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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

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