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GENDER BIAS – GENDER BIAS IS COMMONPLACE. 96% OF WOMEN REPORT EXPOSURE TO GENDER BIAS.

 

The tendency to favour one gender or perceived gender over the other. It exists both as an unconscious and conscious bias and notably affects women more than men. Introducing 5 distinct biases.

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Gurpreet Grewal (GG)

Associate Partner

Transformation and Leadership Coach, Experienced HR Practitioner

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • 1 : 1 Coaching focusing on leadership transition
  • Talent & Leadership Development
  • Organizational restructuring
  • M&A Support : Due diligence; people integration
  • Change Management
  • Onboarding support to new Board Members
  • DEI Champion

CLIENTS

  • Hybrid background of Finance and Human Capital for 30+ years in senior leadership roles
  • Organisations worked in include ABN Amro Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Telstra and Assicurazioni Generali SpA as the Asia Regional Head of HR & Organisation for over 7 years

Hong Kong

(English, Hindi)

Olga

Associate Partner

Change Enthusiast, Communications Professional, Executive Coach

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Strategic communication
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Employee engagement
  • Change management
  • Leadership development
  • One on one and group coaching
  • Facilitation
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • MBTI

EXPERIENCE

  • 20+ Years Executive roles in multinational companies and organisations

EMPLOYERS AND CLIENTS

  • Soros Foundation
  • BAT PLC
  • ENRC PLC
  • XL Catlin (Currently AXA)
  • VEON
  • Pret A Mange
BA, Minsk State University, MA University Minnesota, MBA European-University, Viadrina

London, UK(English, Russian, Belarusian, conv. German & Polish)

Maria

Associate Partner

Certified Integral Coach, Strategy Development, Cultural Shifts,  Racism @ Work,

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Organisational Development
      & Transformation Consulting
  • Strategy Development
  • 1:1 coaching
  • Team coaching
  • Group facilitation
  • Leader as coach
  • Personal leadership style
  • Coach supervision

CLIENTS

  • BMW
  • Siemens AG
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • Virgin Media
  • Vodafone
  • BP
  • Visa
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Santander Bank
Taught > 200 executives in 14 African countries how to use coaching as part of their leadership style

London, UK (English, French, German, Russian, Portuguese)

Beate

Founder of Punktschluss

Senior executive with 20 years of corporate experience; ICF- certified Integral Coach, Trainer & Facilitator; Organization, Leadership , and Learning expert

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Organisational Development & Transformation Consulting
  • Team Building
  • Experiential Learning
  • Strategy Development
  • Individual and team coaching
  • Group Facilitation
  • Design Sprints
  • Diversity & Inclusion

AFORMER & NEW CLIENTS

  • Philip Morris Intl.
  • Jaeger LeCoultre
  • Generali – worldwide
  • Richemont S.A.
  • Medtronic – worldwide
  • Santen Pharmaceutical
  • International Red Cross
  • Smurfit Kappa, Italy
  • Teufelberger, Austria
  • Zellstoff Pöls, Austria
Beate founded Punktschluss with two decades of corporate leadership and 10 years of Learning & Development expertise. Fusing her experience with her contagious energy, Beate has transformed and advanced several organizations and countless individuals around the world.

Lausanne, CH (German, English, conv. Mandarin)

Åsa Maria Granados

Associate Partner

Transformation and Leadership Coach, Digital Transformation Strategist

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • 1 : 1 Coaching
    (150+ Coaching hours)
  • Team Coaching (Online)
  • Leadership Development
  • Team Leadership
  • Mindset & Performance Coaching
  • Communication & Relational Coaching
  • Training Workshops
  • Strategic Communications and Digital Transformation Strategy Consulting

EXPERIENCE

  • 15+ Years (leadership) experience (international organizations)
  • Fields: International Affairs, Public-Private Partnership, Global Security Affairs:
    Crisis Management,
    Multilateral Dialogue and Cooperation
  • Functions: External and Public Affairs, Communications, Stakeholder Engagement, Protocol, Partnerships, Organizational Transformation
Åsa was raised in Kenya, where she developed a passion for African Wildlife. She is a Lion Conservation Volunteer.

