wolf kirsten
Wolf Kirsten is a social entrepreneur and Founder of International Health Consulting based in Tucson, Arizona and Hamburg, Germany. His consulting portfolio is truly global, advising companies on health and well-being strategies such as Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Siemens and SAP in many regions of the world. In addition, he has consulted the World Health Organization (WHO) on developing global guidelines for Healthy Workplaces. He also advised the governments of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Mongolia on the development of a national strategy and infrastructure for health promotion.
Mr. Kirsten is co-founder of the Global Centre for Healthy Workplaces (http://globalhealthyworkplace.org), which hosts the Global Healthy Workplace Awards each year as well as certifies enterprises as Healthy Workplaces. He also is the Past President of the International Association of Worksite Health Promotion (IAWHP) and serves on the boards of the International Institute for Health Promotion (IIHP) and the Healthcare Performance Management Institute. He has lectured and published extensively on the global aspects of health promotion and wellness including the book “Global Perspectives in Workplace Health Promotion” and benchmarking study “Winning Strategies in Global Workplace Health Promotion”.
Mr. Kirsten received his Master of Science in Health Promotion Management from American University in Washington, DC. He is a German native and lived many years abroad (United States, England, Brazil and China).
our mission
To help international corporations, organizations and governments improve the quality of life of their respective population through innovative, culturally appropriate, and cost-effective health promotion programs.
international network
OFFICES in Tucson, Arizona, USA and Hamburg, Germany
The unique competitive advantage of Wolf Kirsten International Health Consulting is its extensive international network of health promotion experts. The network consists of esteemed professionals from various disciplines (medicine, psychology, sociology, physical education, public health, human resources) who have proven to be pioneers in the health promotion field in their country or region.
Department of Community Devopment Abu Dhabi Enterprise Health Koç Holding Optum
Comcast NBCUniversal
VirginPulse
Limeade
UTC Aerospace Systems
IBM
SAP
Siemens
Novartis
Hersheys
World Health Organization (WHO)
Hess
Latham & Watkins
John Deere
Cisco Systems
Johnson & Johnson, USA
Flowserve
Goldman Sachs
Credit Suisse
Quintiles Transnational
Basell
White & Case
Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Bahrain
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
Nokia
DuPont, USA
3M, USA
Kimberly Clark, UK
Saudi Aramco
Procter and Gamble, EUROPE
Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona
Corporate & Personal Health (CPH), BRAZIL
German Association for Health, Sports and Sports Therapy, GERMANY
Golfino, GERMANY
Fachhochschule Magedeburg, GERMANY
Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM)
Freie Universität Berlin, GERMANY
Ministry of Health, SINGAPORE
Nortel Networks, CANADA
Institute for International Research (IIR)
Petrobras, BRAZIL
Schott Glass, GERMANY