Leaders. Thinkers.
Game Changers.
To do what we do, as well as we do, requires a unique set of people. With different skills, experiences and backgrounds. That’s why we have curated a world-class team of experts united by a common goal: your growth and your organization’s success.
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Alex is the visionary founder of The Practice. As a renowned leader in the field of executive coaching, he brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to his role, drawing on his time as founder and co-leader of the European branch of Mobius Executive Leadership.
His proficiencies in executive coaching, transformative facilitation, mediation, and culture change are unparalleled.
Alex previously served as an external facilitator, guiding leadership programs and providing personal coaching to clients around the world. His legal background as a litigator and academic experience as an adjunct professor have equipped him with the tools to address complex organizational challenges.
Alex is fluent in French, conversational in Spanish, and currently learning Dutch. When he’s not lost in translation, Alex cherishes spending leisure time with his children.
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Mieke has over 20 years of industrial experience in operations, supply chain, HR, continuous improvement and transformation at DuPont.
For the last 10 years, she has served as a global strategic advisor to executive teams in a wide range of industries on value creation, operational excellence, transformational leadership and cultural change.
As a trusted partner she navigates executive teams through complex systemic organizational and team dynamics, by uncovering the symptoms, patterns and undercurrents that are holding them back.
Mieke holds certifications in coaching, NLP, systemic intelligence and constellation work, somatics, trauma informed coaching and consulting and energy mastery, which enables her to cover a wide range of topics – from strategic and tactical business themes to the essential inner work of leadership - in her coaching and facilitation.
She is a systemic teacher, a recognized thought leader and a published author of 3 books.
Based in Belgium, Mieke holds a Masters in Economics/Engineering from the University of Leuven and the University of Bilbao. She is fluent in Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish.
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With over 20 years of international corporate leadership experience, Katja works with executives and organizations to drive meaningful change and foster growth. Her career includes C-suite roles at adidas, where she led global Communication, Marketing, HR, and Sustainability initiatives based out of Germany, China, the US, and the UAE.
Katja has a strong record of managing large-scale transformations, driving employee engagement, and building purpose-driven, high-performance work environments. She uses her coaching skills and global executive experience to help her clients break down complex challenges into practical steps that enable tangible results.
Katja is a certified Integral Coach, an accredited member of the International Coaching Federation, and holds certifications in Systemic Coaching, Hogan Assessments, and Enneagram. She is also a Senior Certified HR Professional and has completed executive programs at London Business School and Harvard.
She splits her time between Germany and the UAE, volunteers as a hiking guide in the Arabian Peninsula and enjoys reading, time with friends & family and sports like cycling, cross-country skiing and kayaking.
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Yan is a transformational coach and strategic advisor specializing in leadership, team development, and organizational culture. He is highly successful at effective interventions that drive transformative growth and help leaders develop the skills needed for resilient leadership and exceptional performance.
Yan advocates for a human-centric leadership style, emphasizing mindfulness, collaboration, transparency, and resilience.
Previous experience includes roles at The Hockey Company, Reebok as CMO and head of the Running Business Unit in Boston, and a tenure in senior leadership at Adidas in Germany.
Yan holds a BBA from HEC Business School, and completed executive programs at Harvard Business School and Brown University’s mindfulness-based stress reduction program.
He currently resides in Montreal with his family and two dogs. And spends his spare time as an avid coach and mentor for young athletes.
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Matt Smith is an executive coach and leadership advisor with extensive experience in helping senior leaders and their teams achieve higher performance.
He spent 16 years at McKinsey & Company, including nine as a partner, where he held various roles including Chief Learning Officer, Chief of Staff, and head of their Pharmaceutical Organization Service Line.
As an executive coach, Matt leverages his experience in leadership development and culture change to help leaders set bold goals, identify necessary mindset and behaviour shifts, and implement meaningful changes.
He is certified as an ontological coach by the Newfield Network and holds certifications from the International Coaching Federation for the Leadership Circle Profile and Hogan assessments.
Matt also holds a B.A. (Government) from Harvard University and a Master of Professional Services from Cornell University.
He resides in Taipei with his wife and two sons.
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Scott has been a practitioner and coach since 2010, collaborating with individuals and top teams around the globe. He works directly with clients to deliver a range of transformational solutions in personal mastery and organizational leadership. By drawing on multiple disciplines, Scott is able to diagnose the elements that block peak performance. His specialty is pushing teams and individuals to recognize their behavioural patterns. He is particularly interested in helping clients design lives, teams and systems based on personal discovery and honest communication.
Scott lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife and son, and is avidly involved with two charities: The Special Olympics and Alzheimer’s research. In his spare time, he volunteers as a high school rowing coach. He has a healthy obsession with skiing and an unhealthy obsession with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Kate Van Akin is a leadership coach, facilitator, and change architect with 20+ years of experience across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America. She designs and delivers transformational leadership journeys supported by 1:1 coaching, helping leaders stay centred and effective in turbulent times.
Kate spent a decade at McKinsey & Company as a Senior Expert in Change and Communication, working with Fortune 500 executives on employee engagement, leadership capability building, and enterprise-wide change strategies. She also led McKinsey’s research on transformation success factors and the flagship Change Leaders Forum.
