About Catherine
Building human capacity to perform under pressure.
Communications and leadership development professional. A strategic business partner to executives.
Communications and leadership development professional. A strategic business partner to executives.
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Most of my clients have the skills. They know how to lead and perform. Under pressure (the big presentation, live Q&A, difficult conversation, or spontaneous moment) they freeze, react, or go blank. Afterward they think, “that wasn’t me.”
Preparation wasn’t the problem. Their automatic stress response, rooted in nervous system science, is what we work with.
I was a live TV news anchor and reporter. Then a corporate media spokesperson, leading crisis communications at Roche, Novartis, Medtronic, and UnitedHealth Group.
I prepared executives for large events, media interviews, and leading change. I watched brilliant people lose confidence in the moments that counted most, and I learned what helped them perform under pressure with more ease and authenticity.
At 11, I was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis. Every morning required a body check-in: would my knees swell today? I listened to what my body was telling me.
Years later, interviewing people and preparing executives, I already knew the body was a critical resource. I spent over a decade learning and applying body-based expertise to business.
20+ years of broadcast journalism, corporate crisis communications, and senior learning and leadership development. I know what works supporting executives, and what it means personally to perform live in front of thousands.
What the nervous system does under pressure, why it overrides skill, and how to build the capacity to stay clear in the moments that count. Combining this nervous system depth with 20+ years in senior business roles is still an uncommon pairing in coaching.
Based in Zug and working in Zurich, Basel, Lucerne, and Minneapolis, and globally online. Leaders who are technically excellent, have done the development work, and still break down in the moments that count.
Four values run through the work:
Catherine also speaks. Keynotes on performing, communicating, and leading under pressure, from someone who has done it live in front of thousands as a TV anchor and crisis communicator.
Training & accreditation
20+ years in communications, leadership development, and change, including senior roles at Roche, Novartis, Medtronic, and UnitedHealth Group. Before that, a live television news anchor, crisis communicator, and media spokesperson.
ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with 5,000+ coaching hours, and 2,300+ hours of training in somatic coaching, Somatic Experiencing, biofeedback, neurofeedback, and nervous system science since 2015.
It works at two layers: communication and leadership expertise, and the science underneath, what the nervous system does under pressure and how to build the capacity to stay clear in the moments that count.
Traveling globally, based in Zug, with primary clients in Zug, Zurich, Basel, Lucerne, and Minneapolis. Sessions in English, with conversational German.
