Jenna Clarke, CPCC, ACC

Managing Partner for Thriving Parents

Coach & Trainer for Thriving Talent

Background

As a new parent facing the daunting task of going back to work, who can best support you on fulfilling your personal and professional ambitions?

After all, you’re looking for an elusive combination. It’s not easy to find a highly experienced and senior executive-level coach and facilitator who can roll up their sleeves with you to face your self-limiting beliefs and take the necessary steps forward.

Imagine finding that person who is also a parent themselves and has more than 20 years of management experience in various international organisations.

That person may actually be much closer than you realise – really close.

As a certified coach, executive trainer and seasoned facilitator, Jenna Clarke can bring you powerful action-oriented coaching support. Born and raised in Canada, is fluent in English and mostly fluent in French.

Her coaching and training philosophy is based on drawing out your hidden strengths, resourcefulness and creativity. Her training approach uses interactive, energising and behavioural-based activities blended with the best practices of coaching.

However it’s hard for a short bio of achievements and skills to fully capture the energy, and passion that form her personality and coaching approach.

Jenna is willing to shake things up and believes that humor and fun are amongst the best ways to learn and become more self-aware. She also applies effective drama techniques to help foster your creativity and allow space for innovative solutions to emerge.

If anything you’ve read here ticks some of the boxes in your checklist or piques your interest, contact Jenna to continue this conversation.

Skills & Accreditation

• Certified in Co-Active coaching (CPCC) and accredited with the International Coaching Federation (ACC)
• Certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• Masters in Arts (Journalism) and Bachelor of Arts (Sociology)

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Catherine Hickel, PCC

Associate Coach & Trainer

Background

A seasoned business-minded coach, Catherine has 20 years of experience across sectors and geographies in management consulting, executive search, and today, professional coaching.

An economist by education, she started her career in a high growth US startup, experiencing the whole corporate life-cycle, from Nasdaq IPO to take-over, from 100 employees to 1’000, during an accelerated five years. In this context, leading multicultural teams, she gained solid insights into the many challenges of today’s business leaders. After she had to implement organizational change and restructure the team she had developed, she decided to build on this challenging experience to develop innovative ways to increase resilience, get inspired, embrace what is and lead with purpose in today’s corporate world.

Having lived across Europe, changed career path several times and as a mother of two, Catherine has been working as an independent professional coach since 2013. She understands what it takes to re-define what ambition and quality of life mean to you, today. She particularly cherishes the coaching work which aims at rebalancing the “work/life/ambition/values/family/couple/self” equation.

To the question “Is it possible to have it all?”, her answer is “Yes, it is, and even more, once you know what ‘ALL’ means to YOU!”.

She developed a niche working with people who are on a professional journey or transition of any kind. First, as a coach, she will question, challenge, encourage and also gently confront you: you will become who you are. Then, as a former headhunter, she will guide you to refine your career strategy to land your next professional challenge.

Whatever the coaching context, Catherine strives to create a meaningful dialogue with clients, to help them develop the confidence and clarity to move on and take action. Her clients say that she brings a warm, deep though fun and engaging presence to their work together.

Skills & Accreditation

• Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coach Federation (ICF)
• Coaching toolbox: Somatic Coaching, Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), Transactional Analysis (TA), team coaching, Systemic, Clean Language
• Master of Arts in Economics and Business Management (University of Strasburg, FR) and in European Integration (College of Europe, BE)

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Katelijne Vercaeren, ACC

Associate Coach & Trainer

Background

Married to a loving husband, and a mother of two, Katelijne has faced her fair share of career challenges and life changes. This first-hand experience is critical to understand what it is like to navigate your career through parenthood. Her family has been and is her inspiration to continue to evolve as a coach.
Over the last fifteen years, Katelijne has worked with executive leadership teams in human resources and corporate communications across Fortune 500 companies managing organisational change and efficiency programs to empower employee engagement worldwide.
Today, she serves as a certified and accredited executive coach to help leaders enhance their presence and become more impactful communicators. Combining coaching and communication skills, she is passionate to deliver credible, viable, and sustainable change.
In life, just as in her coaching relationships, she is practical and pragmatic, and knows how to create a safe space for her clients.
An art historian by education and a trained sculptor and painter, Katelijne also has a passion for grand masters and the innovation they inject in society. So, when working with clients, she brings in a lot of creativity to help them find new perspectives to re-invent themselves time and again.
Katelijne is an accredited professional coach with the International Coach Federation (ACC) and is certified with the Coaches Training Institute (CPCC).
Based near Geneva (Switzerland), she works in English, French and Dutch across timezones and geographies.

Skills & Accreditation

• Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), The Coaches Training Institute (CTI)
• Accredited Certified Coach (ACC), International Coach Federation (ICF)
• CTI Leadership Program
• Specialising in Creative and Expressive Arts Therapy
• Expert in Internal Communications, Change Management and Employee Engagement
• Extensive experience in FMCG and IT/IS
• Master of Art History, University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium Bachelor of Business Administration

Diana Orejas PhD, ACC

 Associate Coach & Trainer

Background

Diana is an Executive coach and trainer, originally from Spain and currently living in Geneva.  She is passionate about finding creative and effective ways to support individuals in their quest for personal and professional growth.

In the current world, individuals are under constant pressure to do more with less; to balance life and work; to excel at being individuals, parents and professionals; to find meaning and happiness and to do all this while posting on social media. There are ways to leverage internal resources to better manage this balance, yet most people struggle to find them at crutial moments in life.

