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Culture and values

Peter Drucker famously said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” We fully subscribe to this view and have been building a distinct identity since our inception that reflects who we are and what we do. These are the key elements of our unique Stucki culture.

We embody these principles daily and let them guide our decisions. They are more than just decorative elements on our office walls.

These elements describe who we are as a company. They are so important we work on them regularly and assess our alignment to them monthly.

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We’re passionate about what we do and live our roles with full dedication and motivation.

Authenticity is the cornerstone on which we build trust.
We foster an environment in which everyone feels psychologically safe to express his / her / their needs and feelings.
We deliver what we committed to whatever it takes.

With our growth mindset we continuously learn and improve.

We approach challenges with a “Yes we can” mindset.

Even when the water is ice cold, we stick together as ONE team.

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Trainers

BERNARD REBER

CEO, Trainer bernard.reber@stucki.ch

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine it is lethal.

Paulo Coelho

CHRISTOF BIEDERMANN

Trainer
christof.biedermann@stucki.ch

There are skills that you can learn. There are abilities that we already carries within ourselves. One is not better than the other. The decisive factor is what you use them for.

Buddhist saying

MARKUS STUCKI

Trainer
markus.stucki@stucki.ch

Learning is like swimming against the current. If you stop you start to drift backwards.

Lao-tse

SONJA GEISER

Trainer
sonja.geiser@stucki.ch

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

TAMARA MINNIG

Trainer
tamara.minnig@stucki.ch

Only those who burn themselves can ignite fire in others

Augustine of Hippo

Outdoor Experts

NEIL BROWN

Technical specialist
neil.brown@stucki.ch

The Only Constant in Life Is Change.

Heraclitus

LOUIS HENDERSON

Technical specialist
louis.henderson@stucki.ch

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience — well, that comes from poor judgement.

Coordination

TIZIANA FLÜGEL

Seminar Coordinator / Office Manager
tiziana.fluegel@stucki.ch

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Welten

Communication Specialist / Seminar Coordinator
anna.welten@stucki.ch

Be a voice, not an echo.

FLURIN LANZ

Junior Trainer / Seminar Coordinator
flurin.lanz@stucki.ch

What says the most about a person is not how he treats friends, but how he treats strangers.

Dante Alighieri

Associate Trainers

NORA CANTINI

Trainer

Set me a task in which I can put something of myself, and it is a task no longer; it is joy, it is art.

B. Carmen

STEFANIE HEIDTMANN

Trainer

Nothing is more constant than change

Heraclitus

FABIOLA AHATRI

Trainerin

EKKEHARD HAGER

Trainer
Austrian agency
ekkehard.hager@stucki.ch

Do not think that this is all. There are still many wonderful teachings – the sword is unfathomable.

Yamaoku Tesshu – Japanese samurai

DEBORAH ABBOT

Trainer

FRANZ WAIBEL

Trainer

WALTER BOLINGER

Trainer
walter.bolinger@stucki.ch

You can’t teach others anything, you can only help them discover it.

Galileo Galilei

AXEL KRAVATZKY

Trainer
Trinidad and Tobago agency

BERTRAND COMTE

Trainer
info@stucki.ch

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you

B.B. King

HEINZ LEITINGER

Trainer

People forget what you say, people forget what you do, but they will never forget the feeling you give them.

Unknown

ISABELLE GRUNDER

Trainer

It is not doubt but certainty that drives one mad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

MARC HAAG

Trainer
marc.haag@stucki.ch

He who thinks he is something has ceased to become something.

Philip Rosenthal

MARCEL ZOLLINGER

Trainer

A brain without a heart is like a car without an engine. A heart without a brain is only like an engine.

MARTIN RÜEGG

Trainer
martin.ruegg@stucki.ch

Team performance is not about individual greatness. It’s about collective vulnerability, trust, and accountability

Patrick Lencioni

MICHÈLE REBER

Trainer

The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions

Paul Watzlawick

PATTI AMONINI

Trainer

Upon the sea of life, although I may not be able to control the winds that blow, I can always set the sails.

