Personal and organisation development
12th to 14th January 2027 near Zürich
Enabling global senior leaders to drive sustainable results in complex and challenging environments
• Has your leadership role become a relentless cycle of decisions - with no space left to think strategically?
• Are you expected to inspire confidence and provide direction - even when you are yourself navigating uncertainty?
• Do you feel exhausted by constant transformation while still needing to motivate and energise others?
• Are you re-evaluating your leadership value as expertise becomes commoditised and influence becomes relational?
Leading in Complexity is a developmental journey that strengthens leaders’ inner capacity to navigate uncertainty, sustain performance and lead organisations in times of permanent disruption.
It is specifically designed for leaders heading up functional or divisional units, and/or in charge of large transformation agendas, and coming from various backgrounds and ecosystems.
Through this program, you will strengthen your capability to make sense of emerging challenges and lead with confidence even without clear answers. The program helps you reconnect with your leadership identity, build personal and collective resilience from the inside out, and foster cultures of trust and empowerment. In short, it supports you in regaining clarity and agency, increasing your ability to create a sustainable impact.
About the program
Leading in Complexity is built as a journey over 4-6 months to enable the creation of new beliefs, healthy habits and behaviours that stick.
It is powered by a cutting edge 5-in-1 assessment that will provide you with a mirror into your leadership and offer actionable insights.
Through reflective practice, peer learning and coaching, you will develop the relational, cognitive and emotional capabilities needed to perform at pace - while creating space for strategic thinking, wellbeing and meaningful organisational impact.
The workshops are intensive, interactive, and hands-on: no lengthy lectures but rather thought-provoking frameworks brought to life by highly experienced facilitators and active participation in the room. The opportunity for peer learning will support application to your context.
Expected outcomes
This immersive program aims at enabling you to:
• Jointly make sense of your complex environment and where you add value
• Sharpen your leadership identity: aligning different aspects of yourself to strengthen your and your team’s resilience and wellbeing
• Shape a culture of growth and empowerment in your organisation
• Navigate change and complexity through various tools and frameworks
• Further develop critical thinking in the age of AI
• Set up a professional peer group of senior leaders fostering mutual growth
Your facilitators and coaches
Michael Gambs (French / Swiss)
MBA Notre Dame, BBA Edhec Business School
Passionate about sustainable change and transformation, Michael has been involved in driving large and complex change initiatives in multinational companies for over 25 years. Initially trained as a management consultant, he embraced over the last years a different approach to improve effectiveness in the corporate world, focusing primarily on people rather than processes or systems.
Michael genuinely enjoys helping individuals and teams grow and achieve their full potential. His clients and partners typically describe him as passionate, fun to work with, highly professional, and particularly value his direct and open communication style. He is an Associate faculty at prestigious business schools such as Emeritus and Hult Ashridge Executive Education, where he designs and facilitates high impact leadership workshops, namely on the topics of complex change and resilience.
Joanna Williams (Australian / Swiss)
MSc in Applied Positive Psychology & Coaching Psychology
Joanna Williams is a highly experienced organisational consultant, executive coach, and strategic human-centred change leader with over two decades of international experience enabling transformation across complex, multi-layered organisations. Joanna partners with senior leaders, HR and cross-functional teams to drive people-centric change that accelerates performance and sustainable organisational outcomes.
Joanna blends evidence-based methodologies from Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology with organisational development frameworks to co-create strategic solutions that support individuals and organisations through periods of transition, transformation, and growth. Her work focuses on embedding wellbeing at the core of change initiatives, aligning employee experience with business strategy, and fostering cultures where adaptive leadership, inclusion and psychological flourishing are foundational to success.
She also facilitates leadership development programs that help teams to build the skills and capabilities needed to lead through complexity and ambiguity.
Sharon Olivier (South African / British)
MA Org Psych, NLP, PNI
An organisational psychologist, coach, and Senior Faculty member in leadership development at Hult Ashridge Executive Education, Sharon facilitates learning, conducts research, and consults across a broad range of topics. These include leading in the 21st century, agile leadership, team engagement, polarity management, cognitive diversity and psychological safety, strategic HR, the neuroscience of reframing unhelpful patterns, and emotional resilience. Her latest research explores the role of meaning-making in preventing emotional burnout.
Before joining Ashridge, Sharon held several senior leadership roles in people development and learning within the motor industry and consulting for over 12 years. She then founded and ran her own business for 17 years, providing OD consulting and executive education services internationally.
Sharon is known for her ability to intuitively read and connect with individuals and groups, bringing what is needed in the moment while balancing inspiration, challenge, empathy, and support. She is an accredited coach and facilitator, and a sought-after conference speaker on topics including personal resilience, cognitive diversity, and agile leadership.
Practicalities
Dates and Schedule
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Start: 9.00, Tuesday 12th January 2027
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End: 17:00, Thursday 14th January 2027
Location
Panorama Resort & Spa
Schönfelsstrasse 1
8835 Feusisberg SZ
Switzerland
Costs
The participation/ tuition fee includes CHF 900 for meals (lunches and dinners), coffee breaks and room rental for the seminar that are charged to us by the venue.
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Early Bird until 1st September 2026: 4,450 CHF excl. VAT
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Standard rates: 4,950 CHF excl. VAT
Accommodation
The workshop has been designed as a residential programme because experience has shown this considerably enhances the experience. As a result, we highly recommend you stay onsite – which is not only beautiful, but highly conducive to a rich experience.
The accommodation costs will be invoiced to you by the hotel separately.
We have pre-booked a superior room lake side for you, priced at 260 CHF / night. Breakfast is included.
Other costs:
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Extra drinks and use of hotel phone at individual's charge.
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Transportation to and from the venue
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Wi-Fi available free of charge.
Payment
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After completing your registration, you will receive the invoice for the participation/tuition fee for payment by bank transfer within 15 days
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Your place is confirmed once payment is made
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We will make the hotel reservation for you and you will pay the accommodation costs directly to the venue.
Refund Policy
We are aiming for getting the clearest possible sense of attendance in order to prepare ourselves and the hotel without hindering attendance, and without incurring high fees for cancellations.
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Cancellation on or before 15th September: Full refund of tuition charges minus a 200 CHF deposit.
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Cancellation between 16th September and 30th November: 50% refund of total fees.
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From 30th November 2026: Full fee charged.
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Transfer of registration to another person allowed without surcharge.
After Registration
Once you have registered and completed payment, you will receive a confirmation of your place in the workshop.
Coming closer to the date you will receive a survey to help us customize the workshop to your needs.
Application deadline: 1st November 2026.
For any questions, contact michael@gambsassociates.com