TANYA FAUDE-KOIVISTO

Tanya began her coaching career nearly 20 years ago as an internal coach and consultant focused on leadership development and communication within a European electronic manufacturing company. Driven to understand the scientific and theoretical underpinnings of human development, Tanya spent several years in academia researching the cognitive and emotional processes involved in goal setting, implementation and planning. While earning her MA and PhD, 

Tanya led interdisciplinary and international research teams and in 2006 she supported a major structural change as an internal executive coach and consultant at Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecom provider. Since then, Tanya has worked as an external executive coach and organisational development consultant, serving individuals and teams in multinational organisations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. She is also a faculty member at Columbia University’s Executive Coaching Program, The Gestalt Center for Organization and Systems Development, and The Institute for Self-Management and Motivation in Zurich.

Tanya has coached leaders and teams in electronics, finance, automobile manufacturing, solar energy, telecommunications, education, health care, and fashion design. As executive coach and consultant, she supports leaders and leadership teams to stretch beyond their habitual thinking, relating, and problem solving patterns to achieve results that have the intended impact. She tailors a hands-on, holistic approach to each individual and organisation. Gestalt principles, intercultural dynamics, systems thinking, psychology, and neuroscience are factors that influence her work. Her clients look to her to provide a mix of theoretical knowledge, pragmatism, openness and a good sense of humour.

Tanya’s international experience and perspective comes from having lived in Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, the US East and West Coast, and having worked in a global setting for 20 years. She holds dual US-German citizenship and speaks German, English, French and intermediate Spanish.

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