About ME 

Barbara STRAIF, MA CPCC ACC

I am a

COURAGE MAKER FOR CHANGE 

 

My COURAGE coaching is about self-development, career and womanhood. I also love the energy when working with teams and groups - especially when people want to aim higher and are about to boldly take risks. That is when they engage fully and their joy and passion comes from within.

My background and experience is in international profit and non-profit organizations in coaching, workshop and strategic planning facilitation, project management,  process optimization, quality improvement, customer relationship management, training and teaching psychology, philosophy, communication, facilitation and languages.    

Personal Mastery

Facilitation of international Workshops and Strategic Planning; Management support; Internal communication, preparation and distribution of management communication; event project management in international context (SOS Children's Villages International, Swarovski)

International Quality Management, Project Management and Process Optimization, CRM Project Leadership for multi-site customer and client access (Texas Instruments Berlin, Germany and Nice, France) 

Training and Education

• Positive Intelligence (PQ) Coach Program
  
• The Co-Active® Leadership Program
  
• Change Management (wibas GmbH)
• CPCC - Certified Professional Co-Active® Coach 
• ACC - Associate Certified Coach
• Group dynamics (University of Graz)
• Nonviolent Communication (Marshall B. Rosenberg)
• Focusing (Eugene T. Gendlin),
• Creative Leadership (Kaospilots Switzerland), 
• Creative Writing
• QI - Body, Körperintelligenz 
• Studied and trained English, Psychology, Philosophy and Pedagogics in Austria, France and Great Britain 
• Languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Norwegian (basics) 
• Member, International Coach Federation (ICF),
  Former elected board member ICF Chapter Austria