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BACKGROUND FOUNDATION Our expertise in Leadership Coaching in Crises and Crisis Management Training is grounded in more than 50 years of practical experience in:
1. Personal crisis experience and fact finding tours in crises and war zones One cannot teach what one has not experienced: crises have marked the life experience of L.F. Carrel, starting during his childhood as he witnessed the distress of his parents navigating a business through the crisis of the watch industry in Switzerland. The recurrent theme of crisis in his life taught him that one’s experiences are the prerequisite to deal in an authentic way with the complex subject matter “crisis”. As a basis of his research, academic work and authorship, Carrel has undertaken many fact finding tours in crisis and war zones e.g. in Asia (Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Afghanistan) the Middle and Near East (Turkey, Libanon, Syria, Jordan, Irak, Kuweit, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Tunesia, Morocco). He investigated dangerous war zones e.g. in the war in Afghanistan (1986 and 1988) and the Gulf War (Desert Shield 1990 and Desert Storm 1991).
War in Afghanistan Gulf War (signed Gen Norman Schwarzkopf)
2. Research and academic work about crises; professorship at various universities; author of numerous articles as well as a benchmark book on leadership in crises
Dr. Carrel has taught for 25 years as a professor at the University of Bern from 1985 until 2010 on the subject regional crises and Leadership in crises, conducted seminars and tutorials, supervised numerous academic theses (a list of student theses and of distinguished guest speakers on crisis management in his courses can be obtained on request). The subject of leadership in crises has been the central theme for further professorships and academic research e.g. at the universities of Zürich; the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich; the Geneva Graduate School of Governance or abroad at following universities and programs: Institute for International and Strategic Studies IISS in London (UK); RAND Corp. in Santa Monica (USA); Institute for International and Foreign Trade Law, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (USA); European Crisis Management Academy (NL); Policy Support Program for Europe and the Soviet Union, DOD, Washington D.C. (USA); NATO Defense College, Rom (I); Soviet Armies Studies Office in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas (USA); Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik und Akademie für Krisenmanagement und Notfallplanung und Zivilschutz (D); Russian Armed Forces Senior College of Humanities, Moscow, (RUS); Institute for Military History, Moskow, (RUS); UNDP, Bratislava (SK); Campus de Excellencia, Fuerteventura (E); OECD Expert Group, Helsinki (FIN). Dr. Carrel published extensively, many original articles, CD’s, Videos and TV/Radio interviews as well as his benchmark book on leadership in crises resulted from his activities. "Leadership in Krisen. Ein Leitfaden für die Praxis", 2. Auflage, Zürich, 2010. In the network of the federal libraries alone, you can access online over 130 articles about his findings. See : Alexandria und Primo Central > Link
3. Training in crisis management As Director of the Strategic Leadership Training Centre for the Swiss Government from 1996 until 2006, Dr. Carrel has organized, conducted and evaluated dozens of workshops, trainings and crisis exercises from the technical to the strategic level for the Swiss Government. Earlier, he was head of Strategic Training in the Swiss General Staff and Chief of Staff of a Field Division. (See PDF pictures) In Switzerland, strategic leadership training was developed for the heads of federal ministries and the crisis staffs of the Swiss Federal Council to promote strategic thinking and decision-making in crisis times. Among the highlights of Carrel’s accomplishments as training center director were two large strategic exercises on the national level in Switzerland 1997 (with the foresighted themes of international terrorism, cyber war, IT-revolution and risk dialog) and 2005 (with the theme worldwide pandemic and epidemic in Switzerland). (See PDF pictures) Dr. Carrel has participated in large multinational and international crisis exercises (e.g. by the EU) (See PDF pictures) and, starting 2006, has conducted crisis exercises in the private sector and for global businesses. (See PDF pictures)
Federal Council Crisis Team EU exercise New Watchman & Common Ground SE 2005 Epidemic in CH See articles: Carrel L.F., Training Civil Servants for Crisis Management, PDF Carrel L.F., Leadership in Krisen; Buchbeitrag in Public Management, Das umfassende Praxishandbuch für Führungs- und Managementverantwortliche in der öffentlichen Verwaltung, 2016. 4. Coaching leaders in crisis situations After many years of coaching leaders in crisis situations, we have developed a most effective and beneficial way for navigating successfully through challenging times. In the center of the learning process we promote before crises the development of self-leadership and individual leadership qualities. During the crises, leadership coaching offers professional support which enables leaders to enter into reflected and creative decision-making to attain their goals faster and more efficiently. See Carrel L.F. Leadership in Krisen, Ein Leitfaden für die Praxis, 2. Auflage, Verlag NZZ, 2010, Leadership Coaching zur Unterstützung des Lernprozesses, Seiten 293 – 321.
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Press conference, strategic exercise 2005, Epidemic in Switzerland 
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