Contributors
Isabelle Nüssli
Executive/Leadership Coach
Focus Areas
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Initiate and manage change and transformation
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Navigate challenges and crisis
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Improve dealing with high degree of pressure and uncertainty
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Leverage level of (self-)awareness
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Increase focus and energy
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Learn how to transform formative experience (e.g. setback) into winning assets (build resilience)
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Assessment and trainings
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Be 'shadowed' in meetings and provided with feedback on the professional conduct
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Quick checks on strategy, structure, and business model with focus on people (key to execution)
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Add-on for female leaders
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Increased self-confidence
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How to thrive (not just survive)
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Specific leadership competencies
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Add-on for start-ups and scale-ups
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Prevent and/or overcome #3 reason for start-up failure: team issues
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Build a high-performance team
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Recruit an effective board
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Get ready for fundraising and successful negotiation with investors
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Add-on for family businesses
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Understand/manage family dynamic
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Execute successful succession plan
Rajesh Ramani
Ontological Coach / Mentor
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Understanding and translating the dynamics of mind and emotions.
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Identifying, managing and dissolving stress – its symptoms, factors and sources.
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Building resilience in personal and professional life
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Facilitating processes of self-awareness that bring transformative shifts in perceptions and emotions.
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Mentoring to open one’s potential through realizing optimal performance and right life balance.
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Breaking down complex truths into easily applicable principles and tools in everyday life.
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Working with Relationships and Family dynamics.
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Offerings
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Embracing Changes and Crisis situations – recentre yourself for action
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Stress Management – identify and resolve acute/chronic stress
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Right Life Balance – build empowering attention and activities
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Relationships – bring right perception and emotional intelligence in your personal and professional life
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Habits – letting go of unhealthy ones and building new ones
Olivia Mathijsen
Leadership Coach
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Supporting professionals to find their own way to reach their next challenge to impact their performance, reputation, teams and organization.
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Using a systemic pragmatic approach designed for experimentation and stakeholder feedback to maximize long term benefits.
Olivia Mathijsen is a seasoned, international leadership coach and people consultant who has a consolidated expertise in supporting business leaders to develop their own potential to catalyze optimal, sustainable performance — for themselves, their teams, and their companies.
Olivia has over 30 years professional experience with international responsibilities as a strategy consultant, an executive search consultant, a people business partner.
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Olivia holds an Executive Master in Consulting and Coaching for Change from INSEAD (France), a Master in International Management from SDA Bocconi (Italy), and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Bryn Mawr College (US). She serves on the Board of the INSEAD Alumni Association Italy, is a member of the International Coaching Federation, and of the Professional Women’s Network.
Vasco Patrício
Executive Coach
Vasco Patrício is an executive coach that helps his clients with the biggest problems he’s faced himself throughout life: influence and performance.
After a career born and incubated in the startup world, both as an alum and part of the MIT-Portugal IEI startup accelerator, the corporate world and later in his own practice, Vasco has tackled common issues such as effectively leading talent and convincing stakeholders with different communication styles, while still performing in face of high-pressure situations.
At present, Vasco uses exclusive and proprietary techniques learned throughout his experiences. Although he works with executives in multiple sectors, and with a preference for ESG initiatives, he has over time developed a specialization in high finance (Private Equity, Venture Capital and Hedge Funds).
What Vasco strives to create in his own clients is parallel to the maxim he aims to live by: cultivating responsible leadership by maintaining world-class performance without letting it affect your authenticity or transparency.
Guy Peeters
Leadership / Team Coach
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Leadership and personal coaching
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Team coaching
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Corporate culture and cultural integration post M&A consultancy
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Family Business consultancy
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Values
Trust – Perseverance – Ethics
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Guy Peeters is an experienced leadership and team coach.
During his 17 years in leadership roles (production and general management) he developed these skills through training and practice.
His passion for personal and team growth to improve performance led him to a career switch as an independent coach and consultant. Guy is also co-owner en chairman of the board of a family business.
Guy holds an Executive Master in Consulting and Coaching for Change from INSEAD (France), is a certified coach by Performance Consultants International (UK), holds a post-graduate Lean Black Belt from the University of Ghent (Belgium), and a bachelor Accountancy Taxation – Business Management from Karel de Grote-Hogeschool (Belgium)
The Responsible Leadership Team
Isabelle Nüssli
Managing Partner
Thought Leader
As a personal and leadership coach, Isabelle supports organizations and leaders in navigating change and capitalizing on their full potential. Her international background spans from business leadership to succession, strategy development, governance, risk and crisis management.
She is the author of two Amazon #1 bestseller business books: one on power games between boards and management and one on why corporate governance has fallen short to reduce derailment in business.
She is a mentor at a startup incubator & accelerator, and sits on multiple boards.
Isabelle holds master’s degrees from Kellogg School of Management (MBA), University of St.Gallen (biz law), and INSEAD (coaching/consulting for change).
A lifelong, open-minded learner, Isabelle is an encourager who loves being with and interacting with people.
Rajesh Ramani
Managing Partner
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Teacher/Mentor
As a Life transformation mentor, coach and teacher, Rajesh Ramani helps in personal development, lifestyle balance, relationship enhancement, emotional resilience, and finding solutions to internal and external challenges.
For Rajesh, creating a space for ‘learning and growth to happen’ is essential. He believes in an approach of awareness and compassion to bring a transformation in consciousness, in an individual or an organization.
His journey started as a banker in India then progressed to a spiritual monk and teacher and eventually a mentor and coach. He is passionate about philosophy, reading and cricket. He is also curious about life and the nature of the mind and things.
Simon Berger
Managing Partner
Innovator/Creative Leader
Simon is a leader in developing and directing organizations in asset management, education, intelligence and international affairs.
After living, working and studying in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East as well as Europe for almost two decades, he returned to native Switzerland.
Simon holds university degrees in Climate Sciences, Earth Sciences, Engineering and International Business Law.
With more than 20 years of international experience in transforming organizations, he currently works as a leader in the strategic management of intangible assets for a railway company.
Petra Christen
Client Relationship Expert
Following her role in the management team of a software trading company, a trip around the world and the birth of two children, Petra became self-employed in 2000.
Petra has held various mandates in the fields of fiduciary/taxes, organization and administration in a range of industries, such as consulting, event, dental technology, construction, and health.
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Jürg Neff
Finance
Jürg has broad experience as CEO and CFO of companies in several industries. Following his studies in economics, he worked with an international consulting company and a global Swiss bank.
Today, Jürg is the owner of a consulting firm providing finance/accounting and quality assurance services to companies. He is a member of a variety of boards of directors.
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