Carolyn Arculus
Senior Executive Coach
Goodstone Group LLC
Basel, Switzerland
Email: ca*****@************us.com
Telephone: +41 78 751 2664
Education and Professional Affiliations
- Sc., honors, Psychology, Open University, UK
- Certified Somatic Coach at Strozzi Institute, USA
- Ontological Coach Diploma in Newfield Coaching & Organizational Learning, USA
- Certified in Guiding the Transition of Change. The George Washington University
- Certified in Leading Organizational Transition, William Bridges & Associates
- Professionally certified Facilitator, Interaction Associates
Professional Experience
Carolyn has worked internationally as a coach and management consultant for more than 20 years. She has deep expertise within the global healthcare industry as well as in understanding the challenges and rewards of working in matrix organisations. Her rich and extensive experience of working with different client groups globally and in highly complex cultural and organisational environments has developed her understanding of business and leadership success. As an executive coach, Carolyn’s passion is to enable leaders to fulfil their potential and to create an environment that encourages their people to flourish and truly add value to their organisations.
Carolyn’s coaching partnership style creates powerful conversations that allow clients to broaden their perspectives, leading them to new insights and behaviours and powerful results. Through Carolyn’s exceptional listening skills, she is able to hear the unspoken message and ask questions that go right to the heart of the matter, which ignites breakthrough thinking and actions in her clients.
Carolyn’s corporate background includes:
- strategic facilitation and mediation
- designing and delivering leadership development programs
- analyzing organisational cultures and coaching leadership competencies to guarantee success
- coaching international teams working globally and from multiple locations to optimise their commercial success
Carolyn’s facilitation and mediation work has deepened her knowledge and experience in cross-cultural interfacing (ethnic, professional, and organisational cultures) and business relationship development. She specialises in coaching teams to leverage their cultural diversity to achieve greater performance.
Recent Coaching Assignments
- Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain at a global chemical company to develop trust and authenticity
- Senior Vice President in large global company to develop and maintain a high performing global virtual leadership team
- CEO of a manufacturing company to work on holding others accountable, rather than doing everything himself
- Vice President in a biotech company to support transitioning into a new role, focusing on strategic leadership and building a ‘value added’ high perfoling function
- Vice President in a global pharmaceutical company to improve strategic leadership skills
- Newly-appointed Vice President in a US clinical research company to delegate more effectively and effectively build trust in a joint venture team to ensure the delivery of business benefits
- Three global product development teams in a pharmaceutical company to enhance their performance and ensure “blockbuster” products launched on time
Career History
Independent Executive Coach and Consultant (2006 – present)
Founder and CEO
Novartis Pharma AG CH (2000 – 2005)
Management Consultant and Senior Coach (2003-2005)
Change Management Specialist & Global FAR* Coordinator (2000 – 2002 ) (*FAR – Fast Action for Results, business problem solving process)
Rieter AG CH (1998 – 2000)
Director, Management Support & Human Resources
5C Institute for Cross Cultural Communication and Conflict Conciliation CH (1996 – 1998)
Senior Mediator
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG CH (1993 – 1996)
Management Development Consultant
LCA Consulting AG CH (1988 – 1992)
Founder and CEO
Central Birmingham Trust UK(1983 – 1987)
CEO, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Unit