Diana’s passion is to support individuals discover their own approach to manage and grow in the face of life’s transitions and professional challenges; to expand their ability to understand themselves and others, manage competing needs and responsibilities, transform attitudes and switch perspectives to live up to their full potential. To do so, she recently  founded “The Growthery” a bistro for the mind.

In the past, Diana spent a decade facilitating change and organizational development in global multicultural organizations with Challenge Learning and Duke Corporate Education; five years running global executive development programs with the International Trade Centre; and 3 years conducting research at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Diana believes there is always something to learn and that the self-discovery journey that one embarks as a parent is a unique opportunity for personal and professional growth. An avid learner herself, she is always looking for new ways of expanding her knowledge and skills to help clients achieve their goals.

Diana juggles learning, family life and work in the heart of Geneva with the demands of a third generation family business in Spain. She loves travelling, running, paddlesurf and giggling with her 9 year old daughter

Skills & Accreditation

• Ph.D. in Organizational Competitiveness and Economic Development, Deusto Business School
• M.A. in International Relations and International Economics, Johns Hopkins University
• B.A. in Business and Economics, University of Navarra
• Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coach Federation (ICF)
• Accredited Facilitator and Change Management Practitioner (APMG)
• Balanced Score Card; Situational Leadership; MBTI; FIRO-B; LIFO; HOGAN suite; Leadership Versatility Index; Booth 360 feedback; Emotional and Social Competency Inventory; Intercultural Readiness.

Henri-Michel Yéré

Associate Trainer

Background

Henri is driven to support organisations, leaders and teams to overcome bias and fixed ways of thinking, in order to help them to become high performing and unleash their potential for innovation.

Henri has over seven years experience in Diversity and Inclusion work in the pharmaceutical industry and has experience of training, coaching and mentoring leaders and managers across multiple cultures.

Trained as a historian and political scientist he knows first hand how different perspectives and diverse thinking styles can enrich teams and drive better business results.

Areas of expertise:

• Workshops on how to practically mitigate the effects of unconscious bias
• Enhancement techniques for better intra-team engagement and communication
• Employee engagement work
• Coaching and mentoring techniques

Accreditations

• PhD in Contemporary History (African History Specialist)
• Certified MBTI coach
• Certified CQ (Cultural Intelligence) coach

Annie Couleru

Associate Consultant

Background

Born and raised in Switzerland, Annie migrated to Australia in 2006 where she experienced an array of different cultures in her personal and professional life. In 2018, she moved back to Switzerland for family reasons. Now she hopes to make a difference by sharing her experience working in the field of HRM in a non-European country where the culture and customs differ dramatically.

Within the parameters of the Australian legislation, local economy and employment market, Annie’s work experience has taught her a different way of managing the invaluable human capital of an organisation. Such a life experience has brought a flexible, innovative and creative mindset required to cater more holistically to organisational issues such as talent attraction, management, development and retention.

Contemporary trends demonstrate an emergent aging, feminisation and culturally diverse workforce affecting the demographic and societal developments of the workplace, which require more flexibility and consideration for life issues. The importance of employee engagement, which can be achieved by optimising the workforce contribution through offering flexibility of working conditions, has been proven for years.

Studies by Gallup (2015) demonstrate disengaged employees incur substantial cost to the economy and organisational productivity, including decreasing profit and return on investment (ROI). The highly desirable status of employer of choice, which is correlated with enhanced employee engagement, is a substantial organisational competitive advantage as it is perceived by stakeholders and shareholders as valuable, rare and inimitable.

As a working mother of two, passionate about the field of her chosen career, Annie fully appreciates the challenge of balancing work and life. She would like to encourage working parents to be fantastic role models to their children. This can be achieved by demonstrating that we can all learn to balance quality time with them and continue to build a career, step by step, at the right time. She lives with the motto that we may not be able to ‘Have It All’ right now, but we can have a good portion of it at each stage of our life.

Skills & Accreditation

• Certificate in Swiss Employment Law - FER
• Master of HRM with honour - Australia
• Professional Diploma of Human Resources – Australian Human Resources Institute
• Mental Health First Aid - Australia
• Grievance Handling – Equal Opportunity Commission of Australia

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Francisco Baptista, ACC

Associate Coach & Trainer

Background

Francisco helps business teams and individuals at all levels finding solutions to achieve higher performance through a coaching based-training for leaders, organisational and team coaching, 360° diagnostic assessments, individual executive coaching and leadership development.

Over the last 5 years Francisco has built a practice developing interventions, coaching executives, training line managers, bringing teams nearer to their customers, and helping teams and couples overcome conflict.

Prior to this, Francisco served as program manager in an FMCG environment introducing continuous improvement methods such as LEAN and Six Sigma across different functions. Previously, he implemented Enterprise Resource Planning solutions in various industries and NGO’s, and selling his own startup in South America. Francisco’s success has always been setup with an eye on enhancing human potential empowering team members working more efficiently.

Francisco is well rounded in both managerial and leadership aspects as well as in emotional and social intelligence competencies. His coaching and facilitation skills combine, with his expertise from past careers, to deliver credible, viable, and sustainable change.

Francisco lives near the Lavaux Vineyards in Switzerland with his wife, daughter and son. During his downtime, he loves experiencing the wild, silent nature of the surrounding mountains and valleys with his family.

Skills & Accreditation

• Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coach Federation (ICF)
• Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), The Coaches Training Institute (CTI)
• Leadership Program Graduate, The Coaches Training Institute (CTI)
• Leadership Circle Certification, Full Circle Group/The Leadership Circle
• ORSC (Team Coaching) Core Curriculum Graduate, Centre for Right Relationships,
• Team Coaching International Assessments
• Design Thinking, SAP D.LAB
• Six Sigma Green Belt, Nestlé