Esther Goette

Esther is an independent certified professional coach specialized in executive leadership coaching and career transition coaching. Her typical clients are mid- to senior-level leaders as well as high potential talents within multinational corporations who want to get ready for the next step in their career. Often, but not exclusively, they are women who aim for success, and to develop/maintain their own authentic style.

Esther’s coaching style is empathetic and warm, yet challenging and authentic. She is committed to support and encourage her clients on their path of discovery, awareness and choice, and to empower them to find their own answers while keeping them accountable and moving them forward to achieve their dreams and goals. She is connected to the challenges life can impose, having experienced losses both of work as well as in her personal life, and having moved continents and relocated a few times.

Prior to becoming a coach in 2010, Esther has a successful 20 year career as global marketing professional within several multinational corporations and small start-up environments, in the FMCG sector, in Health Care and the New Media industry, both in Europe as well as the USA.

Esther has a truly global background: Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, she worked in Argentina and Singapore, and spent 7 years in New York, USA, before moving to Geneva, Switzerland, in 2003. Throughout her entire career she has been leading and/or working with diverse and multi-cultural teams. She has a Cuban husband and lives with her family in Geneva.

Esther has a master’s degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in Business Administration specializing in Marketing. She has graduated from and is certified with the Coaching Training Institute (CTI), London. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) both globally as well as the chapter in Switzerland. She is one of the co-founders of the Geneva Coach Alliance whose mission it is to promote Co-Active Coaching excellence in the Geneva region. She is a certified practitioner with The Leadership Circle, a 360 degree assessment that measures leadership competencies and the inner assumptions that drive behavior.

Esther is leading workshops on the subject of career transition, branding, networking.
She currently coaches in English and German.

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