Meet the Team
CLAIRE CORBETT
Claire Corbett
Founder & Managing Director - Programs Director
Employee Wellbeing
Leadership Development
Diversity and Inclusion
Claire is the founder and managing director of Right Point. A business professional, certified coach and corporate trainer who is passionate about employee wellbeing, leadership development and building more diverse and inclusive workplaces. She has a visionary, yet practical approach, to her client work. Her passion for growth, personal and professional development motivates her to continuously demonstrate how various strategies and techniques can be applied in effective and practical ways to improve the well-being of staff, evolve leadership at the senior levels and support companies as they become more diverse and inclusive.
Building on her enthusiasm for making a difference, Claire founded her own business, Right Point in 2016, which offers a range of coaching and training services to both individuals and teams from start-ups to large corporations. Her most recent experience in Switzerland includes working with a variety of business professionals and corporate clients such as Julius Baer, Quintet Bank, FIFA, HSBC Switzerland, Swiss Re, UBP & AXA XL.
Claire and her team of highly experienced associates empower their corporate clients to move past limited thinking and step into new realms of possibilities. Right Point is at the cutting edge of human centric leadership, progressive organization development and future ways of working.
ALISSA WITZEMANN
Alissa Witzemann
Corporate Mindfulness Trainer
Mindfulness
Organisational Development
People Development
Alissa is a certified mindfulness trainer and occupational psychologist. She supports organizations integrating emotional intelligence and mindfulness to establish a thriving workforce. Alissa brings with her over six years of work experience in Organization and People Development in the financial services industry and as Consultant with BCG. At BCG, she was a core member of their mindfulness network and regularly delivered trainings for their employees. Alissa is certified by Search Inside Yourself, the world’s largest provider for mindfulness trainings. Additionally, she´s a certified coach and accredited for personality testing, team building, change management and agile leadership. Her ambition is to make mindfulness and emotional intelligence practical and accessible, so everyone can apply and benefit from it at work and in private life. She deliver trainings in German and English.
ursula preininger
URSULA PREININGER
Leadership Coach & Trainer
Ursula is our senior Leadership Development coach, who brings fifteen years of professional coaching and people development. Ursula is passionate about facilitating development and learning. She has a deep respect for every person’s ability to develop further and to shape their own personal and professional journey. Building trust in coaching and training relationships, providing tools to help with practical leadership and management challenges and raising questions to invite coachees to delve deeper are some of her key talents.
Bilingual in English and (Swiss) German, Ursula graduated in English and History from Basel University in Switzerland, holds diplomas in high school teaching and in General Management and postgraduate certificates in the Psychology of Change and Development and in Neuroleadership, as well as a diploma from the Coach Training Academy in Switzerland.
Ursula had gathered several years of experience in local and global management and leadership roles with a Swiss SME in publishing, as well as with a global corporation in the chemical industry. This provides her with a sound understanding of the systems and organisations her clients operate in and enables her to readily co-create the most appropriate and effective learning interventions for their specific needs.
KARINA SCHNEIDER
KARINA SCHNEIDER
Mental Health First Aid Instructor
HEIDI HAUER
Health & Wellbeing Expert
Heidi Hauer
Health and Wellbeing Expert
Health and Nutrition
Leadership Coaching
Mindfulness
Heidi is our Health and Nutrition expert. With qualifications in nutrition and coaching, combined with over 20 years’ experience in the corporate world, Heidi supports our clients in finding the balance needed to achieve sustainable success across their career, health and relationships. Before becoming a health and leadership coach, Heidi worked for over 20 years in the corporate world at a senior leadership level. She is a former corporate affairs leader with expertise in the food and pharmaceutical industry. Heide is originally from Austria and now lives in Zurich, Switzerland. Highly qualified, Heidi is a certified Intergrative Nutrition Health coach with the famous Institute of Integrative Nutrition (INN), a certified Nutrition Trainer with Vitalakademie, Vienna and holds a coaching certificate with INSEAD business school. Heidi has been featured in international media such as The Guardian, BBC London Radio, Huffington Post and Schweizer Illustrierte. Heidi’s unique approach is holistic and focused on working from the ‘inside out’ through mindfulness, integrative nutrition and physical movement. Heidi is passionate about guiding our clients to balance, reduced stress and feeling more anchored, especially during busy times.