Geneva, CH(English, Swedish, French)

Irina

Associated Executive Coach

Certified Integral Coach, NLP practitioner, Belbin team roles coach, Finance Transformation
 and Shared Services expert

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Executive Leadership
    coaching
  • Competency coaching
  • Organisational & Culture
    Transformation
  • Group facilitation
  • 1:2:1 coaching

CLIENTS

  • The Coca-Cola Company (Mentor, Facilitator & Executive Coach)
  • Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company,
    (Executive Leadership coach)
  • JLL – Finance Transformation Lead,
    (Executive  Leadership &
        Competency Coach)
  • Zalando (Executive Leadership Coach)
  • Private coaching clients.
Ph.D. in Economics, 20+ years with The Coca-Cola Company in Europe, Americas and Asia, independent advisor to Fortune 500 companies in Finance Transformation and Leadership Development

Lausanne, CH (German, English, conv. Mandarin)

Mélanie

Associate Partner

Trainer – Facilitator – Coach – HR Business Partner

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Group facilitation
  • L&D Consulting
  • DISC trainer
  • Individual coaching
  • HR Business Partner
  • Outplacement
  • Work life balance
  • Mind management trainer
  • Apprenticeship consulting

CLIENTS

  • Watch industry
  • Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Non-profit Organisation
  • Regional government

AUDIENCE

  • Young adults
  • Millenials
  • Migrants
  • Managers – Leaders
Actively learning sign language, Mélanie’ s long-term goal is to coach hearing impaired people

 

Neuchatel, Switzerland (French, English, Spanish)

Gay

Associate Partner

Senior executive with 20 years of corporate experience; ICF- certified Integral Coach, Trainer & Facilitator; Organization, Leadership , and Learning expert

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Individual Coaching
  • Personal Transformation
  • Career and Life Transitions
  • Work Life Balance
  • Enneagram Coaching
  • Cultural Integration

EXPERIENCE

  • Coaching private clients, entrepreneurs, professionals
  • Clients from Pharma, Reinsurance, IT, NGOs

AUDIENCE

  • Change seekers & change makers
  • Professionals
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Migrants
Originally from South Africa Psychology, B.A. | Economics, MSc.

Cham, Switzerland( English, German )

Faye

Associate Partner

Certified Integral Coach, Talent Development,
Gender Equality in Business Expert, Culture Change Facilitator, Grief Counsellor

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Gender Equality Consulting
  • Unconscious Bias Facilitating
  • Individual coaching
  • Talent Development
  • Culture Change
  • Grief Counselling
  • Working Out Loud
  • Online Group Facilitation

EXPERIENCE

  • 20+ Years working in and consulting to Corporations
  • Professional Certified Integral Coach
  • 360 Feedback Coach
  • 120+ Coaching hours
Expert on Gender Equality in Business

Lausanne, CH (German, English, conv. Mandarin)

Wendy

Associate Partner

Senior executive with 20 years of corporate experience; ICF- certified Integral Coach, Trainer & Facilitator; Organization, Leadership , and Learning expert

AEAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Executive Coaching
  • Employee Engagement Turnaround
  • Organisational Change
  • Leaders Acceleration Programs

CLIENT’S INDUSTRY

  • Consumer Goods & Services
  • Manufacturing
  • Banking
  • Industrial Goods
  • Business Management Consultancy
  • Pharmaceutical
20+ years in senior Leadership positions in Business Finance and HR across countries in Asia

Lausanne, CH (German, English, conv. Mandarin)

Manuela

Associate Partner

Artist, Photographer,  Co-Facilitator@ creative workshops

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Co-Facilitating creative workshops
    e.g. visualize
    corporate values
    and behaviours,
    vision boards,
    team norms etc.
  • Anyone can draw
  • Event photographer 

