Dr. Danae Perez

Organizational Development | Communication | Change Management

Danae is a versatile communications expert with extensive experience in the private sector, higher ed, and research. She has been working for clients and in training and teaching for two decades. At Anaphora, Danae develops leadership and operative units, supports them in team communication, quality assurance, and stakeholder management, and takes responsibility in interim positions, change management, and project communications. She also gives key notes on intercultural communication and process automation with AI. Her working languages are English, German, and Spanish.

Impressions of Danae

«I had the privilege of working with Danae Perez when she took over the interim management of project communications for the implementation of SAP S4/HANA at Flughafen Zürich AG from April to September 2024. Danae has demonstrated exceptional professionalism, strategic thinking and a high level of commitment in this role. Her main tasks included the creation of a comprehensive communication concept and internal stakeholder management. She managed to make complex topics accessible and appropriate for the target group, which was essential for the success of the project. She was always proactive, solution-oriented and created a basis of trust that was noticeable both within the project team and among internal stakeholders. Danae impresses not only with her professional expertise, but also with her authentic and empathetic nature. She has a natural ability to motivate teams, build bridges between different interests, and communicate a common goal clearly and convincingly. Her work not only had a direct positive impact on the project, but also on the culture and collaboration within the organization. I can fully recommend Danae Perez. She is an exceptional professional who enriches every project with her knowledge, creativity, and commitment. Every organization that works with her gains a highly competent and inspiring personality!»

Erestina Januzi, Head People Operations – Flughafen Zürich AG

«A lot has changed since Danae Perez joined drivemycar. On the one hand, Danae complements the Board of Directors with her strategic vision and broad experience in corporate development. On the other hand, she supports the operational business and drives important processes forward with her energy, acumen, and courage. In doing so, she motivates the team and impresses both customers and partners. Working with Danae is a great opportunity!»

Fadel Bouhouch, Founder & CEO – drivemycar AG

«The training with Danae Perez inspired our specialists and encouraged them to write ‹Reports for Externals› efficiently and with expert knowledge. Practical examples enabled valuable insights to be gained and internalized. Knowing what is important when writing reports gives confidence. This enabled us to deepen and strengthen our report writing skills. We greatly appreciate the collaboration and would be happy to take advantage of Anaphora’s expert support again.»

Daniel Schoch, Head of Residence – FARO Foundation

«I had the privilege 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.»

Nadia Neumayer, Senior Consultant – PwC

«We had an interesting, insightful workshop with Ms. Perez. Particularly the high practical relevance was highly appreciated by the participants.»

Michael Hofmeier, Head ICT – Flughafen Zürich AG

«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!»

Anna Zürcher, Head of Department – Canton of Thurgau

«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!»

Bilâl Tahris, CEO – ARTEK AG

«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.»

Ricardo Casanova, Leiter Baurealisation – Flughafen Zürich AG

«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!»

Tatjana Lambrinoudakis, Project Manager – Canton of Aargau

«I have high expectations of service providers, and every time I work with Anaphora, I am pleased by how fast Mauro Moretto understands our needs and manages to deliver the service I am looking for. Their commitment to excellent services gives me the trust I need to have in a reliable outsourcing partner.»

Galina Sato, CEO – Granite Group

«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.»

Dr. Siegrid Zwerger, Bildungsreferentin – Haus der Familie

«Thanks to the individual and practice-oriented set up and the content that focused on our needs, we were able to discuss and revise several issues. The content of the course was interesting and highly insightful. The program was engaging and diverse, well organized and of high quality. Danae Perez was eager to respond competently and individually to questions and concerns raised by each participant. The material we received was informative and concise. Ms. Perez is highly competent, highly committed, and convincing because of her extensive expertise. Her friendliness is energizing. 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.»

Hildegard Haas, Managing Director – Haas Coaching & Beratung

«Competent and professional advice across the board. A real added value for report writing. We are very satisfied!»

Oliver König, CEO – König Beratungen

«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.»

Arun Sondhi, Executive Director – HammersmithLondon

«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!»

Jacqueline Bachmann, Terra Vecchia

"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."

Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard, University of British Columbia

"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."

Dr. Sabrina Stallone, University of Bern

"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."

Marivic Lesho, Hypergiant

"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."

