With over twenty years of experience, Dr. Zweifel developed leadership tools and methodologies for Fortune 500 companies and SME's, governments and international organizations, nonprofits and the military. Dr. Zweifel's clients include Aventis, Banana Republic, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, GE Capital, Novartis, UBS, the UN Development Program, the US Military Academy at West Point, and the US State Department.

Dr. Zweifel shows how to: . Turn breakdowns into breakthroughs. . Unleash people power for high performance. . Get results as a top communicator through effective speaking and listening. . Provide a structured approach to strategy in seven steps. . Manage across cultures and avoid costly clashes.

In 1986 Dr. Zweifel was thrust into leadership as global campaign manager for an international organization on the roster of the United Nations. In charge of campaign results in 27 countries but lacking legal authority to impose decisions or hire/fire people, he was forced to learn the art and science of remote coaching and cross-cultural leadership the hard way. In 1997, Dr. Zweifel co-founded Swiss Consulting Group, a global performance management company based in New York City. Since then, Dr. Zweifel has coached and trained business leaders and public servants in organizations and companies to make their vision a reality, and built Swiss Consulting Group into a multinational firm with consultants and clients around the globe.

Prof. Zweifel appears frequently in the media (CNN, ABC, Bloomberg TV and Radio, NY1, Fast Company, Financial Times, and The Week, among many others). His leadership books, Communicate Or Die and Culture Clash (2003), have become standard references for communicating effectively and managing or coaching across borders.

Convinced that leadership is an art, but also a science that can be learned, Prof. Zweifel teaches his insights in universities and business schools around the world: Columbia University (New York), Fuqua School of Business at Duke University (North Carolina), St. Gallen Business School (Switzerland), Haute Ecole de Gestion (Fribourg/Switzerland), European Center for Pharmaceutical Medicine/University of Basel (Switzerland), Sydney University (Australia) and Jones International University (the first fully online business school).

Dr. Zweifel believes that leadership and democracy need each other: "Leadership without democracy is dictatorship, and democracy without leadership is anarchy". He coached UN officials in 25 countries to design and carry out leadership projects in democratic governance, with measurable goals ranging from police reform in Bangladesh to empowering women in Saudi Arabia. He frequently writes and speaks on international politics and published two highly acclaimed books on the topic: Democratic Deficit? (2002) and International Organizations and Democracy (2005).

Born in Paris, Thomas D. Zweifel was educated in Switzerland, Germany and the United States, and is fluent in English, German, French, and Italian. He holds a master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in International Political Economy from New York University. He is a member of the International Coach Federation and the Association of Professional Communication Consultants. In 1996 he realized his dream of breaking three hours in the New York City Marathon, and in 1997 was recognized as the "fastest CEO in the New York City Marathon" by the Wall Street Journal.

The 3 C's - The Leadership Model For The 21st Century (1-4 hours):

Although still dominating our thinking and actions, traditional approaches to leadership no longer work in today's complex global markets. In an age of democratization, flattening hierarchies and the Internet, leaders emerge in all walks of life and require a transformation of management: the mindset of command-and-control that we have inherited from the industrial revolution is simply too cumbersome and bureaucratic. But management practice has mostly failed to catch up, let alone to capitalize on the new landscape. It seems as though our behaviors were still dictated by old myths and the costs and lost opportunities are enormous. Dr. Zweifel suggests a new leadership model called the "3 C's": Coaching - not ordering people around but being their co-creative partner in their ongoing leadership development and their ownership of the organization's challenges and strategies.

Communication - being a masterful communicator who eliminates wasteful, past-based chatter like complaints or excuses, and who leads by speaking and listening effectively.

Cross-Cultural strategy - being a global citizen who masters outsourcing, virtual teams and remote empowerment, and can parachute into any culture and get the job done while respecting the target culture's values.

Culture Clash - Managing The Global High-Performance Team (1-4 hours):

Globalization cannot be stopped. But few leaders are prepared for working across borders, and the costs of cultural blindspots in mergers, outsourcing and virtual teams can be immense from lawsuits to lost opportunities. Through case studies and interactive processes, Dr. Zweifel challenges participants' assumptions about their own and their colleagues' cultures. He introduces you to key intercultural competencies and tools it takes to manage across cultures anywhere in the world, for example how to orchestrate effective global meetings or videoconferences; how to decode any culture with the Global Integrator and how to navigate the rough seas of global markets with the Global Leadership Pyramid.

Communicate or Die - Getting Results Through Speaking And Listening (1-4 hours):

Often leaders have a great vision, but cannot communicate it effectively, inspire their people, or turn their vision into results. Just as often, an organization's staff has insight and information that never makes its way to the top. The difference between a good company and a great one may lie in their ability to communicate. Through fascinating stories and interactive processes, Dr. Zweifel gives participants access to tools for cutting out wasteful communication and learning how to listen effectively, perhaps the smartest investment in productivity. Avoid the Four Deadly Sins of Speaking, and climb the Matterhorn of Masterful Listening.

Strategy-In-Action - A Systematic Seven-Step Process To Align On And Achieve Your Organizational Vision (4 hours):

Most organizations have a strategy. Many strategies fail. Why? Because of a divorce between strategy designers and implementers who never get to own the strategy. All too often, strategy is developed in boardrooms behind closed doors. What is missing is an approach that bridges the gulf between strategy formulation and execution. Strategy-In-Action is a systematic, dynamic, evolutionary seven-step process of aligning people on a strategic intent, getting immediate results through targeted catalytic projects, and feeding the learnings back into the strategy to galvanize further strategic action. Strategy-In-Action has worked in various organizational settings in the private, nonprofit and public sectors from Haiti to Hamburg.