Business Consulting & Coaching
Find a way to clarify your objectives, develop an orderly approach to achieving your plan, and make a practical plan for establishing your law office, your business, or your career as an independent professional in Germany.
Vera Zambrano provides business consulting in Berlin for anyone who is interested in starting their own business or establishing themselves in practice with a clearer perspective. This specific consulting service will focus on your present position, what your business model will be, and what choices are crucial to make at this point of the development of your professional life.
The consultation service encompasses customized consulting and permanent 1:1 coaching. You will be provided with a safe environment to ask all the questions concerning your business idea, priorities, and steps to be taken. The geography of your plans can be either local, national, or international.
Who We Work With
The startup consulting program helps people who are no longer content with just accumulating ideas but would like to start concretizing them. It helps those who are designing, starting, or developing a business, law firm, or self-employment. English speakers in search of a business coach in Berlin can turn to this service, as it gives professional advice based on the experience of a lawyer, a law firm owner, and an entrepreneur.
Either you are a recent graduate or an almost graduated student looking for opportunities outside the “traditional” employment. This program allows you to find a correspondence between your skills, ambitions, and a viable business idea and then work toward becoming self-employed in Germany.
Whether you started thinking about a startup, toiled processing first steps, or hoped for a reset after heavy launching, startup consulting looks at your offering, clients, obligations, and next steps in terms of a realistic business model.
Your desire is to create your own law firm, though there are some points. You want to be more educated in the areas of positioning, practice development, organization, and responsibility. Law firm coaching ensures that you can utilize the process of gaining first-hand experience of its founder, assisted with a detailed review of your current professional situation.
You are already working as a lawyer and are thinking about independent practice. Coaching can help you with providing the answers to the questions of your career goals and personal expectations, as well as reviewing your possibilities for becoming an independent practitioner.
You are coming from another industry and are going to start your own business. Individual startup coaching can help you clarify your offer, determine possible clients, and create a detailed action plan.
Your business may already be underway, but perhaps you would like to gain stronger footing on some parts of your business, or you simply would like to get a new outlook for your business. Founder coaching provides you with an opportunity to put your thoughts in order and pay attention to different aspects of your operations to devise the next steps in your entrepreneurial journey.
Common Starting Points
The reason many projects happen to fail is the presence of too many open issues and no clear order of priority or a plan that is unsuitable for the situation in question. The combination of strategic business consulting with individual coaching creates a framework where problems of this nature can be dealt with effectively.
You know that you want to be self-employed, but you don’t know how to start. During consultations, general business objectives and necessary steps and actions are developed to begin with a better understanding of the starting point.
Approach: A structured startup scheme with definite priorities and reasonable actions.
It is possible that you are looking for numerous services, audiences, or business models at the same time. Consultation enables you to come up with some objective criteria for choosing a path and also defining your positioning clearly so that prospective clients can understand what exactly you propose.
Approach: Your offer becomes more consistent and distinctive, with the target audience being absolutely clear.
You have a desire to start your own law practice, but you still have a number of important questions regarding the profile of your business, your audience, the organization of your work, and the functions that you will need to perform. Law firm coaching helps you understand these issues according to their importance to your particular case.
Approach: A law firm that describes your specialization, working style, and aims.
There are many necessary tasks to be performed, but they are often unfinished, while important decisions remain pending due to urgent work. Business coaching encourages you to understand better the tasks at hand and their priority level.
Approach: A well-planned action strategy with clear working steps.
You might find yourself in the position of having to make a choice regarding various services, specialties, targeted markets, alliances, or strategies to extend a business. Business consulting methodically allows for understanding the impact of each choice, the amount of resources involved, and how each route fits into overall goals.
Approach: Making a well-informed choice in line with your priorities, needs, and resources available.
Although you are eager to promote your business regionally and internationally, you still need to be more aware of the sequence of decisions in the area of targeted markets, services, communications, and organizational matters. International business consulting sees your case in an international context.
Approach: A well-structured business strategy that builds a solid ground for upcoming market expansion.
Value of the Consultation
During the consultation, you can discuss your project with an expert, verify your ideas, and organize important decisions in an actionable way. Clarifying, organizing, and ensuring that your business project ties in with your personal and professional goals is a priority.
You create a more realistic vision of the kind of self-employment, law firm, or enterprise you want to establish and what guidelines you should abide by in the future.
General ideas get turned into an actionable plan with a series of priorities, reasonable sequence, and tasks that make sense in both professional and personal contexts.
All conversations start from your particular situation, not from a pre-defined coaching model. Such an approach allows for a deeper treatment of your specific issues, blockers, and decisions than a typical business seminar would offer.
Practical knowledge is gained based on experience gathered while establishing a law firm and creating a practice internationally oriented. This knowledge is applied appropriately and not based on the assumption that each business does the same thing.
Regular business coaching allows establishing benchmarks upon which the progress can be assessed. The completed tasks, unresolved issues, and new decisions can be raised in this respect.
Apart from setting up a business in Germany, the clients can discuss the positioning issue during the consultations, organization, business development, expansion, and international orientation, only in case these fields are included in the agreed coaching scope.
