Career Coaching

We Offer Career Coaching in English

«Even a big change in your life starts with a small alteration of your mind.»

  • Career Coaching
  • Transition Coaching
  • Outplacement / Newplacement Services

From Career Guidance to Career Coaching

About me

Rolf von Ballmoos
MAS (Master of Advanced Studies) in Business Psychology, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW
MAS (Master of Advanced Studies) in Coaching, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW

is a dedicated career and leadership coach and outplacement specialist. His coaching style is holistic and solution-focused and he likes to leverage his broad large professional background in various fields. Especially in his career coaching he gives practical advice how to write a professional CV and how to master a successful interview. As a business psychologist, ensures that the person-organization-fit is also an important aspect for a successful career.

Rolf has a large experience of living abroad. After finishing his basic education as an electronics technician he volunteered as a counselor in a summer camp for children in the US. Later on he studied English at UCSD summer school and some years later he attended the International Business Program in Berkeley. He loves traveling to Asia, to the USA and within Europe.

He established his consultancy practice «active steps» in 2002. Active steps offers various coaching and consulting services for private and business customers and provides companies with outplacement services. A speciality is coaching and consulting for the owners of small companies for their business development.

Prior to running his own company, Rolf worked in different major Swiss companies. For five years he was a professional project manager, responsible for large accounts at Swisscom, the leading Swiss telecommunication provider. There he implemented several data services and developed a major marketing project. He gained further work experience as a product manager at Eurodis Electronics, as a telecommunication engineer at Ascom and as a research technician at the ABB corporate research center in Baden. Rolf is a native Swiss German speaker and is fluent in English.

Recommendation

Rolf has been supporting REA international clients in the Zurich and Zug areas of Switzerland since 2013 and has achieved a consistently high standard of feedback.

REA is a «learning organisation» and encourages coaches and clients to give feedback. In this regard, Rolf is an international award-winning coach. In fact, Rolf is the first ever international career coach to receive the award in 2015 for the coach that received the highest evaluation return rate globally as well as the highest client ratings.

REA would like to thank Rolf for his excellent contribution and for being such a positive and committed ambassador and we have no hesitation in recommending his services.

Heather De Cruz-Cornaire/REA Global Services Team Leader – Europe