Stefanie Zechner, PhD

Founder/Managing Director - Career Coach / Innovation Facilitator

Career & Executive Coaching
Career & Executive Coaching 90%
Leadership Assessment and Job Success Profiling
Leadership Assessment and Job Success Profiling 80%

About Stefanie

Stefanie's passion for science and people brought her to Basel where she studied psychology and medicine and started a career in clinical development. As Clinical Trial Head at Novartis, Stefanie was instrumental in the development and market preparation of the first transdermal patch for Alzheimer’s Disease, Exelon Patch. In this process, she found her second passion:working with professionals and enabling them to perform. After 10 years of rewarding R&D experience, Stefanie decided to transition her career advancing medicine with people. Since this move in 2008, Stefanie supported a multitude of pharma, biotech and consumer care clients in their hiring and career decisions and led international executive search projects across the value chain and at all levels including C-suite. Stefanie completed her formal coaching training with the NeuroLeadership Institute, certified in the Harrison Assessment, and is a member of the International Coaching Federation. Since 2023 Stefanie also acts as Expert with Innosuisse, which gives her the opportunity toadvance Life Science innovation in Switzerland and stay on top of industry trends. Key Competencies - Career and transition coaching - Leadership assessment and job success profiling - Applying design thinking to bring ideas to action Stefanie speaks English, German, and French.