As a certified integral development coach, Kate has trained extensively in integral coaching, parts work, and somatic work through New Ventures West and Aletheia. She has been studying the Reichian energy patterns and other energetic work with Lynda Caesara for the past four years. She holds certifications in the Leadership Circle, the Hogan suite, Barrett Values Survey, and MBTI.
Kate earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School, focusing on negotiation. She currently lives in London. An avid writer, she is the author of the popular blog Friday Pause on LinkedIn, a weekly reflection on personal transformation and collective growth.
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Patrick Campiani is a Senior Leadership Consultant. He has two decades of experience in leadership consulting, team performance, and organizational culture.
Prior to this, he developed businesses in the food services and professional services sectors as an entrepreneur and held management roles at Citibank for five years. He also holds a degree in industrial engineering and business.
Patrick believes that great organizations are built by authentic leaders committed to their personal growth. These leaders have the courage to face their fears and limiting beliefs. As a result, they can challenge conventional paradigms, think differently, and inspire their organizations to transform and reach their full potential.
With a broad business background in consulting, entrepreneurship, and general management, Patrick consults for leaders and organizations across different industries, including technology, logistics, professional services, retail, manufacturing and biotech industries.
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Paul is a seasoned executive coach and facilitator specializing in leadership and culture integration. He has over 25 years of international business expertise, including a successful corporate career at Kimberly-Clark Health Care Europe. He subsequently played a key role in managing the European Learning and Development initiative, crafting training programs for the top 20 executives.
Building on this experience, Paul established his own company that empowered leaders to connect with their inner strengths, lead effectively in complex environments, and inspire others. His specialty is systemic intelligence, a framework that enables leaders to navigate uncertainty and foster organizational resilience.
Currently, Paul also serves as the Director of the Scientific Department for Systemic Intelligence in Organizations at Constellators International, and is co-author of the book "EMERGENT: The Power of Systemic Intelligence to Navigate the Complexity of M&A."
Paul resides in Amsterdam, Netherlands with his wife and two children.
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Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a global facilitator, author, and thought leader working at the intersection of collective trauma, leadership, and societal transformation.
Over two decades, he has worked with tens of thousands worldwide to address the impact of historical and systemic trauma—from the Holocaust and colonialism to racism, violence, and cultural polarization. His work focuses on how trauma shapes leadership, institutions, and modern society.
Thomas partners with governments, organisations, and universities—including Witten/Herdecke University—to embed trauma-informed practices into leadership and systems, advising leaders navigating complexity and large-scale change.
A pioneer in the field, he developed the Individual, Ancestral, Collective Trauma Integration Process (IACTIP)—a methodology influencing global trauma recovery and justice efforts, including post-genocide reconciliation in Rwanda.
He is the founder of the Collective Trauma Summit, reaching over 500,000 participants worldwide. Through his non-profit, The Pocket Project, he has supported communities impacted by crises including COVID-19, wildfires, and school shootings.
Thomas is the author of Healing Collective Trauma and creator of programs including Trauma-Informed Leadership. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna and holds a PhD in Wisdom Studies from Ubiquity University.
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Daniel Ludevig is a facilitator, advisor, speaker, and certified executive coach helping leaders and organisations navigate real transformation.
As founder of The Modern Leader, a private mastermind for high-impact leaders, he focuses on one core idea: leadership that is genuinely worth following.
Daniel is known for creating high-trust environments where the conversations that matter actually happen—around leadership, culture, collaboration, and conflict. He combines sharp, direct insight with a grounded, human approach that unlocks courage, clarity, and change.
His 15+ years of experience span global organisations and diverse contexts—from post-genocide communities in Cambodia to leadership work informed by the dynamics of dance.
He holds a BA in Psychology and Economics from Brandeis University and is certified by the ICF and MIT Presencing Institute. His clients include global consulting firms, top business schools, and organisations across energy, finance, retail, and technology.
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Chelsea Simpson specializes in Top Team work and executive coaching for leaders to build capacity to enact complex strategy. Over the last 10 years, Chelsea has supported dozens of Fortune 100 teams in more than 12 countries, in varied industries including tech, consumer goods, media, medical, industrial, arts-based and community groups, and more, in English and Spanish.
Chelsea works where real work application meets cutting-edge research and innovation, whether that's as faculty in the Strategic Design and Management Program at Parsons University at the New School, as a guest lecturer at NYU and Columbia, or supporting small non-profits and community-based organizations deepen their impact. Chelsea collaborates with Dr. Daniel Goleman, the leading expert in neuroscience-based emotional intelligence (EI), to certify leaders and coaches in his EI framework. Coming from the entrepreneurial sector, she directed an NYC incubator called the Centre for Social Innovation. Chelsea is also a celebrated speaker, including the TEDx stage, known for her powerful keynotes and dynamic panel moderation.
She has certifications and many years of practice in neuroscience-based coaching, Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Advanced Facilitation, Systems Constellations work, Art Therapy, Yoga, Design Thinking Methodologies, Trauma-informed coaching, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
She lives in Massachusetts in the woods with her daughter and husband, and you'll find her jumping in the ocean throughout the year and getting her hands dirty in the garden or on the potters wheel.
