Team
It started with the founder’s mission: „I want to help my clients with coaching and training to be more successful.”
Soon it became clear that he could not do it all by himself. The demand was too big. Therefore, over time, some carefully selected experts have joined the team. And will continue to do so, as need be.
Thomas Skipwith is a management trainer and coach for public speaking. Thomas is the founder and CEO of DESCUBRIS (since 2002) in Zurich. He collected seven years of experience in international business consulting with Accenture in Change Management and Human Performance.
He is the co-founder of the „Rhetoric Center“ at the university of St. Gall in Switzerland. In addition, he was the president of Zurich Toastmasters, founder and president of the Mosquito Hill Toastmasters Club of Zurich and founder and president of the "Rhetorik Club Zürich".
He has won many speaking titles on Swiss and European level. The latest one is the European Champion of prepared speeches in 2007 in Gothenburg, Sweden. He speaks four languages fluently and is now working on his Mandarin Chinese.
Reto Ruegger is a management trainer, consultant and coach for public speaking, marketing and sales.
Reto is a partner of DESCUBRIS. For over 10 years, he held different marketing and sales management roles in international corporations such as Swisscom, Credit Suisse and Microsoft. He has more than 10 years of experience in the field of management development in different organizations as a manager as well as entrepreneur. He studied marketing in Switzerland and screenplay writing for motion pictures at University of California, Irvine, USA. He is the author of various stage plays. He is a certified mental coach. Reto is fluent in German and English. His hobbies are sports (jogging, biking, trekking) as well as travelling.
Jörg is a presentation and memory trainer for Neue Kommunikative in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He used to be an Alumnus Client Service Manager at Michael Conrad & Leo Burnett (International Advertising Agency) - Responsible for brands like Marlboro, Polaroid, Epson, Landliebe, Kelloggs. His international work experience is: Quiksilver / France.
He is the two time winner of the European Championship of Public Speaking (Lucerne, Switzerland and Paris, France, 2003).
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