshops

Career Development Training

Dual career workshops, career development training and webinars to provide learning and skill-building opportunities for individuals

Talent Interlock Coaching

Coaching

Career and life coaching to identify and achieve personal and professional goals

Talent Interlock Consultancy

Consultancy

Consulting in talent attraction and equal opportunities

Talent Interlock Moderation

Moderation and Speaking

Career events and speaking engagements with focus on (academic) career transition and international talent attraction

Talent Interlock Other-services

Other Services

Sounding board for topics such as diversity and inclusiveness in the workplace, equal opportunities and talent attraction. Pick our brains!

Talent Interlock Lea Sophie Suhr

About Lea Sophie Suhr

Co-founder and Trainer

Lea focuses her work on supporting highly qualified women in making their next career step – by running dual career workshops for public institutions like universities as well as by working on equal career opportunities for female talents, specifically in the academic field.

Talent Interlock Lea Sophie Suhr
Talent Interlock Nicole Wedell Von Leupoldt_1C8A9927
Talent Interlock Nicole Wedell Von Leupoldt_1C8A9927

About Nicole Wedell-von Leupoldt

Co-founder and Trainer

Nicole works at the Career Center of the university of Leuven, Belgium as a liaison external labour market, where she aims to connect the non-academic labour market with PhDs and postdocs. In this role, she gives trainings on a number of topics and organizes various career networking events and programmes.

News & Resources

What is ‘DCC’? – Some Thoughts and Questions on the Catchy Term “Dual Career”

“Dual career support” – while for some a familiar term, others might ask: What exactly do you mean by that? To clarify the meaning of “dual career” and “dual career couples” (DCC), we spoke with Dr. Alessandra Rusconi, who works as a Scientific Research Coordinator at...

Is Dream Job a Possibility or a Fiction?

Guest article by Michaela Ray de Witters More than ever before, people struggle with finding their dream job. Merely working and paying bills, isn’t enough. In many countries it would be considered a luxury, but in Belgium, it is a real problem. Some people expect a...

Thank You for Being a Friend …. The Rewards of Having Both International and Local Connections.

If you are one of the lucky ones, you still have those same friends that you met during your childhood years.  The ones that you still see on a regular basis.  These people have become an extension of your family. For some (myself included), we left our childhood home...

Companies & People We’ve Worked With

“I recommend the service to anyone who is serious about establishing a welcoming culture for international professionals!”

Stephan Schäfer
Welcome Service Stadt Aachen

Lea and Nicole have always felt as part of our team rather than external service providers. They took the time to really learn what our needs are and proactively made suggestions on what would work for our organisation and audience, developed programs accordingly, but were equally honest in sharing what didn’t or wouldn’t work. As coordinator I’ve always felt comfortable completely handing a project over to them. I know I can rely on the job being done as agreed (and beyond).

Natalie De Filette

International House Leuven

We love the welcoming and open atmosphere that Lea, Nicole and the other trainers manage to create in the sessions every year and time and time again we hear nothing but praise from the participants.
For KU Leuven, this program is certainly an added value in our efforts to help international researchers integrate in Belgium together with their families and we highly recommend it to other companies who value the wellbeing of their international employees.

Caroline Gilbert

University of Leuven

Lea and Nicole understood our goals and needs and were able to give us valuable support in designing our offers. The fact that they were able to get all the relevant information for the three labour markets of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands in one go was extraordinary. Apart from their professionalism, what impressed me most was that the two of them put their heart and soul into their work and do not see it as just another job, but want to help people/customers achieve their goals.

Stephan Schäfer

Welcome Service Stadt Aachen