Mildred Hayer

PILAR BRAZ

Trainer
Iberia agency
pilar.braz@stucki.ch

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

MYRIAM GROBLI

Trainer

STÉPHANIE RUDER

Trainer
Attempt to make men and women aware of the greatness that they do not know exists within them.

André Malraux

TAREK KOTB

Trainer
Middle East agency
tarek.kotb@stucki.ch

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Nelson Mandela

THOMAS STANKIEWITZ

Trainer

It is not a question of which direction the wind is coming from but how we set the sails!

ANDREAS WETTSTEIN

Trainer

It is not a question of which direction the wind is coming from but how we set the sails!

MIGUEL CAMACHO

Trainer
miguel.camacho@stucki.ch

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Asscociate Outdoor Experts

JEFFREY KNEUBÜHLER

Technical specialist

DANNY BROWN

Technical specialist

MATTHIAS RUCHTI

Technical specialist

VICTOR TRAILL

Technical specialist

BARRIE ROBLEY (MUSTARD)

Technical specialist

MARTIN GERBER "BENJI"

Technical specialist

CHRISTIAN SCHENK

Technical specialist

DANIEL DEE RUITER

Technical specialist

BRUNNER ALBERT

Technical specialist

OWEN GLOVER

Technical specialist

PHILIPP HAUSAMMANN

Technical specialist

MCGARRY TOBY

Technical specialist

TODD DANA

Technical specialist

STEPHAN LITZLER

Technical specialist

TED HOFER

Technical specialist

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Professional Career

Bernard started his career in the travel industry. He further extended his theoretical knowledge at the HEG Lausanne, graduating in 1998 as a business administrator. He spent seven years working as a management consultant. His areas of expertise were project and change management, and process optimization in the financial sector as well as in industry. In 2002 he successfully completed an executive MBA in international business.

Before coming to Stucki, he worked as a senior program manager at a start-up company in Zurich that specialized in the authentication of originals.

He joined Stucki in 2008 in the role of managing director and bought the company in 2017. He has conducted hundreds of seminars in the areas of leadership, team development and change management. He particularly likes the opportunities, when he can support clients from the design of the program until its rollout into the company and witnessing the positive impact it has on every employee.

Professional Career

Leadership and team building fascinated me early on. I concluded my studies of economics with a dissertation on the subject of “Subjective leadership theories – the significance of good leadership for Swiss leaders”. In the following 25 years I gained considerable professional, leadership and life experience as a manager in various industries and positions, ultimately as the CEO of a medium-sized enterprise. I make this experience available to others today as a coach and consultant.

Professional Career

Apprenticeship as a radio-TV electronics technician, followed by training in IT, secondary school leaving certificate and degree in environmental sciences at the ETH in Zurich. Trainer training in action-oriented learning and outdoor training at the Stucki company. Training as an organizational consultant and coach at the Institute for Systemic Impulses, Zurich with BSO degree. Certified consultant for Insights Discovery and REISS Profile.

Professional Career

Born and raised in Benin in a French-speaking environment. After a period in Valais and Basel, settled in Bern. Trained as a teacher and special education teacher. 9 years of teaching experience at various levels. Alongside this, head of a basketball club until vertical movement replaced the horizontal. Since 2018, leading climbing trainings and outdoor camps for young people. In 2019, trained as a trainer in experiential education and outdoor training at Drudel 11 and in 2020, further training in action-oriented learning at the Stucki company.

Professional Career

Tamara holds a master’s degree in International Business (University of Krems) as well as Mental Strength Coaching (University of Salzburg). Her thesis focused on resilience and employee health in large corporations affected by mass lay-offs.
She has more than six years of leadership experience as International Sales Manager for Medical Equipment and as Business Manager for a start-up company in conference organization and further education.
Tamara is also an Outdoor Adventure Guide in white water rafting, kayaking and trekking and spent three years leading groups through remote deserts and rainforests for an Australian outdoor expedition company.
As a dual citizen of Austria and Australia, Tamara is bilingual in German and English.

Professional Career

Born and raised in Benin in a French-speaking environment. After a period in Valais and Basel, settled in Bern. Trained as a teacher and special education teacher. 9 years of teaching experience at various levels. Alongside this, head of a basketball club until vertical movement replaced the horizontal. Since 2018, leading climbing trainings and outdoor camps for young people. In 2019, trained as a trainer in experiential education and outdoor training at Drudel 11 and in 2020, further training in action-oriented learning at the Stucki company.

