Katja Manuela Egger

Consulting

Katja Manuela Egger

Consulting

More than 20 years of experience as a consultant, coach and trainer at all management and leadership levels.

Draws inspiration from contemporary art and electronic music and keeps fit with hiking and tennis.

Has a high level of expertise and many years of experience in diversity and intercultural collaboration.

Global Head Talent & Learning: ABB Robotics & Discrete Automation (RA) Business, since 2023

Global Learning Partner | Global Senior Organisational Development Specialist | Business Consultant: ABB Robotics & Discrete Automation (RA) Business, Switzerland and Hong Kong, 2019–2023 (Hong Kong to 2021)

Global Key Account Manager Learning & Development: ABB Robotics & Motion (RM) and Industrial Automation (IA) divisions; Switzerland and Hong Kong, 2018–2019

Head of Management & Leadership Development and Consulting Switzerland, France and Benelux (ad interim): ABB Learning & Development, Switzerland, 2016–2017

Senior Consultant | Senior Trainer for Management & Leadership Development: ABB Learning & Development, Switzerland, 2014–2018

Regional Training Manager: Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF), Johannesburg Regional Office, South Africa, 2011–2015

Head of and Project Officer: Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF), Cape Town Office; South Africa, 2008–2011

Assistant in Public Law: Institute of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bern, Switzerland, 2002–2006

Legal Advisor in the Legal Service of the Federal Office of Culture: Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA), Bern, Switzerland, 2000–2007

Various legal internships and roles as a lawyer in academia, teaching, administration and the judiciary, 1996–2000

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Regular supervision and coaching with Dr Wolfgang Looss, Weiterstadt, Germany, since 2015

Agile Learning coach: ABB certificate by QualityMinds GmbH; Nuremberg, Munich and Berlin, Germany, 2023

Organisational design learning path: OSB International Systemic Consulting, Vienna, Austria, 2022

People Analytics: The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, US, 2022

Systemic Organisational Consulting according to SySt® and Systemic Structures: Institute for Systemic Education, Further Education and Research SySt®, Munich, Germany, 2022

Prosci/ADKAR® Change Management Practitioner: ABB, 2020

ScrumMaster® (CMS): Scrum Alliance®, Hong Kong, 2019

Business Models Development: Strategyzer Business Model Canvas, Berlin, Germany, 2018

Design Thinking & the Future of Work: Launch Labs, Basel, Switzerland, 2017

Agile thinking, agile principles, agile values, agile practices – methods, structures, processes: Swisscom Leadership Academy, Zurich, Switzerland, 2017

Innovative Learning Spaces Design: Kaospilot, Aarhus, Denmark, 2014

Commercial Mediation: Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), Johannesburg, South Africa, 2009

Certificate in Systemic Organisational Consulting: Simon, Weber and Friends, Berlin, Germany, 2018

Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Mediation (specialisation: mediation within and between organisations): Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH, Bern, Switzerland, 2016

Licentiatia Iuris, lic. iur. (corresponds to a Master of Law; MLaw): Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Bern, Switzerland, 1999

Diploma and Certificate of Teaching Proficiency as a Primary School Teacher (equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts in Primary Education): Teacher Training College Mariaberg, Rorschach, Switzerland, 1993

My grandmother Thekla, an Appenzell native, was Catholic, strict and resolute in her stance, yet warm and open in her life. She had two best friends; one married to an Egyptian and the other to a Senegalese. When visitors came from Africa two or three times a year, Thekla’s living room turned into a Muslim prayer room. Under the cross on the wall, a prayer rug was carefully laid out facing Mecca. Miloš was my Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian grandfather: a tractor mechanic; quiet, calm, level-headed – and with a passion for making everything mechanical work. I inherited an openness to the diversity of life from Thekla and the patience and persistence to stick with something until it works (again) from Miloš. I grew up in Switzerland, surrounded by different cultures, religions, languages, political structures and their impact on society and life. These contexts came with different expectations that taught me early on to observe, listen, recognise peculiarities and patterns – but also to ask questions to understand the various rules and learn how to navigate them. Understanding and grasping things without fully belonging allowed me to view life through the lens of an outsider and manoeuvre diverse environments. After teacher training and completing a law degree, I went on to live and work on four continents (Africa, America, Asia and Europe). As a practising lawyer, I worked in both the public sector and in legal education and research. For seven years, I was stationed in sub-Saharan Africa as a political adviser to political parties, NGOs, NPOs and international networks. Wide-ranging experiences in different cultures and working both in the public and private sector ultimately led me to organisational development and business consulting. In 2004, I began further training in understanding organisations, initially in mediation within and between organisations, later transitioning to a role as an organisational consultant. Since 2014, I have been working in business and organisational consulting in the private sector; primarily in a global corporation, but also as a consultant for start-ups, SMEs, NPOs and NGOs. After spending two and a half years working in Hong Kong, my partner and I have been living in Switzerland again since 2021.