“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world”
– Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society
In my years of working in event management in Zurich, I saw hundreds of speakers as I moderated conferences and events around sustainability. In doing so, I paid close attention to what made a speaker engaging, what made a message land for an audience, and what small tweaks could have someone more effective.
Most recently, I’ve dived further into these aspects studying vocal power at RADA in London (the Royal Academy of Drama), alongside my continued lecturing duties at Fachhochschule Vorarlberg in Austria.
“Communication is humanity’s superpower. Anyone can learn to become a supercommunicator… it’s a handful of skills that our brain has evolved to make into habits.”
– Charles Duhigg
I truly believe that the right word, said in the right way, at the right moment, can change the world for the better – and I’d love to help you do so.
2004
Studied English & Communication (1st) at Liverpool University (UK)
2006
Studied at McGill University in Montreal (Canada)
2007
EU Leonardo da Vinci programme in Carcassonne (France)
2008
English Lecturer at Xiangtan University (China)
2010
Masters in International Relations at Xiamen University (China)
2011
Consultant at Atheneum in Berlin (Germany)
2014
PhD Studies in Business Administration at Xiamen University (China)
2016
Education Consultant at CIEE in Barcelona (Catalunya)
2020
Studied Business Sustainability Management at CISL (UK)
2024
Communications at GreenBuzz Zurich (Switzerland)
2017-present
Communication & Language Coach in Vorarlberg (Austria)
I’ve spent the last twenty years in rooms where language was the difference — between a deal made or lost, an idea that landed or didn’t, a person who was heard or wasn’t. What I’ve learned — from Chinese boardrooms, Zurich conference stages, and the lecture halls of FH Vorarlberg — is that the space between what people know and how they come across is the most important of all.
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As AI permeates every aspect of day-to-day work, how you speak and connect in person is now becoming
your greatest professional differentiator.
The people who stand out are no longer just the most knowledgeable – they’re the ones who can hold a room, build trust face to face, and communicate in a way that no algorithm can replicate.
That’s what we work on together.
If this resonates with you, get in touch and let’s see how we can work together.