Professional Career

Nadja started her professional career with an apprenticeship as a restaurant specialist. Afterwards, she completed a diploma in tourism at the school of higher education in Thun and graduated in 2022 with a BSc in tourism, specializing in e-commerce, from the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons. She gained international experience in England and Japan. Travelling, getting to know new cultures and languages are among her great passions. In her free time, she likes to be in nature, and if you don’t find her outside, then she has made herself comfortable in her cocoon with a good book.

Professional Career

Tourism expert Flurin Lanz combines skills from a wide range of fields. He is a trained vehicle mechanic, an emergency paramedic for the Swiss army and has been an outdoor guide in the adventure sector for many years. Through his training, he brings more than just the bare essentials needed as a technical specialist. Thanks to his many years of experience as a tour guide in canyoning, rafting and bungy-jumping, there is no situation that can upset him. In his free time, he can mainly be met in the mountains doing a variety of activities.

Professional Career

In the first part of her professional life, Nora spent ten years at Hewlett-Packard driving pan-European projects in systems, sales administration, market research and quality assurance. After a Master in Business & Environment, she managed capacity building programmes for sustainable development, for business executives and government officials, primarily from developing countries. More recently her work with private companies and international organisations has been focused on leadership, talent development, team building, communication, and career development – living her passion for supporting people in their growth and transformation.

Tri-national and tri-lingual, Nora has always lived and worked in multi-cultural environments. She has a BA in Business Administration, a European Master in Environmental Management and is a certified Coach.

Professional Career

Leadership is the ability to initiate and accompany external change. The basis for this is the willingness to allow inner change.
Stefanie Heidtmann earned the title of “Assesorin Juris” (fully qualified lawyer) in Würzburg, Germany and Barcelona, Spain. As a lawyer, she focused on tax and commercial law.
Today she works as a coach for human potential development and has incorporated training as an osteopath, alternative practitioner and lecturer at various professional academies on her way into this profession. In addition, she is a snowboard instructor, wilderness educator and has a licence as a karate trainer for popular sports and holds the 1st Dan.

Professional Career

Bernard started his career in the travel industry. He further extended his theoretical knowledge at the HEG Lausanne, graduating in 1998 as a business administrator. He spent seven years working as a management consultant. His areas of expertise were project and change management, and process optimization in the financial sector as well as in industry. In 2002 he successfully completed an executive MBA in international business.

Before coming to Stucki, he worked as a senior program manager at a start-up company in Zurich that specialized in the authentication of originals.

He joined Stucki in 2008 in the role of managing director and bought the company in 2017. He has conducted hundreds of seminars in the areas of leadership, team development and change management. He particularly likes the opportunities, when he can support clients from the design of the program until its rollout into the company and witnessing the positive impact it has on every employee.

Professional Career

Education: Studied psychology at the University of Buenos Aires, specializing in education and social psychology. Postgraduate studies at the University of Buenos Aires, specializing in human resources development. Professional experience: Various international activities as a teacher and coach as well as in the field of corporate development. International consulting work with a focus on multicultural challenges and global tasks.

Interests: Traveling and exploring potential synergies of thought patterns and worldviews.

Professional Career

Leadership and team building fascinated me early on. I concluded my studies of economics with a dissertation on the subject of “Subjective leadership theories – the significance of good leadership for Swiss leaders”. In the following 25 years I gained considerable professional, leadership and life experience as a manager in various industries and positions, ultimately as the CEO of a medium-sized enterprise. I make this experience available to others today as a coach and consultant.

Professional Career

Having competed in professional sports since a young age, I grew up witnessing the strength of human courage & power of teamwork. Driven by my passion for cultural diversity & teaching, I spent 1 year working for a humanitarian mission in Southeast Asia to teach under-privileged kids & design their integration programs to local schools. These experiences have led me to believe in combining positivity & empathy with personal development.

Having led best-in-class senior executive & leadership programs at IMD for the past 5 years, I believe in a holistic approach for fostering self-growth in leadership development that includes physical confidence, finding purpose & learning to manage stress under high pressure environments.