SARAH COURTNEY
sarah courtney
Workplace Parent Coach
Diversity and Inclusion
Parent Coach
Line Manager Support
Sarah Courtney is a mum, a coach and an advocate for creating family friendly workplaces.
She spent 15 years working in Human Resources within banking, software and EdTech, in a variety of generalist and recruitment roles in both Dublin and London. Sarah qualified as a Business, Executive & Life coach in 2013 and has gone on to establish a successful coaching practice, partnering with clients from the professional services, insurance, banking and legal sectors, among others. Her goal is to support parents who want to thrive in the workplace. Combining her HR experience with her coaching skills, she works closely with employers who want to retain and support their working parents. She does this through 1:1 maternity and paternity coaching, group workshops and talks.
Sarah understands the challenges and pressures facing working parents. Working with Irish and International companies, she is an ally to her clients as they continue in their careers while growing their families.
Sarah has also worked as a Coach Trainer with the Irish LifeCoach Institute, guiding trainee coaches on their journey. She is a graduate of UCD, DIT, CIPD and the Irish LifeCoach Institute.
MARK FENTON
Diversity & Inclusion Specialist
MARK FENTON
Diversity and Inclusion Specialist
Unconscious Bias
Gender Pay Gap
‘MAP’ Men Advocating Progress
Mark is our specialised advisor on Diversity & Inclusion (‘D&I’) and Executive Coaching. Mark brings a passion to support cultural understanding, transformation, the embrace of diversity and the power of an inclusive working culture.
As part of our Diversity and Inclusion Corporate progamme, along with the other members of our D&I team, Mark provides our clients with support on our clients’ strategic direction and in many cases the implementation of transformative initiatives such closing the gender pay gap, increasing the involvement of male employees in empowering women, talent sponsorship, workplace agility procedures and inclusive communication plans.
Mark trained with PwC in Dublin, Mark spent 20+ years in international financial services around the world including 9 years in London and 7 in Paris. He holds 1st Class Honours in Executive Coaching from the IMI and is an accredited (Senior Practitioner) member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (‘EMCC’). Mark holds a Masters’ in Accounting from University College Dublin (where today I coach MBA students) and a BBS from Trinity College Dublin. He also on the Advisory Board of the Irish Tech Society, which is a non-profit, people-first, diverse global ICT network.
PATRICIA BYRON
Transformational Coach & Facilitator
PATRICIA BYRON
Transformational Coach and Facilitator
Patricia Byron is an Executive & Wellbeing Coach, Women in Leadership Champion and Transformational Change Facilitator.
Patricia has held a number of leadership roles during a 20 year career in Financial Services in the UK and Ireland. Having climbed the corporate ladder in what was then, a male dominated world, she learnt many valuable lessons. This experience now drives her passion for supporting others in their development. She loves to interrupt thinking, spotlight behaviours and change a fixed mind-set to growth mind-set. In Coaching, she asks messy questions and in facilitation she prompts critical thinking.
She has spent her career championing individuals for personal and organisational growth.
Patricia is curious and inquisitive; she get as much back from her clients as she gives. Patricia is driven by continuous learning for personal growth.
As a result some of the formal qualifications held include,
- Masters in Learning & Teaching
- Postgrad Diploma in Executive Coaching
- Diploma in Corporate Wellbeing
- Diploma in Organisational Change
- Diploma in Systematic Team Coaching
- Diploma in Life Coaching
- Licenced NLP Practitioner
- Experienced Trainer and Facilitator
- Instructional Designer, Lecturer, and Author.
- Accredited to administer several behavioural psychometric tests, including DISC, EQI and Team Audits.
Patricia is also a EMCC Senior Practitioner and member of AC, ICF & IITD
Patricia facilitates programmes such as:
- Being your Authentic Self – Supporting women in the workplace to excel
- Personalities in Business – Human behaviour and how to effectively communicate with each personality type.
- The neuroscience of communication – Fine tuning your message for maximum impact.
- Emotional Intelligence – EQ is the difference that makes the difference
- Coaching and Mentoring– Creating an organisational and personal coaching & mentoring culture which drives success
- Strengths Identification – What drives your values and beliefs and how to harness your inner strengths.