EXPOSITIONS

  • 2000 Galerie Baliere, Frauenfeld
  • 2007 Alain Sauty et Charles Seydoux
  • 2008 Galerie d’A, Lausanne   
  • 2009 Guignard, Orbe
  • 2011 Galerie ESF-Espace
    Saint-François Lausanne
  • 2011 Evenement collectif 2, ESF-Espace Saint François Lausanne
  • 2015 Lietuvos Aido Galerija, Vilnius,Lithunania 
  • 2015 + 2019 Galerie Espace DēmArt, Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland (German, French, Italian, English)

Manuela

Associate Partner

Senior executive with 20 years of corporate experience; ICF- certified Integral Coach, Trainer & Facilitator; Organization, Leadership , and Learning expert

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Co-Facilitating creative workshops e.g. visualize corporate values and behaviours, vision boards, team norms etc.
  • Anyone can draw
  • Event photographer

EXPOSITIONS

  • 2000 Galerie Baliere, Frauenfeld
  • 2007 Alain Sauty et Charles Seydoux
  • 2008 Galerie d’A, Lausanne   
  • 2009 Guignard, Orbe
  • 2011 Galerie ESF-Espace
    Saint-François Lausanne
  • 2011 Evenement collectif 2, ESF-Espace Saint François Lausanne
  • 2015 Lietuvos Aido Galerija, Vilnius,Lithunania 
  • 2015 + 2019 Galerie Espace DēmArt, Lausanne

Artist, Photographer,  Co-Facilitator@ creative workshops

Lausanne, Switzerland (German, French, Italian, English)

Michelle

Associate Partner

Educator – Facilitator – Certified Coach – Sustainable Food Systems Expert – TEDex Speaker

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Leadership Coaching
  • Group Training
  • Learning process design
  • Community design
  • Strategy design + facilitation
  • Sustainable change
  • Wellbeing
  • Consulting & program design:
    food systems and sustainability
  • Designed and implemented innovative training programs for >1500 participants from >60 countries

SPECIALIST TOPICS

  • Sustainable Development
  • Food Systems

AUDIENCE

  • Start-ups & Founders
  • Aspiring women leaders
  • Early, mid- and late career food system and sustainability professionals
A certified yoga and meditation teacher (500+ h), interested in how creating the positive change we want to see in the world starts inside each of us.

 

Zürich, Switzerland(English)

Maria

Associate Partner

Trainer & Facilitator, Certified Integral Coach, Executive Presence & Communication

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Leadership Presence
  • Communication Coaching
  • Influencing Skills
  • Public Speaking
  • Voice Training
  • Effective Video Meetings

CLIENTS

  • PwC Switzerland
  • IMD Business School
  • Nestlé
  • Banque Pictet
  • Caterpillar
  • Salesforce
  • ABB
  • O-I

Public Speaking, Executive Presence and Voice Coaching Expert

Lausanne, Switzerland(Swedish, English, French, Spanish)

Marta

Associate Partner

Executive Coach, Trainer & Facilitator, Career Assessment, Skills & Talents Dvlpmt.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • One-to-One & Team coaching
  • Team building
  • Group facilitation
  • Workshop animation
  • Leadership development
  • Career assessment & Transition, Outplacement
  • Impactful communication tools: CV, Pitch, USP, Social Media,Networking

EXPERIENCE

  • 20+ Years Executive roles in multinational luxury companies
  • Labor Psychology degree
  • DISC certified trainer
  • 500+ Coaching & Consulting hours with 80+ clients
  • Coaching & Consulting in English, French and Italian
Business, B.A. | Labor Psychology B.A. , Milan 20years of Martial arts – Karate 3dan

 

Geneva, CH (Italian, French, English)

Lucy

Associate Partner

University Lecturer, Teacher Trainer and Facilitator

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Teacher trainer of English Didactics and Culture
  • University Lecturer and Tutor
  • Group Facilitator
  • Group Coach for Analysis of Professional Practice
  • Foreign Languages Teacher

EXPERIENCE

  • Content creation and facilitation of BA and MA seminars
  • Supervisor of BA and MA students theses in English didactics
  • Observation, coaching and certification of trainee teachers
  • Seminar Facilitator
  • In-company business English education
Lived and worked in the UK, Germany, the USA, Switzerland and Indonesia, where Lucy studied cultural insights, travelling the archipelago and working as a guide in the National Museum in Jakarta through the Indonesian Heritage Society.