To integrate my passion for top performance sports with my business expertise, I provide coaching for senior executives from a different angle by considering them like professional atlhetes and adding mental & physical preparation.

My working style is dynamic, disciplined & always looking for ways to incorporate fun & joyfulness to enhance every learning opportunity. I thrive in diverse, multicultural environments & communicate with charisma to moderate business decisions & empower clients.

Professional Career

Diploma studies at ETH/Military Academy Zurich, specializing in strategy, psychology and pedagogy. From 1996 for 6 years responsible for training in the recruit and officer school (coaching and leadership development of cadres). Trained as an outdoor trainer in Australia and with the Stucki company. Further training in systemic experiential education, creative ritual process design, at the Planoalto Institute in St. Gallen.

Professional Career

Work psychologist, Isabelle has been active in human resources and consulting for over 25 years. Also holding a diploma in business administration and a certified coach, she has taken on responsibilities nationally and internationally in sectors as diverse as banking, multinationals, a big four, insurance, FMCG, a not-for-profit foundation and the public service.
Trilingual F-D-E, Isabelle acts as HR leader, coach and trainer. These three activities nurture one another and pursue the same objective of connecting each individual to his full potential and co-workers to the organisation – as well as the opposite.

Professional Career

Nach meinem BWL Studium an der Universität St. Gallen habe ich mir während nunmehr fast 20 Jahren Führungserfahrung in der Finanz- und Telekombranche angeeignet. In diversen Führungspositionen vor allem im Bereich Projekt-, Produktmanagement, B2B Marketing und Marketing Controlling konnte ich mein Leadership-know-how auf eine breite Basis stellen. Das theoretische Fundament für meine Trainertätigkeit besteht aus diversen betriebsinternen Leadership-Lehrgängen sowie einer Trainerausbildung im Bereich handlungsorientierte Führung bei Stucki Leadership & Team Development.

Professional Career

Martin Rüegg, Engineer, MBA, Senior Leader, and certified Coach has worked 28 years in leading global companies in the Pharmaceutical and Telecommunication industry in Switzerland and Canada at all management levels.

He brings deep expertise in engineering, technology, and digital transformation, at the same time strong people and change leadership capabilities. His leadership competencies and experience paired with coaching skills allows him to support individuals, teams and organisations in their development and transformation in today’s highly challenging environments.

In addition to Stucki’s broad leadership simulations, Martin Rüegg is knowledgeable in a variety of methods and tools. Leadership Circle Profile (LCP), Systemic Team Coaching (STC), Co-Active Coaching (CPCC), Scaled Agile (SAFe) with which he coached numerous leaders and teams.

He can empathize with a wide range of leadership situations quickly and is experienced with many situations that can lead to success and failure. His style is authentic, he draws on his intuition and works in partnership, systemically and potential-oriented. Martin creates safe spaces, is curious and free of judgments so individuals and people in teams can openly and equally name personal challenges and bring in their potential – spaces where sustainable change and growth can arise.

Professional Career

Michèle has grown up in Bern. She studied at the Hotel Management School of Lausanne and graduated in 1994. During her studies she worked in Lugano and Canada. After her studies she was working in the Hotel Business starting with Food and Beverege (Event Management) and eventually was nominated Human Ressources Manager of the Hotel Schweizerhof in Bern. A six month stay in South America followed. Later she worked for ZFU Business Management School in Zürich as a Project Manager for Personal Development and Leadership Seminars. After a break to take care of her three kids she worked as HR-Manager western Switzerland for Compass Group. She studied Coaching at IDC Geneva and opened her Coaching Business in Yverdon. Since 2016 parallel to this she started to work for a non-profit organization that is engaged in socioprofessional integration as a Job coach and consultant in the team for systemic and strategic short-term therapy. In 2021 she made a CAS in Advanced Coaching and is currently studying systemic and strategic short-term therapy at IGB in Lausanne.

Professional Career

Patti has a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in sport and experiential pedagogy from the University Monclair State, New Jersey, USA.

