About me
As an enthusiastic person and learning partner, I have an open attitude towards the ever-changing life and get creatively involved in changes and challenges.
Accompanying and supporting people with care and also with humour, dealing flexibly with challenges and becoming aware of our own abilities and possibilities, all this I consider as a personal strength and opportunity. Linguistic, non-linguistic and social skills promote holistic perception and understanding. They enable a sustainably congruent relationship design and beneficial careful cooperation.
I find strength and motivation for active design and innovation in untouched landscapes, in exchanges with people of different cultural and professional backgrounds. In particular, I enjoy the mountain and desert world, practice Tai Chi Chuan, like oriental cultures, languages and travel. Music and movement are what resonate with my life.



"My professional activities in the fields of counselling, support and adult education, this in different roles and contexts, as well as the recognition of changing social relationships, show that reorientation and joyful design in professional and private life is meaningful.
Marcel Grandjean
MAS in supervision, coaching und mediation, Swiss federal trainer FA

What makes me?
In the role of consultant and trainer, I meet people with a benevolent and emphatic attitude in order to enable a trust-conducive and constructive relationship-shaping.
On this basis, customers and partners formulate their development wishes and questions in a self-determined manner. With discretion, respect, authentic interest and careful respect for boundaries and open spaces, I support customers when crossing new thresholds. In doing so, I also activate the sense of creativity and enable an ongoing reflection and integration of insights and experiences.
In my approach, form-creating, connecting and impulsive elements become tangible from the first contact to the end of the order.
MAS
MAS in supervision, coaching and mediation (ZHAW)
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Languages so that there are no communication barriers
100+
Organisations that I have been able to actively support.
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Reasons that speak for me:
flexible, customer-oriented, quality-conscious.
50+
People who have reoriented privately and professionally.
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Common goal
Leading theories
The working methods of my integrative consulting services and my understanding of teaching are based on various tried and tested concepts.
Based on my humanistic view of people, the person-centered approach is for me the starting point and motor for an amiable and appreciative process-oriented consultation and training.
In addition to humanistic psychology, system theory and relevant current neuroscientific findings are important to me.
In particular, I rely on the well-founded work of J. Kuhl (PSI Theory) and the Zurich Resource Model (ZRM) according to Krause/Storch.
Integrative and professional work, as I understand it, requires different approaches that are used responsibly, flexibly and in consultation. In concrete terms, this requires a multi-theoretical, multi-methodical and multi-perspective approach, which makes use of various possibilities for accessing perception, feeling, thinking, wanting and planning.

Quality in the foreground
- The consulting work as I understand it through my basic attitude, the underlying human image, as well as the formulated approach and the working methods, requires continuous review and reflection. For this purpose, the professional-ethical guidelines of the Professional Association for Coaching, Supervision and Organizational Consulting (bso) serve me and to which I feel obliged as a member of the association.
- In addition, I regularly meet for intervision in order to carry out my own upcoming development steps as supervisor, coach, mediator and adult trainer and to optimize the customer benefit.
- In addition, the selective use of supervision is helpful and conducive to one-off professional activities.
Learning biography
"In the achievement of personality ,there is nothing less than the best possible development of the whole of a particular individual being"
C. G. Jung
Education and training
- Digital support through learning processes
- Swiss Informatics Certificate (SIZ)
- Master in Supervision, Coaching and Mediation (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, ZHAW, Department of Social Affairs)
- Examiner French and German TELC (The European Language Certificate)
- Adult education SVEB 2 (Swiss federal trainer FA)
- Continuing education in scenic work and improvisation
- Further education in peer consulting / recovery in mental health (Pro Mente Sana, Zurich)
- Training in psychological competence for discussion and counselling (Institute for Psychology Transfer, IPSYT, University of Zurich)
- Adult education SVEB 1
- Study of Psychology and Linguistics (lic. phil. I, Université de Fribourg, Suisse)
Experience:
- Supervisor for the Asylum Organization Zurich (AOZ/Medios)
- Mediation in companies and with couples
- Supervision and coaching in the social, health and training sectors
- Individual and management coaching in professional and private issues
- Foreign language teacher and specialist leader for various public and private schools as well in companies and institutions
- Lecturer at higher technical schools, technical colleges and institutions
- Self-employment since 2008: "Lernen und Erfahren"
- Co-creator of the recovery movement CH (for a subject-oriented psychiatry)
- Design and implementation of courses, seminars, workshops for institutions, companies and associations
- Long-term commitment to long-term support and support as a psychological counsellor and caregiver in different roles and contexts.
- Translator (CHUV, Lausanne)
Professional experience and activities
On the way of life, I repeatedly encounter new challenges that are not mastered by logical thinking alone. Then the whole person is required and we activate the highest level of accumulated life experience.
Testiomonials
"Cultural mediation and interpreting are associated with various complex challenges. The long-standing cooperation with Mr. Grandjean is central to us, also for the training offers. He knows how to initiate and maintain sustainable promotion and quality development. We recommend Mr. Grandjean's professional services in the belief that other institutions and customers will achieve their goals perfectly with him."
AOZ/MEDIOS
"With his extremely charming manner, Marcel Grandjean is excellent at motivating learners of all stripes. Not only does he respond specifically to all needs, but he also never tires of explaining again and again with angelic patience. He designs the lessons in a variety of ways; they contain all relevant components such as grammar sessions, text comprehension and discussions on current topics. Marcel loves his profession and practises it with a passion that only someone who is completely dedicated to a language and its culture has at his disposal. Marcel combines French flair with German-Swiss thoroughness."
S. BlättlerHR, ETH-Rat, Zürich
"In a hopeless situation, I visited Mr Grandjean to find clarity. Now I am confident that I can achieve my goal. Through helpful, short, concise inputs and questions, I have gained insights that will take me further. I recommend Mr. Grandjean above all because of his very precise and accurate way of working, which also made me happy. I have received a great deal of sympathy and appreciation in the meetings. Thank you very much, I hope that others will be able to have this experience as well."
I.SimoniSocial Worker FH
Marcel Grandjean was my French teacher at C1 level for 18 months. I have benefited enormously from his experience and I have appreciated his flexibility in terms of my needs. He has wonderfully prepared lessons with exercises, various texts and documentation. Don't miss his enthusiasm for French grammar! My written work was always reviewed and discussed promptly. I thank Marcel for his patience and great motivation.
I.SchläppiEtat-major, PEAK, EAWAG
"Mr Grandjean's coaching was a success. I came to him because of a professional reorientation. I achieved the initial objective after three intensive meetings. I experienced Mr Grandjean as empathetic, goal-oriented and clear. After a short time, I was able to open up, address my problems and concerns and shed more light on them."
M. ReinhardAdministrator
"A few months ago, I took up coaching with Mr. Grandjean to get new inputs to solve a problem from my day-to-day work. Through his suggestions and exercises I quickly came up with new ways and can deal with similar situations in a completely different way today. I like Mr Grandjean's intuitive way of working, his fine sense of what happens beneath the surface, and his very positive and appreciative attitude. I am very satisfied with the result of the coaching and would like to recommend Mr. Grandjean."
C. Buschta, lic.phil.Federal Trainer