After spending more than three weeks in Brazil, the third stage of our Odyssey ended on the 6th of April 2022. And what an adventure! Our encounters with 22 employees, 14 companies and many "Cariocas" in Rio de Janeiro and "Paulistanos" in São Paulo, helped us to understand the Brazilian managerial and societal culture.
Graduated of the HEC school (MSc, Lausanne, Innsbruck) and holder of a certificate in risk management, Christophe is committed to sustainability, participative management training and risk management. Passionate about nature, human adventures, mountains and sports, he is very active in the associative world: president of Geneva Snowsports, vice-president of Ski Romand and of the sports commission of the Loterie Romande GE, president of the IDDEA Prize and of the Fédération Romande des Consommateurs (FRC) and member of the Board of the Swiss Banking Ombudsman and of Gesundheitsforderung Schweiz. He recently became member of the Advisory Board of BLab Switzerland, which holds the BCorp certification, and is involved in the committee of Gewerbeverein, the new Swiss umbrella organization for sustainable entrepreneurship. He co-founded Loyco in 2013, a swiss service company that has grown to over 120 employees and CHF 18 million in turnover in 10 years, without a sales force or hierarchy.
Mickael Drouard is the co-Founder of Fabric, a consultancy dedicated to helping organisations making their next step towards functioning as a living organisations, with extensive experience in the Pharma industry. He is also the host of Pyramid to circles, a podcast dedicated to leaders who want to undertake a journey towards empowerment and collective intelligence.
Sabrina Schell is a research professor for human resource management in new forms of work and organization at the Institute for New Work at the Bern University of Applied Sciences. In Cologne, she is a supervisory board member at NEOMATIC AG and accompanies the company into a new organizational design. After completing her PhD on family businesses and business succession at the University of Siegen, she spent 6 years at the University of Bern at the Institute for Organization and Human Resources. Her passions are the creation of the future of work in which we work well and happily, family businesses and medium-sized companies.
Sabrina has been working as an agile organization developer in a department of Digital Rail Germany (DB Netz AG) for about 3 years. Since the beginning, she has been accompanying teams in their self-organized way of working and giving onboardings, workshops and trainings around agility and self-organization. she also deals with the topics of target setting and alignment as well as with mindfulness in the workplace.
Niels is an experienced change leader and a mixer of methodologies. He has passion for finding the right combination of tools to help (self-organising) teams and organisations. Making them more agile, creating autonomy & transparency, and just making work more fun.
Kim Claesen works as Area Manager at Partena Professional where she is the link between clients, operations and the organisation. Outside her role as Area Manager, she is actively involved in coaching employees within the organisation in the collaborative governance model, taking on the role of Business Model Coach in this regard. In this role, she supports employees in developing a strategy and objectives that contribute to achieving their goals. Thanks to both roles, Kim witnesses the effects of the implementation of collaborative governance in the day-to-day operations of the teams . In her spare time, Kim studies and practices Astrology.
Rodrigo is a facilitator, organizational designer and partner at Target Teal. He has worked professionally as an engineer and manager, and worked for over 10 years creating and leading programs that use experiential education for team and individual development. For the past 6 years he has been helping organizations fundamentally change the way they operate. He is one of the creators of the O2 social technology used by companies of all branches to adopt self-management practices.
Karin Loibl has been working for Welser Profile for almost 16 years. Her activities have always been very diverse and colourful, which also corresponds to her nature. From travel management to the support and implementation of various projects to the introduction of lean administration. She discovered her passion for change management and thus for supporting people in change processes. Karin has therefore supported the Welser transformation journey from the very beginning - initially as a workshop moderator and change agent. Now she acts as a circle lead for change projects and change communication to create framework conditions and tools, which strengthen trust-based, mutual design and make the added value of the transformation tangible in the organization. In her private life, Karin seeks balance with her animals and in nature, where she also likes to enjoy the peace and quiet.
For more than five years, Kerstin Potthoff-Koß has been instrumental in shaping and developing the ”Homeport” of Global IT at Dräger with her ideas and impulses. The focus of her work is the development and establishment of a new operating model in IT in which agility and self-organization are the basis for cross-divisional collaboration. Her tasks also include designing the new "Heimathafen", a new working environment based on desk sharing and activity-based working, as well as organizing the Evolution Festival for the approximately 15,000 Dräger employees worldwide, which focuses on the transformation of the working world. The economics graduate, trained change manager, team and business coach worked in IT and organizational projects at various consulting companies before joining Dräger in 2008.
Maxime started his career at Partena Professional eight years ago as Payroll Consultant, then as internal Trainer and e-learning expert in payroll and labor law. When the Board of Directors felt the need to transform their pyramidal structure into an autonomous and collaborative organization, a team of ten employees from the business was set up to dream of the company of tomorrow and to steer the transformation. Maxime was one of them, mainly focusing on internal communication and project coordination. Today, he leads a circle accountable for governance, PMO and change management, ensuring an impactful continuous transformation. He also has a complementary freelance activity, creating and organizing murder mystery parties for individuals and companies.
Rico Travella is a member of the Executive Board of Alternative Bank Switzerland. He is responsible for marketing and communication, sustainability as well as strategy development and controlling, among other things. Rico Travella is 56 years old. He studied at the University of St. Gallen and earned his doctorate with a dissertation in marketing. Professional stations were: deputy executive director of an NGO, strategy and organisation consultant in a medium-sized consulting company and as entrepreneur partner in an agency for fundraising, marketing and communication with a focus on NGOs and SMEs.
