Stéphanie is an international team and leadership development coach and trainer. She has more than 17 years experience of helping executives and managers develop their leadership, self-leadership, interpersonal communication, assertiveness and emotional intelligence skills. She has done this through individual and team coaching and training. She has developed, designed and facilitated seminars in dozens of multinational corporations in the finance, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and public sectors. She is experienced in experiential team building, organizational culture change and leading in challenging situations.

She has a solid reputation for helping the individual align and leverage their unique strengths and values with high performance. Her effectiveness in working with organizations is in large part due to her extensive business and HR management experience in several US and European companies. She has held positions in finance, general management and marketing. Based in Switzerland, she has worked throughout Europe. Stéphanie has also lived and worked in Dubai and the US.

Stéphanie holds a Master in Economic and Business Management (HEC Lausanne, 1987). She is certified in various psychometric assessment instruments and and is an Integral Master Coach™.

She lives with her husband in a small village near the Lake of Geneva. Her interests lie in personal development, natural horsemanship (she owns her own horse), nature, hiking, and reading, Her motto: “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain” – Vivian Greene

Negotiation specialist and Solution Focused coach

London School of Economics (LSE) graduate Melissa Davies has held operational and strategic management positions in several international and national companies before becoming an international consultant. Her fields are organizational development, partnership brokering and negotiations, people development (self leadership and capacity building) and project management.

Melissa is an independent professional negotiator who founded Negoservices Sàrl in 2000. With over 30 years’ experience in negotiating agreements and building lasting partnerships in varied environments, she trains in negotiation skills and conflict management. Customers include academia, scientific research institutes, the private sector (multi-nationals and SME) as well as non-profit organizations. Her book The Practical Negotiation Handbook A Five Step Approach to Lasting Partnerships was published in 2021 and has been translated into several languages. Melissa also specializes in self-leadership skills so as to positively influence our relationships with others, including how to “be” (posture) in conflicting situations and in negotiations.
A qualified Solution Focused coach, Melissa helps people and organizations in their professional and personal development to better face their challenges and to get to where they want to be. Melissa intervenes in several European programs for women leaders in science. She also has a long experience in coaching teenagers and young adults, as well as working with scientists (PhDs, Postdocs, Gls/PIs).

In 2022, Melissa was selected as one of the Career Women’s Forum top 40 inspiring women who have been active in the professional, political, and social fields in the French speaking part of Switzerland these last 40 years.

Melissa is passionate about mountains, nature and wildlife conservation. Member of two mountaineering clubs, she is very active with teenagers and young adults. Melissa is interested in sustainable development and social issues; she volunteered for several years as a senior partnerships officer for Norlha, a grass roots NGO involved in sustainable development projects and empowering women in the Himalayas. She also volunteered in 2022 in Bidibidi, a refugee settlement in Northern Uganda, working on conflict transformation, negotiation and positive deviance. In 2023, 2024 and 2025 she volunteered in Gonarezhou National Park (Zimbabwe) working with the Gonarezhou Conservation Trust management team on political and wildlife negotiations, capacity building and solution focuses conflict management techniques.