She spent over two years working with difficult children in the wilderness. Patti has been living in Switzerland since 1986. In the first few years she worked as a wellness instructor and lecturer for movement and condition training. She has also gained further experience lecturing in dynamic team building at a wellness school and being a lecturer/assessor for outdoor seminars. Alongside her other duties, Patti gives the courses “The Learning Manager” and “Personal Managerial Skills” for MBA graduates at the Hochschule für Berufstätige (Business University) in St.Gallen and Zurich.

Patti has worked for Stucki Leadership – Teambuilding AG since 1995. She particularly enjoys the intense work with different cultures and personalities.

Professional Career

Portuguese psychologist. Has worked since 1994 as a consultant on personal and organizational development. She has designed and coordinated seminars on leadership development and team building. From 2000 to 2005 she worked as an internal development consultant at Volkswagen where she was deeply involved in the business reengineering process throughout the company. She strives for continuous improvement and a goal-oriented spirit. Keen on new learning paradigms, she was trained by Stucki in experiential learning. She is also certified in MBTI and has experience with NLP, assessment centers, 360º feedback processes and bioenergetic analysis.

Professional Career

El Ing HTL, patented mountain guide, extensive trainer training in Switzerland and abroad, extensive management experience as an engineer in ZH, Geneva and Thun, as a mountain guide on several expeditions (e.g. Arctic), many years of teaching experience as a specialist teacher at ABW, independent seminar leader since 1984, founder of action-oriented learning in German-speaking Europe

Professional Career

Stéphanie Ruder holds a Master's degree in Economics and Business Management (HEC Lausanne, 1987). In Switzerland, she worked in Zurich, Basel, Lausanne and Geneva. Abroad, she lived and worked in Dubai (UAE) and the United States. The discovery of new horizons, both external and internal, as well as his passion for human beings, have woven the common thread of his journey, accomplished mainly in the field of human resources. Over the years, Stéphanie has broadened her skills more specifically in relational aspects such as self-leadership, self-affirmation, interpersonal communication and motivation. In addition to her consulting experience, Stéphanie Ruder is also a certified consultant for MBTI, LEA and Insights psychometric tools. She works in French and English.

Professional Career

Mr Tarek Kotb is a trainer and an organizational capacity specialist. He studied in Egypt where he was awarded a B.Sc. in science, advanced to a diploma in social development from St. Fax Univ. in Canada and a Master’s in economic development from the London School of Economics. After extensive experience working as a director of international aid projects, Tarek now works in Europe and the Middle East as a business coach and a trainer in leadership, team development and business development. He runs a consultancy firm that works in talent management in the Middle East. He is passionate about multiculturalism and cultural impact on business. He is a Stucki accredited trainer and Insights licensed practitioner. He was born in Egypt in 1963.

Professional Career

Thomas Stankiewitz is well known as a successful and unconventional trainer and coach of leaders in business and administration. His specialty is the combination of soft and hard factors. This can also be seen in the two areas of his training as an economist (MBA) as well as a mediator and vicar (lic. theol.) working with drug addicts.

As a trainer and coach he can draw on his reflected experience as a successful leader in the private sector (MIGROS), sport (BSC YB), Swiss administration (BAFU [Federal Office for the Environment], UVEK [Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications]) and social services (vicar working with drug addicts).
Tasks and questions that seem unfathomable fascinate him in particular. He proves his capabilities as a mediator and specialist for change processes in times of crisis where he combines the balance of clear target orientation with excellent people skills. He is also a sought-after lecturer and speaker in universities and on public panels on the subject of leadership.

He is convinced that personality development is central to long-term success.

Professional Career

Carpenter, foreman, mountain guide and skiing instructor.

Professional Career

Miguel (Mike) is a top-notch facilitator and trainer who has obtained excellent reviews for his work in more than 50 countries in 5 continents. With more than 25 years’ experience in trade development he has achieved outstanding results working with SMEs and private sector bodies to improve their performance in international markets. He has consulted for many international organisations such as the ITC, the World Bank, GIZ, SIPPO, IPD, and the EU.

Miguel is a Colombian citizen living in Switzerland for more than 15 years, and holds a MSc in International Management from the University of Liverpool, an MA in Marketing and a BSc in Economics from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He is fluent in French, English and Spanish, knows rudimentary Italian and is learning German.