Consultation Fees
The service page currently provides set prices for the coaching session on a trial basis and for subsequent monthly coaching that can be provided. The prices are quoted in euros and do not include the 19% VAT that applies in Germany.
Starting Point
During this focused 60-minute session, we will be discussing your personal situation, your career goals, and the main issues regarding your business, self-employment, and law firm.
Working Approach
The consultation provides a unique complement of the knowledge of a founder, the lawyer’s analytical approach, and practical improvement experience. Consequently, the work is focused on your project, the decisions you need to take, and the tasks that require your attention.
The consultation process takes into account your professional experience, business model, current circumstances, and objectives. As a result, the meeting focuses on issues that are relevant and essential for your project.
The approach is based on not only the theoretical principles of business consulting but also on the practical experience of running a law firm and establishing an international practice.
Young or newly qualified lawyers as well as qualified and experienced attorneys and founders of law firms work in the environment that is characterized by its own organizational and commercial difficulties. Business development coaching for lawyers is able to take these specificities into consideration in terms of providing advice on positioning and the firm’s organization as well as career planning.
The goals, problems, and options yet to be decided are discussed in simple and straightforward language. Each meeting allows a person to analyze his/her situation and leave with a clear understanding of what should be done next.
The international law company’s headquarters are in Germany’s capital, Berlin, which enables the company’s specialists to communicate in various languages. This is of great benefit to you if you are considering making your business international or cooperating with customers and partners in other countries.
Once the first meeting is over, you will be able to proceed with the process of individual or group business coaching sessions. Thanks to this, you will be able to approach business issues with the help of your coach over a longer period of time which will allow some problems be solved as the coaching session will not be limited in time.
Your Business Consultant
You are working with the founder, owner of the Vera Zambrano & Associates law firm and Vera Zambrano. Her approach is characterized by entrepreneurial experience, analysis, and effective communication.
Vera Zambrano
Vera Zambrano opened her first law office in Berlin at 28 years old and gradually made it an international practice. In addition to being a lawyer, she was a lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. Nowadays, she runs an international law practice that has connections with Germany and the USA.
The counseling business is very relevant for university graduates, startup founders, and young or working lawyers who would like to set up their law firms, companies, or independent businesses. The coaching is not based on a single model of success but rather focuses on your situation, professional goal, and what business decisions must be taken.
Evaluate experience in setting up a law office and progressing within an international professional context.
A system for scrutinizing complex issues, professional focus, and possible actions to take.
Individual conversations are construed to put emphasis on focus, decisions, and the next possible steps.
Know-how in handling international affairs wherein customers are from borderless locations and communication is done in various languages.
The business consultation involves your aims and ambitions, present professional status, and some practical aspects of starting or developing your own business. The topics of the consultation will depend on your needs and may cover topics such as positioning, target market, services, organization, priorities, implementation, and the international business sphere.
This service is mostly meant for graduates, young lawyers, people who open their startups, working lawyers, and people who decided to change their profession or career. The main requirement is that you have some goal that you are planning to achieve.
Yes, starting your own legal business is one of the situations covered by this service. The law firm coaching services can include positioning as a professional, scope of practice, specific target clients, organization, prioritizing the business process, and the transition from employment to running your own practice.
Startup consulting involves the initial planning and organization for the business venture. The role of business coaching might begin after the formation stage in order to provide further support in making the right decisions and monitoring progress, in addition to the choice of working techniques and development plans.
The introductory coaching session lasts for sixty minutes, during which the coach makes inquiries regarding your background, plans, and unresolved issues. The priorities and possible next steps are determined. The participant will be able to understand whether continuing with the coaching package is suitable for him/her.
The charge for the introductory coaching session (60 minutes) is EUR 550.00 exclusive of 19% of German VAT. The service page lists the prices for the weekly individual or group coaching sessions for at least five participants.
Not really; it is still possible to conduct the consultation with the unfinished business idea. However, it is advisable to write down a short description of your current situation, goals, certain services that you want to offer, and the most crucial unanswered questions before the meeting.
The answer is yes. It applies to freelancers and people starting their businesses. The consultation can help to improve their professional image and apply to their business aspects, such as positioning, priorities, next stages of development, etc.
The law company provides international service, so consultations can be held via the video link. The format of the meeting is determined at the moment of scheduling it.
The precise nature of the service is agreed on prior to the start of the consultation process. It should be noted that business coaching concentrates on such issues as the entrepreneur's objectives, planning, decision-making, and execution. If legal review, drafting contracts, representation, or other more specific legal services are required, that must be explicitly agreed on beforehand.
The coaching can involve designing a business with a national or international orientation. However, legal, tax, regulatory, immigration, or any other specific issue will depend upon the actual project and will not become a part of ordinary business coaching otherwise.
First of all, you need to write down your key objective, what position you are in, the three most important questions yet to be solved, and the problems you are experiencing now. If you have any business plan, service concept, website, or positioning document, summarize the necessary points beforehand.
Your Next Step
This opportunity is available for those planning to launch their own law office, engage in business in Germany, or change the current direction of their independent practice, among other similar possibilities. Simply describe your situation and the project you would like to implement so that the coaching session may be arranged.