- Personal & Organisational Change Management – Managing change through preparation, practice and persistence.
DINA pataki
Perinatal Mental Health Integral Coach
Dina pataki
Perinatal Mental Health Integral Coach
Transition to Parenthood
Return to Work
Personal Growth & Development
Dina is a Certified Integral Coach® by New Ventures West, one of the oldest coaching schools in the world. Her mentors, Craig O’Flaherty and Janine Ahlers, were trained by James Flaherty, the founder of the school. Dina also holds a B.A. Hons in Psychology and is the mother of two energetic boys! Her own experience of motherhood has prompted her to specialize in Perinatal Mental Health with the leading institution Postpartum Support International. Dina’s passion is to support parents who often fall between the cracks of the health system, as they may not tick all the boxes for a Perinatal Mood and Anxiety disorder, but are deeply suffering emotionally (usually in silence) and do not understand why. Specifically, she supports overwhelmed parents to overcome feelings of self-doubt, anxiety, guilt, loss of self-identity and grief for previous life, loneliness and isolation. She is also supporting parents returning to work after parental leave, to strike a balance between family and work and feel accomplished in both. Dina offers compassionate, insightful, and transformative coaching. Her method is integral, which is a holistic approach focusing on the mind, heart, and body.
Dina collaborates as a Mental Health Guide with Cleo, a leading benefits platform for working parents. In this capacity, Dina works with companies such as Apple, PepsiCo, Salesforce, Meta, etc. supporting their employees in Europe, Middle East and Asia. She also established her own private practice in the French-part of Switzerland in 2019. Finally, Dina has 18+ years of corporate experience in FMCG and hospitality industries in multinational companies.
marieke breugem
Certified Nutrition & Health Practitioner
marieke breugem
Certified Nutrition & health practitioner
Natural Health
Lifestyle Medicine
Relax, eat, move and sleep to health
Marieke is our nutrition and lifestyle medicine expert. She’s passionate about accompanying people and organisations to finding back or maintaining their full energy and health in a natural and simple way. “Just” by adapting their lifestyles, which includes nutrition, sleep, stress (happiness!) and physical activity. She believes in the paths of joy and every person having an active role in his or her health.
Of Dutch origin, she lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. She’s trilingual in Dutch, French and English. She’s an accredited nutritherapist and lifestyle medicine specialist and has also a Swiss degree in micronutrition or functional medicine. She’s still learning up to becoming a naturopath.
Before being a natural health practitioner, she was in charge of corporate communication and sustainability roles for twenty years in multinational companies in Amsterdam, Paris and French-speaking Switzerland. Mainly in the food sector, but also in high tech. She was then already active in developing health programmes for adults and children. When she led sustainability programmes, she became aware of the importance of the link between nature, health and respect for life.
MONIA PIRAKI
MONIA PIRAKI
Event Planning Specialist
Event Management
Event Planning
Monia is the Event Planning and management specialist at Right Point. Monia is a multi passionate qualified Events Manager who specializes in Corporate Events. With 15+years of experience in Major Sport Events including Olympic Games and having lived and worked in 5 cities ( Athens, Torino, Doha, London, Beijing), Monia has a solid track record of managing successful international events. Having worked with individuals and professionals across different functional areas and cultural backgrounds, our corporate event planning for our clients is in safe hands! – Event planning & project coordination – Volunteer Management – Workforce Operations – Coaching Monia’s Key strengths : -Big picture thinker -Business Oriented -Working collaboratively -Strategic Planning -Team Player -Successful Delivery of projects under tight deadlines Monia’s Specialties are: Corporate Events, Wellness Events, Community Building, Sales, Sport Events, Workforce Operations, People Management, Volunteer Programs, Team Workshops, Wellness Retreats, Proficiency in software : Zoom , Slack. Virtual Events.
REGULA Fischer
Change & Leadership Specialist
regula Fischer
Change and Leadership Specialist
Organizational Change
Employee experience
Leadership development
Regula is our Change and Leadership Specialist bringing with her over a decade of profound experience in global organizations. She is passionate about people and their needs, especially when going through change. She has successfully led various employee experience-focused programs and initiatives in the context of digital transformations, and has been responsible for chartering teams that were newly built for more effectiveness and efficiency.