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Grace is a seasoned executive coach and facilitator with over 20 years of experience. She has led transformative journeys for top teams and shifted the behaviors of front-line employees across five continents.
She spent over a decade at McKinsey & Co. where she utilized her extensive skills to guide clients towards becoming more authentic, impactful and effective.
Grace is deeply passionate about advancing leaders from underrepresented groups. She co-founded Ceiling Breakers and has served on the Advisory Board of Multicultural New South Wales.
She holds an MBA from Wharton and a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons 1) from the University of New South Wales. She is also a certified Integral Coach and is trained in various coaching and systemic practices.
Today, Grace lives in Sydney with her husband and 3 young children. Together, they love exploring the world, especially places of natural beauty.
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For the past 30 years, Vincent has been travelling the world advising, coaching, and developing leaders in both large corporations and start-ups. Vincent is particularly interested in the notion that competent leaders and high-performance cultures invariably lead to better results over time. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Vincent held several positions with global consulting firm Hewitt Associates, including his last job as the General Manager for the Hong Kong office.
To keep his feet firmly in the business world, Vincent has founded several companies including a consulting firm, a fully integrated gelato manufacturing and wholesaling business in Hong Kong, and, more recently, an online and retail shop selling windsurfing equipment in Canada.
Vincent has lived and worked in Canada, the US, China, and Hong Kong. He is fluent in French, English, speaks decent Italian and understands Spanish and Mandarin.
Vincent has an MA in International Affairs from The George Washington University in Washington DC and a B.A. in Chinese Studies from the University of California at San Diego. He currently lives in Montreal, Canada where he splits his time between his family, his passion for leadership development, and windsurfing.
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Steven has been studying people and reality his whole life. The through-line of his life has been the question, “What is real?” His pursuit of that answer has taken him from studying physics at MIT, through acting school, mythology, psychology, meditation, and into the study of energetics and awareness itself.
For four decades, Steven has been a licensed psychotherapist, studying many different healing modalities and maps of personality, and authoring two books. The 5 Personality Patterns lays out a simple, clear, true-to-life map of personality, and How to Have Better Relationships, which applies that way of understanding people to improving your relationships.
Since 1984, Steven has taught hundreds of groups and workshops in the US and internationally, helping men and women heal their wounds and grow into their full adult selves. Whether teaching or working individually, Steven weaves together many healing approaches and modalities to provide what is most needed in the moment.
Behind The Practice…
Much of what ensures our client’s success happens out of view.
Our operations and project management team keeps everything aligned. They organize details, coordinate across teams, and make sure nothing is missed.
Based in Geneva and working across Europe, Australia, and North America, they bring structure and calm to complexity, ensuring a consistent experience every time.
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Global Head of Finance and Administration.
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Clémence is the Head of Project Management in leadership consulting. She is universally revered for her exceptional patience, organisational prowess, and ability to successfully collaborate with senior teams across diverse industries and geographies.
Throughout her career, Clémence has guided organisations through every phase of project management, delivering personalised, high-touch client experiences built on trust and empathy.
She holds a master’s degree in international business management and has over 10 years of experience in client-facing and project management roles.
Before joining The Practice, she excelled as an Event Manager in a luxury hotel in the Geneva region, where her commitment to excellence in service became her hallmark.
Clémence lives in Switzerland, happily balancing her career with her role as a mother. She enjoys outdoor activities like downhill skiing, hiking, road biking, and camping.
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Delphine is Executive and Personal Assistant to Alex Kuilman. She has over 20 years of experience in the tourism, hospitality, and food industries.
Previous roles include Sales & Event Manager for various luxury hotels and Liaison Officer for the G8 Summit in the Geneva region.
She has successfully collaborated with executive teams in a range of fields, implementing and maintaining ERP and CRM systems, merging companies, and launching products.
Highly organized and incredibly positive, Delphine prioritizes every task to meet both internal and external needs. It’s no coincidence her nickname is “Swiss knife”.
Respect, trust, integrity, and loyalty are fundamental values that she is committed to in her professional and personal life.
When she’s not working, Delphine loves spending time with her son, husband, and friends. She also enjoys biking, hiking, snowboarding, and is involved in volunteer work whenever possible.
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Elizabeth is a Project Manager with over 12 years of experience in management consulting, finance, and executive leadership. She specializes in program implementation, process re-engineering, and operational efficiency.
Throughout her career, Elizabeth has worked with major financial institutions including Travelex Business Group and Westpac Banking Corporation. Following her tenure with Mobius Executive Leadership, she joined The Practice, where she now serves as Head of Program Management for Australia.
She holds a BSc in Anatomy and Physiology (University of Witwatersrand), a BSc Med (Hons) in Nutrition and Dietetics (University of Cape Town), along with a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management (Wits Business School). She is also a certified Six Sigma Green Belt.
Elizabeth is a strong advocate for open communication, structured processes, and ethical workplace practices, and is based in Sydney, Australia.
