Dr. Danae Perez
Communication | Organizational Development | Change Management
Danae is a versatile communications expert with an extraordinary affinity for language. She has been working for corporate, public, and private clients for two decades and solves even the most difficult communicative challenges with practical solutions. At Anaphora, Danae provides communications consulting, leads project communication, and supports clients in quality assurance, change management, and personnel development. Her working languages are English, German, and Spanish, and her vast experience ensures stakeholders stay engaged.
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Recent Articles by Dr. Danae Perez
Change Management – What for?
The key essence in change processes is acceptance. Acceptance helps the people adopt change and have it percolate the entire organization.
Multilingual Team Communication
Setting up functional team communication in multilingual teams is challenging. I recommend team and change leaders be aware of these challenges.
Ghost Writing
Ghost writing is a concept that often sparks debates. It’s usually perceived as a practice that lies on the brink of illegality. Few know what it really is.
Impressions of Dr. Danae Perez
"The report writing workshop was a true enrichment for the social workers of our office. Dr. Danae Perez discussed our reports individually. Her advice was very useful and is already being applied in practice. The workshop is highly recommended. Thank you!"
"We had an interesting, insightful workshop with Ms. Perez. Particularly the high practical relevance was highly appreciated by the participants."
"The follow-up of the course 'report writing for social workers' with Danae Perez was an enrichment for our consultants. She understood our organization well and adjusted her expert input to our internal templates. Astonishing, how refreshing an instruction to writing better can be!"
"Engineers and application writing. It is not an easy task to make this topic palatable to an engineer. Danae Perez managed to organize the training in such a way that everyone was motivated and got a lot out of it. Mrs. Perez was able to engage everyone with her liveliness and excellent preparation with hands-on examples. The results speak for themselves! Thank you."
"Ms. Perez conducted a seminar on the topic of “Writing Practices in Social Work” in our institution. The participants' feedback was excellent: “Thank you very much for this valuable contribution, I have rarely learned so much in such a short time during a training!” “Ms Perez is competent, friendly, lively, highly recommended!” We hope to win Ms. Perez over again as a speaker in our institution in the future."
"We full-heartedly recommend Ms. Perez! Thank you for the welcoming and cheerful atmosphere, it was fun and we will gladly book another workshop in the future."
"I experienced the participants as committed and interested. You did it exactly in accordance with our 'gusto' – lively, direct, committed. Thank you again. I am also confident that your suggestions and feedback will have long-lasting effects – I have already received a report for review by one of the participants who is on my team and – wow – she has excellently implemented what she had learned! So, Danae, thank you again and I will definitely recommend you on every opportunity I get!"
"Your friendly and motivating way of transmitting knowledge to a group is truly admirable. By means of many examples from practice that you include in your course and explain, the knowledge learned can be effectively by applied in everyday tasks. You take questions by course participants very seriously and respond their inquiries. You explain solutions and give examples on how to bring a complex topic to paper. Thanks to your courses, it becomes possible to meet the high demands of writing texts for administrative bodies. Thank you very much and all the best."
"A professional course in terms of content and didactics, which is ideally rounded off by Danae Perez' authentic presentation! As an interdisciplinary team, we used concrete examples to practice which criteria have a positive impact to support our participants and on the collaboration between everyone involved when writing reports. What I also appreciated was the specialist knowledge about the function of language and its possible effects. Thank you very much for the enriching course day!"
"As a craftsman, writing is not my favorite task. But Danae Perez managed to convey this topic with so much drive and energy that it was really a lot of fun. Thank you very much for your valuable and practical writing tips."
"Ms. Perez transmitted a relaxed way of dealing with written reports. She has allowed me to rediscover the love of language - THANK YOU!"
"Praising truly isn't my forte. So, here goes my praise for this particular case! The seminar given by D. Perez is among the best and most interesting courses out of all trainings, seminars, and workshops I have ever attended. Fresh, refreshing, convincing, encouraging, interesting, motivating, applicable, authentic, ... Whoever deals with texts, reports, protocols at work shouldn't miss the opportunity of benefitting from Danae Perez' expertise."
"Thanks to her humorous and congenial nature, Ms. Perez could transmit the content in an intelligible and clear way. For me personally, the training an enrichement!!"
"The other course participants and I were guided through the seminar on report writing in work integration with a wealth of practical experience and in-depth specialist knowledge. Ms. Perez' lively presentation and communication skills made the difference. Concrete and illustrative examples as well as revision and optimization suggestions during the course of the training rounded the inspiring seminar off. My report writing has improved already - among other things, my reports are now shorter without losing the core messages."