Regula promotes listening and a genuine interest in people as part of successful leadership, and focuses on creating environments in which people feel safe, encouraged to explore and innovate – and smile.
FRAN MAITLAND
FRAN MAITLAND
Change Navigator & Coach
Executive coaching
Leadership development
Organisational Change
BALRAJ JUTLA
IT Tech Lead
Carmen Stoffel
Workplace Parent Coach
CARMEN STOFFEL
Parent Coach, Mentor and Guide
Parent Coach
Diversity and Inclusion
Neurodiversity Specialist
Carmen is a parent coach, mentor and guide specialising in supporting parents with neurodiverse children. She is also a qualified yoga teacher and mother of two wonderful kids – one of whom is autistic and has ADHD.
Carmen joins the Right Point Global team after a busy career for nearly 18 years in the insurance industry. Through her personal journey navigating the challenges of a demanding career and a child with unresolved symptoms, Carmen has learnt the hard way, that with a special needs child, life quickly becomes very stressful.
Since this challenging time in her life, Carmen has made it her mission to find her own peace and calm as mother and also to help her son make true developmental progress.
Carmen truly believes that parents who are supported and educated, are the greatest resource for true developmental progress. As living proof of this, her own family is on route to thriving again, one step at a time.
With the support of Carmen and our other parents coaches, we help organisations to better support parents with neurodiverse children and also to understand how neurodivesity, in general, fits into a Diversity and Inclusion strategy.
Helene Braasch
Workplace Parent Coach
helene braasch
Workplace parent coach
Learning and Development Expert
Parent Coach
Helene Braasch is a Learning and Development expert and trained coach with a passion for empowering parents to boost their careers by drawing from parenting experience to deepen professional skills.
Helene spent 10 years in Learning and Development with international management consulting in Germany and the United States, utilising her background in Psychology, Business and Training.
Her vision is to see the corporate world celebrate parenthood by integrating it into personal and professional development, rather than organising around their competing demands. This led her to establish her own coaching practice in 2021 through which she offers webinars and 1:1 coaching.
Helene holds an M.B.A. from Leuphana University (Lüneburg, Germany) and a B.A. from DePaul University Chicago. She formalized her coaching education through Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and draws from a wide range of skills as a musician, paramedic and – most importantly – mother of three.
vanessa matthiebe
Workplace Parent Coach
vanessa matthiebe
Workplace parent coach
Systemic Coaching
Family Support & Single Parenting
Line Manager Support
Vanessa Matthiebe has been supporting families in the areas of job and family compatibility, parenting/raising children, couple conflicts and separation/divorce for over 12 years. In addition to her professional expertise, as a mother of two children, Vanessa understands the challenges families face in today’s (working) world.
The boundaries between family and work are increasingly blurring. Vanessa’s believes that, if companies can be persuaded to meet today’s complex parenting challenges by means of coaching or workshops, then everyone will benefit.
As a social worker, social pedagogue FH and systemic consultant for families, couples and individuals, Vanessa focuses on a systemic/resource and solution-oriented approach that includes the new world of work. She founded her own coaching platform in 2018 and is excited to work alongside the Right Point Global team.
aurelie litynski
Positive Work Culture Specialist
aurelie litynski
Positive work culture specialist
Happiness at Work
Positive Leadership
Employee Experience
Aurelie Litynski, Positive Work Culture Specialist and TEDx Speaker, has been trained by leading global experts on the topic of positive psychology, neurosciences, happiness at work and change management.
Her expertise spans a variety of industries across the world and targets SMEs, multinational organisations and corporate leaders helping them to boost positivity, productivity and performance in the workplace.
Aurelie is on a mission to turn frustrations at work into happiness at work!
anna stando
Mental Wellbeing & Gender Equality Specialist
anna stando
Health, wellbeing and gender equality specialist
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Gender Equality
Diversity and Inclusion
Anna is a strong advocate for the importance of good mental health and gender equality. At Right Point Global, she teaches about the benefits of gratitude and helps organisations to build teams where everyone is seen, heard and valued.
Anna has 10 years of experience in training and facilitation across the globe and works online and in- person. She is creative in her training delivery and brings a lot of positive energy and personal insights encouraging employees to open up, inspiring them to take action.
Recently she worked as the Relations Manager for a Swiss Association called Advance, helping companies to get to gender equality in the workplace. She is a Co-Leader of ‘Lean In Switzerland’, a business networking group for women, and she sits on the Board of ‘Capacity’, a non- profit organisation supporting refugees and migrants in starting their own businesses in Switzerland.
She is also the Creator of ‘My Gratitude Challenge’ – a 28-day programme that helps you to improve your general wellbeing, build resilience and find joy in unexpected places.
Anna has a master’s degree in Intercultural Communication from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, speaks 5 languages and she has lived in Europe, Asia and South America. She is now based in Switzerland and lives in Kanton Aargau with her two young children and partner.
philine chucri
Workplace Parent Coach
philine chucri
Workplace Parent coach
Working Parents
Mindset
Wellbeing
Philine is a Wellbeing and Mindset Coach supporting parents in creating more energy, balance and joy in their life. She helps parents to manage overwhelm and parental guilt when juggling work and family life.
Our clients experience how powerful and liberating small consistent steps are to create the inner change they desire and grow into the person and parent they want to be.
Philine is passionate about the positive ripple effects of Wellbeing on productivity, performance, relationships, health and overall happiness. She is known for her empathetic and kind listening skills and her challenging, but fun coaching style.
Before becoming a coach, Philine worked in Marketing and Sales in the international corporate world for over 12 years.
She holds a Diploma in Transformational Life Coaching from Animas Centre of Coaching, is accredited by ICF (ACC), holds a certificate in Group Coaching and a certificate in Positive Psychology Coaching.
LISA DE JONG
Women’s Health Expert
LISA DE JONG
WOMEN's HEAlTH EXPERT
Women’s Health
Menstrual Cycle
Chronic Pain
Lisa de Jong is our health coach, educator and facilitator specialising in women’s health, the menstrual cycle, chronic pain, and trauma.
Lisa works via a holistic, integrative and trauma-informed approach in all of her work and business. She brings a gentle yet powerful touch to her clients and groups supporting them in the understanding of their body, and in their relationship to agency and better decision making for recovery. Lisa has trained in a variety of modalities including women’s health, trauma therapy, menstrual cycle coaching and other holistic modalities. Her work is also rooted in her own personal lived experience of chronic pain.
She has a background in education and communications before embarking on her coaching career, as well as a degree in Business Studies and French, and a Master’s degree in Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin
About claire
Born and raised in Ireland, I now live in Zurich, Switzerland with my husband, young daughter and our dog, Alfie.
After successfully finishing my business degree, I left home and moved to the US for a year that turned into several years…
I found myself working in Silicon Valley and San Francisco at the height of the ‘dot com’ era and thrived there for several years, gaining huge amounts of experience with start-ups.
In 2004 I decided to move back to Ireland, and continued my business career in roles that saw me advise corporate organisations on internal structure, leadership development, communications and business strategy.
Some years later, I moved to Zurich in Switzerland – during this time of transition, I finally allowed myself the opportunity to explore my entrepreneurial spirit.
I remember the ‘light bulb’ moment when I realised that I had a huge desire to share my skills, knowledge and experience to help business leaders. Passionate about bringing purpose and meaning into everyday leadership roles, I found my sweet spot and so Right Point was born!
I’m a qualified executive and career coach, a holder of a business marketing degree from Trinity College, Dublin and I’m always learning new things about the fast-paced business world.
In my downtime, I enjoy socialising , yoga, walks in nature, traveling to exciting places and trying different restaurants. I love to play with my daughter Eva, sing, dance and meet new people!
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about right point
I set up Right Point in 2016 to provide premium training and coaching services to corporate clients on a global level. Over the years, I have built a highly specialised team of experts to deliver high quality corporate education programmes to our corporate clients. As a team, we passionate about partnering with our clients to create better working environments, improving employee experience and the promoting the wellbeing of others.
what do we do?
My team and I take the approach that if we can help, we will. Due our collective, leadership development, coaching, training and HR skills, we can help you shine a light on your true vision for the future and identify areas where we can support you and your teams. We work very closely with, and our involvement runs deep – your goals and dreams are our business.