My passion is to work at the

Intersection of People and Planet

Empowering People and Organizations
to Drive Sustainable Change!

  • by Interconnecting Inner and Outer Change: I apply insights into human mission and their internal values.

  • by Building Thriving and Sustainable Cultures: I understand the interplay between individual, personal worldview and organizational values and behaviors as critical drivers for success, addressing issues at both individual and organizational level (teams, leadership teams, stakeholder engagement) to improve alignment.

  • by Supporting People and Organizations to Navigate Change: The ability to adapt to change underpins your ability to make an impact in the world.

  • with my Passion for Sustainable and Ethical Leadership and Coaching and Experience in the sustainability and NGO world: Understanding the complex and specific challenges mission-driven organizations and sustainability departments in corporates need to address.

I love to work across geographies, cultures, languages, and across business, NGOs to build bridges and find common ground so people can work together for impact.

Empowering NGOs and corporate clients to unlock their unique strengths to drive sustainable change.

About me

I have always thrived when building relationships with people. When I started my career as a green coffee trader, connecting with people around the globe opened a new world for me, especially when I was able to travel to the beautiful and often remote places in the world where coffee is grown, I got in contact with the reality of local people, often of poverty, lack of education and environmental degradation. Key experiences were visits to an indigenous cooperative in the remote areas of the Huehuetenango mountains in Guatemala and the heart-warming welcome dances of women for our group in Kenya. In both circumstances, people gave us their best. Their best food, their warmth, and their humanity. This changed my career path and in fact, short after I joined UTZ Kapeh (later UTZ Certified) in the start-up phase, and helped to build it to become the largest certification program in the world in coffee (and cocoa!). These were the early days of sustainability, and finally, I was able to connect People and Nature!

During the merger with the Rainforest Alliance, I learnt a lot on how to navigate my cross-continental team through major change, and how to enable them to spread their wings and live their purpose! Given my talent to foster relationships across all continents and hierarchical levels, I was then tasked to build an internal change ambassador network, the Rainforest Alliance Inspiration Network RAIN.

This openend yet another dimension on how to empower people, how to integrate their voices, coach them and collaborate towards the same mission. It was a beautiful experience and it gave my carrer another twist: still people and nature, but now deepening the interactions through coaching, leadership development and culture change!


My Values: Deep care people and culture, integrity, courage, drive to learn.

What I bring:

  • Over 30 years of experience in corporate and mission-driven organizations, with a focus on bringing sustainable change at scale into the business world.

  • Proven track record of successfully leading cross-continental teams from start-up to market leadership and through mergers and restructurings.

  • Executive President (Board Chair) of the Swiss Sustainable Coffee Platform SSCP, a multi-stakeholder initiative in the sustainability space.

  • High cultural sensitivity and multilingual proficiency (German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese).

  • Academic background as a Business Economist and Ethicist (Zurich University), Accredited Certified Executive Coach (International Coaching Federation and IMD), and Executive Leader (Oxford).

  • Experienced mindfulness and breathing therapist, life coach, grief counsellor, and family setting therapist with extensive inner development work.