Babette Pfander
Babette supports organisations and teams in complex transformational processes, with a strong focus on leadership development. Exploring individuals’ and team purpose as well as discovering potential are crucial ingredients. In those leadership journeys, organisations strengthen their capacity to navigate rough seas and successfully handle challenges. Babette is committed to making every voice heard and having teams jointly develop pathways towards a sustainable future, where humanity has its place. Much of her work is based on the Theory U approach, developed by the Presencing Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, for which she is an associate.
In addition to working with groups, Babette is an experienced coach with experience in career coaching, alongside personal and leadership development coaching. She loves to support people in being diligent and self-reflective leaders of self and others in the position they hold.
Furthermore, Babette is a lecturer and trainer at a University of Applied Sciences and several academic institutes in Switzerland, where she teaches approaches of transformational change, team dynamics and purpose-oriented organisational development in experiential and highly interactive training programmes.
Babette’s holds Master’s degree in Social Anthropology, Political Science and Economics from the University of Berne, Switzerland as well as a Master’s degree in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has extensive international experience, working in Africa and Central Asia for 8 years. During her time overseas, she has worked with non-governmental, governmental as well as multilateral organisations, some of them seeking public private partnerships. In the recent past, she has supported several UN Agencies as well as local organisations of the Global South with strategy development, team alignment as well as the design and implementation of training programmes in online formats. She is fluent in German, English and French.