Kayleigh Karinen, International Coach and Consultant

"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."

Galina Sato, CEO – Granite Group

"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."

Lukas Amsler, Participant

"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!"

Mina Jakovljević, Participant

"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."

André Andermatt, Participant

"Ms. Perez transmitted a relaxed way of dealing with written reports. She has allowed me to rediscover the love of language - THANK YOU!"

Regina Hafen, Participant

"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."

Jonathan Kohli, Participant

"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!!"

Céline Kaufmann, Participant

"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."

Raphaël Räber, Participant

"Very instructive, informative, and useful seminar with a very competent speaker!"

Lena Lintner, Participant

"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!"

G. Plesse, Participant

"An excellent workshop focused on language and language use. It was very interesting, instructive, and fun. Thanks a lot!"

Sascha Stamm, Participant

"I can only recommend Ms. Perez. She gave the course with a lot of humor and versatility. It was very instructive and interesting."

Nivetha Vijayarajah, Participant

"Danae Perez conveys in-depth expertise in a practice-oriented, vivid, inspiring and extremely lively way; long-term effect guaranteed!"

Barbara Michel, Participant

"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."

Werner Heller, Participant

"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."

Yolanda Birrer, Participant

"From Danae Perez I learned: It takes practice to write short, crisp, to the point, informative, factual, fair, and truthfully written reports."

Gabriela Rufener, Participant

"Danae made the report writing workshop very appealing, particularly her energetic and cheerful nature, and she passed her knowledge on in a comprehensible way. The course was definitely worth attending! Thanks for the insights and inputs."

Sina Pugliese, Participant

"The course day was not only informative and witty, but also extremely helpful and well-structured. Thanks to the clear teaching of applicable writing techniques, I gained valuable insights that I can use immediately in my everyday routine. I particularly appreciate the varied content of the course, which made the day entertaining and exciting. I can definitely recommend this training, both for career starters and for experienced professionals who want to deepen their writing skills."

Romi Lüthold, Participant

"A very useful course for those who're writing reports in the social sector. Valuable tips for a simplified and more efficient writing. The highly competent instructor conveys the content in an interesting and “colorful” way. Time goes by far too quickly. I highly recommend the course. Thank you for the interesting day."

Patrizia K., Participant

"Ms. Dr. Danae Perez is a very competent specialist who can summarize and explain complex issues comprehensibly."

Gabriel Kleist, Participant

"The seminar sensitized me to value-free and linguistically correct report writing. The course instructor designed the day very professionally and with varied content. Time flew by. The many concrete examples and the course instructor's knowledge of the specifics of social work were helpful."

Elisabeth Luder, Participant

"Danae Perez conveyed to us a broad range of topics on writing reports in the social sector with enthusiasm and with a focus on practice. The course rooms further contributed to the consistently pleasant course atmosphere."

Cornelia Müller, Participant

"Dear Danae, thank you for the informative and instructive workshop day. I was able to benefit greatly from the seminar “Report Writing in Social Services” for my everyday work. Thanks for the tip about considering the time of day yourself. I now primarily write complex reports during my more productive time slots and have been able to increase my work efficiency as a result."

Ilion Berger, Participant

"Very exciting training on the topic of writing reports in work psychology. It was never boring and with many interesting examples. It will definitely help me with my next reports."

Christoph Häberli, Participant

"The course was fun and very helpful. Danae was able to get to the heart of what was relevant in labor integration reporting. Thanks to the low-threshold design with lots of examples, I will be able to implement what I have learned in my daily routine; actually, I already feel more confident in this regard :) Thank you very much!"

Marion Inhelder, Participant

"Today, I took a very instructive and comprehensible course on reports in social services. Ms. Perez led through the course in a goal-oriented and friendly manner. Really recommended."

Jessica Jänsch, Participant

"A lot of applicable knowledge imparted in one day. Clear structure and demarcation. Current topics were considered and included. Good course pace (fast). Good organization. Good group size. Got immediate, applicable added value from it (writing reports in a more efficient, structured and clear manner). Pleasant and very qualified instructor."

Daniel Zaberer, Participant

"The course design was interactive and engaging. I particularly liked the mix between humor and clarity. Critical questions were answered objectively and helpfully. You really noticed how important the topic was to her. This gave the otherwise rather dry content some fire."

