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I am a Psychologist FSP and work mainly in two areas: one is working and organisational psychology, mainly with adults, at proTalent and CACB, but also in psychology of childhood and adolescence where I founded the psychology practice PsYkids. Assessments or checkups, advice and coaching are at the heart of my psychologist activities. I have always been sensitive to the uniqueness of each individual and the possibilities to support them in their path of life.
My professional training and continuing education concerns many topics of psychology, regularly taking part in congresses, courses and seminars, and I participate in the activities of various organisations of which I am a member, including associations for gifted people like Mensa and ISPE, as well as more generally related to psychology, i. e. the associations for professional psychologists FSP, AFP and SPK.
The topic of talents and potentials is of particular interest to me, and I like supporting talents, but as well I've always been sensitive to people who have difficulties, such as children in school failure that I often receive in my practice: people who have qualities in other areas without always being conscious of it. My goal is to support them discovering, developing and living in harmony with their talents and to use them in a way that is useful to themselves in the society.
I fluently speak French, German, Swiss German and English. I have a good to very good knowledge in Spanish, intermediate knowledge in Japanese, and basic knowledge in Tibetan.
I particularly like languages and travelling, but as well painting (oil, watercolor), web design and photography. Furthermore, I like playing the violin, sports (hiking, jogging, sailing), cooking and family activities.
You may see some of my works and publications about children, education and families at the internet-site psykids.ch.
During more than 20 years I have worked in international companies, including 13 years at Swissair, most recently as Division Manager / Deputy General Manager at the Swissair Training Center (selection and training of cockpit and cabin crews). In 2000, I started my own business: CICB Center of Intercultural Competence, where I give lectures and courses. In parallel, for 7 years I was director at A+O Career Group (Assessment, Coaching, Outplacement, International Assignment) and subsequently founded the CACB Center for Assessment and Coaching and transformed it, together with CICB, into a shareholder company (Kairos Group Ltd.). Since then I'm working in both areas, intercultural competence at CICB, as well as assessment, coaching and personality development with CACB. Based on numerous inquiries from private individuals, in particular regarding personal or professional positioning and coaching as well as inquiries regarding identification, analysis, further development and optimized use of talents, potential and giftedness, we founded the practice proTalent in 2017, in order to provide services for these needs not only for companies, but also for private individuals.
I'm fluent in German (including Swiss German), French, English and Spanisch, and I have knowledge in Italian, Russian and Latin.
I'm interested in cultures, languages and people; on professional and private trips I had the opportunity to visit more than 120 countries so far. Since the age of five I play the piano; my repertoire includes several dozen classical works. As a young adult, I considered a career in music, but finally decided to study business administration and management. I am married and father of two children. Some other interests and hobbies are photography and chess.
We have combined our experience as psychologist as well as coach and assessor for enterprises in order to apply our know-how and knowledge to the support of people in their personal and professional development.
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We work together with further specialists in our team, mainly from our partner CACB Center for Assessment and Coaching.