ABOUT ESTHER GOETTE
Esther Goette, PCC; CPCC; Leadership Development, Executive Coach, Facilitation
Esther is a seasoned, certified Executive Coach and a designer, facilitator, and strategic partner in Leadership Development programs. She works with international leaders—often Women Leaders—who operate in complex, multicultural, and global environments, supporting their successful transition into more senior roles, accelerating their leadership impact, and enabling them to thrive amid uncertainty. Esther helps her clients lead with confidence, navigate complexity, and drive tangible business results while maintaining resilience and balance. She enables meaningful behavior change by cultivating deeper self-awareness and fostering inclusive leadership— empowering leaders to build high-performing, diverse teams where everyone can thrive.
She works with individuals as well as teams and large groups, in English, German and Spanish and occasionally in French, across the private and public sector. Topics of the programs she designed and led include Inclusive Leaership; Transition from technical manager to people manager; Conflict Management; Coaching skills for managers; Women Leadership; Women in
Politics; Resilience & Self Leadership.
Esther draws on 20 years’ experience as a global marketing executive with roles in strategic leadership as well as operations/line management in several Fortune 100 companies. She is an experienced global leader of multi-functional and multi-cultural teams and has held leadership positions with Colgate-Palmolive; Procter & Gamble; Novartis OTC, in Europe and the USA. She understands the complexity of working in a diverse environment, the challenges that organizational change can impose, and the leadership competencies required to thrive in global organizations. For many years she served in several leadership positions within the International Coaching Federation in Switzerland, and from 2018 to 2019 as their president.
Today she is a faculty member of CTI, (Co-Active Training institute), one of the oldest and largest in-person coach and leadership training organizations in the world. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and holds the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is an Accredited Coach Supervisor with the Coach Supervision Academy (CSA) and received the Swiss Advanced Federal Diploma as a“Supervisor-Coach”. Esther has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg, Germany, specialized in Marketing.
Esther is a native German and has lived and worked in Argentina, Singapore, and the USA. She is a naturalized Swiss citizen and now based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Esther has Graduated from and is certified with CTI, The Co-Active Training Institute. CTI is the oldest and largest in-person coach training school and one of the most innovative leadership training organizations in the world. She has also undergone the training curriculum in “Organizations & Relationship Systems Coaching” by CRR.
She holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg, Germany (1989), majoring in Marketing.
Her coaching philosophy/methodology (Co-Active Coaching) is globally renowned. It is built on the cornerstone that we are all naturally creative, resourceful and whole and that we all possess the capacity for knowing what is best for ourselves.
The Co-Active Coach comes from a place of authentic being, listening and encouragement, to uncover the best in oneself and others. This powerful process of engaging with others is proven and supported by current scientific research. The Co-Active certification program is the most rigorous and respected in the coaching industry.
In summary, Esther’s credentials are:
- Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with ICF
- Accredited Coach Supervisor, Coach Supervision Academy (CSA)
- Swiss Advanced Federal Diploma “Supervisor-Coach”
- Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Co-Active Training Institute (CTI)
- ORSC-trained (Organizational and Relationship Systems Coaching), Center for Right Relationship (CRR)
- Certified or trained in various instruments (The Leadership Circle Profile; Polarity Management; Immunity to Change; Conversation at the Growing Edge)
- Certified in various assessments (Hogan; Workplace Big 5; Firo-B; MBTI Step 2; Influence Style Indicator; Change Style Indicator; Vertical Mindset Indicator Leadership Network Diagnostic)
- Certified in various 360 assessments (Task Cycle; CCL Benchmark)
- Facilitation training in the Art of Hosting; Alchemy, CRR; Training Games, Thiagi; Group Facilitation Methods, ICA; Online Training, Nomadic IBP; Virtual Training, and The Virtual Training Team.
- Leadership Training, CTI
- Master’s degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in Business Administration specializing in Marketing.
Prior to becoming a trained coach in 2009, Esther has a successful 20 year career as a global marketing executive in the FMCG/Consumer Goods sector (Colgate-Palmolive; Clairol; Procter & Gamble), in Health Care (Novartis OTC) and the New Media industry (Agency.com).
She is an experienced global leader of multi-functional and multi-cultural teams and has worked in complex matrix structures of multinational corporations, in Europe and the USA. She is an expert in brand management and the development of communication strategies and plans.
Esther has a truly global background: Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, she lived and worked in Argentina and Singapore, and spent 7 years in New York, USA, before moving to Geneva, Switzerland, in 2003.
She is multi-lingual with fluent German (mother tongue) and English, as well as solid Spanish and conversational French. Esther has a master’s degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in Business Adminstration, majoring in Marketing.
Esther Goette is co-author of the top-selling book LEADERSHIP UNSCRIPTED
Discover the Unscripted Leadership Journeys of Bold Women Who Have Conquered Challenges, Transformed Setbacks into Powerful Lessons, and Created a Legacy of Impact, Purpose, and Authentic Leadership.
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