Thomas Skipwith, MBA

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, B.A. Marketing

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 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. Currently he is continuing his education as a mental coach (graduation 2010). Reto is fluent in German and English. His hobbies are sports (jogging, biking, trekking) as well as travelling.

Alexa Brogli, MAS

Alexa is our specialist for media training and media coaching.

She has been working in the media-business for 17 years now. She started her career at a radio station in Zurich (Radio Z). For one of her reports, she won the Axel-Springer-Prize for young journalists. After studying Directing for Film and TV in New York, she worked at the first Swiss Music Television Station as a producer, presenter and coach for her host-colleagues. In her position as reporter and producer at B&B Endemol (Switzerland) she was responsible for a variety of entertainment shows and documentary series. She has a master of advanced studies in cultural and gender studies and since 2007 she has her own company producing different TV-formats for Swiss National TV as well as corporate films for private companies.

Jörg Blömeling, B.A. Business

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 winner of two European speech contests (Lucerne, Switzerland and Paris, France, 2003).