FACILIATION
With over 10 years of experience, specialize in planning and executing tailored workshops that deliver tangible results. My expertise ensures each session fosters engagement and collaboration, driving real outcomes for your organization.
If you prefer a DIY approach, I also offer one-hour coaching sessions for guidance and support. Let's create impactful workshops together!
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Facilitator-led sessions
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Leadership offsite Facilitation
Leadership teams need time away to reflect and plan. In offsites, I design agendas and facilitate sessions that balance reflection with future planning, ensuring clear initiatives and ownership. A neutral facilitator enables equal participation and guided discussions for effective outcomes.
Recent offsites include:
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Aligning leadership on product strategy post-merger, paving the way for a VC exit.
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Streamlining annual roadmap, budget, and OKR planning, cutting the process time by 50%.
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Creating a cultural manifesto with actionable steps for leadership.
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Ideation & Innovation workshops
Ideation workshops, both in-person and remote via Mural, help teams generate and refine innovative ideas. Sessions range from half-day workshops to full-week design sprints, tailored to specific goals. The right stimulation and structured approach ensure creative, high-impact outcomes.
Recent workshops include:
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A one-week design sprint for a European airline, identifying new in-flight payment methods.
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Developing a B2C digital business model for cow milk, leading to a successful corporate venture.
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A strategy workshop for a global coffee brand, shaping a roadmap to boost revenue by 50% in three years.
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Agile, customer-centrictiy workshops
Hands-on training in design thinking, agile principles, and servant leadership equips teams with practical tools to drive innovation, adapt to change, and collaborate effectively. Interactive sessions ensure immediate applicability, helping leaders and teams integrate these approaches into their daily work.
Recent training sessions include:
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Coaching Microsoft sales teams on customer-centric techniques to boost closed deals.
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Training a banking team in design thinking to identify customer challenges and develop solutions.
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Providing agile leadership training to senior executives at a global bank to spark cultural transformation.
WHAT PREVIOUS CUSTOMERS SAY
"We had the pleasure of working with Hester to organize our executive offsites, and she was fantastic. From the planning phase to helping us stay focused on our strategic goals, her business sense and ability to manage time and priorities were spot on. What really stood out was her flexibility in adjusting schedules whenever needed, making everything run smoothly. She brought a great mix of expertise and practical insight, and we’re so grateful for her support in helping us achieve our goals."
Francine Gervazio, CEO Shiftmove
DYI workshop coaching
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Design Your Own Leadership Offsite – 1:1 Coaching Session
Planning a leadership offsite but not sure where to start?
In this focused 1-hour coaching session, we’ll work together to design an offsite that’s not just a meeting in disguise, but a powerful catalyst for alignment, energy, and forward momentum.
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Clarity on the outcomes that matter most for your team or business
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A tailored agenda structure with formats and activities that spark real engagement
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Tips for facilitating with confidence, from opening moments to landing the message
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Practical day-of advice to keep things on track (and human)
Whether you're a first-time planner or just looking to raise the bar, this session gives you the frameworks, ideas, and confidence to make your next offsite count.
Let’s turn your leadership offsite into a turning point.
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Run Your Own Ideation Workshop – 1:1 Coaching Session
Want to run a great ideation workshop but don’t know where to start?
In this 1-hour coaching session, you’ll learn how to design and deliver workshops that go beyond sticky notes, and actually spark useful, actionable ideas.
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The core building blocks of any effective ideation session
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How to define what you want to get out—and tailor the format to your audience and goals
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Ways to structure an engaging agenda that builds momentum and unlocks creativity
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The best tools and methods for generating ideas (even with skeptical participants)
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Practical tips for facilitating with ease and managing the energy in the room
Whether you’re working with execs, cross-functional teams, or early-stage founders, this session will help you confidently create and run workshops that deliver both ideas and alignment.
Let’s make your next ideation session a success—by design.
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Design an Impactful Team Kick-Off – 1:1 Coaching Session
Starting a new project with a new team? The first steps matter more than you think.
This 1-hour coaching session helps you launch any team with clarity, connection, and a shared understanding of how to work together—before misalignment creeps in.
Together, we’ll cover:
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The core ingredients of high-performing teams
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How to use a simple, powerful Ways of Working canvas—just one page, no slide decks
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Key building blocks like:
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Shared expectations
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What to do when things go off-track
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Defining success beyond KPIs
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Communication preferences (especially for hybrid teams)
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You’ll leave with a tailored plan and the confidence to run your own kick-off session—one that sets your team up to collaborate, decide, and deliver with more ease.
Let’s get your team off to a strong start.
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Innovation & Digital consulting
Helping businesses cut through the noise by identifying key trends and insights to shape their future.
A user-centric approach uncovers customer needs, ensuring innovation efforts align with real demand. Ideation sessions generate solutions, which are validated through rapid prototyping and testing. Once validated, clear business models and strategies bring concepts to life and embed them successfully.
Recent experiences include:
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Leading a 12-week design-thinking initiative for a Swiss dairy producer, launching a digital business that later expanded internationally.
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Developing a custom methodology for a bank to transform its new business team, adapting agile practices to a banking context.
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Transformation & change management
Putting people at the heart of change creates stronger outcomes.
Transformation succeeds when teams understand the “why,” co-create the path forward, and are equipped with practical, agile tools. By involving those closest to the work, change becomes something people own—not something imposed.
Coaching, peer-led networks, and lightweight feedback loops help embed new behaviours and turn ambition into measurable impact.
Recent experiences include:
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Coaching a global healthcare company through a transformation to embed customer-centric mindsets, redesign cross-functional workflows, and upskill the sales and marketing organization in new ways-of-working.
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Helping a global bank become user-centric by creating a bespoke framework to identify and develop customer value.
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Project & Program management
Experienced and PMP certified project manager, applying classic, hybrid, and agile methodologies to drive successful outcomes.
Skilled in managing large-scale digital initiatives, complex stakeholder environments, and corporate ventures with a focus on alignment, efficiency, and impact. A structured yet adaptable approach optimizes teams and processes to meet business goals.
Recent experiences include:
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Leading delivery of a £3M+ healthcare app, resolving delays and scope issues to ensure on-time, full-scope completion.
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Managing a global tool producer’s content strategy, aligning 250+ stakeholders through a sprint-based approach and design-thinking methodology.
CONTACT
If you want to discuss your challenges and how I could help please reach out!
Tel: +41 79 904 24 64