Diego Lehner, Participant

"The "Professional Minute-Taking" training with Dr. Danae Perez was very enjoyable and extremely informative. Dr. Danae Perez addresses open questions and explains them with great precision. I would highly recommend Anaphora GmbH to any employer! Creating clear communication is always an advantage for any employer."

Alejandro Arias, Participant

"Our course was interesting. Helpful information in general, but also addressed specific questions and concerns. I especially liked the relaxed, friendly, and humorous style. Thank you very much!"

Phil Strunz, Participant

"I attended the seminar "Report Writing in Social Services" and was elated. Ms. Perez is very knowledgeable and it was an engaging seminar. I highly recommend it."

Tiziana Adessa, Participant

"I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the one-day seminar "Report Writing in Social Services." The seminar was very informative and engaging, and I gained many valuable insights for my work. I was particularly impressed by the instructor, Danae, who enriched the seminar with her expertise and lively way."

Antoni Dalic, Participant

"I attended Dr. Perez' IV report writing seminar today and was delighted with her program, both in terms of content and personality. Dr. Perez is very authentic, competent, and extremely nice. I could learn a lot and take home useful tips and tricks. Thank you so much for that. Highly recommended."

Iveta Bamerta, Participant

"The advanced training course "Report Writing in Labor Integration" was very interesting, didactically varied, and presented in an easily understandable way. The instructor is very competent and has many years of experience, which she conveys in a very engaging way. I can highly recommend the course."

Regula Hungerbühler, Participant

"I really enjoyed the seminar and gained many valuable insights. The combination of theoretical and practical elements made the seminar much more engaging for me. I was also able to bring some reports from my own practice to the seminar, which Dr. Perez then expertly reviewed. She gave me feedback, and we discussed possible improvements. This exchange was revealing in several ways. The seminar was helpful for me, and I definitely recommend it."

Vanessa Palumbo, Participant

Career

Experience

Private and Public Sectors

Danae has been providing communication services and consulting for corporate and public clients for two decades. In her work, she focuses on the people within the organization and develops solutions that lastingly enhance performance, such as smart templates and processes, and she develops teams and leadership. Danae’s versatility, experience, and understanding of technology provide her with an unusually comprehensive perspective.

International Experience

Danae is not only multilingual but also truly multicultural. She has lived in several cultures and knows the challenges of successful intercultural communication from different angles. Her multilingual skills and international experience help her understand needs, messages, and hurdles for her to develop respectful, viable solutions.

Teaching

Danae has broad teaching and training experience. She has 15 years of experience teaching students in higher education and today mostly works with specialists and leadership. She is a gifted facilitator of complex content and naturally captures even large audiences.

Publishing

Danae has extensive publishing experience as researcher, author, and editor. She has published over two dozen scientific publications in different formats, and she has worked for international publishers as an editorial assistant and editor. She knows the peer-review and publication processes from several perspectives and is familiar with different style conventions.

Science

Danae holds a PhD in linguistics and social anthropology. She specializes in multilingualism and the interplay of language and culture. Her research expertise constitutes the scientific backbone of her consulting and enables her to quickly understand, analyze, and resolve communicative challenges with precision. Thanks to her scientific activities, Danae has extensive experience in dealing with experts and a broad international network.

Employments

Since 2021 at Anaphora

At Anaphora, Danae advises and supports corporate and public clients in their internal and external communications and organizational development. She also gives keynotes in intercultural communication and process automation with AI, among other tasks.

2020 – 2024: ZHAW

Danae taught courses in linguistics and scientific methodology, and she trained students and professionals in academic and corporate communication in English and German. She developed the communication curricula for the BSc in Data Science at the School of Engineering.

2019 – 2020: Russell Reynolds Associates

As a research associate, Danae interviewed top candidates and conducted market studies in the financial sector together with local and international teams. Within the company, she also provided communication advisory and translations to colleagues.

2008 – 2019: University of Zurich

As a postdoctoral research fellow at the English Department, Danae conducted research on World and Creole Languages and taught courses in English linguistics, World Englishes, language contact, and linguistic typology. As part of her position, she also supervised final exams for future Highschool teachers (Lehramt Sek II). Prior to this assignment, Danae was a doctoral researcher and assistant and taught courses in Iberoromance linguistics, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics.