Czech Republic

Madrid, Spain

Italy

Consultancy and Coaching experience
Claudia has significant experience in change management and is adept at ensuring any changes are fully understood to ensure full advantage is taken from these opportunities.
She has a track record to prove her skill and determination in problem solving, designing operational processes, team development and employee recognition programmes.
Her key values which influence her work are respect for others, confidentiality, passion and empathy. A successful sporting (Italian Basketball team member) and business career has helped Claudia appreciate the value of strong human relations and understand that a strong team spirit not only helps the company achieve maximum objectives but also has a beneficial impact on each individuals' achievements and personal satisfaction.
Her methods place a heavy emphasis on interpersonal relations, on creating continuous synergy between work and fun but particularly on the power of believing in one's self.

Recent corporate clients with whom she has worked include Ericsson, Saba Italia (Abertis Group), De Cecco, Right Management, Lazio Regional Government, Mercedes Benz, ProjitBS Security, Finmeccanica Group.  Recent and current projects have included:
- Leadership development - Change management
- Team coaching, Executive coaching
- Conflict resolution - Diversity management
- Line management experience

A successful 20 year career in various organisations developing leadership, corporate processes, human resources has given Claudia a valuable understanding to the demands of key Executives. She has worked as a consultant concentrating on Corporate restructuring, corporate communications and development of new services and business development.
She was the project leader of a re-engineering project for a central banking institute. She was also part of a re-organisation team which specialized in the transformation of a merchant bank from the public to the private sector, during this time she also specialised in her ability for change management.
Background
A degree in Political Science and SDA Bocconi certified courses specialising in Organizational Efficiencies and Organisational Analysis for Executives. Claudia is a professional member (PCC Accredited Certified Coach) of the International Coach Federation, a Board Member of the Italian Coach Federation. Designs and organises training courses for corporations and has received European funding as a result of this activity.
Acts as a Executive/Business/Personal Coach in multinational companies and she writes and publishes monthly articles about career coaching. She participates in projects for European Union in Diversity Management. She has been a guest speaker at a European workshop discussing Diversity Management.

Barcelona, Spain

Consultancy and Coaching experience
Georgina specialises in the coaching of individuals and teams enabling them to achieve both performance and developmental goals. She also supervises the work of coaches and consultant groups working in the HR area.
She is committed to:
·A creative approach adapted to the needs of each organisation, team or individual
·Using best practice in the organisational development and coaching fields
·Ethical delivery with a focus on achieving results and respect for each participant

Georgina works in association with SWAN and has previously worked on assignments for national and multinational organisations in Australia, Argentina, the UK and Spain where she is currently resident. These include Coca Cola, Citibank, A Spanish pharmaceutical company with international operations, the Spanish subsidiary of a Dutch energy multinational and a national Spanish retail bank.

Recent assignments are:
·The coaching of senior executives whilst they faced the challenges of transitioning into a new role
·The running of supervision workshops for a team of consultants aimed at the continuous development of coaching skills
·The coaching of executive committee members in national and international organisations in order to maximise participation and learning during team building initiatives
·The design and facilitation of career management programs for ESADE business school, Barcelona.
·Training Spanish area managers in coaching skills in order to support an international development initiative

Line management experience
Georgina's career spans both the public and private sector. She began her career in the British Inland Revenue, Valuation Office. During the last 15 years she has worked in HR roles and was the National Account Manager for the Manpower contract with Hewlett Packard, Spain.  Background
Georgina is a member of the International Coaching Federation and the European and Mentors and Coaches Council. Her academic background includes an MBA from ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain; B.Sc. Psychology (hons); MSc. Career Management and Counselling; Post Graduate Certificate in Business and Executive Coaching. Georgina is also licensed to use a wide number of psychometric inventories and tests.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Consultancy and Coaching experience
“In today’s leadership it’s vitally necessary to combine the hard-core business skills with an authentic personality that can create a clear vision and specific goals and guide and engage people toward this”.

This is what Gitte strives to accomplish both in her own role as a business manager and when she helps business leaders to get to their optimum leadership level.
Gitte has 20 years of experience in management and leadership and through these years she has distilled what elements of a leadership style that can make you successful even when some of the other elements are missing and what elements that will most likely cause you to fail no matter what.
As consultant Gitte is often being brought in to either help get a failed project back on track or to help organisational change projects with activities to establish an effective start-up of and to keep momentum during the project.
Based on her experiences with change projects Gitte has created a manuscript for establishing and running successful change projects to support this work.
In coaching Gitte is able to sort through all the words and stories and discern what is really important to get to the next step. With this and with her inquisitive questions she helps her clients dig deeper for the underlying causes of issues and non-productive behaviours. When this is clear it’s been quite easy for the clients to figure out which changes were needed and which actions they needed to take to improve their leadership style.
Recently Gitte has designed a Leadership education program for IT leaders where she is also the head instructor, coached a deputy CEO to increase his time management and leadership skills before his coming promotion to CEO, designed and rolled out Change Management procedures in an IT company and coached six top leaders in a Nordic company to increase their awareness of the leadership style that worked best within their teams.
Line management experience
Gitte is the founder and managing director of Work partners a Coaching and Consultancy company and works in association with SWAN Consulting. Work partners was founded in 2001 and employs besides herself also an IT consultant. Before this Gitte functioned as CEO of an IT consultancy company. Many of her previous permanent employments have been top project management with a combination of regular line management duties and project tasks.

Istanbul, Turkey

Consultancy and Coaching experience
Prior to creating her own training, consulting and coaching company, Gulsun worked for IBM for 10 years.
Her work in IBM included training and coaching the new hired salespeople in EMEA region for more than 4 years. 
Gulsun works in association with SWAN Consulting, and coaches individuals, relationships, and teams. Her fulfilment comes from contributing and witnessing the growth of her clients' in reaching their potentials and becoming purposeful leaders.
She believes in the impact of holding the individuals and the relationships creative, resourceful, and whole. In addition to her coaching practice, she also develops, designs, and delivers her own programs focusing on leadership development, relationship management, and effective communication skills.
Gulsun is leading coaching training courses in Europe, Middle East, Far East, and South Africa. She is also a supervisor for CTI's coaching certification program.

Line management experience
In the 10 years she worked for IBM, her main focus was on sales, project management, and skills management in addition to the coaching and development for new hires. She was exposed to several multicultural circumstances where her adaptability and positivity was highly valued, and celebrated.
As one of the founding partners of Zeytinoglu Biomedical Company, she also served at the board of directors for 4 years where she created and learned a lot around doing business with multiple parties. 

Since 1995 she teaches at several graduate programs at selected universities in Istanbul. She is a conference speaker, and her articles have appeared in business magazines.  As a founding and board member of Women Entrepreneurs Association (KAGİDER) in Turkey, she has developed training and mentoring programs for the development of women's potential. 
Background
Gulsun has studied Biology at M.E.T.U that was followed up by a Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering. She then moved on to Business Administration for her PhD.  Gulsun also completed NLP Master practitioner and trainer programs at NLP University in California. She was among the first participants studying expressive arts therapy for 3years with Lesley Collage faculty in Istanbul. As a graduate of Co-Active Coaching Certification and Leadership programs, she holds a PCC accreditation by the International Coach Federation.

Budapest, Hungary

Consultancy and Coaching experience
"If you do what your heart and mind tells you, you act on wisdom" ­ is Gyöngyi's personal and professional credo.  Gyöngyi is contributing to leaders' success in transforming their organisations by harnessing organisational, team and individual energies and capabilities.

She has 15years+ experience in Leadership Development, Organisational Design and Development, Coaching, Change Management, Talent Development, HR Strategy Development and Implementation. Gyöngyi considers "cultural literacy" as a core competency of today's leaders and she offers her insights, cultural versatility and personal experience of living and working abroad for 7 years ­in the U.K., the Netherlands and France.
She was born in Hungary and speaks Hungarian, English, French, and Spanish. She is passionate about her mentoring work for high school students which she undertakes on a not-for- profit basis.
As an internal consultant she worked for the Prince of Wales Trust U.K., Livewire, I.M.C., the Unilever Group across Europe: Bestfoods, Algida, HPC, Lipton IC, Amora-Maille, Strategic HR Group.

Since September 2005 she has worked as a consultant and coach for:
Unilever, Novartis, Salva Vita (NGO), Corvinus School of Management, I.T.D International Trade Development Hungary (WIP), MOL Hungarian Oil Company.
She also works in association with SWAN Consulting.
Recent and current assignments include:
Design and delivery of Leadership Development programmes for global organisations and an international business school (pharmaceutical, foods company, services, oil company) Executive coaching assignments to individuals at CEO, COO, Director and Functional Head level in global and national organisations (oil, services, pharmaceuticals).
Design and roll out facilitation of a worldwide Culture Change programme for an oil company Running a full organisational diagnostics, developing and facilitating the implementation of the HR strategy (business development services organisation)
Line management experience
Gyöngyi has over 13 years line management experience and held executive positions within a range of companies at the Unilever Group in the U.K., Holland, Hungary and France. Her last role was as Vice President HR for Europe and she contributed to the development and implementation of business and HR strategies across Europe. In 2005she set up her own consultancy Trendset.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Consultancy and Coaching experience
Lian has over 20 years of business experience as a consultant and as a coach and works in association with SWAN Consulting. She is an expert in executive coaching, leader development and the human dynamics of change at individual, teams and organizational level. She is fascinated by the challenge of making things happen. The characteristic of her consultancy is to create change and implementation through problem solving and learning at the same time and at all levels in the organisation. She has a deep insight of the paradoxes and dilemma's from the bottom to the top, from the co-operator to the manager, from the manager to the vice-president and the vice-president to the CEO.  The characteristic of her coaching is to challenge people to have the courage to become the one they want to be, to take responsibly for all their acts and to learn and to grow. Lian works as a consultant in a variety of industries including Finance, Accountancy, Library, Industry, Marketing research/services and Care Insurance. For example: Philips, Unilever, Rabobank, Quantore, Agis, Rijkswaterstraat.
Recent and current assignments include:
To coach and consult a boardroom to design and implement their new business model. Design and delivery a change program for the implementation of a new culture leadership, team-work, communication) for a not for profit organization. Executive and boardroom coaching (for example: role change from financial director to general director, coaching a accountant in his new role as a partner and leader) Teambuilding and coaching of a management team that is formed after the merger of two companies Consulting a project group, whose task is to implement a totally new way of working for Control in 250 banks. Designing the implementation program from a change perspective view (to create involvement, to deal with resistance and fear, emotional management, transition and group dynamics).
Background
Lian is the founder of Van Sinten Coaching & Consulting. This is a Dutch consulting firm that has existed 12 years and helps people, teams and organisations to create the future they desire. She also works as an associate partner with several (Dutch) consulting companies. Previously she worked for 3 years as an consultant/trainer/coach with Schouten en Nelissen and she started her carrier as organisational psychologist with Philips where she worked for 7 years. Lian has initially a degree in Organisational/Industrial Psychology. She has developed her qualifications over the years with certifications for The Narrative Coaching, MBTI, EQ, AEM-cube.

Brussels, Belgium

Consultancy and Coaching experience
Marie-Caroline coaches executives and high potentials across a range of industries both multinational and international. Her focus is on personal and professional growth. Her approach looks at taking the coaching client out of his/her comfort zone, usually their intellectual competence, into the area of emotional intelligence, allowing him/her toenhance their awareness of self and their impact on others. Marie-Carol ine provides a space for the individual to experience and learn to deal with their emotions in order to add this component to their range of competencies. Emotions become a strength rather than a weakness or threat.  Her coaching is based upon mutual trust, commitment, action and results. Marie-Caroline shows a deep respect for the individual as a whole person and their situation.  Marie-Caroline brings to her work a bi-cultural heritage (French and German) and a broad experience of multicultural backgrounds. She coaches primarily in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and can also coach in Spanish.
Line Management Experience
Prior to setting up her own business as an Executive Coach, Marie-Caroline worked 14years for multinational corporations in the area of human resources management. She served as a Human Resources manager for Belgium, Austria and Eastern Europe with Schlumberger, a multinational company in the oilfield services business and moved over to PwC Consulting (now IBM Business Consulting Services), where she served as a change management consultant. She focused on project communication, organisation design, human resources processes and training and worked on projects located throughout Europe.
Background
Marie-Caroline is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) from The Coaches Training Institute (CTI,USA) and a supervisor for coaches in the certification process with the same institute. She is also a Certified Professional Coach (PCC) from the International Coach Federation (ICF,USA).  Marie-Caroline holds a Master's Degree in Applied Economics (Specialisation International Trade Financing) from the University Paris XII ­ France.

Berlin, Germany

Coaching experience
After 10 years of consulting work in OD and change management, both in-house in a large company and as an independent consultant, Martin turned completely to executive coaching in 1999. Martin is known for his strong analytical capacity, that goes along with a pragmatic orientation on ”things that work”.
In his coaching approach Martin emphasizes the strengths of his clients and shows a strong sense for empathy and intuition. Martin establishes a supportive relationship that impacts visibly and in a positive way on the performance and interaction of his clients with their environment.
Martin works in association with SWAN Consulting, and also currently coaches with senior executives from German and International companies, and his focus is on the challenges regarding the leadership role and management competencies inherent to business in a rapidly globalizing world. Dealing positively with the tension between own behaviour and the overarching corporate strategy requires a strong sense of mission and the capacity to communicate in a clear way – Martin sees these as key sources of an authentic leadership style that conveys credibility and creates trust.
Martin has extended international and intercultural experience and, in addition to his mother tongue German, is fluent in English and French. Some situations that Martin’s clients have confronted included:
- Taking over the President role of a 1 billion business division that had been shaped by a strong but also very patriarchal leader, and gradually building a leadership culture based on trust, potential and development and accountability for a shared vision, pulled forward by a strongly collaborating leadership team.
- Being projected into the position of Head of Germany of a leading International bank, develop quickly the gravitas vis a vis the management team and gain the full trust and support from the corporate level.
- As head of a service function, driving a key project to revamp operations in a global player company in the manufacturing sector. Developing the capability for creating buy-in, manage stakeholders at every stage of the project, and navigating politics.
Line Management Experience
Martin has held several positions in international project management, mainly in the EMEA region. Subsequently he was asked to contribute to a government-sponsored task force on increasing aid efficiency in a multi-stakeholder environment, heading it for 3 years.
Background
Martin studied Sociology and Economics (Diploma/MA) and continued with a post-graduate training in project management and emerging economies. The experience of managing complex projects in very diverse environments, lead to a second career in organizational development and change management, in house and as an independent consultant.

Paris, France

Consultancy and Coaching experience
Prior to establishing her coaching business, Pascale spent more than 12 years as manager in International Companies (Bp, ExxonMobil) in marketing, sales, brand, communications and PR functions managing and working with multicultural teams (USA, Africa, Middle East and Europe).  Pascale now coaches managers and leaders to help them feel confident in their own contributions, work co-operatively towards shared goals in a cross-cultural environment. In addition to her individual coaching sessions, Pascale also conducts communication, management, leadership and personal development seminars that enable people to generate meaningful, long lasting results quickly & efficiently and take into account their deep desire and the importance of a balanced life. Pascale's approach is based on humanistic psychology focusing on the dignity and intrinsic value of the person.  Pascale has consulted with many organisations, including Avanade, DDB, Pricewaterhouse, Bp, ExxonMobil, Red Cross; PSA Group (Peugeot-Citroen), Groupama.  Pascale also instructs Intercultural management and HR courses at Littoral University and at ISCID and IPAG Business schools in the Marketing and Management masters programs.
Line Management Experience
During the Bp-Mobil joint-venture, Pascale managed a team of 20 people in the customer service department. As part of the European team, her role was to encourage best practice sharing, set up the new missions and develop the new European CRM program. As Brand Manager for ExxonMobil Africa Middle East, Pascale provided a central structure to support the Business goals by developing an effective regional communications network of 8 remote people and exploit synergies with the Global Advertising group in Fairfax.
Background
Pascale works in association with SWAN and also during the last five years, in addition to working with leaders, Pascale has been working and writing papers & reports on related topics: "Pleasure & Pain of middle managers", " Grief cycle in coaching process", "Social systems in organizations against anxiety and depression", "Scapegoat in a marketing organization", "Individual and group psychological defensive strategy in social work".  Pascale has initially a master degree in International Commerce. She has developed her qualifications over the years with a master degree in Human Resources counselling &coaching and a master degree in Industrial psychology. Pascale also holds a certificate in psychotherapy.

