GlobalAutoIndustry.com Partners with Global Synergies to Offer Executive Coaching to Automotive Executives

    TROY, Mich.--June 3, 2003--GlobalAutoIndustry.com and Global Synergies L.L.C. announced today that the two companies have joined in a partnership to provide international executive coaching to the global automotive community.
    Global Synergies, with Executive Coach Franz Neumeyer, is now one of GlobalAutoIndustry.com's premier Global Partners, featured on the GlobalAutoIndustry.com web site and in its monthly eJournals.
    "We are pleased to add Global Synergies to our growing roster of powerful companies providing international resources to the global auto community," said Ron Hesse, president and CEO of GlobalAutoIndustry.com. More than 65 percent of Fortune 1000 companies use executive coaches.
    "As companies globalize their workforces, they need executives capable of working effectively with other cultures and in work experiences that differ from corporate America," Hesse said. "With Global Synergies, we offer executives the kind of one-on-one international coaching they need to succeed in a global environment."
    Global Synergies will provide the speakers, materials and training tools for a series of GlobalAutoIndustry.com programs on executive coaching. Franz Neumeyer is a cross-cultural, global executive coach with more than 15 years senior management experience coupled with more than eight years coaching experience.
    GlobalAutoIndustry.com will market the programs through its website, monthly eJournals and hard-copy quarterly Journals to the global auto community.
    "The focus of GlobalAutoIndustry.com is to connect service providers like Global Synergies with senior management in the auto industry," Neumeyer said. "Unlike other global industries like the food, computer and financial industries, which have used executive coaching for years, coaching is relatively new to the auto industry."

    About Global Synergies

    Global Synergies' focus is integrating multicultural organizations in the global automotive industry with seminars, workshops, individual and team coaching using proven practices. This results-oriented approach helps corporations build global leaders and teams, assists cultural integration during acquisitions and helps develop a global vision and culture.

    About GlobalAutoIndustry.com

    GlobalAutoIndustry.com connects the worldwide auto supplier industry with the resources to effectively do business globally. Through the web site, www.GlobalAutoIndustry.com, auto supplier executives can find information, services and programs focused on doing business in the world's top automotive markets.
    Parent company, HCI Group Ltd., is based in Troy, Mich., with European headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    For more information contact Managing Editor Marsha Stopa at (248) 526-3312 or Mstopa@GlobalAutoIndustry.com.