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CHRISTINA KUENZLE
Executive Coach & Consultant
Christina is an experienced executive and business coach based in Zurich, Switzerland. Her comprehensive expertise is founded in career management, launching and developing new businesses, accompanying change processes, enhancing leadership effectiveness, achieving results and creating value. Most of her mandates concentrate on issues related to leadership, team effectiveness, performance enhancement, transition and change as well as conflict management.
Prior to becoming a coach, she was a Member of the Executive Committee of Sulzer Ltd., where she was responsible for the Corporate Development function. She has previously worked in a variety of industries including consultancy (HR, strategic and scientific), engineering, petroleum and travel and has held positions in global companies in human resources, general management and strategic consultancy.
She is a guest lecturer at the Universities of Zurich and Basle, a Mentor and Coach at the University of St. Gallen and a member of “INSEAD Executive Coaches”, where she regularly accompanies executive development programmes. She was also on the Board of the “Swiss Code of Ethics”, President of the Collegium Novum Zurich and co-author of several books “Globalization – from vision to practice”, “Coaching Mystique” and “Urban Gurus – turning growth into thriving”. Her book “Vom Abendrot zum Morgenlicht”, based on Schubert’s Winterreise, presents a valid model to effectively deal with crisis.
Christina holds a BA in Economics, an MBA from INSEAD and an MS in Coaching and Consulting for Change from HEC. During her training in psychology, she worked with many internationally renowned professors and coaches from Europe, Canada, India and the US. Her approach has been highly influenced by the works of Manfred Kets de Vries, Robert Hargrove, Daniel Goleman, Michael Lukas Moeller, Gunther Schmidt, Horst Krämer and Michael Bohne. Christina lives in Switzerland and speaks fluent English and German. She passionately pursues psychology, playing the piano, sailing and skiing and belongs to several professional and service networks.
ZURICH/SWITZERLAND