"Very instructive, informative, and useful seminar with a very competent speaker!"
"The course day with Danae was great. Danae is a true professional regarding rhetoric and German grammar. I received a lot of input for my job. The course was interesting, thrilling, entertaining, and at times also very funny. Thank you Danae!"
"An excellent workshop focused on language and language use. It was very interesting, instructive, and fun. Thanks a lot!"
"I can only recommend Ms. Perez. She gave the course with a lot of humor and versatility. It was very instructive and interesting."
"Danae Perez conveys in-depth expertise in a practice-oriented, vivid, inspiring and extremely lively way; long-term effect guaranteed!"
"Ms. Perez organized the two course parts very well and actively. She knows how to take participants on a journey of meaningful and appropriate writing. I would recommend Ms. Perez in every case . She says clearly to boil your idea or your note down to the point. Be concise, informative, succinct, and express yourself well to make every word count."
"Dear Danae, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart! You have taken an immense pressure off me. This reporting or report writing used to weigh heavily on my entire workday. But this sword of Damocles has vanished! Now I know how to write these reports in compliance with me and the client."
"I personally liked very much that Danae showed resp explained why things are the way they are, like 'modal verbs modify the verb'. As a participants, it became easier for me to understand and apply the knowledge. In addition, Danae's mental flexibility is impressive. Danae answers questions quickly or reformulates a sentence that needs improvement in no time."
"From Danae Perez I learned: It takes practice to write short, crisp, to the point, informative, factual, fair, and truthfully written reports."
"I have known Danae for many years, and we have worked together in different contexts. She is an outstandingly versatile communicator who knows how to address a demanding international audience in her speeches and in her texts. That’s why I wanted her to take care of the texts for our new website, which she wrote beautifully in two languages."
"Anaphora helped us formulate specific texts and identify client benefits in comparison to our competitors. This enabled us to convince our client more quickly of our services and ultimately win them. Thank you Dr. Danae Perez!"
"Danae completely understood the brief and fed back quicker than the timescale agreed. I would not hesitate to use her services again. Very professional and extremely easy to work with."
"Danae's teaching was energetic, unconventional and yet precise, knowledgeable, well-structured. As my thesis supervisor, she helped me make my work a little more like that, too, with concise, regular feedback and a constantly open mind. In the following years, when I was applying to MA programs and eventually PhD positions, Danae became one of my main mentors, who always generously shared her insight on the academic system and university career trajectories. A teacher and mentor of Danae's caliber is hard to come by and yet central to the forging of (academic) careers, and I would recommend her for pertinent positions in a heartbeat."
"I had the chance of being able to count on Anaphora’s services in various contexts, ranging from writing professional texts to receiving advisory services on communication strategies for complex topics and consulting on how to handle multi-lingual textual challenges. I have always been very grateful for Anaphora’s support, which was excellent in both timely delivery and quality. I have known Danae as a talented academic and highly skilled professional with strong client focus and entrepreneurial acumen. I would herewith like to express my sincere recommendation for Danae and Anaphora."
"After meeting with Danae Perez a few times, I felt compelled to share positive feedback. Danae's expertise and guidance on two of my academic works has been exceptional. From our very first meeting, Danae's knowledge and experience were evident, and her feedback proved invaluable to me as an aspiring researcher. Her suggestions and guidance significantly enhanced the quality of my work. I warmly recommend her and Anaphora's services to anyone needing academic editing and research guidance."
"I had to write a text at work under time pressure and asked Danae to polish my text. Danae structured the text and gave it a self-confident and competent tone. She knew exactly what to do and was very quick. I warmly recommend her experience."
"Danae is sharp, inquisitive, and an exceptionally clear writer and communicator who gets things done. She has a wealth of experience to draw on from both academia and the business world – research, data analysis, teaching, writing, editing, she does it all (and in several languages!). Danae is a true people person and a keen observer, with both a researcher’s ability to see the big picture and an editor’s eye for detail. With her cross-cultural expertise and deep understanding of how language works, she will surely be able to help you meet your communication goals."
"Danae is innovative, curious, and she challenges the field of linguistics by questioning old approaches and by bringing new ideas and solutions. She helps disentangle difficult questions as if it were something easy to do! She is passionate, trustworthy, highly competent, and she performs well in interdisciplinary research projects. Danae has published relevant and innovative articles on under-researched topics that brought new views to long-established approaches and methods. She is, without a doubt, an inspiration for the field of linguistics."