South Africa

Consultancy and Coaching experience
Daphna is passionate about working with people to create their personal success story. Having experienced a major career change herself, from Actuary to Executive Coach, Daphna is passionate about coaching people to living with purpose and fulfilment. Her specialty is in working with clients to create a life of balance and fulfilment, taking a holistic approach, while unleashing their full potential.

Before establishing her coaching career, Daphna had extensive experience working within the corporate environment in the field of Actuarial Science, as part of a dynamic team specialising in Product Development, Consulting and Marketing (Swiss SA Reinsurance and Alexander Forbes Healthcare Consultants).
In addition, she has lectured in Actuarial Science to undergraduates and post-graduates at Wits University and run her own Actuarial Consulting Company and Corporate Event Management Company. She currently has a varied coaching practice which includes one-on-one Personal & Executive Coaching, Team Coaching and Workshops, Group Facilitation, Speaking and Training. She has worked with various organisations and her current clients include Investec, PTi International and Results Workplace Coaching.  Recent assignments include: Coaching CEOs, Directors and Entrepreneurs Consulting with companies to create a coaching policy for use within their organisation Facilitating group discussions at conferences and team workshops Training managers to be coaches within organisations Coaching and Mentoring in-house coaches within organisations Designing and Leading team/group workshops according to clients' specifications
Line management experience
Daphna has worked extensively in her Actuarial career within the corporate environment, first in Product Development and later as an Actuarial Consultant helping organisations create well-balanced internal health care solutions. This involved working at Director level with a team of marketing and other specialist consultants. Daphna has also consulted in legal matters requiring specialist actuarial input.
Background
Daphna is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).  She has undergone extensive training in the areas of executive coaching and general coaching skills.
She has a BSc Honours degree in Actuarial Science (Wits) and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (UK) and a member of the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA). In addition, Daphna is certified in counselling in the areas of bereavement and marriage preparation.

United States of America

Consultancy and Coaching experience
Megan is a seasoned U.S. business executive and corporate coach based in the Detroit area and works in association with SWAN Consulting. She combines firsthand leadership experience with the principles of Co-Active Coaching as a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute (CTI).
She has coached executives and managers in the Automotive, Advertising, Banking, Legal, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Consulting sectors.
Megan focuses on helping her clients to define and operate from a place of authenticity.
She believes that:
 -Helping her clients to discover and express deeply held values both increases their worth to their organisation and their personal sense of fulfilment
 -Everyone has an intrinsic purpose and contribution to make to the world
 -Our connection to both our own humanity and the humanity of others leads to breakthrough collaboration

Megan's clients find her to be both highly supportive and tenacious in her championing of their strengths and untapped potential.
Line Management Experience
Megan was formerly Group Vice President of MARS Advertising, where she enjoyed an 11-year career in account service. While there, she led the client relationships with two Global500 companies in the healthcare field, GlaxoSmithKline and Abbott Nutrition. She also championed a company-wide talent development initiative and served on the company's leadership team.
Background
Megan holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BA from Northwestern University. She is a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and a member of the International Coach Federation.