Lausanne, Switzerland (English, French, German)

Katarzyna

Associate Partner
Certified Coach, Mediator, Trainer & Facilitator

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Personal Development
  • Individual coaching
  • Team coaching
  • Career transition
  • Leadership training
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Group facilitation

AFORMER & NEW CLIENTS

  • MA Hotel & Tourism Management, University of Paris, Pantheon – Sorbonne
  • Project manager at Horwath HTL The Global Leader in Hotel, Tourism & Leisure Consulting
  • 600 hours of coaching : private clients, entrepreneurs, managers, leaders & founders
  • Clients from : Hotel Business, Luxury watch Industry, Non- Profit Organizations, Start-ups
Katarzyna is a certified Akashic Record Consultant. She is fascinated by Quantum Physics, Process Oriented Psychology and Spirituality.

Frangy, France 
(Polish, French, English)

Petra

Associate Partner

Process Consulting & Transformation, Intercultural Bridge Builder & Advisor (India : Europe)

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Strategic procurement
  • Supply chain management
    IT hardware & consumer
    goods
  • Transformation &
    Change management &
    process consulting for
    small and medium
    organisations
  • Apprenticeship consulting
  • 12 years work & living
    experience India

CLIENTS

  • IT industry
  • Sports Industry
  • Non-profit Organisation
  •  Wholesale & retail
     organisations (consumer
     goods)
20+ Years in Leadership positions at one of the most successful companies in the Technology sector. Volunteer for the inclusion of Varanasi, India in the UNESCO World Heritage list.

Stuttgart, Germany Varanasi, India (German, English)

Grace Luo Weifen

Associate Partner

Senior executive with 20 years of corporate experience; ICF- certified Integral Coach, Trainer & Facilitator; Organization, Leadership , and Learning expert

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Belbin Team Role, Lumina,
    MBTI, DISC, Lominger
    Leadership Architect certified
  • 25 years’ HR executives roles
    at multinational companies
  • Lecturer and student mentor
    at Shanghai University for MBA
    programmes
  • First to launch “Drama in
    Coaching & Training” in China
  • Member of Positive Psychology
    Committee of Shanghai
    Psychological Society

AFORMER & NEW CLIENTS

  • Frequent Speaker at
    Leadership Development
    Summits / Forums in China
  • Pharmaceutical: PAREXEL, Takeda,
  • Medical equipment and Devices : Medtronic, SIEMENS, Omnicell,
  • Electronics / Semi conduct : Agilent, RIGOL , ASMEL
  • IT : E-median, JSHUAPU
  • Automobile / Manufactory: Inalfa, HARTING

Listed at “China’s 100 Human Resource Management people in 2020” by 第一资源 “Top HR” in China

Lausanne, CH (German, English, conv. Mandarin)

Ebru

Associate Partner

Senior executive with 20 years of corporate experience, ICF- certified Integral Coach, Trainer & Facilitator, Business Transformation, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Sales Expert, Founder of ‘The Fluid You’

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Business Transformation
  • Lean & Agile Transformation
  • Consumer Centricity
  • Innovation and Project management
  • Marketing, Sales, Consumer Strategy
  • Organisational culture transformation
  • Leadership Coaching
  • Team and Organisational development
  • Team facilitation
  • Diversity & Inclusion

CLIENTS

  • Phillip Morris International (as internal transformation coach)
  • Personal coaching clients: senior executives, entrepreneurs, academics, NGO executives, diversity advocates, and individual contributors.
  •  400+ coaching hours

 

With Economics and Psychology BA’s both from Yale University, Ebru is passionate and experienced about transformation of individuals, leaders, businesses, and organisations, all in equal measures.

 

London, UK (Turkish, English)