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The IBC Team of Strategic Partners
IBC is proud to work with a select group of specialists
whose individual strengths support and complement our in-house capabilities. Here
are listed just a few of them:
Danny McGuigan was born in Belfast,
N. Ireland and educated both in Belfast and Glasgow,
Scotland.
He holds a number of graduate and postgraduate qualifications from Queens
University Belfast and MBA from the Strathclyde Graduate Business School in
Glasgow. He is currently researching part-time for his PhD in the Human Resource
Management Department at the latter university where he is also guest lecturer
in marketing and business growth. Having worked for Siemens and the British
Council in the early 1980’s he went to Glasgow for MBA studies and subsequently
took up a number of sales / marketing and general management positions in the UK
before setting up his own marketing consultancy. Fifteen years later Danny
switched consultancy discipline to Human Resources. He is currently Centre
Director of his thriving HR practice based in Glasgow and directs a team of
business consultants, psychologists and counseling therapists in Glasgow and
Munich. His team specializes in pressures at work auditing, leadership
development, teambuilding and organization culture change.

Herb Nestler is an American with a multicultural background who has
lived in Germany since
1988. Both his
parents were born in Europe. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Communications
from Northwestern University in the USA and has held executive positions with
Westinghouse Broadcasting and Rotary International. He has been on the faculties
of three US universities and two international studies programs in Europe.
While still living in the US he negotiated agreements and conducted business in
27 countries. He was the first European resident to be certified by the
non-profit Center for Creative Leadership to conduct their Working with Others
seminar. He has trained thousands of professionals on four continents from
Siemens, Daimler Chrysler, Körber AG, Audi, Goodyear Tire, Kurtz
GmbH, the city of Munich, Sartorius AG and VDMA, just to name a few, to
be more effective communicators, negotiators and managers. His special fields of
interest are effective business communications, leadership styles, teamworking,
diversity and integration aspects of globalization through merger and
acquisition.
